#500
E The Environmental Magazine
Doug Moss, executive editor/publisher, and Jim Motavalli, editor, of this leading environmental journal discuss the founding of E The Environmental Magazine, some of the major issues it has covered, future articles and the state of environmental journalism today.

#501
Noise In Our Skies
Attorney Patrick J. Russell who specializes in challenges to jet noise and Joe Fabio, spokesperson for Sane Aviation for Everyone which has been battling it in Queens, N.Y., tell of what people are doing all over the United States to lessen the roar of jets overhead. Russell cites medical evidence that jet noise is a public health hazard . He charges that the Federal Aviation Agency, because its role is to “promote” air transport, is engaged in a “charade of allegedly protecting the public” from the noise of aircraft operations. Russell offers a step-by-step plan for citizens to successfully fight jet noise.

#502
The Citizens Laboratory
The Citizens Environmental Laboratory is a non-profit, full service analytical lab offering water, air and soil testing -- and it's a model of how people can put the testing for toxic substances in their own hands. Owned and operated by the Jobs and Environment Campaign , the lab provides unbiased testing to the environmental grassroots movement and assists community and labor organizations investigate the presence of contaminants in their homes, workplace and community. With Dr. Fred Young, the lab's director, and Carole Allen of the Jobs & Environment Campaign.

#509
Save the Rain Forests
The critical importance of the rain forests -- the "lungs" of the earth --how they are being destroyed and what can be done to save them is discussed by Carey Buttfield of Crunchtime Environmental Educational Fundraisers and Ian Todreas of RoundUp for the Rainforest.

#5l0
Save the Everglades
That unique "river of grass" -- the Florida Everglades -- are severely threatened, especially by the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers of sugar growers. Mary Barley, chair of the Everglades Foundation, outlines the effort to preserve this national treasure.

#511
Cancer-Environment Connection
The close linkage between environmental pollution and cancer is discussed by biologist Dr. Sandra Steingraber and Ellen Crowley, both of the Women's Community Cancer Project of Cambridge/Boston. Dr. Steingraber is author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.

#514
Corporate Morality
Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, a leading green enterprise, discusses her environmental and social justice commitments and how she implements them through The Body Shop.

#516
The Heat Is On
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ross Gelbspan, author of The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, provides documentation on how global warming is real and increasing. He exposes the campaign by oil and coal interests, teamed with conservative politicians, to confuse the public on the issue.

#518
Lead Poisoning
Dr. Evelyn A. Mauss, a leading figure in the exploration of the dangers of lead poisoning, physiologist at New York University and consultant to the Natural Resources Defense Council, explains how lead came to be widely used in various products -- from paint to plumbing --its toll in illness and death, and what must still be done to eliminate this threat to public health.

#519
EMF
Dr. Louis Slesin, editor and publisher of Microwave News, a pioneer in exposing the dangers of electromagnetic fields, points to the sources of EMF-- from power lines to electric blankets to cellular phones -- and describes the efforts by industry to downplay the effects of EMF and outlines past and current research.

#536
Inform
Inform, headquartered in New York, evaluates and reports on environmental practices of business and government.  Dr. Nevin Cohen, director of research of Inform, tells in this Enviro Close-Up of how only 10% of the 70,000 chemicals used in U.S. industry have been sufficiently analyzed to know their effects on humans, yet these poisons are put into products that are in daily use.

#540
Over-Fishing
Susan Pollack and Dick Russell are writers who have long reported on the commercial fishing industry.  In this Enviro Close-Up they tell of how over-fishing has damaged the industry and substantially limited the amount of fish available-and what can be done to deal with the exploitation of the seas.

#546
Vandana Shiva: Globalization and Nature
Internationally acclaimed as one of the most articulate critics of globalization, Vandana Shiva is a philosopher of science and an indefatigable activist.  She articulates her brilliant  perspective with passion in this Enviro Close-Up.  Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi, India, Dr. Shiva’s books include: Monoculture of the Mind: Biotechnology and the Environment; Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply; Biopiracy and the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge.

#547
Fritjof Capra: Ecological Literacy
The author of best-sellers including The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point and The Web of Life, Dr. Capra is a physicist and systems theorist and founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He discusses the new global capitalism and it's threat to ecological sustainability. He explains his theories and his life’s work as an environmental activist in this Enviro Close-Up.

#102
Michelle Perreault, Sierra Club & Brock Evans, Audubon Society
In this Enviro Close-Up, Ms. Perreault, the first woman president of the Sierra Club and now the group’s international vice president, focuses on the role of women in the environmental movement. She speaks of the movement’s “ boy’s network,” tells how this is changing and describes the sexual discrimination experienced by women all over the world when “ out against environmental pollution.” Brock Evans, vice president for national affairs of Audubon, talks on the ravaging of tropical rain forests and widespread “ of the planet” - and recommends actions to stop this.

