How Green Are Bamboo Clothes? By Mary Logan BarmeyerThe Green Guidehttp://www.thegreenguide.com/doc/ask/bamboo A reader writes the Green Guide: I heard on NPR a report on bamboo fabrics and other products, and in a very brief comment the reporter said that bamboo is processed using very harsh chemicals. I have not been able to find out about [...]

Revised plan to curb 'dead zone' wins nod but doubts renewed about reaching goal By Chris KirkhamThe Times-Picayune; March 01, 2008 http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-5/120435330153690.xml&coll=1 A cadre of state and federal officials signed off on a revised plan to limit the Gulf of Mexico's oxygen-starved "dead zone" in Chicago on Friday, amid criticism from the scientific community that it [...]

EDITORIAL: No life in dead zone fightThe Times-Picayune; March 01, 2008http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-4/120435328253690.xml&coll=1 A revised plan to shrink the Gulf of Mexico dead zone by 2015 will not revive the moribund effort to cure this ecological disaster; in fact, critics say that the new version of the plan is weaker than the one first adopted seven years [...]