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2003 Archive

• A Map of Sacred Places Around the World
  These holy sites draw people from far away ... and preserve biodiversity.
  — 8 January, 04
• Ethical Now Accepts Donations Online!
  Contributing online is easy - just complete and submit the form below. Rest assured that this is a secure web connection.
  — 18 November, 03
• MAP's Art Gallery Website and 2004 Children's Art Calendars
  Enjoyable Ways to Help Support Mangrove Action Project
  — 15 November, 03
• Join John Gray's SeaCanoe Eco-Tours and Support Mangroves
  MAP voted Best of the Best!
  — 15 November, 03
• Exposed: America's Ministry of Propaganda Part 1 - 4
  by Gar Smith / The-Edge
  — 12 November, 03
• Feinstein Logging Deal Compromises California's Forests
  SF Chronicle
  — 11 November, 03
• Global Service Corps (GSC) Offers Immersion Service-learning Opportunities in Thailand and Tanzania
  Sign up for 2004 Programs at 2003 Prices!
  — 11 November, 03
• Ethical Travelers in the Global Age by Chris Deliso
  Today, a popular movement is growing in the United States, among travelers and others interested in foreign cultures.
  — 11 November, 03
• NGO Says Deforestation in Indonesia worst in the world
  — 11 November, 03
• Congress is Poised to Gut Key Wildlife Laws, Including Whale Protections!
  Defense Authorization Conference Committee Adopts Bush Administration Anti-Environmental Riders on MMPA and ESA
  — 6 November, 03
• Earth Island Journal Winter '04 Available Online!
  — 3 November, 03
• Russian Orca Whale Dies One Month After Capture
  — 31 October, 03
• Faultline Magazine: Free Market on Steroids
  Forget the Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking on a new role as Governor-elect of California: The Deregulator.
  — 31 October, 03
• Earth Island Institute Opposes Bill to Trash Yosemite's Historic LeConte Memorial Lodge
  Congress Should Focus on Yosemite Protection, Not Petty Payback
  — 28 October, 03
• Sustainable World Coalition has launched a new website!
  Living in such a way that future generations have the ability to fulfill their needs
  — 28 October, 03
• Bay Area Wilderness Training Got a New Website!
  BAWT has a new look and a much more user friendly site.
  — 28 October, 03
• New Organization Responds to Surging Development of Marine Environment
  OPTI formed to restore the public's historical right to public land/waters
  — 25 October, 03
• Taking a Stand for the Earth
  2003 Brower Youth Awards Leaders Recognized
  — 25 October, 03
• Russian Capture of Orca Whale Slammed in San Francisco
  — 20 October, 03
• Ethical Traveler Named as Project of Earth Island Institute
  Earth Island's acceptance of global travelers' coalition brings resources, recognition, growth
  — 13 October, 03
• Cruise Ship Ballot Initiative Certified for Signature Gathering
  Initiative Would Help Reduce Polluting Discharges from Cruise Vessels
  — 10 October, 03
• Working Assets 2003 Donations Ballot
  Get out the vote for Earth Island Institute!
  — 8 October, 03
• The-Edge Visits Greenpeace's Newest Vessel and Winona LaDuke reports on the last days of "The Hogs of Rosebud."
  — 3 October, 03
• Ethical Traveler Recognized in Outside Magazine
  New Earth Island Project Mobilizes Travelers on Social Justice and Environmental Issues
  — 25 September, 03
• New Project Website Launched
  UniversitÁrea Protegida - creates opportunities for Nicaraguan University students to conduct scientific research, participate in community based conservation projects and develop ecotourism.
  — 23 September, 03
• The-Edge: Vampirialism
  George W. Explores the Dark New World beyond 'Voodoo Economics'
  — 15 September, 03
• Faultline Magazine: Cancun Diary by Tom Turner
  A Bay Area environmental activist's dispatches from the Fifth Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization in Cancún, Mexico
  — 15 September, 03
• Boreal Footprint Project at the 5th World Congress on Protected Areas
  New Report Illustrates that Successful Parks in Indigenous Territories Must Fully Involve Indigenous Communities
  — 15 September, 03
• 2002 Brower Youth Award Winners Named Barron Prize Winners
  Stefanie Lacy and Amir Nadav Win the 2003 Barron Prize for Young Environmental Heroes!
  — 11 September, 03
• Beauty Champions Lake Victoria
  Lady of the Lake as Environmental Spokeswoman
  — 9 September, 03
• Environmentally Friendly Sea Canoe Tours Help MAP Conserve the Mangroves
  — 5 September, 03
• Mart of Darkness - A Faultline Feature
  by Jason Leopold - How free-market economics ensures recent blackouts won't be the last.
  — 3 September, 03
• What's New on The-Edge
  Bush and Blair Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, The World's Weather Has Gone Haywire, New Flotsam & Jetsam, and Much More!
  — 27 August, 03
• Herring Adjourned - A Faultline Feature
  by Joe Eaton - It's disheartening to think that the one California marine resource we believed we had somehow managed not to screw up may have been overexploited after all.
