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"Everything we ate was so delicious ... ecstasy!" UPDATES Taste and Tell Maine Sunday Telegram. 2125/90 ***1/2 The Big Deal Tuna companies halt dolphin kill Black Tie. StarkistSeafood Co., the world' slargest tuna canner, announced on Apr. 12 that it would stop buying tuna fish caught by fishing Lawmaker calls for back taxes while husband stiffs his £::~i;,iYlfflat.~"J§ Specials Free 2nd set of prints pJus practices that kill dolphins. Starkist and its parent company, H.J. M·F I CJ.6 • SAT 8·2 Heinz Co., have been the target of protests from environmental 870 Broadway· S. Portland 799-7119 groups for years because they bought tuna from Pacific fleets that Free film every day of the week! killed dolphins. The fishing method, known as purse-seining, ensnares and drowns dolphins, which are mammals and breathe Webster files Chapter 11, air. Two other major tuna canners, Bumblebee and Chicken of the Sea, followed suit and said that they wouldn't buy tuna caught by FOR ALL YOUR PRINTING NEEDS Pictures bring it home. dolphin-killing methods either. creditors owed $93 million
Cape Elizabeth Rep. Mary Clark Webster, during the "good times": Casco Northern Bank ALROSE~ Two convenient locations: Me Yankee staff "glowing on the job" Republican House Minority Leader, was champi and Fleet Bank. 30 Cit)' Center, Portland • 772-7296 printing & graphics co. Compared to nuclear plants across the country, Maine Yankee oning Governor John McKernan'S budget plan in Casco Northern recently won a $250,000 court 71 US Route I, Scarborough • 883-7363 OFFSET • LETTERPRESS employees are subject to the third-highest dose of radiation, Augusta this month, a plan that hopes to shake attachment against Webster's house in Cape Eliza according to an environmental and consumer group. "Glowing out more than $15 million from Mainers who are beth, which Webster had transferred into his wife's 200 ANDERSON STREET· PORTLAND. 774-9329 on the Job," a report published by Public Citizen, said that at delinquent in paying state taxes. Meanwhile, name. Maine Yankee there were 1,058 instances of plant workers being William Webster, the lawmaker's husband and a Fleet Bank has filed suitinCumberland County exposed to radiation in 1988. In tests ofl07 nuclearpowerfacilities business associate of McKernan, was filing Chap Superior Court against Webster and other part across the country, the average total exposureperworkerwas.390 rem; in Maine Yankee, the average exposure was .685 rem. terl1 bankruptcy proceedings at U.s. Bankruptcy ners in the Gateway Garage project. Fleet, which "There is not a safe level of radiation exposure, and tests are Court in Portland. is owed $5.7 million on a mortgage for the garage, showing that there is an increased health risk at even low levels," Among $93 million in debts, developer Web took action when Webster and his partners said Ken Bossong of Public Citizen. Among health risks, Bossong ster owes $250,000 in delinquent property taxes to stopped making payments on the loan. listed cancer, leukemia, cataracts and genetic mutations that are cities and towns across Maine and in Massa But the bank that could take the biggest hit is • passed along to future generations. chussets, including $78,763 to the City of Port Maine Savings, which is owed $30 million by • Federal regulations allow nuclear plant workers to be exposed land. Webster and his partners for a handful of projects. to a dose of up to five rem a year but say that the general public At issue is whether a lawmaker's spouse should Maine Savings is a subsidiary of the struggling shouldn't be exposed to more than .5 rem. "There's n justification practice what a lawmaker preaches. One Bancorp. In 1989, the One Bancorp lost$144.7 Corporate & Commercial Video for the difference," said Bossong. "It's absolutely arbitrary be "I'm not personally delinquent in paying any million. Gerard Cassidy said Webster's bank ~. cause plants couldn't keep the (radiation) levels low enough for it taxes and I have no further comment to make ruptcy "complicates their problems." Cassidy and Catherine Lee, Producer to be affordable." about it," Rep. Webster said. other analysts have said that if One Bancorp's NINA CARTER. PHOTOGRAPHY 18 Phillips Road The Washington, D.C.