Environmental Issues

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What’s Working In Your Town? What’s Working In Your Town?

We're trying to survey all the many good ideas being tried outside the range of the Beltway pundits. So tell us about any local, state or municipal initiative in your area that you...

Sep 19, 2002 / The Nation

A Green Ground Zero A Green Ground Zero

The debate over how to redevelop the World Trade Center site has revolved around several key concerns: the commercial interests of the real estate industry, the public's desire...

Sep 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Griscom and Will Dana

Booby Traps at Rio + 10 Booby Traps at Rio + 10

When Rio hosted the first Earth Summit in 1992, there was so much goodwill surrounding the event that it was nicknamed, without irony, the Summit to Save the World. This week in J...

Aug 29, 2002 / Naomi Klein

Fight-Back in Bolivia Fight-Back in Bolivia

In 1998 the World Bank notified the Bolivian government that it would refuse to guarantee a $25 million loan to refinance water services in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba unless ...

Aug 15, 2002 / Feature / Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

Water Apartheid Water Apartheid

In South Africa, the only country in the world where people's right to water is actually written into the Constitution, the townships surrounding cities like Johannesburg and Durb...

Aug 15, 2002 / Feature / Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

Who Owns Water? Who Owns Water?

Privatization must be stopped, and water declared the common property of all.

Aug 15, 2002 / Feature / Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

Going Down the Road Going Down the Road

The Water Profiteers

Aug 15, 2002 / Jim Hightower

California Green Light California Green Light

Who says the good guys never win? California's new global warming law is a bona fide big deal. Signed into law by Governor Gray Davis on July 22, the global warming bill requires ...

Aug 1, 2002 / Mark Hertsgaard

War in Colombia’s Oilfields War in Colombia’s Oilfields

Counterinsurgency aid will be a big boost to Occidental Petroleum.

Jul 18, 2002 / Feature / Steven Dudley

The Truth on Warming The Truth on Warming

The journalist I.F. Stone used to joke that the government issues so much information every day, it can't help but let the truth slip out every once in a while. The Bush Administr...

Jun 20, 2002 / Mark Hertsgaard

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