Word: eco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opponents are scathing in their criticism of the well-intentioned effort. "The designers of this system should have known that most people would observe it," says Volrad Wolny, a waste-management expert at Eco-Institute, an environmental watchdog organization. "Ecological awareness in Germany is very high." He says DSD executives gave guarantees they knew could not be met. "They knew they did not have the technology in place." Wolny and others want to compel producers to cut plastic packaging by up to 50%. And the Greens, meanwhile, feel the Green Dot gives their party a bad name. They would like...
...England Eco Expo. Oct. 1-3, World Trade Center. Call 484-4418 for more information. Includes Environmental Career Day, fashion show, Earth Music Festival, A Taste of the Environment, cooking demos, wine tastings, and children's activities...
...Eco, the ambiguity of the response in Italy raises a more potent question: has society ever come to terms with the act of suicide and its different motivation? Despite education, an emotional public response, as to an assassination, is inevitable...
...Eco finds in these suicides, as he terms it, a "colder" reality. Periodically, in a diseased institution, whether it is a government, Wall Street or a single collapsed corporation, the dirt on the table incites a wave of suicides...
...distance ourselves from the particular event of a political suicide, we must strive to learn something from this history. In Eco's conception, exclusive responsibility cannot be foisted onto to a Gardini or a Cagliari. When it is possible to see through to a more malignant crisis, as the Tangentopoli in Italy, the whole national psyche must be shook into a greater self-awareness...