Africa Awakes
Green travel offers high hopes to a South Africa finally free of apartheid. The country’s coming to realize that preserving its wildlife resources is a key to building a sustainable tourist industry.
Green travel offers high hopes to a South Africa finally free of apartheid. The country’s coming to realize that preserving its wildlife resources is a key to building a sustainable tourist industry.
<I>E</I> talks with Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson and former coordinator Denis Hayes, who see a maturing celebration with plenty of life in it.
If we had looked forward from the first Earth Day in 1970, we might have envisioned a very different 1995 – one in which the great battles over stewardship of the land, air and sea were over, and we’d won.
Hazel O’ Leary, Clinton’s Secretary, works for open government and alternative sources of power while trying to build partnerships with industry and keep the budget cutters at bay.
It took 30 years to build at least marginally effective environmental regulations in America, but Congress tried to roll them back in 100 days. The Gingrich Revolution has swept through Washington like a prarie fire, and the flames seem to be consuming good sense as well as "regulatory red tape"
The red tag in his ear marks him as a first-time offender: a Colorado bear’s equivalent to being booked and fingerprinted. He now has a record – convicted for getting into somone’s garbage. Fortunately, he’s kept his noise clean until hibernation. And, hopefully, he dreams of nuts and berries instead of trash cans, because the Colorado Division of Wildlife decided last year that a problem bear can be relocated only once. With a second offense, the bear is destroyed. In just four months last summer, 33 bears were killed under the new policy.
"All the news that’s fine to print on Canada’s ancient rainforest," read one of a cluster of placards hoisted by a small group of demonstrators huddled in front of the New York Times building in Manhattan one frigid day last winter. Beside them was a palette loaded with copies of the Times, festively strewn with Yuletide decorations.
Golf course architect Dr. Mike Hurdzan of Columbus, Ohio tells this story: It was 1984. Hurdzan and his collegaues had created a course on Cape Cod, Massachusetts called Dennis Highlands. It was designed with the enviornment in mind – planted with native, low-maintenance grasses that required less watering and fewer pesticides than the average course.
The ads feature cars perched on alpine peaks, on Old West plateaus and in remote deserts. Mud-caked cars are seen splashing through rainforest rivers and powering ovr bouldered trails. The cars are everywhere they shouldn’t be.
Spring has stealthily descended on the Ozarks. Mother Nature has fingerpainted the trees – oak, sycamore, pine, elm, hickory, maple and redbud – in varying shades of rich green life. A pleasant breeze holds the temperature around 72 degrees. The air smells sweet. And in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a village named Little Switzerland, Victorian cottages perch tenaciously on the mountainside and local craftspeople produce folk art. What’s truly unique, however lies eight miles up the road – the Turpentine Creek Exotic Wildlife Ranch. Here the Jackson family cares for animals from around the country that have been mistreated or abandoned.