Eco-Heroes
Grassroots personal action is the key to sustainability. Making personal choices is one way to make a difference, a big difference. This page is dedicated to the people out there, making personal choices and also taking action to energize other folks to make a difference. Of course, if you would like to see yourself on here or there's someone you know who fits on this page, please e-mail us at: recycle@uoregon.edu
On this page, we offer inspiration on the possibilities.....because everything is possible, todo es posible!
Thanx to all of you for all you do!
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ANSEL ADAMS http://www.anseladams.com/ At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both on film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans. |
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CARL ANTHONY Carl Anthony is an architect, a former president of the Earth Island Institute, and a founder of the Urban Habitat Program in San Francisco, which works to promote multicultural leadership in the environmental movement. See Sierra Magazine For More Information http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/slater.asp |
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CARLA CLOER Schoolteacher Carla Cloer grew up in California's Sierra foothills. Last year she received the John Muir Award, the Sierra Club's highest honor, in recognition of her two decades of work protecting the giant sequoia groves she has visited since childhood. Her efforts culminated in President Clinton's creation of the Giant Sequoia National Monument in April 2000. See Sierra Magazine For More Information http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/slater.asp |
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CAROLE KING Carole King is best known as a singer and songwriter, but over the past 16 years she's also made a name for herself as an environmental activist, working tirelessly to protect some of the nation's most pristine wilderness through the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act. See Sierra Magazine For More Information http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/slater.asp |
CHRIS SCHOAP
The Ultimate Recycling - Houses!!!
Chris Schoap buys houses that are slated for demolition. He gently disconnects them from their location and moves them on large dollies to a new location. At that point, he renovates them and brings them back to life. Chris purchases these for a token amount of money and saves thousands in demolition costs while keeping these out of the landfill, and reviving them for low cost housing. A win win situation for all. The ultimate recycling, moving and restoring old houses! Thanx for recycling Chris!
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CYNTHIA McKINNEY Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) rated 100 percent on the League of Conservation Voters scorecard for 2000. In 1998 she and Representative Jim Leach (R-Iowa) won the Sierra Club's Edgar Wayburn Award for their introduction of the National Forest Protection and Restoration Act, which would protect all federal public lands from commercial logging. See Sierra Magazine For More Information http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/slater.asp |
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DAVID BROWER David Ross Brower was born in Berkeley, California on July 1, 1912. He founded Earth Island Institute and was president of Earth Island Action Group. Brower was a life-long wilderness enthusiast and engaged in conservation battles starting in 1938. |
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DAVID SUZUKI Geneticist, broadcaster, author, and environmental activist David Suzuki is the host of Canadian television's long-running science program, The Nature of Things, and author of 32 books, including 15 for children. See Sierra Magazine For More Information http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/slater.asp |
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EDWARD ABBEY http://www.abbeyweb.net/abbey.html Abbey authored twenty-one books in his lifetime, including Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Brave Cowboy, and The Fool's Progress. His comic novel The Monkey Wrench Gang helped inspire a whole generation of environmental activism. |
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EDGAR WAYBURN Now 94, Dr. Edgar Wayburn served five terms as president of the Sierra Club. During his many years of activism he helped establish California's Point Reyes National Seashore, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Redwood National Park, and successfully campaigned for the preservation of 104 million acres of Alaskan open space. In 1995 he received the Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, and in 1999 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. See Sierra Magazine For More Information http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/slater.asp |
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Is it a BIKE?
STRANGE BIKE HERO . 
