Flight Paths Saved More than 618,000 acres of protected wetlands that provide habitat for birds migrating through the Azov and Black seas in Ukraine and Russia are due to be dramatically improved than...

Mozambique - Water is necessary for life. We all know this, but many in the industrialized North take their water supply for granted. Water always flows when we turn on our taps. Water is not taken fo...

The Shots Heard ‘Round the World

Climate Solutions The “clean energy” industry is expected to average $180 billion in sales annually over the next 20 years - twice the revenue of commercial aircraft manufacturing. The ind...

Designing Products as if the Earth Really Mattered By Edwin Datschefski Products are the source of all environmental problems. It may seem surprising, but most environmental problems are caused by uni...

From a speech delivered at a meeting of Americans for Democratic Action in Los Angeles on February 17. I offer these brief remarks today as a prayer for our country…, [in] the belief that a free...

Afghanistan's Crying Needs

Bluewater Network The International Flat Earth Society (FES) is a nonprofit organization opposed to the idea that the Earth is spherical. Members believe that “the known, inhabited world is flat...

Despite the apocalyptic premise of Samuel Huntington’s book, The Clash of Civilizations (which prophesies an inevitable war between the armies of the God and the armies of Allah), Islam and Chri...

Self-Replicating Atomic-Size Machines

The Bush Roll-back Threatens Native Sites

World Sustainability Hearing Project

Chartering a New Course United Nations - A delegation from the Cousteau Society (founded in 1973 by French oceanographer/environmentalist Jacques-Yves Cousteau) has presented United Nations Secretary ...

World and the Spirit: A compact with Creation

Is There Slavery in Your Chocolate?

How US Companies Hide Their Environmental Sins

Otter Despair

The Business of WaterYour article in Spring 2002 by Maude Barlow [“Water Inc.”] could not be more timely. A company named WorldWaterSA has applied to the state of California for permission...

World and the Spirit: Women and the Fate of the Earth

Disneyland has been shooting pyrotechnic chemicals into the evening sky since shortly after the amusement park opened in 1955. In the beginning, the fireworks shows were confined to weekends and schoo...

Borneo Project Borneo - Since the early 1990s, the shrinking size and cost of Global Positioning System (GPS) units and the increasing ease of using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology have...

US Navy Admits Sonar Killed Whales

These Roofs Last a Lawn Time Japan - With summer temperatures rising, cities like Tokyo and Fukuoka have found a cheap, natural way to beat back the swelter of urban “heat islands.” This y...

The Bible is a very old document, which makes it extremely pertinent to those interested in preserving the planet. For more than 3,000 years, the myths and maxims within its pages have helped the Jews...

Jet Trails in the Sky Used to Disappear. Now they Linger.

WildFutures Late in 1998, a landmark meeting was convened high in the Rockies to further the protection of America’s large predators - the grizzly bear, the mountain lion and the wolf. The Preda...

An eyewitness to Japan's drive fishery hunt

Stockholm Shocker British government documents released in January revealed the existence of a secret campaign to sabotage the 1972 Stockholm Conference, the world’s first global environmental s...

Sarah James has been a voice for indigenous rights, human rights and environmental issues for more than 10 years. Since 1988, she has been a leader in the fight to prevent oil drilling in the Arctic N...

Clones, Supercomputers, and Robots

Bluewater Network Bob Wilkinson, President of Earth Island Institute, and Russell Long, Director of Earth Island’s Bluewater Network (BWN) announced on February 4, 2001 that BWN will become inde...

Bluewater Network has achieved a breakthrough in attempts to reduce greehouse gas emissions from California’s passenger vehicles. The approval of Assemblymember Fran Pavley’s AB 1058 (spon...

As we have turned the corner of a millennium, we have an extraordinary opportunity to begin a new era in which our conception of how energy is produced, used and conserved is transformed. The energy s...

The Ecology Center's Trucks no Longer Run on Petrol

2002: A Year of Decision for Dolphins