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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | Volume VIII, Number 6
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1997 |
COVER STORY
ELECTRIC CURRENTS
This just in from the Cato Institute: Renewable energy is "expensive, environmentally counterproductive and unsustainable." Cato President Robert L. Bradley says that electricity from renewable energy plants "is, on average, twice as expensive as electricity from the most economical fossil-fuel alternative." There's a reason for that, and Cato-an influential conservative think-tank-should take some of the blame.
By Tracey C. Rembert
THE LAST WILD PLACE
Antarctica is widely referred to as the last wilderness area on Earth, and with good reason. It is our highest, driest, coldest, windiest and most remote place. Visitors, explorers and scientists alike all testify to its devastating beauty. The vast majority of its great frozen expanse remains largely unspoiled, the way it has been for countless millennia.
By Kieran Mulvaney
CONVERSATIONS
TERRI SWEARINGEN - The Long War With WTI
As a registered nurse and mother, Terri Swearingen, 40, knows a little something about persistence. For the last two decades, she has been making thousands of calls and speeches, conducting health surveys, appealing to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials, pleading with the President, and making trouble for Waste Technologies Industries (WTI). Swearingen's goal is nothing less than shutting down one of the largest toxic waste incinerators in the world, which was built in her hometown of East Liverpool, Ohio. She now lives just a few miles away in Chester, West Virginia with her husband and teenage daughter.
GREEN LIVING
CONSUMER NEWS: THE E-CAR UPDATE - Want to Buy an Electric? Get Ready to Hurry Up and Wait
By Jim Motavalli
ECO-HOME: THE NON-TOXIC NURSERY - Greening Up the Room That Baby Grows Up In
By Mark Harris
YOUR HEALTH: PREMATURE PUBERTY - Is Early Sexual Development the Price of Pollution?
By Becky Gillette
MONEY MATTERS: GREEN AND READ - There's No One-Stop Shopping for Socially Conscious Money Publications
By Marshall Glickman
GOING GREEN: ISLAND ADVENTURE - In the Year of the Reef, Bonaire Offers Great Diving and Protected Coral
By Jim Motavalli
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WINDS OF CHANGE
CURRENTS
TROUBLE ABOVE THE TREELINE
HIGHWAYS TO HELL - Bikes and Buses Battle the Road, Tire and Asphalt Lobby
MAD COWBOYS - The Beef Industry Takes Aim at "Food Disparagement"
RAISING A RUCKUS - Learning How to Monkey-Wrench at Direct Action Camp
TURF WARS - Swelling Human Populations are Crowding out Other Species
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