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From the Editor
A funny thing happened on the way to Copenhagen. On the eve of the climate summit, Annie Leonard – the creator of the Internet phenomenon “The Story of Stuff” – threw a stink bomb into the debate over how best to address runaway greenhouse gas emissions. She released a new video called “The Story of Cap and Trade” that tore apart what has become the environmental lobby’s preferred strategy for cutting carbon dioxide. In the video she mocked cap and trade as a “carbon racket” that would lead to another speculative bubble that “won’t just take down the stock market, it could take down everything.”
Prominent environmentalists were not amused. …more
Contents
- Features
- Forward from Copenhagen
- The Emissions Emergency Is a Crisis of Justice
- by Tom Athanasiou
- Features
- To Drill or Not to Drill
- A Natural Gas Rush in the Northeast Is Forcing Farmers to Choose Between Income and Land.
- by Adam Federman
- Features
- Rough Water
- The Likely Removal of Four Dams on the Klamath River Will Mark the Largest Dam Decommissioning in History. An Unlikely Alliance of Farmers, Fishermen, Ranchers, and Indians Made It Happen.
- by Jacques Leslie
- Spyhopping: Breathe … Not So Easy
- by Gar Smith
- Earth Island News: China Rivers Project
- Rafting Through Heaven
- Earth Island News: Ethical Traveler
- World’s 10 Best Destinations
- Earth Island News: Restoration Initiatives
- Native Plant Propagation on a California Island
- Earth Island News: IMMP
- Campaign to Save Japan Dolphins Enters Critical Phase
- Reports: City of Cast-Offs
- by Photos by Guillermo Arias Essay by William Hillyard
- 1,000 Words: Landscape FX
- by Kim Keever
- +/-: What’s for Dinner?
- Debate
- +/-: Animals Are Essential To Sustainable Food
- by Nicolette Hahn Niman
- +/-: There’s No Reason to Eat Animals
- by Lindsay Rajt
- Reports: Cash for Trash
- Brazil’s Unemployed Catadores Keep Recycling Rates High while Earning Much-Needed Cash.
- by Michael Fox
- Reports: Silver Bullet or Tiny Terror?
- Nanotechnology Promises and Perils…
- by Jessica A. Knoblauch
- In Review: Earth Days
- Directed by Robert Stone
American Experience, 100 minutes
- In Review: Harpoon
- by Andrew Darby
300 pages, De Capo Press, 2007
- In Review: Heart of Dryness
- by James Workman
323 pages, Walker Publishing, 2009
- In Review: The Value of Nothing
- How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
by Raj Patel
250 pages, Picador Press, 2009
- Voices: How Our Best Intentions Went Up in Smoke
- Project Jatropha
- by Apoorva Rangan and Adarsha Shivakumar
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