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...hundred miles. Woods has a similar mountaintop meadow in which to carve his vision. At 4,000 ft., this nearly mile-high club will be built for walking, emphasizing the wellness mantra that Cliffs Communities founder Jim Anthony says defines the communities there. The properties border the Pisgah National Forest and other protected areas that promise a lifetime of trails and wilderness for the outdoorsy...
...confident leaders have succeeded in furthering any sort of lasting change. Rather than “imperiling” it, arrogance is one of the prerequisites for a successful revolution! As the Russians used to say during the days of Stalin, “When you cut down a forest, chips fly.” I personally would leave the forest alone, but, as I’m sure Mr. Usmani will learn, there is no way of talking the trees into falling. MARK A. ADOMANIS ’07 Philadelphia, PA October...
...wireless by the end of the year. Rwanda is also clean, thanks to a ban on plastic bags since 2005 and a mandatory national "tidy up" one afternoon each month, in which even government ministers clean the streets. Partly as a result, and partly because of careful rain-forest management and a mountain gorilla baby boom, Rwanda is also a growing eco-tourism destination. The government says the economy as a whole will grow 6.5% this year...
...profit connected to hundreds of institutional investors controlling $41 trillion in assets, reported that major corporations have begun to increasingly act on climate change - outpacing many governments. Indonesia, the third-biggest carbon emitter after the U.S. and China, hosted a side meeting of rainforest nations, where they called for forest protections to be a larger part of Kyoto's successor agreement when negotiations start in Bali. (Deforestation is responsible roughly 20% of global carbon emissions.) "There is no better chance than in Bali to act decisively," Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told delegates at the close of the summit...
...Karamanlis, 51 and of noted political pedigree, arrived at the central election headquarters, claiming a victory he described as "a strong mandate for a new and more dynamic beginning," setting off a storm of celebrations that eclipsed weeks of grief - and anger - that swelled from a deadly spate of forest fires that killed 65 people and left much of the country ravaged...