Free Trade: Benefit or Peril for the Environment?

Columnist Kumar Venkat explores a new approach to the debate. Read More

Leading EH&S Performance Indicators

Your environmental management questions answered by two veterans of life in the trenches. Read More

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Know Thy Target

How do you define your target consumer? For green marketers, answering such questions may be tough. Columnist Jacquelyn Ottman has some pointers. Read More

Technology, Systems, and Salients

Brad Allenby explores the social factors affecting technological evolution. Read More

What is a formal environmental management system?

Your environmental management questions answered by two veterans of life in the trenches. Read More

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Study Points to ‘Bioprospecting’ As Realistic Way to Save Rainforests

A five-year, $3 million study indicates rainforests can be protected if the pharmaceutical industry establishes Third World laboratories and hires local researchers to look for new medicines extracted from plants that evolved defenses against insects. Read More

California Becomes First U.S. State with E-Waste Law

Gov. Gray Davis has signed the California Electronics Waste Recycling Act of 2003, which establishes a management and handling program for cathode ray tubes found in computer monitors and TVs. Read More

Climate Change — A Major Business Opportunity

Tom Delay, chief executive of the Carbon Trust, challenges business to adopt a rational approach to global warming. Read More

Rolling Stones Pledge Carbon-Neutral U.K. Tour

The Rolling Stones have become the first band to stage an entirely carbon-neutral tour across the U.K. Read More

When Technologies Become Mythic

The human tendency to seek "silver bullet" solutions to complex problems can create problems of its own. In the environmental area, concepts such as biomass and "the hydrogen economy" are achieving almost mythic status -- to all our detriment. By Brad Allenby Read More