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...Portugal, the BioRegional Development Group - the independent British environmental organization that started up BedZED - and the global conservation organization wwf are working with a developer to create a "one-planet living" ecotourism project south of Lisbon. Using 100% renewable energy and creating a transport network designed to virtually eliminate private cars, the Mata de Sesimbra development will combine a 4,800-hectare cork-forest restoration project with a 500-hectare tourism development. Based on their experiences with BedZED, BioRegional and wwf will be incorporating similar innovative ecological elements into the Portuguese project. They don't plan to stop at Europe...
...calculating the amount of resources we each consume to supply our needs. Pioneered in 1996 by regional planners Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, the measurement takes into account the production of food, housing, transportation, consumer goods and services, as well as the waste that's left behind. According to WWF, each person should currently have an average footprint of 1.8 hectares, the rough equivalent of two soccer fields, for the supply of his or her needs. But WWF estimates that the average stomping ground is currently around 2.2 hectares, 21% more than is sustainable. "Footprinting is a snapshot," says...
...popular stars clustered by production company MGM. It would seem that they have strategically selected a performer to appeal to the broadest range of audiences. For every racial and social minority—aging rockers, young R&B and rap fans, ’70s movie fans, gay men, WWF fans/closeted gay men—there are a few good men towards whom they can gravitate...
...around the galaxy of popular stars clustered by production company MGM. It would seem that they have strategically selected performers to appeal to the broadest range of audiences. For every racial and social minority—aging rockers, young R&B and rap fans, 70s movie fans, gay men, WWF fans/closeted gay men—there are a few good men towards whom they can gravitate. The problem with that strategy is the movie MGM saddled with that burden—the narrative can’t handle the truth...
...national allocation plans have been far too generous in allotting emissions rights to companies," says Oliver Rapf, a climate-change expert with the environmental organization wwf. If that charge is true, it's not just bad for the environment; it will also distort the market...