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Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture by Carolyn Merchant. New York: Routledge, 2003, 292 pp., $25.00 hardcover. Why indeed did we invent Eden, let alone try to [...]

Women have the major role to play in protecting the environment since they can correctly discern token efforts from valid efforts due to their experience. Women must become actively involved in the political system to pursue an environmental agenda.

The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable by Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002, 247 pp., $25.00 hardcover. In 1992, Rio [...]

A personal account of travelling in China after losing luggage is presented. The newly discovered advantages of travelling light and improvising various necessities are described.

Rachel Carson, of course, is best known for her landmark books, The Sea Around Us, published in 1951, the first profile of the sea and its myriad creatures for a [...]

The presidential campaigns and their armies of consultants are well aware that a jittery American public yearns for jobs. Yet there is a dearth of new thinking on how to [...]

Reports that a number of child farm laborers in the U.S. are facing health problems while working in fields due to extensive application of pesticides and fumigants to crops and soil. Range of symptoms reported by these child farm laborers; Reasons why child farm labor has not been completely eradicated in the country; Factor that makes people more susceptible to effects of toxic substances.

Focuses on issues pertaining to proposals for the tuition tax credits in the U.S. Congress, reported as of August 26, 1978. Definition of tuition tax credits; Details on the House Resolution number 12050.

Comments on the decision of a U.S. federal judge in New York to place a black defendant under a new trial who has been convicted of armed robbery by an all-white jury. Use of peremptory challenges and the exclusion of blacks from participating in the jury; Public trust in law; Problem of racial juries in states imposing the death penalty.

Marianna De Marco Torgovnick walked into an all-male Italian American club to buy a cremolata ice, and the men sitting around playing cards called her a 'brazen whore' for doing [...]

By Greta Gaard. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998, 324 pp., $59.95 hardcover, $22.95 paper. It was a glorious summer day in upstate New York, where I live, but I'd [...]