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E Magazine
A consumer magazine publishing news, information and commentary on environmental issues. Content includes international and domestic environmental news, feature articles, and a guide to green living. Addresses such subjects as recycling, food safety, air
Articles from Vol. 8, No. 5, September-October
Adam Werbach: The Youngest Sierra Club President Is Aiming for the Grassroots and MTV
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At age eight, when most of his friends were collecting baseball cards and comic books, Adam Werbach was campaigning for the Sierra Club. He gathered more than 200 signatures from his second grade classmates on petitions calling for the ousting of James...
Clouds in the Coffee
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As Habitat Shrinks, a Shade-Grown Harvest Saves Songbirds Morning commuters, struggling to stay awake and focus on the day's newspaper, probably don't spend a lot of time worrying about where their cup of coffee comes from. They'd be surprised to learn...
Deadly Whirl
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Wild trout throughout the Rocky Mountains are being decimated by a microscopic parasite that deforms juvenile fish, causing them to swim in circles. Fisheries biologists say "whirling disease" is the single biggest threat to wild trout survival in the...
Facing Front: Washing Machines Are Getting Cleaner and Greener
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Europeans who visit America find much to marvel at, but there's always room for quiet astonishment at the top-loading washing machines which, while easier on the back than front-loaders, waste copious amounts of water, wear out clothes prematurely, leave...
Jacques Yves Cousteau, 1910-1997
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"The monumental problem for the future is overpopulation," an ebullient but angry Jacques Cousteau told E last year in an interview at the New York headquarters of the oceanic society that bears his name. Cousteau, who died in June at 87, believed that...
Just Doing It: Generation X Proves That Actions Speak Louder Than Words
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Awakening to the sounds of The Chemical Brothers, Jennifer Rivera, 27, flips back the covers and begins her day. After indulging in a four-minute shower, feeding the orphaned cat her ex-neighbors left behind, fixing her lunch and donning hastily-grabbed...
Learning from the Earth: The Student Conservation Association Builds Lifelong Environmentalists
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The Student Conservation Association Builds Lifelong Environmentalists In 1955,Vassar College student Elizabeth Putnam had an innovative idea for her senior thesis proposal. Her project, modeled after the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps (which...
Life after Death
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Planned Giving Helps Green Groups And Keeps the Tax Man at Bay Death and taxes may be inevitable, but there are ways to soften the blow. Bequeathing a gift to an environmental group can ensure that your conservation ethic lives on, while also considerably...
Mitsubishi Mayhem
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The serene lagoon waters of Mexico's Baja peninsula are gearing up for a heated battle between environmentalists, the Mitsubishi Corporation and the Mexican government. Once a part of California, Baja's salty and buoyant waters are considered prime calving...
Natural Options: The 10 Most Important Foods to Buy Organic
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In 1984, Elizabeth Ryan bought a farm in New York's mid-Hudson Valley. The farm and orchard had been managed conventionally for many years, but Ryan decided to severely restrict the use of chemical pesticides. Her farm is now run under an Integrated...
Remnants of Things Past
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Taking inspiration from Hungary's constitution, which stresses the right to a healthy environment, the Budapest city council recently urged owners of the communist-era Trabant to turn in their seriously polluting cars to be recycled. Getting the cars...
Second Time Around: Eco-Entrepreneurs Are Making New Products from Recycled Materials
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Environmentalists are always talking about the three Rs - reduce, reuse and recycle. But what about the fourth R - remake? Like...rescuing that punctured bicycle tire from the garage's bowels and, for example...fashioning new neckwear? Making products...
The Forest Primeval
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In the Pitched Battle Between Loggers and Environmentalists, a Timber Tinderbox Waits for a Match Scene I: There is a 40-acre stand of ancient trees near Chester, California in the heart of the dryland timber forest. The stand is dominated by towering...
The Open-Door Policy
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Are High Immigration Levels Hurting the U.S. Economy - And the Environment? For immigration advocates, the release last May of a long-awaited National Research Council (NRC) study on the economic effects of our open door policy (around 800,000 people...
Thinking Big
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After Founding Esprit and North Face, Doug Tompkins Dresses Up an 800, 000-Acre Park When Esprit founder Doug Tompkins went on a rainforest exploration trip to Chile seven years ago, he didn't realize he'd soon be buying huge swaths of land down there,...
Wild Burros: Death Valley's 'Aliens'?
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Rescuing threatened wild burros in California's Death Valley National Park is no easy feat. For the husband-and-wife team of Gene and Diana Chontos, founders of Wild Burro Rescue, it means - for starter - hitching their truck to a four-horse stock trailer...
Woodsmen, Spare Those Trees!
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Conservationists bidding on U.S. Forest Service (USFS) timber leases hoping to save trees are in for a rude awakening - unless they oil up borrowed chainsaws, they could be arrested, because the current rules make it illegal to bid on the leases without...
