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...motto of Earth Day, "Every Day is Earth Day," implies that Earth Day is an ideal after which to model all other days. If Earth Day is the best we can do, our planet is in a heap of trouble...
...Body Shop takes its creams and lotions from nature, but nature doesn't suffer. Anita Roddick, founder of the 14-year-old British cosmetic company, makes sure of that. She runs the manufacturing and retail firm (which has branches in 37 countries) as a paradigm of planet-friendly practices...
...Band Aid: it will appeal to the abbreviated American attention span $ with a huge 24-hour dose of stunts, palaver and celebrity hoo-ha. But the environmental movement will be able to survive its commercial mugging, dust itself off and plod forward toward its goal of a cleaner planet. For Earth Day is merely marginal, a loud fashion statement for a quiet revolution in American life. From East Los Angeles to Taylor, N.Y., the morning after Earth Day will find millions of ordinary environmentalists returning to their self- appointed tasks in one of the boldest and most tenacious political movements...
...greenspiritedness less than a decade after electing Ronald Reagan, a President clearly hostile to environmental interests. In one recent poll some 80% of Americans said they would support more strenuous environmental efforts regardless of cost. But better measures of the nation's sense of urgency about preserving the planet are the stories of people like Lynda Draper, 40, whose fight against ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon emissions began in the kitchen of her Ellicott City, Md., home early last year. "I was basically a PTA volunteer," says Draper, until the day a General Electric repairman came to install a new compressor...
Rockers to the rescue. A CBS special called Save the Planet runs on April 20. With hosts Katey Sagal (Married . . . With Children) and comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, the show has musical numbers by the Fine Young Cannibals and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Paula Abdul, Alice Cooper and Billy Idol will "provide their own thoughts on the state of the world's environment...