Tribes as Essential Partners in Achieving Sustainable Governance
Indigenous peoples have modeled sustainable development around the world. Incentivizing the innovation and instillation of wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources can come in the form of public funding, including renewable portfolio standards, feed in tariffs and green tag programs. This article analyzes ways in which tribal communities are helping to expand cooperative good governance.
At Home with Nature: Early Reflections on Green Building Laws and the Transformation of the Built Environment
Green building, which was formalized only fifteen years ago to promote healthier and more efficient building practices, has exceeded virtually all predictions of its potential. Green building has entered markets in almost every major city in the United States, while developing as a sophisticated basis for investment, human health, and conservation. Stated otherwise, green building is no longer a fringe environmental policy and, as argued in this Article, is even shedding its markings as a political ideology. This Article examines two parallel but distinct consequences of the green building movement. First, by considering the major challenges to green building, this Article examines the conditions for success of the movement – how green building has become acceptable to consumers, the construction industry, and building regulators. Second, this Article explores the relationship between the goals and methods of green building laws and argues that green building compels a transformative, constructivist effect on humans’ place and position in nature. This Article ultimately argues that green building is special because of its pluralistic approach to regulation, ethics, and even to nature itself.
Carcinogenic hazards from pesticide residues.
The possibility that residues of pesticides present in food eaten by man could lead to an increased risk that the consumer might develop cancer has been considered twice in the preceding twelve volumes of Residue Reviews. OSER (1962) discussed the experimental studies that are made or should be made in experimental animals in order to provide evidence as to whether or not the substance under investigation had a carcinogenic action on these animals. He emphasized the lack of agreement on the best experimental methods to be employed and pointed out the difficulties of interpreting the findings in animal experiments in such a way that would enable anyone to indicate the hazard the substance under test might present to man if present in his food. durham (1963) in a very comprehensive review of the health hazards that might arise from pesticide residues present in food discussed the difficulties of obtaining any information on the effects on man. He also considered in some detail the problems raised by residues of Aramite [2 - (p-tertiarybutylphenoxy) -isopropyl-2-chloroethyl sulphite], aminotriazole, dichlorodiphenyl-dichloroethane (DDT), and dieldrin.