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When Evelyn Padham of West Milford, N.J., paid her $45 telephone bill to MCI last month, she did so with the comforting thought that $2.25 was going to help save the environment. Padham switched her phone service from Sprint this summer largely because MCI was offering new customers the opportunity...
In nearby Rhode Island, Gregory Schmellick, 49, is also struggling to get back on his feet. Schmellick was laid off in June as vice president of Resource Conservation Systems, an installer of energy-saving equipment that saw its orders vanish when ailing utilities canceled rebate programs aimed at encouraging conservation...
The Conservation Meter was the brainchild of zookeeper Norman Gershenz, who came up with the notion while feeding the koalas one day. "It creates a link between the wild and what's going on in the city zoos," he says, and it offers zoogoers the opportunity to "do something immediately...
A second conservation meter has popped up at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, and zoos and aquariums in more than 20 other cities, including Seattle and Philadelphia, have requested the machines, which were developed with financial backing from the Virginia-based Nature Conservancy. If each of the 1 million annual...
However this revolution is played out, both in Washington and along the Colorado, everyone who depends on the river is likely to feel some pain. Every adjustment made to please one group will inevitably have unpleasant consequences for the others. Farmers and city dwellers cannot possibly both be satisfied. Environmentalists...