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For months this bicycle "RV" has been seen around Eugene. It is made of some foam and aluminum scrap. Folks like this pop up around Eugene every once in awhile. This bicycle "RV" is the owners home, doesn't create any pollution and was made from recycled materials. Thanx to this mystery man for keeping the vision alive and for demonstrating simplicity in living that benefits all of us in the world community. Thanx for bicycling and recycling! |
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JIM BACA Jim Baca's environmental views have defined much of his political life. As head of the Bureau of Land Management under President Bill Clinton, he resigned when the administration failed to support his efforts to reform the agency's wildlands grazing policy. A former television anchorman, Baca is now mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico. See Sierra Magazine For More Information http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/slater.asp |
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JOSÉ BOVÉ Briarpatch, July 2001 - From Arms To Farms |
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JULIA "BUTTERFLY" HILL http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/hill/ Environmental activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill lived on a 200-foot- tall ancient redwood tree named Luna from December 10, 1997 to December 18, 1999, above the community of Stafford, California, about 230 miles north of San Francisco. |
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LOIS GIBBS was responsible for creating the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste which is now the Center for Health Environment and Justice. Her claim to fame was single-handedly stopping the Love Canal and not only did she get that stopped but she started this organization out of that fight. She also is a dioxin expert. She won the Heinz Award and Goldman Award, both international awards for environmental activism. |
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MAHATMA GANDHI http://www.mahatma.org.in/ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was among India's most fervent nationalists, fighting for Indian independence from British rule. Gandhi spearheaded the non-violent method of protest, which was termed "Satyagraha". For his dedicated service to the Indian Independence movement, Gandhi is often called the "Father of the Nation." |
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PAUL NEWMAN Newman's Own Organics - http://www.newmansownorganics.com/index.html Eating organic food is good for you, but when you choose Newman's Own Organics, you're choosing to help a good cause. All of our after-tax profits are donated to charity. |
RICHIE SOWA
Richie's Island
Richie Sowa, a native of Great Britain, is a sidewalk and mural artist, a fine musician, and the creative force behind this amazing project. His island reflects his motto and goals for mankind.
Described in Ripley's Believe It or Not, published March 26, 2000, Richie constructed this floating island out of 65,000 reused plastic bottles, held together in a huge spiral with palapa roof netting. There he lives, complete with sand beach, fruit trees, a small palapa shelter, a kitchen with a solar cooker, and a self-composting toilet. You have to see it to believe it!
Eventually he will get his water supply from collected rainwater. His plan for the project was to "use the waste from this world as a foundation to create a tranquil piece of paradise and eventually sail around the earth on a floating island with the message of love and faith." Spiral Island is located in the southern canal of Puerto Aventuras south of Cancun, Mexico. Visitors are welcome. Any donation to the project of labor or money will help make his goal a reality.
If you would like to contact him, you can e-mail him at: client@PTOAVENTURAS.COM
He is always open to new ideas that support his vision. Because this is a general e-mail address, be sure to write "Richie, Spiral Island" in the subject line.
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ROBERT HASS Robert Hass is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. As the U.S. poet laureate from 1995 to 1997, he sponsored a week-long celebration of American nature writing called "Watershed" and founded the River of Words Project, an international environmental poetry and art contest for children. See Sierra Magazine For More Information http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/slater.asp |
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ROBERT REDFORD http://www.angelfire.com/rant/pearly/redford/0000-redford.html Sundance Institute - http://www.sundance.org/ I am so appalled by President Bush's plan to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to massive oil development that I feel I must do whatever I can to help stop it...... To read the rest of this letter go here - http://www.angelfire.com/rant/pearly/redford/zzz-message.html |
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Samuel Mockbee http://myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=s_mockbee Mockbee established a revolutionary teaching/community service program called The Rural Studio. Under the program, Auburn University architecture students design and build homes and community buildings for the poorest residents of rural Hale County, Alabama. The students built the houses using whatever materials they could get their hands on: tires, railroad trestles, old pieces of tin, etc. |
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TERRI SWEARINGEN http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/166 The Recipient of the 1997 Goldman Award, the world's most significant award for grassroots environmental activism. Ms. Swearingen led efforts to halt the building of the nation's largest toxic waste incinerator located in East Liverpool, Ohio, just 1,100 feet from an elementary school. Although the plant was finally built, she has prevented other such incinerators from being constructed across the nation, while she steadfastly continues in her efforts to have the permits of the incinerator in her community revoked. |
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THEO COLBORN http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MA98/snell.html Was a pharmacist and A sheep farmer before going back to school for a doctorate in zoology. In 1987 she began studying the Great Lakes ecosystem and discovered that a broad range of synthetic chemicals, including dioxin and PCBs, were disrupting the endocrine systems of the region's fish, birds, and mammals. Her groundbreaking research indicated that very small amounts of these chemicals can have long-term health effects on children exposed to them in the womb. She is now a senior scientist at the World Wildlife Fund. See Sierra Magazine For More Information http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200107/slater.asp |
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