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...brown face in the room, as he puts it, has probably been as much of an advantage for his career as a detriment. People remember him from the blur of conferences and meetings. In international field work, not being white can make it easier to gain the trust of local populations - Sanjayan recalls an early field trip to an African nation in the wake of apartheid, when being white meant earning instant suspicion. But he admits to being troubled that at a time when the U.S. may finally be ready to elect an African-American to the Presidency, the country...
...crop of African-American activists like New Yorker Majora Carter and Oakland-based Van Jones are adopting environmentalism, fighting for clean air and water in the inner city or green jobs for the underemployed. Around the globe, Sanjayan notes, U.S. environmental groups like the Nature Conservancy have put local staffers in positions of authority. But more can and should be done. "As a conservation community, we badly need to do this," says Sanjayan. Diversity - in all its forms - should be a green goal...
...November 2003, local officials hailed New Delhi's victory in the race to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games as an opportunity to modernize its infrastructure and showcase the Indian capital as a world-class city. But New Delhi's preparations for the games - which involve Britain and most of its former colonies - have been so tardy and poorly executed that diplomats here joke that workers will still be painting the lanes on the athletic track when the runners take their marks...
...choice of the 63.5-hectare site for the Games Village - near the picturesque Akshardham Temple - has been controversial from the outset. Conservationists and local villagers protested against construction on the river's floodplains, and have taken the matter to the court. And that's not to mention the fact that it's located alongside a river whose sewer-like stench assaults the nostrils miles before you reach the actual site. Following reports of a meningitis outbreak, the Delhi Development Authority, which is in charge of the site, has refused to allow anyone inside. Though it claims that adequate sanitary provisions...
...Last month, Heathrow commissioned a local homeless outreach organization, Broadway, to visit the airport once a week and survey its homeless population, while also trying try to coax them into temporary accommodation. They were not prepared for the scale of the problem they discovered: In the first four weeks alone, they conducted 100 interviews with homeless "passengers" - although some of those were repeat interviews, the number was far higher than anyone had expected...