-based group based its researchon statis Along with the cities to which Webster owes situation doesn't improve soon, it may go out of Falmouth, Maine 04105 tics from dosimeters, devices that register radiation exposure, o ELM STREET. PORTLAND· MAINE· 04101 . taxes, Webster has more than 200 creditors, in business. which nuclear workers are required to wear while on the job. 207 • 7 7 2 • 0 8 6 4 cluding a handful of banks. One of those creditors Secretaries Day is Wednesday, April 25 is Governor McKernan, a partner in Griffins Back taxes GOP chair charged with shoplifting Exceptional Flowers Woods Associates. With the state tightening it's beIt after for an The Chair of the Cumberland County Republican Committee "1 think the governor realizes it was a bad McKernan's projected budget shortfall, Maine was nabbed on a shoplifting charge, and now is reSisting fellow investment," said Willis Lyford, McKernan'spress cities have grown more zealous about collecting Exceptional Secretary 2 BRIDLf PAnI WAY LAS E R GORHAM, ME 040J8 Republicans' pleas that he resign. Paul Volle, who has chaired the secretary. their tax revenues. Delivery in Greater Portland (2117) 1m-S460 Worldwide Floral Service CARTRIDGE local political committee for a year, was caught in a local super Webster's partnerships owe delinquent prop RECYCLING Mo'nwLy~;atLIfd.;;,y 8-8, Sunwy 11-3 market recently and charged with trying to steal about $20 worth Pressure from the banks erty taxes of $2SO,000. Webster owes $50,000 of Maine' 828-2000 of goods. Webster is a former president of} .B. Brown and that from personal rather than partnership hold "We do feel strongly for his own sake and for the sake of the Co., a Portland real estate holding company. Most ings. The partnerships owe $78,763 to the City of party that (Volle) step aside," said Tony Payne, former chair of the recently he was a real estate consultant for Morse Portland. Barbara Loewenberg-Irlandy, M.A. Portland City Republican Committee. "He's beengivenoptionsof Payson & Noyes in Portland, but took a leave of According to Duane Kline, finance director for ELEANOR Certified Reality Therapist resigning or stepping aside and has chosen to do neither." absence shortly before he filed for bankruptcy. HANEY • Individual, family and group counseling Volle maintains that he will not leave his post because hehasn't the City of Portland, the city recently enacted an • Issues of personal growth, depression & addiction Once one of Maine's most successful develop ordinance that pressures people to pay their prop will be on hand to sign been found guilty of the shoplifting charge. copies of and discuss her • Consu Itant for individuals with special needs "It's not that he's been tried by his own party but that it's ers, Webster'S ventures ranged from condomin erty taxes by denying them business licenses or honorable to step aside when you're own integrity has been ium complexes to parking garages to retail plazas. building permits if they owe any outstanding latest book questioned," said Payne. Ten people on the GOP county commit Most of his projects were in Southern Maine. taxes. He said state cu tbacks pronounce the need VISION & tee have signed a petition for a vote forcing Volle out of office. If Major Webster projects include the Gateway to collect local taxes. Kline likens property taxes to two-thirds of the 8O-member committee vote for Volle to resign, Garage that adjoins the Sonesta Hotel in Portland, utility costs, in that a business is provided city STRUGGLE: Meditations on he will be out. The vote is expected at a meeting scheduled for the Mill Creek Shopping Center in South Port services for the property taxes it forks over. But, April 25. Feminist Spirituality land, and the Auburn Mall. said Kline, people who don't pay taxes get the and Politics When a debtor files for bankruptcy, he owes services anyway: "When someone calls up for Protestors crash chem. co. meeting significantly more than he owns. In the case of police or because of a fire, we can't say 'Did you Saturday, Webster, almost twice as much: he holds assets of pay your taxes?'" April 21, 2-4 pm About 100 protestors showed up at American Cyanamid's at annual stockholders meeting in South Portland on Apr. 17. The more than $50 million, but the partnerships he Kline said tha t when someone who owes taxes protestors represented several environmental, labor, and anti was involved in racked up debts of$93 million. In goes into Chapter 11, the "city sometimes gets less apartheid groups and attacked the New Jersey-based chemical papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Portland, than the full amount and sometimes gets zero." company for shipping sludge containing mercury to Sou th Africa. Webster lists34different partnerships with which But Assistant U.S. Trustee Paulette Parker, who is 38 Exchange Street According to Greenpeace, since 1986 American Cyanamid has he was involved. He was the managing partner in overseeing the Webster filing, said that Portland Old Port, Portland • 774·0626 shipped 10 tons a year of mercury-laden sludge to a plant in Cato all but five. "probably" would get paid the taxes owed it by Mon. - Sat. 10 - 6 • Sun. 12 - 5 Ridge, South Africa. Recent tests conducted by Greenpeace of When the real estate market was sweet in the Webster. ri vers near the South African plant found levels of mercury nearly mid '80s, many