Surveys show that people would take public transit if it were in place and efficient. Much of the resistance to transit is due to car companies that perpetuate the private automobile’s "cool" image, and politicians and media who treat transit as bad for jobs. But according to the National Business Coalition for Rapid Transit, every $1 billion invested in public transit generates 30,000 jobs.
Living in the rugged, mountainous landscapes of the Idaho Panhandle, northeastern Washington and British Columbia, the trans-boundary caribou are the last wild examples of their species to visit the continental United States. With numbers dwindling to around 34 animals, the South Selkirk mountain caribou herd is getting close to disappearing forever.
Whatever Became of Fixing Things? A Noble Tradition is Dying, But Reuse Is Still Alive and Well
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Henry Spira is a fighter who makes things happen for animals. He sees a natural connection between the fights and animal rights and environmental sanity, and wants to establish a dialogue.
Back in the winter of 1976, I happened to catch an evening TV news report which graphically depicted the killing of baby seals near Newfoundland. Outraged at what I was seeing, I hurried to the phone to chide the station for showing me this carnage. As I began dialing, though, I realized that I was about the blame the messenger rather than the actual perpetrators of these horrors that so offended my sensibilities.
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The western environmental team boarded the Russian bus from the Hanoi airport, after cutting through rice paddies of every imaginable hue of green, tended by women in conical hats and watched over by teary-eyed water buffaloes. It was the Vietnam of every news report, every post-war film.
Despite the current Congress’ wholesale assault on land conservation, preservationists are still winning many of the local battles. Take the case of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a magnet for hundreds of thousands of summer tourists who come for the sandy beaches and New England charm. Environmentalists thre argued this year – successfully – that the much-loved 75-mile spit of mogratory dunes ought to be off limits.
Food and Pain: Making the Connection
