The Editorial Tidepool
by Gar Smith, Editor in Chief
It's good to be back at the Journal after a six-month sabbatical. In addition to catching up on my reading, I was able to complete several investigative stories. A report on depleted uranium and jet aircraft appears in this issue.
Former Editor Chris Clarke is happily at work prepping his new environmental magazine, Faultline. Check out their new website: [www.faultlinemag.org]
The Thames It Is A-Changing: Raise a glass for Hugh Fish, the late British conservationist whose efforts to cleanse the Thames succeeded in restoring the native salmon - after an absence of 150 years.
Joie Armstrong remembered. On July 21, a young naturalist was murdered in Yosemite National Park. An environmental trust has been created in her memory. Checks may be sent to "Yosemite National Institutes/Joie Armstrong Memorial Fund" c/o Yosemite National Institutes, Ft.Cronkhite, Building 1055, Sausalito, CA 94965
The Green Pages Fund has sent $100 donations to the Hazel Wolf Fund and the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary's Intern Endowment Fund [1700 Hawk Mountain Rd., Kempton, PA 19529-9449, (610) 756-6961].
Help us Plant Trees and Honor the Earth
You can donate to the Green Pages Fund by ordering this classic "Earth's Ten Commandments" silkscreen poster (16" by 24"). Text by Ernest "Ecotopia" Callenbach. Art by David Lance Goines. Cost: $25 (includes $5 for postage and mailing tube). Limited edition signed by the author. Only 50 copies! Proceeds will help plant trees in the Third World. Please make checks payable to the "Green Pages Fund."
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