projects were started. But deals The Portland tax policy jives with a new state a thousand times higher than U.S. drinking standards. Zulu soured when the real estate market went way past policy, proposed by Governor John McKernan people rely on nearby streams for drinking water, and fish is a soft. And when projects don't pan out, the banks and supported by Rep. Mary Clark Webster, to staple in their diet. Mercury has caused birth defects and can cause that loaned money for the projects don't get paid. collect delinquent state taxes. The plan, passed by brain damage. Gerard CaSSidy, a financial analyst with Tucker the legislature this month, will create an amnesty THAI Anthony, Inc. in Portland, said that banks loaned period during which tax delinquents can pay aggressively to big players like Webster during without penaitiesand creates 18 state poSitions to WEIRD NEWS: the 'BOs. "The guy was successful. And success GARDEN scare up delinquent taxes. Authentic Thai Cooking "'Police had no trouble solving the robbery of a restaurant in enables a borrower to borrow more and more. Unless there is an upturn in the economy, PACINO Austin, Texas, even though suspect Eugene "Butch" Flenough Jr. The borrowers and the banks were successful Cassidy predicts "two or three" more bankrupt disguised himselfby wearing a motorcycle helmet. It had "Butch" during good times, but during bad times ... " cies like Webster's in Southern Maine - especially The finest Thai food in Maine, and "Eugene Flenough Jr." printed on it. Webster'S filing for bankruptcy followed pres "if the economy continues to deteriorate." featuring fresh ingredients, fair prices SEA OF LOVE and quality service. A unique dining "'Georgia drivers issued license plates with the prefix FAT are sure from two banks that had lent him money Andy Newman ·MCA- irate. "1 had one lady who said she was literally sick over it experience to savor again and again. [HOME VlOEd] because she's overweight and she had such a hangup about it anyway, and having to go out with a tag that says 'FAT' on her car would be just terrible," says Nancy Denson, tax commissioner Lunch Mon. - Fri. 11:30-3:30 and license-tag agent for Clarke County, where about 900 of the Dinner Sun. - Thurs. 4:30-9:00 "When someone calls up for police or because of Fri. & Sat. 4:30-10:00 FAT plates (FAT101 through FAT999) were distributed after the Lower Lobby state changed its license-plate design this year. Denson notes she a fire, we can't say 'Did you pay your taxes?'" Take out & Catering Available 151 Middle St. has received about 50 complaints. The county police say another VISNMC/AMEX Portland, Maine dozen FAT plates have been reported stolen. -Portland finance director Duane Kline 772-1118 Roland Sweet/A/ierNe! ONE CITY CENTER ApTJ119,1990 5 4 Casco Bay WukJy garbage dumps, pesticides on apples or toxic wastes in drinking water, which have attracted so much attention since Earth Day 1970. Rather, Recycle your Earth Day library! • • EARTH it is the deterioration of the life-support systems of the planet. Yet, even today, few people Ethnic Clothing and Crafts ARTH DAY realize that the human economy is supported by an array of services supplied free by natural Echoes of .Earth Day 20% ofEVERY Purchase Made ecosystems - including maintenance of a benign on April 22 wiU be donated to EVERY DAY DAY mix of gases in the atmosphere; amelioration of By Mike Quinn books. Either they were never read, or more Earth Day 1990 the weather; regulation of the hydrologic cycle likely - they were perused with immense Monday-Saturday 11 :00-5:30 • Sunday Noon-5:00 ALL OF US AT AMARYLLIS CELEBRATE EARTH that brings us fresh water; flood control; Knock on wood. I'm glad I wasn't a tree amusement and promptly disregarded. in 1970. During the year of the first Earth Under normal circumstances, a list of 10 Exchange Street Mall • Portland, ME • 772-4080 DAY 1990 AND PLEDGE TO MAKE EVERY DAY generation and preservation of the fertile soils that are essential to agriculture and forestry; Day, more books were written on the books creates a Sominex effect of Rip Van EARTH DAY BY DOING WHAT WE CAN TO HELP disposal of wastes and cycling of nutrients; environment and how we were royally Winkle proportions. However, the titles of PRESERVE OUR NATURAL RESOURCES AND 1990 control of the vast majority of agricultural pests screwing it up than at any other time in these 1970 best sellers will keep you breath ATMOSPHERE. and organisms that can cause disease; pollina history. (Except, perhaps, the present.) The less on the edge of your ecological seat. WE COMMIT TO: tion of crops; provision of forest products and theme was to "Give the Earth a Chance" How could you have missed the tidal wave C"FFEE Since the first Earth Day, • recyling at home and at work food from the sea; and maintenance of the vast and reclaim the purity of our air, water and of the Earth Day books. If you weren't born RtJASTERS If ov~r ._- ~ .