  — 20 August, 03
• Whales as collateral damage? (SF Chronicle)
  Congress is now locked in debate over whether to exempt the Department of Defense from critical wildlife and environmental laws.
  — 18 August, 03
• Faultline Magazine: Ready for Wildfire? by Jim Rossi
  Humboldt County's Fire Safe Councils versus the Bush administration Healthy Forests Initiative
  — 17 August, 03
• Two-week Transformation!
  Global Service Corps is now offering two-week volunteer abroad programs in both Thailand and Tanzania. Live with generous local family. Projects in health, education and environment.
  — 11 August, 03
• The Greening of Iran
  A look inside the Green Party of Iran (Yes, there is one)
  — 1 August, 03
• The 2003 Brower Youth Award Winners!
  A fair trade campaigner, a biodiesel pioneer, and the founder of the first environmental youth group on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula are among the six recipients of the 2003 Brower Youth Awards...
  — 23 July, 03
• What's New on the-Edge
  Bombs Awry! The Imprecision of 'Precision' Weapons, Bill Moyers's the Progressive Story of America, and Darryl Cherney's Speech to the Annual MAXXAM Shareholder Meeting
  — 18 July, 03
• Two-week Thailand Programs from Global Service Corps
  Due to popular demand, GSC is now offering two-week Thailand programs for individuals with limited time or vacations.
  — 17 July, 03
• Take A Coffee Break For the Mangroves!
  Mangrove Action Project and Grounds for Change
  — 15 July, 03
• Save the Mangroves Call to Action
  Global protest by local fisherfolk against the shrimp industry at the International Day of the Mangrove, July 26th
  — 15 July, 03
• Tanzania Fellowship Launched at International Conference
  by Global Service Corps
  — 7 July, 03
• The 3rd Annual David Brower Day Celebration
  And Photo Gallery
  — 3 July, 03
• The Latest Environmental News and Alerts from Mangrove Action Project
  — 2 July, 03
• Global Service Corps Awarded Non-Profit Status by Thai Government
  — 2 July, 03
• Faultline Magazine: Drawn and Quartered
  How to capture the essence of a state with more cultural diversity and bioregions than any other ..
  — 26 June, 03
• ECO Issue #4: Read first-hand reports from International Whaling Commission Meeting
  This year's meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Germany
  — 19 June, 03
• ECO Issue #3: Read first-hand reports from International Whaling Commission Meeting
  This year's meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Germany
  — 17 June, 03
• Latest Updates from Sacred Land Film Project
  There is a lot happening in the ever-growing national effort to protect sacred lands. Here is a brief summary of news and events unfolding this week.
  — 17 June, 03
• ECO Issue #2: Read first-hand reports from International Whaling Commission Meeting
  This year's meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Germany
  — 17 June, 03
• ECO Issue #1: Read first-hand reports from International Whaling Commission Meeting
  This year's meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Germany
  — 16 June, 03
• GGNWire: Reclaiming Popular Democracy
  — 9 June, 03
• Environmentalists Challenge 27 Federal Timber Sales
  John Muir Project in the news
  — 24 May, 03
• Lawsuit Challenges 27 Timber Sales in Southern National Forests
  Logging Threatens to Destroy Sensitive Habitat for Rare Species
  — 20 May, 03
• The-Edge: Special Report - Bodies and Bulldozers. Human Shields in Gaza and much more!
  "The Battle of Tel Zorab," by the International Solidarity Movement, "US Shield Shot in Head by Israeli Troops." Reported by Brian Avery's friends in Jenin, "Bulldozers Push the Envelope in Mas'ha Mas'ha," by Tom Wallace / ISM, and more!
  — 12 May, 03
• Court Denies Intervention of Mexican & Venezuelan Tuna Companies in Dolphin Safe Label Lawsuit
  Lawsuit Seeks to Overturn Bush Administration Decision to Weaken "Dolphin Safe" Tuna Label
  — 6 May, 03
• Alaska Cruise Ship Head Tax Proposed for 2004 Ballot
  Campaign to Safeguard America's Waters in the news
  — 29 April, 03
• Teens Tackle Pollution in Their Communities
  The Christian Science Monitor
  — 29 April, 03
• End-Runs Around the Enrons - Community Solutions that Put People and the Planet First
  A Resource Guide from Grassroots Globalization Network
  — 23 April, 03
• Dolphins Were Drafted
  Letter to the Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
  — 19 April, 03
• Mt. Diablo Complete!
  May 2nd- May 4th, 2003, Mandatory Pre-trip Meeting - April 29th
  — 19 April, 03
• EII Project Founder Receives Goldman Prize!
  Nigerian forest activist and WARN cofounder Odigha Odigha has been awarded the 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize.
  — 16 April, 03
• Global Service Corps has Extended its Deadline for the Summer International Volunteer Programs
  — 15 April, 03
• Court Blocks Easing of 'Dolphin Safe' Tuna Labeling Rules (Los Angeles Times)
  Federal judge attributes Bush policy change mainly to international trade concerns. Environmentalists applaud the injunction.
  — 11 April, 03
• Judge Upholds Definition of Dolphin-Safe Tuna Label (© 2003 Associated Press)
  A federal judge on Thursday upheld the definition of the dolphin-safe tuna label and barred the Bush administration from altering it.
