How would Sherlock Holmes tackle the mysterious "Case of the Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat"? Special U.S. Fish and Wildlife homocide is just like investigating a murder. "The only difference is you can’t go out and interview who the leopard was drinking with the night before," he says.
For health-consious travelers, or those just wanting to grab a quick meal, it’s never been easy to find something appetizing to eat at the fast food outlets that spring up like weeds along every major traffic artery.
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.
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.
<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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
