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But 9/11 and the recession changed everything. At first, it was not so much the fear of a terrorist attack as the worry of being stranded far from home that crimped air travel. Long waits at security checkpoints took their toll. Companies sought alternatives--driving and taking Amtrak; doing business...
Oversight of the tissue industry is spotty. At the state level, only Florida and New York require licensing and inspection of tissue banks. At the federal level, a 2001 report found that the FDA did not know how many tissue banks were operating and had never inspected 20% of the...
Vandana Shiva will never forget a lesson she learned at the age of 13. Her parents, who like many educated Indians had supported Mohandas Gandhi's struggle against colonialism, insisted on wearing clothing made only of homespun cotton. One day Vandana, having returned from a boarding school to her home...
Could there ever be a system that is perfectly efficient? Actually, yes. It already exists, as old as the planet. We call it nature. In the natural system, there is no waste, only food for the decomposers. And the same materials have been recycled for billions of years. The new...
So it's time to look at the past tactics of many green groups and identify lessons to be learned.