Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...return for the companies' sponsorship, the committee has agreed to soft-pedal the environmental issue most important to the Pacific Northwest--resource extraction. In a final irony, Portland's Earth Day Fair will be held at the headquarters of PG&E, the owner of the nearby Trojan Nuclear Power Plant...
...almost $1 million for rhino sanctuaries. Partly as a result of Werikhe's efforts, Kenya's black rhino population -- once as low as 400 animals -- has been slowly increasing since 1988. When Werikhe is not on one of his journeys, he works as superintendent of security at an auto plant. He plans to walk across the U.S. later this year and hopes to eventually visit the Far East, where most rhino horn and elephant ivory are sold...
...York City's South Bronx would not be most people's idea of an office. But for Michael Schedler and his partners in Bronx 2000, a nonprofit development corporation, such an unlikely site became the first home eight years ago for a booming business: the R2B2 recycling plant...
...R2B2 started as a sexy way to get garbage off the streets," explains Schedler, 40, the plant's chief of operations. The trick was to pay people cash to bring in bottles, cans, newspapers and other trash. Soon, not only were the streets cleaner, but hundreds of the Bronx's disadvantaged residents had a steady source of income. Today R2B2 has 30 employees and buys about 35 tons of nearly 30 different recyclable materials daily. The plant bales, melts, grinds or otherwise processes the discarded items and then sells them to companies for turning into new products...
...gambol of the first Earth Day, this one is not defined by young idealists in ponytails and Birkenstocks. Nor is the movement focused primarily on developing a body of national environmental laws. Earth Day 1990 is driven from below by a wide assortment of Americans -- from housewives to chemical-plant workers and fishermen -- whose impatience with their fouled neighborhoods has forced cities and states to become legislative trendsetters and pass laws far stricter than the Federal Government's. "The environmental movement of the '60s was relatively elite and focused on national lawmaking," says former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt. "Today...