Reactors Kill In a little-noted “correction” published in the July 30, 2001 Federal Register,the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) confirmed that relicensingaging US reactors to operate ...

“Throughoutthe world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to bedisplaced, tortured, killed or ‘disappeared’ at the hands ofgovernments or armed political groups. More o...

The Water Wards of the Northwest

An Earth Island Journal Editorial

Orcas in Danger

The Tomales Bay Institute, one ofthree new Earth Island projects adopted last October, has a mission toresurrect the idea of the “commons” in American public life so that itbecomes equal t...

Terrorism, vengeance and the clean energy alternative

Thehead of the Natural Resources Defense Council says the September 11attacks spell out in frightful terms that America’s uncheckedconsumption of oil has become our Achilles heel. It leaves our ...

City Talk In2001, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) rewardedthe East African country of Uganda with a debt-relief package of $90million - a two-thirds reduction of the countr...

London(March 15) - The European Commission (EC) has announced an agreementwhereby English will become the official language of the EU rather thanGerman, which was the other possibility. As ...

Prairies Preserved The first 360-acre tract of Minnesota’s new Northern Tallgrass PrairieNational Wildlife Refuge was purchased last August by the US Fish andWildlife Service (USFWS). The rese...

In 1998, Dick Cheney (then CEO of Halliburton, a major US oil-services company) commented: “I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically si...

An olive branch for peace

Dolphin-deadly Tuna Surfaces in Spain

Grassroots Globalization Network Theaccelerating concentration of control over the world’s resources posesa growing challenge to nations and communities working towardenvironmentally sustaina...

Orissa,India - At 10:30 a.m. on September 18, I joined the millions to observetwo minutes of silence for those who lost their lives in the assault onthe World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I was with...

America's self-imposed nuclear threat

Young heroes in Kenya

Bluewater Network Theshadow of the September 11 terrorist attacks follows us all into theNew Year. Yet despite the horror of those events, Bluewater Network canmark 2001 as another year of progress...

OnOctober 8, 2001, George W. Bush created the Office of Homeland Securityto protect the US “from terrorist threats or attacks.” We believe that the OHS doesn’t go far enou...

Terrorism and Dams

The 2001 Brower Youth Awards

Bluewater Network Forthose of us who fight daily for the protection of the planet from theravages of pollution and other environmental ills, the September 11terrorist attacks landed a psychological...

Sweden Ranked “Greenest” Switzerland - The Swiss-based World Conservation Union (IUCN) and theCanadian International Development Research Center’s joint-report, “TheWell-bein...

The logical alternative to globalization

Dictatorships, Terrorists and Oil - Book Excerpt

Salon reveals a three-ring-circus of intrigue

Bluewater Network Highgasoline prices, mounting evidence of global warming and nationalsecurity concerns about US dependence on foreign oil have led consumersand policymakers to take a renewed inte...

The Scotchgard Cover-up The Scotchgard article (Winter 2001-2) was great! Last summer, I had some employees at the 3M PFOS plant in Alabama contact me. The info I got correlated with the health probl...

Galina Chernova: Environmental Hero

The commodification of the world's water

The Energy Crisis - And the Solutions - Are Global

Global Service Corps Tanzaniais a long way from California - geographically, culturally,climatically and agriculturally. This is impossible to forget as aGlobal Service Corps (GSC) volunteer in Tan...

Go with the FlowUS – President John F. Kennedy believed that tapping the ocean’s tidal energy at Passamaquoddy Bay near the US-Canadian border would prove “one of the most astonish...

A statement issued by the 2001 Brower Youth Award winners

'The divine music is growing dim'

Shaped trees are reshaping the fight to save the ancient forests

Thursday's Child Sails for Whales