Word: eco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bonnie Phillips has been called an eco-nazi. Twice, logging trucks in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest northeast of Seattle have run her off the road. She shrugs. Washington and Oregon are where the big wave of U.S. logging ran out of room, and the timber wars there--between loggers and environmentalists over uncut remnants of ancient Douglas fir and hemlock forests--are not beanbag fights...
Walking morning rounds recently, Searles noticed bear tracks in fresh snow near the golf course. He has become an ursine eco-evangelist. "This is the year 2000," he says, "and authorities still kill bears that did nothing wrong. My ambition is to change this." The gangly contractor adds, "Bears have shown they can adapt to us. Why can't we adapt to them?" Within the range of a middling seven-iron shot, at least four bears are adapting...
...forests over the headline OLDEST LIVING THINGS ON EARTH OR TOMORROW'S TOILET PAPER? 3M signed on after RAN set up an 800 number for consumers to complain. Nike, Levi Strauss and Andersen Corp. (the largest U.S. window manufacturer) agreed without hesitation, and Kinko's is even marketing its eco-friendliness with a line of tree-free paper made from bananas...
Five years ago, an eco-activist and self-taught electronics whiz named Stephen Dunifer founded Free Radio Berkeley, trekking up into the hills behind the city and transmitting out of his backpack one night a week with home-built equipment. Soon, with the help of volunteers, Dunifer, 46, was selling kits around the country, enabling anyone who could raise a few hundred dollars to launch a station with a transmitter powered by fewer watts than a light bulb, often covering a radius of only a few miles. Dunifer co-edited a book, Seizing the Airwaves, and mounted...
...Today the 32-year-old is a tireless activist for the World Wildlife Fund. On the road more than half of each month, Mitraud, who is single, shuttles between crusades to repair Brazil's rain forests, its fragile Atlantic archipelagoes or the rapidly disappearing central savannas. A coffee-guzzling eco-evangelist with a pendant shaped like an endangered sea turtle dangling from her neck, Mitraud converts farmers, miners and housewives to viable but more ecologically sustainable livelihoods, such as ecotourism. She has the abrupt professionalism of a Harvard M.B.A. and the urgency of a woman who is sprinting madly against...