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The Trouble with Bottled Water

Elizabeth Royte reflects on the backlash against commercializing a natural resource and responds to reader comments
April 14, 2008 | By Elizabeth Royte

A bamboo grove

Bamboo Steps Up

An ancient plant becomes a new sensation
March 21, 2008 | By Cathie Gandel

Doug Fine

Doug Fine, Journalist, New Mexico

How an ambitious experiment in ecological living led to a goat pen
March 2008 | By Amanda Bensen

Giant Footprint

How the world's 6.6 billion people threaten the health of the ecosystem
January 28, 2008 | By Diana Parsell

Since 1972, growing demand for shark fins and meat has devastated shark populations by as much as 87 percent for sandbar sharks and 99 percent for bull, dusky and hammerhead sharks. These sharks were caught, stripped of their fins for shark fin soup, then thrown back into the water.

Fishy Business

The problems with fishery management are mounting—and time may be running out
September 24, 2007 | By Anne Sasso

"Even in the best-managed fisheries, accidents happen," says Chris Wilcox. "One could effectively go back and make up for these mistakes."

Going "Bycatch Neutral"

Can fisheries eliminate their debts to nature?
September 24, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

One Fish, Two Fish, Crawfish, Bluefish: The Smithsonian Sustainable Seafood Cookbook

Ocean-friendly Eating

A sea life lover's guide to seafood
September 24, 2007 | By Bruce Hathaway

Earth Day 2008

EcoCenter: Greener Living

Smithsonian.com takes a look at common and easy ways to go green
April 18, 2007 | By Smithsonian.com

Building Sustainable Cities

The 227-city U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement is just the beginning.
August 01, 2006 | By Erica Ryberg

Soda bottles make up the bulk of the construction of a 3,500-liter cistern that Andreas Froese (pictured) and schoolchildren built in Roatan, Honduras. When filled with sand, the bottles become nearly indestructible.

Waste Into Walls: Building Casas Out of Sand

A green technology guru heads to the dump in search of the stuff of dreams.
August 01, 2006 | By Erica Ryberg

35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson

In Kansas, a plant geneticist sows the seeds of sustainable agriculture
November 01, 2005 | By Craig Canine

Can Great Coffee Save the Jungle?

Persuaded that guilt alone won't get Americans to pay more for environmentally friendly coffee, importers are trying a market approach by giving farmers the tools to grow better beans
June 2004 | By Katherine Ellison

California Scheming

Los Angeles' insatiable thirst for water, which drained the Owens Valley, has ruined lives, shaped the city's politics and provoked ongoing controversy
October 2002 | By Mark Wheeler


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