--- • discontinue using toxic household cleaners the environmental "genetic library" from which humanity has living environment. yet, you have an excuse. you're 30, • refrain from buying products made from wild or already drawn the very basis of civilization. Check out the Portland Library, main consider yourself guilty as charged. While endangered materials The disruption of vital ecosystem services floor, section 301.3l. in retreat from all the Earth Day demonstra ~'''~f· It's incredible. The environment is still O"Gr.' • avoid wastefulness movement has created a should be our number one environmental tions and hoopla, why not get caught up on concern, not whether pesticides, smog or reeling. so in 20/20 hindsight one of two a lot of long-lost reading. Bring your AND, TO TAKE AN ACTIVE PART IN PROTECTING nuclear wastes are going to give people cancer. things had to have happened with the Portland li'brary card and ask for any of .=. valuable legacy - but OUR EARTH. Adding carcinogens to our environment is, of petrified forest of 1970 Earth Day-related these 1970 special collection items: Please join us - Everyonel it remains focused on course, a legitimate concern, but curing cancer would only add a year or two to the average life Environmental Ethics - Choices for Concerned Citizens symptoms, not causes expectancy, whereas impairment of Earth's life support systems could subtract a decade or two. Where Have All the Flowers, Fishes, Bird, Trees, HOW A COFFEE CUP CAN The degradation of those systems will affect Water and Air Gone? humanity primarily through a decline in food HELP SAVE THE PLANET. By Paul tmd Anne Ehrlich security and secondarily through the enhanced ThiS unique mug does more vulnerability of huge hungry populations to Your Environment and What You Can Do With It than just hold your coffee - it So here we are, 20 years later, about to diseases such as AIDS. Famine and plague are makes a statement. celebrate another Earth Day. Should it be a to be feared much more than cancer. Our Environment Can Be Saved, Maybe And a donation - each mug celebration? Are we at the end of two decades ordered helps save Maine Sadly, 20 years after Earth Day, most people wildlands (5% of all sales) . of rolling back the threat of environmental still do not recognize tha t the entire globe is The Wooing of the Earth Mug is made in USA, and deterioration? Is humanity more secure than it overpopulated by a simple standard: the holds a full 13 ounces. Tinted a was in 1970? Have we made much progress in human population can no longer be supported Eco-Catastrophe pleasant blue over three raising ecological consciousness and turning on ecological income. Instead, humanity is dimensional Earth. Dishwasher and microwave safe. Delivered that consciousness to good use? It's a compli living on natural resources capital, on a one Defending The Environment - A Strategy for Citizen Action unbroken or replaced free. cated question, but we're afraid that in sum the time inheritance of deep agricultural soils, ice ------news is not good. The human predicament is age groundwater and biodiverSity. Biological Time Bomb I SIGNS AND SYMBOLS • DEPT. C8216 much more serious today than it was when the P.O. BOX 3521 • AUBURN, MAINE 04212·3521 I I Please send me __ SAVE THE PLANET mugs @ $10 ea. plus $2.00 S&H (3 or more I first wave of environmental consciousness I mugs $8.50. S&H). Check or M.D. only. 5% of all sales ro help save Maine woldlands. I crested, and much less time remains to take The lifestyle factor The Doomsday Book - A Terrifying Roll Call of Man's Sins Against I Safe delivery guaranteed. ME residents add 5% sales [ax. I corrective action. The role of overpopulation and population The Earth as She Plunges Toward a Future of Sterility and Filth I Name I That is not to say that the first Earth Day growth in causing environmental deterioration I~= I was a waste of time and energy. Far from it; can be summarized in a somewhat oversimpli The Environmental Crisis - Man's Struggle to Live With Himself I City State Zip I the environmental movement of the 1960s and fied equation: I = P x A x T. The impact (J) of 1~J.9~~G~S~~iYl::!B.2~ ______I 1970s created a valuable legacy. It greatly any group or nation on the environment is the As We Try To Live and Breathe increased the ecological consciousness of the product of its population size (P) multiplied by nation and the world and institutionalized per-capita affluence (A) as measured by con Only One Earth environmental concern in American business sumption, in tum multiplied by a measure of ROBERT THOMAS SECURITIES, INC. and government. Before the movement, there the damage done by the technologies (T) Madman In a Lifeboat: Issues of the Environmental Crisis