"Big Game Hunters
Breaking into Washington's Native American gaming gold rush can be a wild west circus. Just ask the Snoqualmie Tribe."
By Nina Shapiro writes in the cover story of Seattle Weekly 9/13/06.
Farming and cattle grazing have largely destroyed the grassland that once dominated the endless prairie of central North American. Now one visionary intends to restore the original ecosystem to a huge swath of Montana to the original rich and complex ecosystems. Hal Herring writes a perceptive and eloquent feature in the September/Octover 2006 issue of Orion.
The fall/winter 2006 edition of Terrain, A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, is about "the music of it all" -- by which they mean the environment. Jay Walljasper asks: "Why is a sense of place usually an ingredient in the best music?" David Rothenberg, editor of Terra Nova, writes about jamming with beluga whales. Jake Adam York explores the "country" in country music. And more.
Wal-Mart is already marketing its own brand of organic milk. Activists and organic retailers and farmers are not contented -- and they say the cows aren't either. Melanie Warner reports in the New York Times 9/16/06.
It started at the L.A. "Eco-Petal" show in July, as some 30 sustainable designers sent models striding out onto a stage strewn with rose petals. It's not just about exposing skin -- it's about exposing unsustainable practices. Dump your furs, please. Rebecca Epstein writes the cover story of this 9/14/06 Los Angeles City Beat fall fashion feature package.
Get this: environmental policy actually matters in the race for Califonia's governorship. Is this some kind of trend? Allison Milionis reports in Los Angeles CityBeat 9/14/06.
Mary Lou Ornelas' family say toxic chemicals at the military base where she worked are what killed her. Keli Dailey tells the story in the San Antonio Current 9/12/2006. Link: Work-Related (Or: How many lives can a carcinogen touch?).
ABC's Brian Williams drew groans and jeers with a report on a NASA finding of shrinking arctic ice -- to which he added the comment that scientists "can't say yet whether global warming is the culprit." But that was exactly what the scientists who did the study said. Media Matters called him out on it 9/15/06.