Fixing the Endangered Species Act.
In a 1934 essay by Aldo Leopold, titled "Conservation Economics" (Flader and Callicott 1991, 193-202), we can find some direction for improving on the command-and-control approach embodied in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as it stands in 1999. Leopold's insights, as usual, are telling. He began the essay by...

Subsidizing pollution.
The "polluter pays principle" is an idea with which it is hard to quibble. Simply put, when we act in ways that hurt the environment--when we harm other people, property, or nature through pollution or resource depletion--we ought to be held accountable for the damage we do. This is...

The evolving corporation: next steps for the business community; Last of a series.
In September, a group of large U.S. corporations announced a new initiative: SEE Change--short for Society, the Environment, and the Economy. According to the press release, participating companies "will adopt sustainable growth strategies which seek to achieve specific improvements in environmental, social, and economic performance." SEE Change,...

BIOTECH FOODS: FRIENDS OR FOES?
Critics and advocates of crops that are engineered to carry genes from other species are waging a battle royal. Greenpeace and others have sponsored full-page ads charging that biotech companies are turning "millions of consumers into guinea pigs." The companies and others, in turn, extol the safety and benefits...

Pesticides found in Indian soft drinks.
Many Indian sodas contain detectable amounts of pesticide residues, according to a report released in August by the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Following the organization's discovery in February of pesticide residues in New Delhi's bottled water, which led the government to issue a national "notification"...

Bridging the great divide: environmental health and the environmental movement.
Picture a Journal of Environmental Health (JEH) staff member, off-duty, at a party. It's a big party, full of people who don't know each other and who keep asking each other what they "do." Every time our heroine says she works for JEH, faces light up. "Really?"...

New Regional Center Addresses Environmental Impacts On Children's Health.
The Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC) has awarded a grant to the George Washington University (GW) Medical Center and the Children's National Medical Center to jointly establish a resource for health professionals concerned about children's exposure to harmful elements in the environment. With first-year funding of $124,000,...

Combined heat and power production: socio-economic and sustainable development aspects.
Abstract. The paper is based on the study of Lithuania facing the need for huge investments in both the replacement of the Ignalina nuclear power station and the replacement of district heating production units in many of the existing systems. Lithuania has a big technical potential for implementing small-scale...

The role of process and participation in the development of effective international environmental agreements: a study of the global treaty on persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
I. INTRODUCTION The number of treaties in the environmental field has grown markedly in the past thirty years,(1) as people and societies have become increasingly aware of, and concerned about, the health of the global environment. Studies of these treaties have considered a number of...

Super bugged: how DNA pollution may spawn deadly antibiotic resistance: the story behind the headlines.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On a bright winter morning high in the Colorado Rockies, a slight young woman in oversize hip boots sidles up to a gap of open water in the icy Cache la Poudre River. Heather Storteboom, a 25-year-old graduate student at nearby Colorado State University, is...