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...environmental watchdog organization Greenpeace USA sends more than 25 million pieces annually. Earlier this year the Environmental Defense Fund put out a direct-mail fund raiser (on recycled paper) that offered, in exchange for membership, a copy of the best-selling 50 Simple Things You Can + Do to Save the Earth. The book's No. 1 suggestion for planetary rescue is "Stop junk mail...
Like almost every other media company, News Corp. has responded to a softening ad market with consolidations and cutbacks. Murdoch deferred construction of newspaper printing plants in two Australian cities, delaying capital costs of about $500 million, and folded two money-losing afternoon newspapers there into morning counterparts to save $20 million a year. He closed a proposed U.S. magazine, Men's Life, after a single test issue. Says Murdoch: "Newsstand sales were not enough to justify having any more issues, and it didn't grab...
...biggest setback came in California, where Proposition 128, Big Green, was defeated almost 2 to 1. A second measure, Forests Forever, designed to ban clear-cutting and save old-growth forests and redwoods, lost by a narrower margin. In part they fell victim to a backlash against the sheer number of ballot propositions -- 28 in all -- that Californians had to contend with in the voting booth. "They voted no on everything," laments Lynn Sadler, campaign director for Forests Forever. Big Green was a ballot buster all by itself, a 16,000-word laundry list of aims, including...
...really want to save the earth, we should be ready to sacrifice. We should brace to feel discomfort in our check-books and a decline in our overall standard of living...
...must dispel such potentially disastrous notions. The most challenging task in the fight to save the planet is cultivating a willingness to sacrifice for improvements. This cannot be done if we preach the existence of easy environmentalism...