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...Canal Vu. Toxic-waste-disposal kit may be required...
...Love Canal's Feisty Muckraker
...storybook Niagara Falls housewife, baking homemade bread, keeping a spotless kitchen and raising her family in the neighborhood known locally as Love Canal. But in 1978 Lois Gibbs' life took an abrupt turn. That was when she became convinced that the toxic goo seeping from an abandoned chemical- waste dump three blocks from her home was making her children -- and those of her neighbors -- sick. Stymied by stonewalling corporate and government bureaucrats, she summoned strengths and talents she did not know she had. Over a period of two years, Gibbs knocked on doors, passed out petitions, gave speeches, hounded public...
...woman who transformed Love Canal into an international symbol of the dangers of toxic waste has become a role model for a generation of homemaking ecocrusaders. With part of the $30,000 that New York State paid for her home, she packed her children and her belongings into a U-Haul and headed for Washington and a career as a professional lobbyist. Today she runs the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, a consulting service based in Arlington, Va., for communities in Love Canal-like situations. "The only way to make change is to do it on the local level...
Today, that project is 90 percent complete, and has employed many Design School ideas. Developers have turned the area into a boat canal connecting to the Charles River, surrounded by high-rise condominiums and office buildings...