Word: environmentalism
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A company's efforts can be as simple as improving the energy efficiency of the products it sells - which also benefits the bottom line, since energy costs remain volatile. That's especially germane to big-power products, like the microprocessing chips that run desktop computers. Shapiro points to Intel, whose...
Heroes of the Environment Your issue was truly impressive in its global coverage, and the ideas it canvassed have not only great significance for humanity but huge economic potential [Oct. 6]. It should be distributed to all the world's secondary schools, for that is where the seeds of future...
How can we take Arnold Schwarzenegger seriously as a hero of the environment, when you show him surrounded by a collection of dead, stuffed animals? Perhaps they all died from carbon emissions, which is why he has become so passionate about it. Lynn Moss, FISH HOEK, SOUTH AFRICA
...always possess. But while Jones has become the face of the new green-collar economy, he's hardly the only environmentalist pushing the idea. The concept is gaining steam because when it comes to climate change, simply protecting the environment is not enough. The only way the environmental movement can grow beyond a relatively small elite is if it meets broad, basic economic needs, not just green ones. "We need to go from talking about green as a lifestyle choice, and make it an economic choice," says Jones. "We need eco-populism, not eco-elitism...
“The point is not just to get a bunch of pledges, stuff paper in people’s faces and ask them to care about the environment,” said Molly V. N. Bales ’10, a member of the EAC who gathered pledges...