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...using the Internet to help those in trouble, TIME has developed opportunities to lend a hand. You can contribute by visiting Netaid.org This is not our first project. In the past two years, TIME readers have saved mothers' lives in Rwanda, found homes for orphans in Africa and helped Sierra Leonean war wounded get medical treatment. If you prefer to send a check, an address is available on the Netaid site. AOL members can go to keyword Breaking the Silence...
...Valley generator that Calpine Corp. wants to build in San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley. The facility would light 600,000 homes in a region that experienced blackouts last week, but the San Jose City Council vetoed the project in November, even though groups ranging from the Sierra Club to the N.A.A.C.P. supported it. But the plant faced opposition from Cisco Systems, the leading producer of high-speed fiber-optic networks, which happens to be San Jose's largest employer. Cisco argued that the power plant would be an eyesore next to an industrial park that the company...
American environmentalism, as a credo, as an ideology, as whatever you'd like to call it, is a remarkably democratic tradition. Whether analyzing the thought of Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, or that of John Muir (founder of the Sierra Club in 1892) or Rachel Carson, the environmental movement in this country is founded on a belief in the link between all human beings and their natural environment. Some of these links, as Carson sought to inform us, are of a direct, "scientific" nature. The chemicals that enter into and damage our environments have similar consequences on our bodies...
...third most tempting target for interest groups is Gale Norton, the former Colorado attorney general who is Bush's pick for Interior. She is being assailed by environmentalists, who now rival civil rights groups for clout on Capitol Hill. Norton, says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope, "would be a natural disaster as Interior Secretary. Norton is the oil, mining and timber industry's choice." Pope's group is worried that she will move quickly to open more federal land to mining and oil exploration. During a stint as Reagan's associate solicitor for conservation and wildlife, where...
...environmentDaniel Weiss, political director of the Sierra Club, calls Ashcroft's record "extremely anti-environment," emphasizing the former senator's past votes against taking arsenic out of drinking water, for weakening the Clean Air and Water acts and allowing mining companies to dump cyanide in public lands. The environmental movement is primarily joining the fight against Ashcroft as a warm-up for their real battle: To unseat Interior Secretary-designate Gale Norton...