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68 ASK THE EXPERTS
How Can We Protect the Environment?
Hal Harvey, John Fetterman, Eduardo Bartolomé,
William K. Reilly, and Mark Tercek respond.
73 Five Ways to Fix Urban Transportation
GONZALO A. MOYANO
The next generation of public transit systems
must be environmentally sustainable.
78 PHOTO ESSAY:
Ravaged Land, Ravaged Peoples
HOWARD BUFFETT
The poor live with the effects of
environmental mismanagement every day.
SAN TIAGO LLANQUIN/AP; SAUL LOEB/AFP/GE TTY
82 Growing Green STEVEN SANDERSON
Preserving our diverse habitats and species
should be on every president’s agenda.
88 Saving the Great Lakes (Again)
RALPH PENTLAND
The world’s largest freshwater lakes are
facing new and more toxic hazards.
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90 Private Sector: Savage or Savior?
CAROLINA PASQUALI
Some regional companies are global
leaders in conservation. Others, not.
96 Green Venture Capital TAMMY NEWMARK
Can green companies make a profit?
98 Cuban Agriculture LANCE STEAGALL
Organic farming, propelled by necessity,
could now be a money-earner.
100 Land Rights and Preservation
SERGIO LEITÃO
Bringing justice to the Brazilian countryside
will protect the environment.
107 What Role for Foreigners? MATTHEW AHO
Even eco-conscious foreign
landowners are facing heat.
109 Turn on the Lights
DAVID JHIRAD AND ALAN POOLE
How to build a smart hemispheric energy
grid for the twenty-first century.
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