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.