#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.

#503
Ecology and Economics
Dr. Cutler Cleveland, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University, elaborates on the confluence of ecology and economics. One of society's major challenges, he emphasizes, is to design technologies, policies and institutions that “move us in the direction of sustainability” -- that are in harmony with the ecosystems of the planet.

#505
Government Accountability Project
Since its founding in l977, GAP has provided legal and advocacy assistance to more than 2,000 individuals who have blown the whistle on threats to public health, safety and the environment by government and corporations. The work of this Washington-based public interest organization in helping those who witness dangerous, illegal or environmentally unsound practices in their workplaces and communities and decide to become whistle-blowers is detailed by Louis Clarke, GAP's executive director, and Environmental Program Director Joanne Royce.

#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.

#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.

#530
Women's Action For New Directions
Susan Schaer, executive director of Women's Action for New Directions, Inc., a national organization based in Arlington, Massachusetts, explains how WAND pursues its goal of empowering women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism and to redirect military resources toward human and environmental needs.

#533
INFACT
Kathryn Mulvey of INFACT and Lucinda Wyckle Rosenberg, INFACT’s communications director, speak about the Boston based organization’s crusade against corporations “who exert undue influence over the political process at the expense of public health and safety.”

#538
Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom
In this Enviro Close-Up, Betty Burkes, U.S. president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, tells of the work of the group.  Founded in 1915,  it has been working ever since to achieve world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice and an end to all forms of violence and “to establish those political, social and psychological conditions that can assure peace, freedom and justice.”

#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.

#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

#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.

#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.

#159
Co-op America
Brat Church, business network director of Co-op America, speaks of how the Washington, D.C. based organization works to create a just and sustainable society by harnessing ecomonic power for positive change. He outlines Co-op America's three programs designed to: 1) Educate people about how to use their spending and investing power to bring the values of social justice and sustainability into the economy, 2) Help socially and environmentally responsible businesses emerge and thrive, and 3) Pressure irresponsible companies to adopt socially and environmentally responsible practices.

#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.

#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.

 #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.

#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.

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