Member NASD/SlPC was no Environmental Protection Agency, no involved in supporting each unit of that con Council on Environmental Quality, no National sumption. The I=PAT equation shows immedi The Three Hundred Year War: A Chronicle of the Ecological Disaster Environmental Policy Act, no Endangered ately that, all else being equal, doubling a Species Act, no strong national clean air or population's size will double its impact on the (By William 0' Douglas, U.s. Supreme Court Justice) water acts, and no similar acts at state and environment. And if, through great effort, SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE local levels. individual impact (AT) is halved while the This Endangered Planet INVESTMENTS The public awareness and governmental population doubles, the total impact will action undoubtedly slowed environmental remain the same. Pollution and Environmental Death deterioration somewhat - and would have Of course, all is not equal since the three Bringing Your Financial Goals accomplished much more but for the Reagan factors are not independent of one another. In Who Speaks for Earth? and administration's success in promoting destruc fact, as population (P) increases, technological Social Values Together tion of the environment for immediate gain. In damage (T) tends to increase as well. EaSily ac The Unfinished Agenda - Citizen's Guide to Survival spite of the Reagan disaster years, air pollution cessible resou rces are used first, so those for is less severe than it would have been without each additional person must on average be Blueprint for Survival the clean air acts. Pesticides are less carelessly mined deeper (or extracted from poorer ones), used and some of the most dangerous, persis cut from more distant forests, grown on land tent ones have been banned. The heedless requiring more fertilizer or pesticides and so Environmental Insight destruction of biological diversity caused by on. Each person added to the population thus Dominic D. Mogavero 773·0344 many government projects has been dimin tends to have a disproportionately heavy The Disaster Lobby: Prophets of Ecological doom ished. The principle of recycling is widely impact on the environment. and other Absurdities 44 Exchange Street, Portland, ME 04112 accepted, many people are refusing to buy furs Since Earth Day 1970, some 1.6 billion more and the importation of endangered species or human beings have been added to the world This Little Planet --~------products made from them is prohibited. Even population--an addition roughly equal to the (with a poignant introduction by Maine Senator Muskie) politicians like George Bush at least give lip total human population of 1900. Moreover, Cf!ie service to the environment. demographiC projections make still another America's Last Chance LIGHTEN UP Indeed, considering the slow speed at which doubling to 10 billion or more appear inevitable (By Senator Gaylor Nelson, originator of Earth Day) FOR SPRING! social change often occurs, catapulting the if (a big iO death rates can be kept low. The CUTfINC: environment onto the national agenda - and United States population has grown by more keeping it there - was a monumental achieve than 20 percent in the same period - the 45 How to Save Your Piece of the Planet million additional people being about the same E E ment for the movement symbolized by Earth $40 Day. number as the total U.s. population in 1875. Progress as if Survival Mattered The roles of affluence and the technology that supports it in causing environmental The Garden Earth - The Case for Ecological Morality Curing symptoms deterioration can be seen when per-capita HIGHLIGHT So why, then, are we so negative in our commercial energy consumption is equated Including Cut evaluation of the situation as we approach the with AT. An average American (who uses some For the record, the first Earth Day Cele gress Street parade. The popular theory is long hair slighdy more 20th Earth Day? The basic reason is that the 280 gigajoules of energy annually) has roughly bration here in Portland - April 22, 1970- that the rest of Portland, and the country environmental movement has been focused on 140 times the impact of an average Bangladeshi was low key. Only 35 people, mostly for that matter, were at home writing envi Ask for Cristina the symploms of environmental deterioration, (2 gigajoules annually). Few Bangladeshi students, attended a community action ronmental books. not on the basic disease or its deep and perva families own a couple of cars, a refrigerator, an symposium held on the Portland Campus FoCus Expires 5/15/90 sive causes: overpopulation and population air conditioner, a heated home, a TV set and a of the University of Southern Maine. growth, rising per-capita consumption, eco VCR. They don't fly in jet planes, receive piles ApprOximately 400 