Environment

This article appeared in the May 2005 issue of Balanced Life magazine: BIRD-WATCHING: Find the essence BY HEATHER CONN If a stranger walked through your yard, peered at you through a window and made funny sounds to attract your attention, you’d likely call the police. Yet birds endure such attention every day. They’re the focus…

Frances Moore Lappé I interviewed the author of Diet for a Small Planet at the Women of Wisdom conference in Seattle, WA in 2003. She had recently published Hope’s Edge, co-written with her daughter Anna. Lappé’s dedication to ending world hunger and promoting sustainable agriculture and democracy world-wide is impressive. My article “Reclaiming control of our…

Toxic nail polish Did you know that most nail polishes contain the same material found in dynamite? For more information, read my article “Spiked!” from Alive magazine (April 2003).

Canada’s rare Kermode bear After joining a small group of eco-tourists on British Columbia’s Princess Royal Island, I was lucky enough to see and photograph the white Kermode bear in remote wilderness. Canada is the only nation in the world that’s home to this rare form of black bear, whose fur is white due to…