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.
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Transforming Travel
Eco-tourism is more than a trend: it’s a seismic shift in a trillion-dollar industry. From Ecuador to Australia, eco-travel takes many different forms, from grass shacks on the beach to ultra-modern eco-lodges in the rainforest. With concern growing about traditional tourism’s alienation from nature and its effects on indigenous cultures, eco-travelers are doing it right or staying at home.
Twenty-Five Years Later
<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.
Fighting Words on Earth Day
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.
It Didn’t Begin with Earth Day
The green momentum was building long before the first Earth Day in 1970. The activism of people like Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson warned of overpopulation dangers and ecological disaster.
Making Earth Day Count
The celebration has had its ups and downs, but Earth Day is still a vitally important symbol for the environmental movement. It’s the annual event that millions of people remember, the milestone in their minds, their marker of environmental progress. April 22 is more than a celebration – it’s a promise to better the lives of ourselves, our nation and our world (with complete Earth Day event listings)
Big Cats in the Ozarks
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.
Off the Road and Out of Bounds
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.
Green Golf
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.
Rainforest Crunch
"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.