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Bridge and Last Vegas strip to Mount
Strange Sanctuary
Rushmore, joined by local monu-
Old Factories Offer New Hope
Earth Hour
ments in or near Seattle, Flagstaff, for Wildlife
Indianapolis and Atlanta. Cities,
World Citizens Switch
schools, businesses and organiza- Visitors are flocking to see
Off the Lights March 27
tions in all 50 states are expected the new life emerging in brown
to participate. industrial lands now morphing
Now in its fourth year, Earth “Climate change is impacting into vibrant ecosystems as na-
Hour 2010 is calling upon us our water resources, energy sup- ture reclaims idle factories, mines,
all to symbolically cast our vote plies, transportation, agriculture and docks, landfills, rail spurs, warehouses
for Earth by turning off our lights health, putting our livelihoods and and parking lots. The unfolding rehabili-
for one hour at 8:30 p.m. local economic future at risk in every part tation is getting help from the likes of
time. Last year, nearly a billion world of the country,” explains WWF Climate Julie Craves, a research supervisor at the
citizens voted this way in 4,000 cities Director Keya Chatterjee. “Americans University of Michigan-Dearborn, who
in 87 countries on seven continents. will not only be sending a signal that monitors eight vacant properties that
The event sponsor, World Wildlife Fund they want solutions to the climate crisis, the Ford Motor Company has remade as
(WWF), notes that this year, iconic U.S. they’ll be helping to turn the lights out wildlife habitat.
landmarks, too, will dim their lights on our nation’s dangerous dependency Not every industrial site within the
as part of the largest call for action on on foreign oil and an unsustainable 48-mile-long Detroit River International
climate change in history. economic future.” Wildlife Refuge will be reclaimed. But,
American landmarks hitting the Find information and event tools at says Craves, “I have come to really love
switch range from the Golden Gate MyEarthHour.org & EarthHourKids.org. this juxtaposition of the hyper-urban with
resilient nature.” She notes how strategic
plantings have attracted songbirds and
Virtual Ivy teaching. Yet for many students, online raptors. More than 300 species of migra-
E-colleges Do Work learning is what they can afford in time tory birds rest, nest and feed here.
or money. The hope is that the e-college Spurred by a need to manage thou-
A recent study by the U.S. trend may help burst the bubble of sands of idle acres, corporations like BP,
Department of Education (ED) rising tuition costs, which now Gulf Oil, Bridgestone and U.S. Steel have
has found that many types of online average more than $25,000 a year undertaken similar projects. One of the
education for a college degree are better for a degree in a private, bricks-and- more unlikely is Denver’s Rocky Mountain
at raising student achievement than face- mortar institution. Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. When
to-face teaching is. The big difference, In the past decade, the number of the arsenal, which produced nerve gas
researchers report, is the time spent on university students worldwide is up by and other chemical weapons for the U.S.
task, or flexibility in absorbing content. nearly half to 153 million. The need to Army, closed in 1992, its 27 square miles
Able to set their own pace, students have a leg up in the global knowledge were one of the nation’s most poisonous
often study longer or visualize a prob- economy is reportedly prompting ED landscapes. Today, “We’ve restored the
lem differently; concurrently, professors plans to create free, online courses for habitat back to short-grass prairie, the way
are forced to design better instructional the nation’s 1,200 community col- it looked in the late 1800s,” says Sherry
techniques. leges—which teach nearly half of our James, visitor services manager for the
The most effective learning, the undergrads—to make it easier for them refuge. The star of the new staging area is
study concluded, occurs when a school to learn basic job skills. a self-sustaining, growing bison herd.
combines e-learning with classroom Source: The Christian Science Monitor Source: eMagazine.com
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