May 26, 1999
SOMETIMES IT SEEMS LIKE just about everything we eat, drink, or do is bad. Bad for the earth, for your health, for workers, for your karma. Those stylin’ sneakers? Cranked out by children in a sweatshop. Your shiny SUV? Choking the planet with greenhouse gases. Those succulent strawberries? Doused with chemicals. Cigarettes? Forget it. (more…)
April 30, 1998
If the hundreds of caffeine enthusiasts who gathered last week for Coffee Fest New York seemed anxious, it wasn’t just the effect of all the free samples they were downing. They were on a mission to battle the false coffee consciousness of the Starbucks era, and they took it very seriously. “People have become caught up in the jazz of the whole thing,” said Michael Del Gatto, an independent roaster. “But they’re really drinking a milk drink.” (more…)
April 8, 1997
The bill, which critics have called the Mobile Chernobyl Act, would create an interim storage facility the nation’s main nuclear-weapons test site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Under a 1982 law, the Energy Department is required to begin accepting high-level radioactive waste from civilian facilities next year. (more…)
