Teri is coordinating the Turtle-Safe Shrimp Certification Program. Kim Gunther-Webster is RTP's new information specialist. BWN recently hired jetski campaign intern Sheila Gallardi. Copies of the 20-minute film are now available to EII members. Earth Island Journal was honored to receive a nomination for UTNE Reader's 1997 Alternative Press Award in the area of Scientific and Environmental Reporting.
Actual winners are still to be announced.
Richard Register's cover story in the Spring 1996 Journal, has grown into an exceptionally beautiful and inspiring book chronicling, in words and photos, the Third International EcoCity Conference in Yoff, Nigeria. The film, which opened the American Indian Film Festival at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, is narrated by Peter Coyote. A Thousands Years of Ceremony tells the story of native activist Florence Jones and the Winnemem Wintu's struggle to preserve their spiritual and ceremonial connection to Mt. Shasta, a towering snow-covered volcanic peak in northern California.