  — 11 April, 03
• Court Blocks Bush 'Dolphin Safe' Label
  Lawsuit Seeks to Overturn Bush Administration 12/31/02 Decision to Weaken Label
  — 10 April, 03
• GGNWire: From 'Free Trade' to Forced Trade: The Challenge of Empire (Mar.-Apr. '03)
  — 4 April, 03
• Court Hearing to Save Dolphins
  Lawsuit Seeks to Overturn Bush Administration 12/31/02 Decision to Weaken
  — 4 April, 03
• Earth Island Seeks Applicants for 2003 David Brower Youth Awards
  — 4 April, 03
• At War with the Environment? (SF Chronicle Editorial)
  FOR DECADES, the military has heeded federal pollution and wildlife laws on 25 million acres of bases, ports and airfields.
  — 3 April, 03
• The-Edge: "The Death of Rachel Corrie" - Reports on the death of a US.
  — 28 March, 03
• In a Dark Hour, a Place of Light
  On the brink of war, a magical Arctic wilderness wins out over a bit of oil
  — 27 March, 03
• Climate Solutions to Become Independent
  — 26 March, 03
• The-Edge: Endgame in Baghdad by John Ross
  — 22 March, 03
• Dolphin-Safe Tuna Controversy Returns
  The government's own scientists admit... Dolphins are still being killed.
  — 14 March, 03
• The-Edge: I Am What You Are Going to Destroy
  by Charlotte Aldebron (Age 12) / Wiretap
  — 13 March, 03
• Bush Administration Declares War on Whales
  Navy Pushing For Exemptions from Marine Mammal Protection Act
  — 12 March, 03
• 'Environmentalists Against War' Calls for Peace
  And 10 Reasons Environmentalists Oppose an Attack on Iraq, by Environmentalists Against War
  — 7 March, 03
• Want a Life-Changing Vacation or Internship?
  Why just sit on the beach or be a tourist when you can totally immerse yourself in another culture and soak up all the pleasures of seeing a foreign country from an insider's perspective? By Global Service Corps
  — 2 March, 03
• Countdown to Cataclysm: Human Shields in Baghdad Wait for Bush to Bomb
  A contribution from The-Edge, Environmental News from the Brink
  — 28 February, 03
• Earth Island's Weekly Compendium of News-from-the-Brink
  "Peace Uprisings Circle the World," by Will Thomas, "No Greater Threat: The US PATRIOT Act," by C. William Michaels, "Bush's Reckless Wars May Reap Disaster," by Senator Robert C. Byrd, "Don't Bomb Baghdad," by Dr. Charlie Clements, Green Gyms, Going Gree
  — 20 February, 03
• The-Edge: Online Weekly Magazine
  The Attack on Iraq Was Planned Before the 2000 Elections, Saddam Didn’t Expel the UN Weapons Inspectors
  — 18 February, 03
• Special Section: Conflict Over Iraq
  News, Views, and Resources for Action
  — 18 February, 03
• Mexican rebels threaten eco-ranch
  U.S. owners vow to stay unless they get fair price
  — 13 February, 03
• A Dolphin's Plea for Understanding
  Faultline Magazine. By David Helvarg, author of Blue Frontier - Saving America's Living Seas and founder of the Blue Frontier Campaign in DC.
  — 12 February, 03
• Earth Island's Weekly Compendium of News-from-the-Brink
  Environmentalists against the War: First-ever Eco-Auto Parade Rolls Out in San Francisco; 'Shock and Awe': Guernica Revisited; Blood on their Hands; Dear Dan, Tom and Peter: 'Watch Your Language'
  — 10 February, 03
• This Is No Time For War
  By Angana Chatterji, a Member Of the Earth Island Board of Directors
  — 10 February, 03
• Forest Service backs off some old-growth logging in Sierra
  Thanks in great part to the hard work of John Muir Project
  — 6 February, 03
• All Creatures Great and Small
  A new and unforgivable target of the president's assault on the world of nature: the dolphin - - The Washington Post
  — 4 February, 03
• Earth Island's Weekly Compendium of News-from-the-Brink
  "Peace Is a Civil Right," by Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, The Bush Administration's Assault on the Environment," by Senator Barbara Boxer, "The Case for 'Preventative Impeachment'," by Kellia Ramares (Online Journal), "Impeachment Resolution against Presiden
  — 30 January, 03
• A Second Silent Spring
  Will the West Nile virus devastate California's wild birds?
  — 21 January, 03
• Temporary Stay in Dolphin Lawsuit
  Agreement with Government Lawyers Protects Dolphins Pending Hearing for A Preliminary Injunction
  — 10 January, 03
• Four-Strokes for Whale Folks
  Environmental groups sponsor $144,000 in loans to buy new 4-stroke outboard motors for whale watchers
  — 8 January, 03
• Environmentalists Sue to Save Dolphins
  Lawsuit Seeks to Overturn Bush Administration 12/31/02 Decision to Weaken Dolphin-Safe Tuna label
  — 3 January, 03