#103
Nitin Desai of the U.N., Reed Beyers and Bob Backus
“ Development is basically developing so that you don’t reduce the options for others, whether in other parts of your own country, other countries or future generations,” says Nitin Desai, U.N. Under-Secretary and a top environmental figure. Reed Beyers of Changewater Computing demonstrates a software system which enables activists to easily access and dispatch letters to thousands of government officials and others able to act on environmental abuses. Bob Backus, the New Hampshire-based environmental lawyer who litigated against Seabrook nuclear facility, speaks on the actions that can be taken through environmental law.

#105
Ecological Economics
Ruth Caplan and Owen Delong
In this Enviro Close-Up, two leaders in the new field of environmental economics describe how economies can and must function in harmony with the environment. Ms. Caplan, former director of Environmental Action, describes the basis for sustainable economy. Owen DeLong, economist and University of Kansas researcher, urges that products be evaluated according to their effects on people and the environment - not solely for their usefulness and profit potential.

#107
Abby Rockefeller, Bill Duesing and Seth Schulman
Abby Rockefeller of the Resource Institute for Low Entropy Systems, who has crusaded for years for the utilization of composting toilets, criticizes the overuse of water in conventional waste systems. Bill Duesing of the Northeast Organic Farming Association details how organic farming and gardening is practical and necessary for the good of the land and people’s health. Seth Schulman, author of the book The Threat at Home, discusses how his five-year investigation, which led to the book, found that the U.S. government and military are the most flagrant violators of U.S. environmental laws - with the military putting out “ a ton of toxic waste every minute.”

#110
Food Irradiation
For decades the nuclear industry has promoted food irradiation to extend its storage life and develop a use for nuclear wastes. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been urging the mandatory radiation exposure of meat. In 1992 the first U.S. food irradiation plant (the Vindicator facility in Florida) opened - with food irradiation proponents hoping it would be the first of thousands. In this Enviro Close-Up, Michael Colby, executive director of Food & Water, Inc., the principal group fighting food irradiation in the U.S. , details the technology’s history and current status, and connects food irradiation to cancer.

#115
Henry Kendall
Nobel laureate Kendall, chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, speaks on the environmental
crisis facing the earth and what must be done.

#130
Environmental Racism/ Environmental Justice: Update
Russ Lopez of the Environmental Diversity Forum and Arnold Sapenter of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection speak of gains made in battling environmental bias aimed at people of color - and what still has to be done.

#131
Frances Moore Lappe and Paul Martin DuBois
The co-authors of The Quickening of America, Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives tell of the book's hopeful message: that an “ revolution” revitalizing democracy is occurring in the U.S. Lappe, who wrote Diet for a Small Planet, and DuBois also discuss their Center for Living Democracy based in Brattleboro, Vermont.

 #135
Saving Marine Mammals, Fighting SLAPP
The Marine Mammal Protection Coalition's Scott VanValkenburg tells of efforts to protect marine mammals. Describing their work to protect people against SLAPP (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) lawsuits are Stanford M. Pooler of the office of Massachusetts Representaive David B. Cohen and Kate Kilgus, a victim of a SLAPP suit.
Kate Kilgus

#136
Dr. Theo Colborn of World Wildlife Fund
The noted researcher discusses a massive study she conducted as senior scientist of the World Wildlife Fund - documenting dire and widespread health impacts to life on earth from toxic chemicals.

#139
Rivers of America
Peter Lavigne of the River Network and Kevin Coyle of American Rivers speak on the state of rivers in North America today - and what their organizations are doing to improve the situation.

#142
South Africa & Environmental Justice
Heeten Kalan, director of the South African Exchange Program on Environmental Justice, explains how apartheid has left a deadly legacy of pollution for people of color in South Africa.

#143
Richard Grossman
Author, former director of Environmentalists for Full Employment, and long-time leader in the environmental and anti-nuclear movements, Grossman outlines his newest campaign - against the unbridled power of U.S. corporations.

#157
Breast Cancer and the Environment
The relationship between breast cancer and environmental pollution is being increasingly realized. With one in eight women in the U.S. expected to develop breast cancer in their lifetimes - a dramatic increase - victims of breast cancer, environmental activists and independent medical experts are fighting back. In this Enviro Close-Up, Dr. Cathie Ragovin and Janet Marrinan of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and Dr. Carlos Sonnenschein of the Tufts University School of Medicine detail the breast cancer-environment link and describe efforts to get at and stop the causes of breast cancer.

#160
The Machine in the Garden
Dr. Leo Marx, the author of the book with that title and other works, and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tells of his decades of exploration of the interaction between technology and the environment.

#162
Environmental Careers
Agnes Ayuso and Al Corbin of the Environmental Careers Organization, a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of environmental careers for people, describe ECO's activities.

