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TODAY Thursday 2 April 1998 Each weekday. Conn Nugent on what's new in the world, on the site. |
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TODAY Thursday 2 April 1998 Each weekday. Conn Nugent on what's new in the world, on the site. |
TODAY ON THE SITE: A Short History and Future of this Website
This column has appeared every weekday since the debut of our website on 16 April 1997. That's about 230-something. Today's version will be the last of these daily offerings. As you read this, I'll be off on vacation, looking at ruins. When I return on 20 April it will be to see what I can do to turn over this site to the good people organizing Earth Day 2000, who will be free to add, delete, or transmute anything they want. The mover and shaker behind Earth Day 2000 is Denis Hayes, the mover and shaker behind Earth Day 1970. There's no better person and no better project (I'm prone to big-tent, long-view, all-enviros-invited efforts). I'll be involved in Earth Day 2000 myself, but only as a peripheral player. On 1 May I start a new job: executive director of the Citizens Union of the City of New York, a venerable good-government watchdog that disapproved of my Tammany Hall grandfather 80 years ago.
I love New York, and look forward to the hurly-burly of municipal politics. Cities are ecological resources and environmental battlegrounds, and I'll be taking my conservationist bias to the new office. It should be fun.
Near the end of April I'll post something appropriately lachrymose. I intend to thank everyone, beginning with Sister Ann Michael, O.P., the tender and discerning first-grade teacher at St. Augustine's parochial school. For now let's just say that when Peter Bergman, DJ LaChapelle, Frank Smith and I were figuring out what kind of website we wanted, we decided to try for something that a) had no institutional ambitions; b) solicited and ran material from lots of different people; c) provided smart, low-rhetoric tips on how use the Internet for environmental purposes; and d) lived up to our virtual-corporation motto: think ecology; speak freely; take a joke; follow the money.
And we did.
Recent "Today" columns:
4/1: Larip Sofolyad
3/31: Lost At Sea in the Year of the Ocean
3/30: Environmentalism for Grown-Ups
3/27: Kyoto? Nice Town. Oh, You Mean the Treaty!!
3/26: Hungary
3/25: Solidarity With Counterfeiters
3/24: A Fair Price for Water
3/23: Unattractive Progress on Transportation
3/20: The Thrill of Demography
3/19: About This Global Economy Business...
3/18: Toilet Heresy
3/17: St Patrick and Your Asteroid Insurance
3/16: Rebellion in Tennessee
3/13: Good News from the Senate
3/12: Children and Cancer
3/11: Save Our Beaches!
3/10: Die Gruenen und der SDP
3/9: In Search for the Holy Grail of the Forests
3/6: My Doom, Your Gloom
3/5: The Great D. P. Moynihan
3/4: "An Earthquake in Insurance"
3/3: Salmon Farming
3/2: Our Friends the Duck Killers
2/27: Trust El Nino
2/26: That Darn Triple-A
2/25: Cutting a Deal on Endangered Species
2/24: Fire? Again?
2/23: Garbage
2/20: Population Rebellion in the Sierra Club
2/19: The Trouble With Cattle
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