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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | Volume XVII, Number 6
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER, 2006 |
COVER STORY
ORGANIC GRAPES, ORGANIC WINE - The Harvest is Bountiful, but the Labeling Controversy is Still Fermenting
In just eight years, Robert Sinskey’s vineyards grew from 15 to 100 acres. But the expansion masked a problem: Sinskey’s vineyards were in decline. The fruit just wasn’t ripening, and he suspected it was related to the soil, which looked fractured and bare. “We felt something had to be wrong with the basic practices of modern farming,” he says.
By Paul Gleason
SIDEBAR: POPPING CORKS: IS THERE A SCREW-TOP WINE IN YOUR FUTURE?
For hundreds of years, cork has been the gold standard for “stopping” wine. But now plastic stoppers and screw tops are challenging the tradition, and the benefits are causing even prestigious vintners and snooty wine reviewers to change their attitude from dismissal to acceptance.
By Paul Gleason
SIDEBAR: “THEY TASTE LIKE GRAPES AND EARTH”
Organic wines are hot, according to Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, wine columnists for The Wall Street Journal. “They’re attracting unprecedented attention both from consumers and from today’s more skilled winemakers,” says Gaiter.
By John Brecher and Dorothy J. Gaiter
FEATURES
SHAKING THE BABY TREE - If There’s a “Depopulation Bomb,” It Has a Very Long Fuse
No one told Salamatou Adamou about the “birth dearth.” A midwife and widow, she had already given birth to 12 children by the age of 37. “I am exhausted,” she said as she struggled through labor with child number 13. Her large family is not all that unusual in drought-stricken Niger, a country where widespread poverty combines with strict patriarchy, early marriages, a lack of health care access and educational opportunities for women, sanctioned polygamy and adherence to fundamentalist Islamic tenets on procreation to produce the highest birth rate in the world, eight children for every woman.
By Jim Motavalli
SIDEBAR: THE PLANET’S LOPSIDED GROWTH
In mid-2005, women around the world had an average of 2.7 children, according to the Population Reference Bureau. That seven-tenths of a percentage point above replacement level may not seem like a lot, but it is contributing to a dramatic population expansion, from 6.4 to 9.2 billion, between now and 2050.
By Jim Motavalli
SIDEBAR: THE U.S.: A POPULATION-ENVIRONMENT IMBALANCE
The U.S. is the only industrialized nation with significant population growth, and a new report sees those burgeoning numbers as a factor in our unparalleled impact on the environment.
By Jim Motavalli
GREEN LIVING
YOUR HEALTH: AH-TCHOO! - Do Genetically Modified Foods Cause Allergies?
By Starre Vartan
EATING RIGHT: YUM, YUM…HOSPITAL FOOD - The Institutional Menu Undergoes a Green Revolution
By Jean Johnson
HOUSE & HOME: PEST PATROL - A Lively Alternative to Garden Chemicals
By Rachel Anderson
MONEY MATTERS: CONSCIENCE IN THE CART - Greener Sites for Online Shopping
By Roddy Scheer
GOING GREEN: BANKING ON THE BAHAMAS - Protecting the Grand Banks
By Starre Vartan
CONSUMER NEWS: WEARABLE ART - Planet- and People-Friendly Jewelry is Gaining Ground
By Starre Vartan
TOOLS FOR GREEN LIVING - Resources for eco-awareness and action
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WHAT BIRTH DEARTH?
CURRENTS
LEARNING FROM GREEN ROOFS - A Bronx School’s Lesson in Saving Energy
GAVIOTAS BY THE GLASS - It Takes a Colombian Village to Bottle Green Water
NEW ZEALAND’S “MAINLAND ISLANDS” - Fencing Out Non-Native Predators
SMART GROWTH - A Tale of Two Cities in Maryland and Virginia
IN BRIEF
THE CLIMATE AT YALE
RENEWABLE HYDROGEN GOES MAINE-STREAM
BLOWN AWAY IN AUSTRALIA
LONG HEALTHY LIVES IN DOMINICA
UPDATES
CLEAN CARS: THE NEXT GENERATION
CUPS AU COURANT
NEW HOPE FOR HORSES
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