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...Think Globally, Act Locally" was the watchword of environmental activism from its beginning in the '60s. That advice is as appropriate now as it was then. Just as the Green movement started more than two decades ago not with governments but at the grass roots, so today it is individuals who must occupy the front lines in protecting the environment. Over the years, droughts, energy crunches and garbage strikes have stimulated common-sense approaches to conserving resources and minimizing waste. It is time to begin applying these lessons in ordinary times as well as in emergencies...
...Such grass-roots pressure gave added impetus to some major international initiatives. In Basel last March, 105 nations tentatively agreed to place strict curbs on international shipments of hazardous waste. Meeting in Helsinki in May, representatives of 86 countries declared their intention to phase out their production and use of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the year 2000. All this is encouraging. But make no mistake: these are only the opening skirmishes in what may prove to be mankind's ultimate battle for survival. Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), put the matter starkly...
According to Migranyan, the unsettling change in climate is partly due to Gorbachev's democratizing efforts. Those measures have permitted grass-roots resistance to unpopular reforms. "The Soviet Union," said Migranyan, "is acting like a democracy without really being one." Above all, said Migranyan, his country needed a model to make the transition from state-owned to free- market economy. "Nobody knows how to do it," he said, including Gorbachev, whose government lacks "conceptual ideas and clarity about what to do." Migranyan said the short-term remedy was either food or force. As long as there was sausage...
...past the Quad has been the object of a variety of landscape experiments. Two years ago, a Harvard artist set up half-buried, colored picnic tables. Last year, one artist suggested painting portions of the Quad's grass bright orange, but the plan drew widespread opposition and was never executed...
Increased traffic has also taken its toll onthe grounds, causing costly damage each year tosprinkler heads, grass and shrubs in the Yard,Smith said...