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...about-face from his recent support for tough domestic clean air regulations, Clinton's most substantial pledge was to supply developing countries with $1 billion over the next five years to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions. No better than "using a squirt gun to quell a raging fire," snipped Sierra Club President Adam Werbach. "With the whole world watching, the president of the world's biggest polluter needs to do more than warn of the dire consequences of global warming." Even though the President did promise to come up with a "realistic" U.S. plan to slash emissions before December talks...
...president of the Sierra Club steps up to the lectern. "Hey," he greets the audience of 300 environmental leaders at a University of Oregon conference. He doffs his jacket, grins and launches into a children's song: "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!" The lawyers, scientists, activists and students in the auditorium, after a moment of bewilderment, burst into rhythmic applause...
...hiking enthusiasts, Werbach first became active when he collected signatures from his second-grade classmates on a Sierra Club petition to oust Interior Secretary James Watt. "I thought it had something to do with electricity," he jokes. But by the time he reached high school, he had become a vegetarian, formed an antivivisection study group, bought a truck to recycle the school's trash and, as a senior, founded the Sierra Student Coalition. At Brown he nurtured it into a nationwide corps of 30,000 activists. He was elected to the Sierra Club's 15-member board of directors...
...environmental movement is..." Werbach pauses, searching for an epithet. "Mature," he finally says, with distaste. To appeal to Gen X, it must focus on local action, with an accent on multiculturalism. "When I started the Sierra Student Coalition, I took s___ for selling out to a white organization," Werbach says. "It is not just about Yosemite and the beauty of the wilderness. It is about cities--the air we breathe and the water we drink. When I speak in urban grade schools, their No. 1 issue is the rain forest! That is disempowering, when these communities are surrounded by incinerators...
...species of bird or bug is a little like finding a new use for duct tape--nice but not earthshaking. Finding a new species of human ancestor, on the other hand, is always a big deal. That's why Spanish scientists spent three years studying fossils they discovered at Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain. They wanted to be sure of what they...