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Deadly Sonar: The U.S. Navy's Assault on Whales and Science
Sonar, which protects U.S. warships from enemy submarines, also kills whales and other marine mammals. Scientists are trying to figure out why, but the navy, which funds most of their research, seems to have other ideas. Daniel Hinerfeld tells the story, and talks with policy analyst Michael Jasny about scientific integrity.
» Read Peter Canby's feature Deadly Sonar, from OnEarth's Spring 2007 issue
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Can a Montana Rancher Love a Grizzly?
NRDC Wild Bears Project director Louisa Willcox and Montana rancher Todd Graham talk about balancing the interests of residents and ranchers with Yellowstone’s endangered grizzly bear population.
» Read The Rancher and the Grizzly: A Love Story from OnEarth's Winter 2007 issue
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Interview with NRDC President Frances Beinecke
NRDC President Frances Beinecke speaks with NRDC communications director and OnEarth publisher Phil Gutis about her recent trip to the Prairie Festival in Salina, Kansas, to meet with local farmers, agricultural scientists and conservationists about how farmers in the heartland can help solve global warming.
» Read The Good Earth, from the magazine's Winter 2007 issue
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Poetry: Elton Glaser
Still winter, and on the local station
Two harvest tunes play out
Their peasant arguments in the dark
Chocolate of a cello, in the keyboard's
Rumble and pluck. So what
If the radio's late, four months
Behind the weather? I'm already
One season ahead, packing up
The corduroy and the watch cap,
The crow's foot jacket in black wool.
Already I'm sniffing the ravaged air
For an odor of new earth, vaguely vaginal,
Compost and loam where the seedlings
Sink their roots. Already I'm turning
Back from stars in their cold glow, and scouting
For sunslicks on the lawn, for the pout of tulips,
Long legs and a painted mouth.
If the trees, bent and bare, look like
A mind naked to its worst woes,
What's that to me? Moonmad before my time,
My mission's not to stammer down the streets
Like a salt truck, but to cast a spell
On the calendar, in risky chants, in syllables
Of slow elation, and call up on faith
The random primitives of spring, taking it all
As far as the eye can't see.
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Poetry: Eamon Grennan
What a small many-greyed grapple of agitation
the mockingbird is, jittery on a thin branch
covered in berries but leafless, keeping one eye
and then the other on me, shifting its position,
unsettled by what my next move might be.But at the opposite solstice this bird's songs
are the life of leaves in which he's an invisible singer,
sending melody after melody abroad, sweetening
space -- even after midnight -- with mimic music,
making the dark itself less dreadful, buildinga nest of notes to feel at home in, though it must
be hard with so much to say, so many tunes
swirling through the honeycomb of its bones,
edging out of the white furnace of every feather
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The Little Mouse That Got in the Way
Andrew Wetzler, director of the Endangered Species Project at NRDC, speaks with Daniel Hinerfeld about the misuse of genetic data in determining which animal populations warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. The Winter issue of OnEarth Magazine has an article by OnEarth contributing editor Sharon Levy called "The Little Mouse that Got in the Way," about a species of jumping mouse nearly doomed by bad genetic science when its western habitat came into the sights of developers. Wetzler also talks about the defeat of Rep. Richard Pombo (R-California), the outgoing chair of the House Resources Committee, who had attempted to dismantle the Endangered Species Act.
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Interview with Green Investor Amy Domini
Green investor Amy Domini speaks with Daniel Hinerfeld about socially responsible investing. Domini, an innovator in the field, is co-founder of Domini Social Investments, a mutual fund company with more than $1.8 billion under management.
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Drugging the Waters: A Conversation with Elizabeth Royte
What happens when the huge quantities of pharmaceuticals Americans ingest inevitably start finding their way into our rivers? NRDC's Daniel Hinerfeld and writer Elizabeth Royte talk about it.
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Pesticides in the Home
OnEarth's Laura Wright talks with NRDC's health program director, Linda Greer, about safer alternatives to using pesticides in our homes and on our pets
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Casting a Spell
Daniel Hinerfeld discusses a new book, Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection, with author (and OnEarth Articles Editor) George Black.
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