others quietly attended Mike Quinn was in Rochester, N. Y., on the first 1: nomic growthism and inequitable distribution. of junk mail, eat vegetables grown with an a rally at Portland City Hall and a Con- Earth Day, writing environmental books. THE CUTTING EDGE I The basic disease, of course, is not smog. 38 Market Street in the Old Port I 658 Congress Street • Portland, Maine • 774-1235 beaches awash with sewage, overflowing Continued on page 6 ..... __7_7_3_-4_0_5_0 __ .....;;.. _ ~~~ ~~~h~ ~e~:::. __: 6 Casco Bay Weekly April 19, 1990 7 West, the newly liberated Eastern European EARTH DAY 1990 nations and the Soviet Union also need to TAKE A 60 MINlffE VACATION! modernize their energy sectors, both to reduce We Make immerse yourself in our Still fighting symptoms consumption and to curb their horrendous pollution. Above all, the economic gap between Gift Giving FLOATATION TANK Continued from page 4 rich and poor, within Dr between nations, must REDUCE STRESS 0 RELIEVE PAIN 0 ENHANCE CREATIVITY be narrowed if there is to be any hope of a Pleasure! enonnous fossil fuel subsidy, consume beef achieving the degree of international coopera A Touch of Joy will grown on pastures carved from the tropical rain tion necessary to solve the massive problems design and deliver forests of Central America or, in winter, munch humanity now faces. Gift Baskets for All fruits grown in the southern hemisphere. All SpecialOccassions. these activities consume vast amounts of commercial energy, and all contribute to envi The greening of politics D011't Forget Secretary's Day ronmental destruction. To save the environment that supports our Baskets - $29.99 - $39.99 By this measure, each American, on average, civilization, much more than catalytic convert FREE LOCAL DELIVERY causes 280 times as much environmental ers, recycling of aluminum cans, increasingly Delivered anywhere in the USA. Natural foods damage as a Ugandan or Laotian, 40 times that efficient air conditioners and contributing to the of an Indian, 14 times that of a Chinese, and preservation of pandas and rhinos will be 10% OFF non-delivered, Market roughly twice that of citizens of Japan, the required. While the symptoms are treated, the non-custom orders! United Kingdom, France, Sweden or Australia. disease itself must be attacked. Adequate Show Room: 165 Pickett St EVERY Day is EARTH DAY at Basics Americans use about 50 percent more commer recognition of both disease and cure was South Porlland, Maine ffil 537 Shore Road • Cape Elizabeth· 767-2803 cial energy than Soviet citizens (who nonethe largely missing from the first Earth Day; and if Call fOf OUf FREE Brochure Mon .. Tues., Sat. 9:30-6 0 Wed.-Fri. 9:30-8 • Sun. 8-4 less probably cause as much damage by using we're not careful, it could still be absent on the 207· 799-0838 !Zl energy inefficiently). In terms of per-capita 20th Earth Day. The emphasis now must be energy use, only Canada, East Germany, shifted to sustainable development in both rich CBW(fortel! Harbert Luxembourg, and some oil producers are really and poor nations - including moving toward On Apr. 11, about 20 volunteers assembled 10,000 toilet tank water dis placers at in our league. Since the U.S. also has a large population shrinkage in both. The environ Bercon Packaging on Forest Avenue. The dis placers will be given away as part of an population, our total impact is gigantic - about mental movement must clearly recognize that water conservation effort led by the Gulf of Maine Aquarium. 300 times that of Bangladesh. continuing economic growth in rich nations is These numbers starkly illuminate the fallacy the disease, not the cure, and convert this of the notion (common even among environ unpopular (and to the average economist, "I dreamofa mentalists) that population problems are politician, and pundit, unbelievable) notion into restrieted to poor nations. While rapid popula common wisdom. day when aU Wither Walden? Think tion growth in developing countries is a major Time is very short; the fate of Earth is likely children that WOMEN'S factor in keeping them poor and does contrib to be determined before the tum of the century. turning his back on Concord, criticizing its are born are By William Patrie of it as ute to environmental destruction, the over In the months and years following Earth Day society, and living a lifestyle more in tune welcome, aU • CHOICE population and continuing population growth 1990, people must come to understand the While we're celebrating Earth Day, with the counter-culture movement that Radio men and in rich nations pose the truly overwhelming perils inherent in climatic change, acid deposi Henry David Thoreau may be rolling in his would come a century later. women equal, I health & family planninQ threat to our life-support systems. tion, ozone depletion, soil erosion, overdrafts of