by Gil Friend | Aug 23, 2002 | Sustainability
Time Magazine’s Green Century “special report on the state of the planet and how to save it.” For starters, let’s be clear about what we mean by “saving the earth.” The globe doesn’t need to be saved by us, and we...
by Gil Friend | Aug 22, 2002 | Sustainability
FINDINGS CHALLENGE BIOLOGICAL TENET Newsday In a discovery that upsets one of the central dogmas of biology, scientists in Denmark have determined that a 28-year-old man inherited a disease from his father that until now was believed transmissible only through...
by Gil Friend | Aug 18, 2002 | Sustainability
Trees in the desert After years of surviving solely on food aid, hundreds of thousands of people living in the horn of Africa now have the opportunity to become self-sufficient. How will we do all that? By planting trees in the desert, by harvesting the seeds of these...