Local school issues and environmental pollution tied for second place at 71, and the clear winner was new medical discoveries at 82.
Page A16 FALLOUT OVER DONATION The Sierra Club's secret acceptance of $26 million in donations from Chesapeake Energy has drawn fierce criticism from some environmental groups on ties to corporations.
They also documented the problems facing their communities, including environmental degradation – which ties in with the African Photography Biennial's theme, 'for a sustainable world'.
"I'd gotten frustrated with how tightly our environmental values are tied into our sense of what's pretty and beautiful and supposedly pure and wild".
'You can really see here how environmental degradation is tied to extreme poverty,' said Antonio Pereira, the UN Environmental Programme's co-ordinator in Port-au-Prince.
"On a more philosophic level, I'd gotten frustrated with how tightly our environmental values are tied into our sense of what's pretty and beautiful and supposedly pure and wild," he said in an interview.
EVAN OSNOS: Verification of compliance remains a squishy piece in the process, but one important piece of that is that provincial authorities in some areas have begun to tie environmental performance to political promotion.
The empirical evidence suggests that a companys social and environmental performance is tied to shareholder value.
Even if the ban is removed, such offshore-drilling contracts can still be challenged in the courts by environmental groups, potentially tying up the process for years.
He tied environmental exploitation to social exploitation.
