Word: ruralism
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...Beam and Coke. Were this a Ponderosa restaurant in almost any other town in America, Larry, whose real name is Dan Whitney, would be mobbed. Instead, because we're surrounded by the kind of people more likely to mob Jeffrey Katzenberg, I have the affable icon of rural American comedy to myself. Or so I think...
...tomboy from Fried Green Tomatoes makes her directorial debut with a drama about two rural New York families connected by secrets, starring Bruce Dern, Kristen Stewart and Aaron Stanford (above, on scooter...
...thousands of pounds of terrapin were harvested in Maryland, but by 1937 the yield had fallen to just 537 pounds, according to Peter Paul van Dijk, director of the tortoise and freshwater turtle biodiversity program at Virginia-based Conservation International (CI). Turtle meat is still eaten in parts of rural America and there is a growing domestic market in urban Asian-American communities. The meat also has found its way onto high-dollar menus at fashionable wild game restaurants across the country. But ever since China opened up its economy in 1989, conservationists have become alarmed at that country...
Klaus Kleinfeld had a solution to one of the world's pressing problems. For the first time in human history, more people live in cities than in a rural environment. This massive urbanization is taxing public infrastructure, such as roads, railways, health-care systems, power networks and water resources. In the old industrial countries, infrastructure is aging. In the developing world, the infrastructure needed to sustain a modern economy often doesn't exist. A study by Booz Allen Hamilton concludes that from now until 2030, the world will spend $41 trillion just to maintain infrastructure at current levels. Kleinfeld...
...Then again, Collins has done more seeing in the past two decades than most people do in an entire lifetime. He has driven through all 48 continental U.S. states, explored Northern Iceland in blizzard conditions, toured medical clinics in El Salvador, led school children on a hiking trip in rural China, conducted religious studies onboard a ship in the Caribbean, and traveled to Baton Rouge only days after Hurricane Katrina to aid in relief efforts. With his bank of images and experiences rapidly expanding, Collins’s drive to promote change through his artwork continues to deepen...