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...says. "I kept thinking of some poor family starving because of my dress." True to her upbringing, Shiva has made it her mission to fight for social justice in many arenas. With a doctorate in physics from the University of Western Ontario, she has been a teacher, an ecologist, an activist, a feminist and an organic farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vandana Shiva: Seeds of Self-Reliance | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...result "floods are higher and the water travels faster. You can, of course, say that the amount of rain caused the catastrophe, but it makes a big difference how fast that rain can drain away. We have to give the river more space." Klement Tockner, an aquatic ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, agrees. "With heavy rainfalls, the problem with most rivers is that they are dammed in, so they rise instead of widening." Tockner cites the example of the Tagliamento River in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. The river is 170 km long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raging Waters | 8/18/2002 | See Source »

...arguments as desperate, disingenuous scare stories. "It unmasks the industry's self-interest," he says, "when it voices concern about B12 while hundreds of thousands of people are dying prematurely because of too much saturated fat from meat and dairy products." Indeed, according to David Pimentel, a Cornell ecologist, the average American consumes 112 grams of protein a day, twice the amount recommended by the National Academy of Sciences. "This has implications for cancer risks and stress on the urinary system," says Pimentel. "And with this protein comes a lot of fat. Fully 40% of our calories--and heavy cardiovascular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should We All Be Vegetarians? | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...allows them to be covered with yummy carcinogenic ash. They are perhaps the driest things I have ever eaten--and as a child I would often be caught eating sand at the beach. "Oh Lordy, that's dry. It sucks the tissues out of your mouth," says retired plant ecologist Jack Taylor, after putting up a good fight with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have You Ever Tried Ashcakes? | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...this problem was especially acute in his home state. All of Hawaii's 20 species of flightless birds have vanished, and half the flying ones as well. One-sixth of the native plants are gone, and 30% of remaining ones are threatened. "I decided I wanted to be an ecologist, so I jumped into science classes to catch up," he says. "I always intended to work in Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecology: Ecosystems Analyst | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

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