grave. The office complex backers actually play that and sexuality resources for women groundwater, and the loss of biodiversity. They Thoreau's beloved Walden Woods and on such sentiment in their public relations an expressIOn must be able tolerate these phenomena to the Walden Pond, where he passed two years efforts. According to an article in the Miami listens o AnDuai E,,"_ Factoring in growth living in a cabin and writing his famous Herald, the developers" .. .include in their of sincerity, o Birth CODtJool loss of critical ecosystem services and tie these "Walden" essays, the site historian Roder press kits a col umn from the right-wing plea3ure and o PreplDCY TelliDg The I=PAT equation also underlines the to population growth, economic growth and to you. o SID ScreeDiDg & TrealmeDl ick Nash called "one of the shrines of the 'Washington Times' calling Thoreau, tenderness. " perils of continuing economic growthism, other social problems. Open [yeningo • VISA &: MoolerC.rd .ccepted especially in rich nations. Many people under evolving consciousness of the rights of among other things, 'a dangerous bum' and -E. OUe,...e,,-Jeru~ People further must realize that the kind of 874-1099 stand that the population cannot increase societal transformation that will be required to na ture in western thought," and perhaps saying: 'If Mr. Zuckerman really wants to the very birthplace of modern environmen serve humanity, he should have Walden 500 Foreet Avenue, Portland indefinitely, but fail to realize that the same avoid catastrophic social decline is unlikely to Klm1);@lWit1@DMl No other radio applies to affluence. Economic growth, both be achieved in a world plagued by racism, talism, is threatened by the forces of change Pond paved over.' " total and per capita, has limits as well. sexism, xenophobia and hideous poverty. Earth Thoreau decried. Thomas Blanding is president of the station in Portland offers you Certainly, growth can be shifted to sectors of Day 1990 must point out explicitly that these As we congratulate one another for our Thoreau Society and founder of the the variety of talk programs available the economy where its impact on the environ too are environmental problems and that awakened environmental sensitivity this Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance on WGAN. From 9:05am to 4pm and CALVERT hlues are behind every decision you make. ment is reduced - for example, from industrial building a sustainable world means tackling Earth Day, two dark clouds will be looming (TCCA). He and his compatriots have their 7;05pm to 5:30am weekdays and SOCIAL VThat includes the decisions you make lOr your production to services. But the possibilities for them also. over what Thoreau described as a hands full waging an all-out campaign to around the clock on the weekends, INVESTMENT investmems. Have you thought about what your such shifts are limited, even for a nongrowing Humanity now faces both unprecedented " ... sheeny lake in the midst of a boundless stop the construction projects. we explore everything from where to FUND dollars are supponing and v.hat you can do to keep population. Society cannot function with catastrophe and an unprecedented opportunity; forest." By pressing for environmental impact plant an herb garden to where to in them consistent with your betielS' everyone providing services to others. If the the opportunity to give our descendants a One is a 148,000 square foot office studies to examine factors such as increased vest for retirement. And throughout Calvert Social Investment Fund lets you reHeer economy is expanding, the material sectors are decent planet to live on. With the fading of the complex consisting of two three-story sewage and traffic problems, the Alliance theday, the WGAN news team breaks buildings and a parking garage for more succeeded in holding up work for a year. fur your values in your investment port lOtio. The Fund bound to expand also. cold war, the financial and human capital re the stories that become the next day's than 500 cars. The developer behind this By the time necessary permits were ap actively seeks u> in""" in rumpanies v.hich it beli
r--eJtJM, «ltd~ ~ fir, ;tftuire---, April 19, 1990 Relax as the sun sets to the music of The day after Volume 3, Number 16 Marlene Daley, Wed . - Sat. ... and we can build your custom design. By Monte Paulsen What's needed is a Zen paradigm for action Publisher Before dinner or after, stop by The Top. and awareness, in which the whole is moved Gary Santaniello On the day after Earth Day, where will we forward by each imbalance between the two be? forces. Let's take the recent splash about canned Editor The Top of the East in Pine, Ash, or Still on Earth, I suppose, with our dumps a tuna as an example: Monte Paulsen $l) Sonesta Hotel Portland CHERRY bit more crowed by the bright