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...quarter in and you get a lot more than 30 minutes of parking time. When a donor turns the handle of the modified meter, a mechanical red-throated hummingbird flies across a jungle scene, signaling that the donation will be used to save a small plot of tropical rain forest...
...other cities, including Seattle and Philadelphia, have requested the machines, which were developed with financial backing from the Virginia-based Nature Conservancy. If each of the 1 million annual visitors to the San Francisco Zoo gave 25 cents, the $250,000 could purchase more than 800 hectares of rain forest. Nationwide, more than 120 million annual zoo visitors could save 100,000 hectares a year. Impressive though that sounds, it will take many more quarters to reverse the fate of the rain forests, which are disappearing at the rate of 20 hectares a minute...
Still, if he is occasionally too fascinated by the trees, Auletta never loses sight of the forest. On a shelf overflowing with behind-the-scenes tomes and tell-all memoirs, his is the network book to beat...
DEADICATED (Arista). Mercy me, not ecology again. But -- yes -- it's a save- the-rain-forest jamboree of 15 Grateful Dead tunes covered in rambunctious fashion by artists as diverse as Jane's Addiction and Suzanne Vega. Check out Warren Zevon and David Lindley taking Casey Jones down the track and Elvis Costello keeping Ship of Fools dead on course. But there's good work all around...
Welcome home, as the quirky, wistful wanderers who call themselves the Rainbow People say to each other every few minutes for reassurance. Where's home? This time it's in the high meadows in the Green Mountain National Forest, a couple of miles westward and upward from Granville, Vt. Up, down and around for half a mile or more in all directions, there are perhaps 14,000 Rainbows. For the 20th July in a row, mostly to the displeasure of local and state authorities, the Rainbows have invited themselves to a different national forest, there peaceably to assemble. And peaceably...