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Divine destruction
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In
1845, New York journalist John O’Sullivan coined the phrase “Manifest
Destiny,” an expression that would remain shorthand during the late
nineteenth century for the belief that Ame...
Stephenie Hendricks
Baikal Watch
The
term “frozen” often connotes “immune to change.” Perhaps no land is so
firmly tied to that word as Siberia. Of all parts of Siberia, no place
so richly deserves this connection as the gran...
Joshua K. Hartshorne
Dumbing down smart growth
City
limits carved in stone? Heavy-handed public transportation mandates?
Wisconsin’s controversial comprehensive planning law is relatively
innocuous compared to the accusations critics have levele...
Katherine Friedrich
Refining Power
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez builds new alliances with oil
Hunter Jackson
International Marine Mammal Project
Victory in the Solomon Islands
EI Staff
Anuradha Mittal
What will it take for the WTO to notice starving children in Niger or Malawi?
Trade negotiators from 148 countries gathered at the sixth World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial in Hong Kong in Dece...
Anuradha Mittal
Freeing Keiko
How activists worked to liberate the worlds most famous orca
Kenneth Brower
Earth Island project reports
Billy Parish, a former Brower Youth Awards winner and the founder of Energy Action, was featured in the November 3 issue of Rolling Stone. The profile was part of an article called “Warriors and Her...
EI Staff
Local News from All Over
Africa
Pachyderm pact
Twelve
countries in West Africa – Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’ Ivoire, Guinea,
Guniea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone,
and Togo – have agreed t...
EI Staff
Viva Sierra Gorda
Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve
Laura P. Pérez-Arce
Ethical Traveler
Best ethical travel destinations
Jeff Greenwald and Kiran Auerbach
In Review
Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out
Audrey Webb
Everyone’s got a story
Kevin Connelly
Chris Clarke
Sex, sea turtles, and the Seri
Kino
Bay, Sonora, Mexico: Standing at the bow of the boat, Ramon Lopez – an
elder Seri man – observes the horizon, the color of the sea, the
smells, and the islands, just as his ancestors have for...
Winona LaDuke
Greatness
One of the
tough things about this job is that working with so many passionate,
committed activists, and being charged with representing their work to
our readership, it’s hard to avoid coming close...
Chris Clarke
UniversitÁrea Protegida
UniversitÁrea Protegida (UÁP) is completing its second year supporting Nicaraguan university
students doing ecological and social research in rural communities
throughout the country. Many lessons h...
Olin Cohan
California energy crisis trial looms
The
federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule soon after
press time on a key piece of evidence, kick-starting the long awaited
criminal trial involving Houston-based Reliant Energy’...
Jason Leopold
Climate skeptic
Climate skeptic
Regarding “Goodbye North Pole?” (Winter, 2005 EIJ “Around the world”) You mention that the media is not covering the
biggest news story in recent history as the melting of the ...
EI Staff
Safe Food and Fertilizer
When
most people think of recycling, they think of aluminum cans, newspaper,
glass, milk jugs, and cardboard being diverted from landfills to
conserve resources for future generations. That is, after ...
Patricia Martin
Food fight
What’s
in a name? That was the question riling the sustainable food community
last fall as consumer groups, farmers and food processors battled over
whether to amend the USDA’s “organic” label...