Most Recent Articles from E: The Environmental Magazine

• Behind the greens: Ken Burns, Documentarian: 5 questions of environmental leaders 

  Before there was the History Channel, there was Ken Burns. The veteran filmmaker's exhaustive PBS documentaries on all-American subjects like...

  09/01/09 by Kevin Brian · More from publication

• The San Francisco Public Library 

  The San Francisco Public Library began testing compostable corn-based library cards in May 2009 with the hope of one day replacing all its plastic...

  09/01/09 · More from publication

• Whatever happened to Greenburg, Kansas? A Midwest town continues its green rebuilding, two years after the tornado 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On May 4, 2007, an EF5 tornado cut a 1.7-mile path of destruction through Greensburg, Kansas. Winds reaching speeds of 205...

  09/01/09 by Melissa Knopper · More from publication

• Old king coal 

  Someone once showed me an old Chattanooga, Tennessee, Chamber of Commerce pamphlet from around 1900 that had as its cover image a charcoal...

  09/01/09 by Doug Moss · More from publication

• Water 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Water includes a chemist's accounting of the true cost of water; photographs taken inside a city's secret waterways; an...

  09/01/09 by John Knechtel · More from publication

• Yankee shame 

  Thanks for the article on the new Yankee stadium ("Dropping the Ball," feature, May/June 2009). It's disappointing how they put up this...

  09/01/09 by Jill Winter · More from publication

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