But if the ELF acronym is mostly unfamiliar on the East Coast, it has long been a reference point in the Pacific Northwest for illegal and extreme environmental activism that law enforcement officials call eco-terrorism.
What John Updike called Eco's "orgy of citation and paraphrase" often becomes unbearable.
Leading daily Corriere della Sera called Eco "the writer who changed Italian culture", while newspaper La Stampa described a country in mourning for the author's death.
Mr. Young also produces what he calls eco apples, treated only with organic fertilizers like limestone and soft rock phosphate dust for minerals, and sprayed with fish, seaweed and sea salt to help with water retention, growth and other properties.
The changes result from allowing some additional lofts and cavity walls in low-income areas to become eligible for the new, smaller, obligation scheme called Eco (energy company obligation).
In any case, how can a town be called "eco" when its existence requires the loss of green land and a spread of new homes away from established towns, as so many of these proposals do?
Wright and her partners formed a company called Eco Incorporated and dubbed their signature product the Green Box.
For example, Droom automatically rates individual listings on a scale of 1 to 10, depending on how much information, documentation, and detailed photos it includes, and also operates an on-demand inspection service called ECO.
The currency is called Eco, and Camp wants it to be a digital global currency that can be used as a payment tool around the world for daily-use transactions.
In addition, the Andrew Love Cancer Centre at Barwon Health has a specialised cancer registry called ECO, which captures clinical data for patients in the region.
They cited an F.B.I. statement calling eco-vigilantes America's "No. 1 domestic terrorism threat".
