Word: liss
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...really bad news is that most of the planet's 6 billion people are just beginning to follow in the trash-filled footsteps of the U.S. and the rest of the developed world. "Either we need to control ourselves or nature will," says Gary Liss of Loomis, Calif., a veteran of recycling and solid-waste programs who advises clients aiming to reduce landfill deposits. As he sees it, garbage--maybe every last pound of it--needs to become a vile thing of the past...
That may seem impossible, but it's not unprecedented. In nature, Liss points out, there is no such thing as waste. What dies or is discarded from one part of an ecosystem nourishes another part. Liss says humanity can emulate nature's garbage-free ways, but it will require innovative technology and a big change in attitude...
...tradecraft. Photographers Bob Sacha and Andre Lambertson, both veterans of the Duke campaign, showed their expertise at maneuvering in a complex social group. Religion writer David Van Biema, as he had at Duke, concentrated on the sensitive issues of death and faith. Photographers Joe McNally, Lauren Greenfield and Steve Liss managed to place themselves in the midst of teenage action most outsiders never...
Samya Burni, director of the trafficking program for Human Rights Watch of New York; Laura Lederer, research director of the Kennedy School's Protection Project of the Women and Public Policy Program; Marsha Liss, trial attorney for the child exploitation and obscenity section of the criminal division in the U.S. Department of Justice; Frederick Schauer, academic dean of the Kennedy School and principal investigator for the Protection Project and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) spoke at the panel...
...Liss emphasized the presence of trafficking in America. She cited instances that resulted in two men receiving 20-year sentences for exploiting two girls in Las Vegas and a Massachusetts man found guilty on 18 counts of trafficking...