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Well, my advice is to put aside your skepticism and give the Green Century report in this issue a close look. Prepared by Charles Alexander, who has edited TIME's environmental specials for the past 13 years, the report is at its root a declaration of optimism. Yes, our planet is under siege from the combined pressures of air and water pollution, global warming and overpopulation. But new technologies, innovative, market-based incentives and a growing mainstream acceptance of green concerns offer hope that real progress is within reach...
...Starting on Aug. 26, world leaders will convene in Johannesburg for 10 days to assess the state of the planet and chart a course of action. The focus will be on "sustainable development": how to keep growing and lifting living standards without exhausting the globe's natural resources. In an essay written for TIME, Kofi Annan, the U.N. Secretary-General, articulates a future that could be bright or disastrous, depending on the policies we adopt...
...sure to check out our other guest essays: a loving tribute to the planet from former astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, who has seen Earth from a rare vantage point; a cautionary tale of lost civilizations from Jared Diamond, Pulitzer prizewinning author and a director of the World Wildlife Fund; and an impassioned call to action from Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist. (Goodall faxed her essay to us with apologies that she wouldn't be around for a while to answer editors' questions. She was heading soon into a rain forest in the Republic of the Congo...
Right now, Aniston is one of the most recognizable and written-about women on the planet. Even as she was winning raves from critics last week for her performance in The Good Girl, a dark little independent comedy, she could be seen on the front page of a tabloid that promised details of her STORMY MARRIAGE to the equally photogenic Pitt. (According to the tab, she hates her movie-star husband's scraggly beard. "False," she says...
...praise food extremists like vegetarians? Our planet offers such diversity in available foods, it seems almost rude not to better our bodies with variety. Eat your steak, and have your broccoli too. Variety is the spice of life. DAREN SCHUETTPELZ Ellensburg, Wash...