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High-profile books like last year's No Impact Man, which details one New Yorker's attempt to spend a year without having a negative impact on the environment, may be particularly popular now because of the Great Recession. It is no longer fashionable to flash bling. Today's monklike experimenters are flaunting what they don't have. (See how Americans are spending...
...marked by such accomplishments as the creation of four national parks, six national monuments, eight seashores and lakeshores, 20 historic sites and 50 wildlife refuges. But I believe it is his influence on the way we think about conservation that may have the most lasting impact...
Hammond said she is glad to both have an impact on the children she met, as well as to be a role model for them...
...these factors - environmental exposure, environmental stress - can have an impact on the vulnerability to obesity or drug addiction," says Shertleff. Whether or not cheesecake is as addictive as crack, "what this research is really showing us is that we can learn something about compulsive eating from the addiction world," he says...
...focused on the big picture that I was missing all these other opportunities to change the world at a more local level,” he recalled. “It’s important to realize what you do in your backyard has a really immediate impact...