Word: eco
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Like most college towns, Gainesville, Fla., home to the University of Florida, is an eco-conscious place. But even here, motivating youngsters to police the environment can be as hard as getting them to help out with the dishes after dinner. Sometimes it takes a kid to inspire other kids to care--a kid like Will Vinson, 12, whose aluminum-can-recycling crusade lit a fire under the city's next generation. Since he was a nine-year-old fourth-grader at Littlewood Elementary School, Will has united classmates, teachers, recycling firms and other local companies...
...RATS HERE ARE GREEN Eco Mall www.ecomall.com) like its real-world counterparts, is a great place to browse, be entertained or just hang out. And you'll be linked to all sorts of useful environmental sites. For example, click on "Eco Investments" for mutual funds specializing in the stocks of companies judged to be environmentally responsible, or "Energy Efficient Homes" for a handy list of eco-conscious designers and architects...
...News Network www.enn.com provides a clearinghouse for relevant bulletins from the Associated Press, Reuters and other wire services. Full access costs $12.95 a year; for those unwilling to pay, ENN writers churn out four free stories daily, plus an array of multimedia reports. Another good source for all the eco-news you can use is at www.ens.lycos.com...
...HAVE A DREAM A change of mind-set may be all that stands between humanity and a healthy environment, according to the Dream Change Coalition www.dreamchange.org) The site invites visitors to join trips (real, not virtual) into the Amazon and the Himalayas to learn about eco-concepts known as dream changing and psychonavigation. "Earth-honoring changes in consciousness," says the coalition, are what's needed to put the planet on a path toward environmental and social balance...
...course, do a building that's eco-responsible but aesthetically worthless. The crux of Foster's achievement is to have designed megastructures that are at the forefront of eco-design as well as beautiful in their own right. He is a fine detailer--everything from the junctures of a beam to the cladding to the door handles comes out of the same relentless aesthetic concentration. But on the wider scale, Foster is also one of the great living manipulators of light and transparency. No other government building in the world, for instance, can boast anything as outright exhilarating...