#163
Earth First!
Ron Huber, a longtime activist with Earth First!, explains how Earth First! makes "no compromise in defense of Mother Earth." Radical action is necessary to stop the powers that are gutting the planet, says Earth First! Huber describes in this Enviro Close-Up how he and other Earth Firsters battle to save the natural world.

#167
Environmental Journalism
Philip Shabecoff, publisher of Greenwire, a computer-disseminated environmental news service, discusses environmental journalism. He is the author of A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environment Movement and A New Name for Peace: Environment, Development and Democracy. He was the principal environmental correspondent for The New York Times from 1977 to 1991 when he left the paper after being switched to the IRS beat and told he was "considered pro-environment" with the only example given: he used the word "slaughter" to describe the mass killing of dolphins.

#169
Environmental Issues: Eastern Africa
Kefialew Abate, coordinator of the Eastern Africa Environmental Network, speaks of environmental challenges facing the nations covered by his network which include Sudan, Ethopia, Dijbouti, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Eritrea.

#171
A Good Environment: The Ultimate Preventive Medicine
Dr. Eric Chivian, director of the Project on Global Environmental Change and Health of Physicians for Social Responsibility, says that global environmental degradation is a human health issue. Humans are totally dependent on a healthy environment but the health effects of a bad environment are relatively neglected in the environmental debate, says Dr. Chivian, clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We must "begin to break the silence," he says. The health and lives of people in this and future generations depend on it.

#172
Deep Ecology
Deep Ecology - the term coined by Arne Naess to describe a deeper, more spiritual approach to nature - is discussed by three people whose lives are based on deep ecology. Diane Depuydt and Ivan Ussach of The Sacred Earth Network, and Vivienne Simon director of the Center for Psychology and Social Change at Cambridge Hospital, speak of the meaning of deep ecology.

#174
The Scenic Hudson
Klara B. Sauer, director of the environmental organization Scenic Hudson, details the group's pioneering work to preserve the Hudson River Valley.

#175
Greenhouses That Grow Clean Water
Building and operating greenhouses in which wastewater is purified by flowing through vegetation is the speciality of Ecological Engineering Associates of Marion, Massachusetts. Phillip C. Henderson, chief executive officer, and Bruce Strong, director of operations, discuss its innovative system and how it is now being applied globally.

#180
The War Against The Greens
David Helvarg, author of the book The War Against the Greens, outlines how an assault against environmentalism is being conducted by the so-called "Wise Use" movement and how this movement is being funded by exploitative industries and extreme right wing groups around the world. He outlines its reign of violence and intimidation - including arson, bombings and murder directed at environmental activists.

#182
The Poisoning Of Our Food
Michael Colby, executive director of Food & Water, Inc., details the push by the Monsanto corporation to have its rBGH or recombinant bovine growth hormone used in dairy cows, the spread of chemical-based agriculture and the latest developments in the drive for radiation-exposing food - and how Walden, Vermont-based Food & Water successfully challenges the forces that would poison our food.

#183
Green Building
Dramatic new developments in materials available to construct highly energy-efficient buildings are discussed by Alex Wilson and Nadav Malin of Environmental Building News.

#185
Mothers & Others
Mothers & Others, organized by actress Meryl Streep and other mothers concerned about the health impacts of pesticides in their childrens' food, has become a major national group. Its communication director, Elaine Lipson, describes how Mothers & Others promotes organic food and other safe and ecologically sustainable consumer choices.

#186
EarthAction
EarthAction is a global network for the environment, peace and social justice. In this Enviro Close-Up, Lois Barber, Tom Pelleter and Jennie Buckingham of EarthAction discuss how, with l,400 citizen groups in 137 countries, it disseminates information to help parliamentarians, journalists, citizens and organizations act together on critical global issues.

#188
Toxics Action
Effective strategies to combat the discharge of poisons into the environment are outlined by Matthew Wilson, director of the Massachusetts Campaign to Clean Up Hazardous Waste, and Cindy Luppi, Massachusetts organizing director for Clean Water Action.

#189
David Bower Part 1
David Brower, a giant of the environmental movement, founder and chair of Earth Island Institute, founder of Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters and former executive director of the Sierra Club, tells of his long and illustrious life as a key environmental leader. Brower discusses the environmental movement's history -- and his role in it, the present and what needs to be done in the future.

#190
David Bower Part 2
More with David Brower.

#199
Save the Manatees
There are only l,850 manatees remaining in the U.S. today and unless the biggest threat to the manatees -- human beings -- change their ways, these gentle, slow-moving mammals may end up extinct. In this Enviro Close-Up, Pat Rose of the Florida-based Save the Manatee Club, discusses the plight of the manatee and the comprehensive program of his group's initiatives. He speaks of what people can do -- from respecting the habitat of the manatee while boating, fishing and swimming to supporting the research, educational and legislative programs of the Save the Manatee Club.

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