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<br /> International Paper Awards $ 20, 000 in Grants 1
<br /> N International Paper and The Conservation for Excellence in Environmental Education.
<br /> Fund presented the 2001 Environmental Etheridge created the Murphy Model for
<br /> Excellence Awards, accompanied by $ 10, 000 Environmental Education, a comprehensive
<br /> grants, to an Oklahoma conservationist and program to integrate environmental educa-
<br /> a Michigan school teacher . tion in the elementary school curriculum .
<br /> The model involves students in resolving
<br /> William Crawford of Frederick, Okla . , thorny business / environment issues . He also
<br /> earned the Alexander Calder Conservation designed and obtained funding for environ- Keith Etheridge
<br /> Award for leading a six-year, $ 10 million ef- mental workshops that provide teachers with designed
<br /> fort to restore the 7, 600-acre Hackberry Flat the tools to " refute the myth that we must
<br /> wetlands in southwestern Oklahoma . choose between a healthy environment or a environmental
<br /> Crawford helped forge a partnership among strong economy, " according to the Michigan workshops to
<br /> local businesses, the Chamber of Commerce, Environmental Council . provide teachers
<br /> nonprofit conservation groups, and the lo - The Calder award, now in its 13' year, with the tools to
<br /> cal, state and federal governments . is presented to people who protect wildlife
<br /> The wetlands, once drained for agricul- habitat through partnerships between busi- refute the myth
<br /> ture, now support 30, 000 Canada geese, ness and conservation. The Cartledge award that we must
<br /> 30, 000 sandhill cranes and 50, 000 ducks and honors individuals who encourage a better choose between
<br /> shorebirds as they migrate through the understanding of the complex relationship
<br /> nation' s heartland . A half-dozen species also between business and a healthy economy . a healthy
<br /> nest there . The town of Frederick donates The awards are named after former ex- environment or a
<br /> water year-round to maintain a 400 -acre ecutives at Union Camp, which merged with strong economy.
<br /> lake that supplies the wetlands . The restora- International Paper in 1999 . The International
<br /> tion project—considered the most ambitious Paper Company Foundation provided the
<br /> ever undertaken in the state—now draws $ 10, 000 grants . Christie Whitman, adminis-
<br /> tourists from around the state and nation, trator of the Environmental Protection
<br /> boosting the local economy . Agency, recognized the winners and pre-
<br /> Keith Etheridge, a fifth grade teacher at sented the keynote speech at the award
<br /> Murphy Elementary School in East Lansing, ceremony, which was held June 21 at the
<br /> Mich. , received the Gene Cartledge Award National Press Club in Washington, D . C .
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<br /> Parks, Recreation, and Open SafeScape : Creating Safer, More
<br /> Space . A Twenty-First Century Livable Communities Through
<br /> Agenda Planning and Design
<br /> by Alexander Garvin by Al Zelinka and Dean Brennan
<br /> American Planning Association American Planning Association
<br /> (312 / 786- 6344 ), 2001, 72 pp . . (312 / 786- 6344 ), 2001, 285 pp .
<br /> Code 1AG-D . $ 30 . 60 . Code 1ZB -K. $ 70 .
<br /> An outgrowth of APA' s City Parks Fo - With help from 17 case studies and 450
<br /> rum, this report details the century-long photographs, these Arizona urban planners
<br /> impact that Frederick Law Olmstead had give thumbs up and down analyses to hun-
<br /> on America' s urban parks and how subur- dreds of design features encountered on the
<br /> banization has altered the role that parks, street that signal safe or unsafe environments
<br /> recreation and open space now play in in urban and suburban settings . They focus
<br /> Americans' lives . Garvin, a New York City on Jane Jacobs' " eyes on the streets" values
<br /> Planning Commissioner, Yale University that say no to windowless walls and opague
<br /> professor and principal author of The Amen fencing and yes to porches, lighting, attrac-
<br /> can City: What Works, What Doesn ' t, uses case tive landscaping and other visual cues that
<br /> studies to argue for a more businesslike ap - show community residents care about their
<br /> proach to park management . Officials must homes and neighborhoods . The book builds
<br /> maintain clean parks, upgrade them so park on the Crime Prevention Through Environ-
<br /> activities interest the public, and market mental Design approach, which emphasizes
<br /> them to surrounding neighborhoods to de- access control, natural surveillance and terri- i
<br /> velop grass roots support, Garvin says . torial reinforcement .
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