Grand Canyon

Environmental Groups Win Fight to Keep Uranium Mining Out of the Grand Canyon

Written by Naturally Earth Friendly on January 24, 2012
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar signs the Record of Decision.
Grand Canyon at sunset.
Map of the withdrawal area.

After years of fighting to keep uranium mines from surrounding the Grand Canyon, environmental groups won the fight when Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar signed the Record of Decision. For the next 20 years, there will be no new uranium mines on more than one million acres of federal land.

Want to Give Junk Mailers a Taste of Their Own Medicine?

Written by Naturally Earth Friendly on October 4, 2009

Catalogs. Credit card offers. Junk mail. Are you tired of receiving unwanted junk mail in your mailbox? All of that trash that is just going straight into the trash can be depressing when you think of how many trees were cut down to make that trash. (100 million trees are cut down to make paper for junk mail each year.)