Word: habitats
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Coopersmith is a temperate liberal--he's pro-environment, wants a bigger budget for Superfund hazardous-waste cleanups and improved habitat for Pacific salmon; and he's strongly pro-choice. But he favors the death penalty and supported a labor-union decertification, which has made it harder for him to win union support...
...redwoods. Vast, dark shapes begin to form: the trunks of enormous redwoods and Douglas firs rising as if to hold up the sky. Greens nationwide had hoped for a pact that would have spared some 60,000 acres--all six ancient groves, and the partly logged land between--as habitat for spotted owls, peregrine falcons and coho salmon...
...working to try to get them more involved in public service activities," Rapp said. "It would be fun to get the fellows out and working on Habitat for Humanity house or working on a PBH project...
...immense factories. After WWII, zoning codes became even more restrictive so as to separate most aspects of life from each other. Today, Kunstler says, "What zoning produces is suburban sprawl, which must be understood as the product of a particular set of instructions.... [This] model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess...
...become personally involved." A tax credit that allows people to support local social initiatives, he contends, would keep both donor and recipient accountable. "If you want to know that your money is really going to make a difference," he asks, "would you rather give $1,000 to Habitat for Humanity or to HUD?" Yet one study that Catholic Charities cited in Senate testimony earlier this year estimates that private giving in the year 2000 would have to be 50 times greater than it has been to replace government support for social services...