by Ed Ring on October 30, 2000
Randy Hayes
Whether or not we have turned the corner is debatable, but the earth has
truly been in the balance. On the margins of this conflict in the trenches
of politics, in the vastness of the oceans, across the length and breadth
of the earth, and in the battle for hearts and minds, the foot soldiers do
contend. [...]
by Ed Ring on October 26, 2000
Reforesting Central America with Trees, Water and People
The best thing that ever happened to me was going to Central America to help treeplanters. I was fortunate to have a first-hand look at some of their finest work, when I went there with Stuart Conway, an EcoWorld Hero and co-founder of the reforesting group, Trees [...]
by EcoWorld Editorial Staff on October 5, 2000
Samuel Gruber looks like a cat who’s had a few lives. He is a man without pretense, a man with so much personal credibility you wonder if he was ever young and crazy. This single-minded EcoWorld Hero has been saving sharks for nigh on forty years. Though he’s in his early sixties, [...]
by EcoWorld Editorial Staff on July 18, 2000
Peter Knights co-directs WildAid, which is probably the most under-recognized heroic environmental organization on earth. Somehow Peter Knights went from being a graduate of the London School of Economics to a leader on the front lines of the fight to save endangered species. I don’t know how this man in his mid-thirties got from there [...]
by Ed Ring on June 1, 2000
How much water have we really got? It would seem like quite a lot, since the earth’s surface is 71% water. But appearances can be deceiving.
All the water on earth would fit into a cube not quite 700 miles on a side. If that seems like a lot, remember this includes oceans [...]