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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | Volume X, Number 5
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1999 |
COVER STORY
GROWING PAINS - The Movement to Legalize Industrial Hemp is Advancing, but the Pot Connection Still Lingers
After 60 years as a pariah plant, sprayed into oblivion by federal agents wherever it appeared, the versatile fiber known as industrial hemp appears to be making a dramatic comeback, with legalization movements in 14 states, and, in North Dakota, an outright victory. Will hemp, the fiber that helped win World War II, finally emerge from the dark shadow of its close relative, marijuana?
By Mari Kane
THE LEARNING TREE - Green Education is Transforming America's Basic Environmental Illiteracy. So Why Isn't Everyone Smiling?
Tow-headed Thomas Wolff, a first-grader on a field trip from Stratfield School in Fairfield, Connecticut, was the first to spot the Canadian goose family, which was busy improving the view at the Connecticut Audubon Society's six-acre Birdcraft Sanctuary.
By Jim Motavalli
SIDEBAR: THE GOOD FIGHT
Launched in 1991, this hands-on program is aimed at getting America's school kids outside and learning about the natural world.
By Jim Motavalli and Tina Ross
CONVERSATIONS
CHRIS MYERS - Empowering Environmental Investigators
As a children's book author, Dr. Chris Myers has introduced kids to the Galapagos Islands and the Clouded Leopard. As the editor of Dragonfly, a colorful bimonthly magazine of environmental education founded in 1995, he's given them wings. The magazine, which has won many awards from educational and parents' groups, is largely written by kid "investigators," who are encouraged to give their imaginations full rein. Myers contends that it's not enough to just throw environmental information at children. Unless they're empowered to learn on their own, he says, the lessons could simply leave them discouraged. Dragonfly is soon to be adapted into a PBS television series, and Myers is determined that the show be more than passive entertainment.
By Jim Motavalli
GREEN LIVING
CONSUMER NEWS: BRINGING UP BABY--NATURALLY - Healthy Approaches to Infant Care
By Tracey C. Rembert
CONSUMER NEWS: ONE-STOP SHOPPING - Catalogs for Natural Parenting
CONSUMER NEWS: GREEN GIFTS FOR EXPECTING PARENTS
YOUR HEALTH: AGAINST THE GRAIN - Allergy-Fighting Alternatives To Wheat And Rice Offer Many Nutritional Advantages
By Becky Gillette
HOUSE & HOME: OIL AND WATER - Is Your Underground Storage Tank Leaking?
By Jennifer Bogo
MONEY MATTERS: HELD IN TRUST - Easing Your Financial Responsibilities
By Fran Ryan
GOING GREEN: GORILLAS OF THE MISSED - Traveling with a Cause in a Dangerous World
By Megan Epler Wood
TOOLS FOR GREEN LIVING - Resources for eco-awareness and action
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THE WORLD ON THEIR SHOULDERS
CURRENTS
WHITLIN' DIXIE - Chip Mills Supplying the Paper Industry Are Clear-Cutting the South
KOSOVO'S WOUNDED ENVIRONMENT
PAY DIRT - How American Farmers Can Ease Global Warming--And Make a Profit, Too
ON TOP OF THE WORLD - Cleaning Up a Legacy of High-Altitude Trash
LIGHTS OUT? Y2K AND THE ENVIRONMENT
IN BRIEF
THE LIVABILITY CAUCUS - Can Congress Walk the Walk?
EARTHTV
ORGANIC SPICES ARE HOT, HOT, HOT
THERE'S GREEN IN WILDLIFE TAGGING
JESSE VENTURA - Body-Slamming the Environment?
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