Word: conservationism
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One day, however, when Takubo was about 15, his friend took him inside the okushoin, an area of one of the main buildings that had been the head priest's residence for centuries but was now virtually abandoned. Inside the dark building, every room was filled with seemingly forgotten artistic...
The Mellon Foundation, which has awarded more than $10 million to photo conservation projects in America since 1997, started its relationship with the Weissman Center in 2001 when it paid for a round of inventory and status checks administered in all 47 of the University’s photo repositories...
In digging through all the campus repositories, Merrill-Oldham and her colleagues realized just how enormous Harvard’s photo collection was—and how quickly some of its rarest elements were deteriorating. The old daguerreotypes and salt prints needed cleaning, the prints needed to be rehoused into...
Some of the country's leading hoteliers have decided that tourism and conservation don't always have to be at odds. They have begun to work on ways to protect the environment. The newly opened Four Seasons Resort fourseasons.com/costarica on the Papagayo Peninsula sacrifices nothing in the way of...
Matthew Cook, executive director of the Association for the Conservation of the Mono Titi (ASCOMOTI), a nonprofit dedicated to saving the endangered Costa Rican red-backed squirrel monkey, says an industry-wide drive is needed to prevent further environmental destruction. In Manuel Antonio, the organization has the support of 28...