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The Next American Idol: Corn-Based Ethanol Environmentalists bash corn-based ethanol for its green transgressions, so why is it the current pop darling among manufacturers and politicians? |
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Use With Caution The list of chemicals used in household cleaning products continues to grow, and indoor air quality continues to degrade. What’s a consumer to do? |
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Life Without Nature Children who live disconnected from nature suffer poorer health. School gardens hope to heal bonds severed between children and the environment. |
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Organically Oriented Pets More people are buying organic pet food. Is it worth it? |
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Industrial-Strength Organic While debates rage over the nutritional benefits of organic foods, they are available at more locations. |
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Music Matters When bands tour the country to spread their music, they also spread a message — decrease the carbon footprint. |
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Urban Vacation Destination While ecotourism aims to conserve an area’s ecology, urban ecotourism focuses on returning the natural ecology of an area for tourists and locals alike. |
also | featured stories
An Unparalleled Landscape
Michigan is home to the world’s largest assemblage of fresh water dunes — an economic, environmental and recreational resource that often goes overlooked.
Hybrid Buses Fuse More than Electricity, Gasoline
Reduced emissions, increased fuel efficiency, less noise, a smoother ride, better brake life and lower operator fatigue combine to make hybrid buses the wave of mass transportation’s future. But are they really affordable?
Blackout!
More cities are recognizing their potential to save birds, fish and animals — not to mention a few tons of carbon dioxide and mercury emissions in the process — by going “lights out.”
Rain Drain
Storm water runoff is one of the biggest pollutants in the Great Lakes, and it’s expensive to clean up. But some officials are creating alternatives to traditional technologies that are cheaper, more natural and more effective solutions.
COVER STORY: Got ‘Juice’?
While wind energy has gotten a bad reputation for its unsightly, animal-killing towers, a new deep-sea design might be the recipe for a friendlier, more feasible renewable resource.
Ground-Shaking Progress
How rattling some dishes prevented what could have been a long, painstaking and expensive environmental cleanup.
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Additional content:
Risen Apes, Not Fallen Angels
The story of Kanzi the pygmy chimp and the species-blurring research he inspires.
90 Minutes with Nature
A photographer's assignment leads him to an unexpected soulful experience.
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Fall 2006
