Table of Contents
This is the full table of contents of the print edition of OnEarth, Spring 2005; Volume 27, No.1. Articles available online appear as links.
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FEATURE STORIES
Who Owns This River?
by Alex Shoumatoff
In the 1960s and 1970s, a large, powerful utility dammed many of the rivers that drain Manitoba's vast boreal forest, ruining unspoiled wilderness in the ancestral territories of Canada's First Nations. Now Manitoba Hydro is planning to do it again with a spate of new dams; its new power lines would run straight through a proposed World Heritage site. This time, though, the opposition is fierce. Our story begins with a ravishing river called the Bloodvein...
Europe's Black Triangle Turns Green
by Bruce Stutz
For 50 years, the Soviet Union turned a huge swath of Central Europe into an industrial wasteland. But since Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution in 1989, a mix of enlightened government, European Union funding, and international scientific cooperation has brought the region back from the dead.
Alexander's Marvelous Machine
by Jill Davis
The idea of generating electricity from moving water without the need for dams is so new that its pioneers haven't even settled on a name for it: free-flow hydropower, unconventional hydropower, kinetic hydropower? Whatever you call it, a Russian-born engineer named Alexander Gorlov is convinced that it will change the world.
FRONTLINES
Building the Hydrogen Boom
The Hot New Vintages
The Human Animal
The Suburban Pilgrim
A Seedy Character
Oakes Award
Not for the Squeamish
Killing 'Em Softly
INSIDE NRDC
The View from NRDC: Legalizing Pollution
by John H. Adams
A new Congress is in town, and America's landmark environmental protections are on the chopping block. But with the help of our members, we plan to keep the extremists at bay.
Dispatches
Legalizing sewage dumping; energy vampires lurking in your home; a really green baseball stadium for the Washington Nationals; an Olympic gold medalist dons her skis to fight global warming; and a dubious plan for protecting the United States' borders.
Ask NRDC
Compact fluorescent lightbulbs, or CFLs, save energy, but they also contain mercury. Should I use them?
Fieldwork: Dogging the Feds
by Elliott Negin
NRDC attorney Geoff Fettus' work forces the government clean up its illegally disposed nuclear waste.
DEPARTMENTS
Letter from the Editor
by Douglas S. Barasch
Letters
Living Green: How Green Is Our Valley
by Gary Paul Nabhan
Remember the milkman? It's time to reconnect. Networks of local farmers, farmers' markets, grocery stores, and restaurants are reviving our connection with the land and recalling a day when each region had its own distinctive cuisine.
Open Space: The Red, the Blue, and the Green
by Joel Gillespie
Why shouldn't a conservative evangelical Christian also be a passionate environmentalist?
Poetry
"The Southern Book of the Dead" by Debora Greger
"By the Little Pamet River in Winter" by Brendan Galvin
"Seven Caveats in May" by Maxine Kumin
"The Scented Birch Near the Fountain Where You Walk"
by Sarah M. Brownsberger
Book Reviews
Bill McKibben enters the debate over Jared Diamond's Collapse. Also, an Environmental Protection Agency whistle-blower examines his ex-boss's political memoir, and thoughts on H2O.
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