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Eco Heroes and Heels presents the heartening stories of green champions from all walks of life who are making a difference for the environment; and calls out some of those whose ecological irresponsibility is an affront to the Earth and a threat to our survival. |
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Tom Wyant gets some strange calls. Recently, he got one about a public display of affection. It seemed a young couple had parked themselves beneath some poor woman’s window and decided it was as good a place as any to get romantic. Wyant’s job was to relocate the amorous couple to a more appropriate setting. His job was made more difficult by one single fact: the couple in question was a pair of Western Diamondback rattlesnakes. 
Theo Colborn, Ph.D., is an environmental-health analyst best known for her studies on the health effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)—substances in the environment that mimic hormones and disrupt the hormonal processes in wildlife and humans. In 1991, she convened the interdisciplinary conference that produced the historic Wingspread Consensus Statement that alerted the world about endocrine disruption. She is coauthor of the book 
Environmental policy has always been complicated. It’s not easy to find a balance between using natural resources to provide the things people need—like jobs, food and housing—and protecting the natural world for its own sake. But some White House residents were downright anti-green. Here are EcoHearth's picks for the least ecological presidents. (Two of them, incidentally, appear in the photograph that illustrates this piece.) 
Environmentalism has been a key talking point in US politics for decades. Every person who steps into public office is compelled to at least fake an interest in protecting the natural world. Pledges to save the trees and endangered species are standard-issue campaign rhetoric. So politicians must be judged on their policies, not just their stump speeches. We think the following presidents demonstrated at least some sincere concern for environmental issues. None of them are perfect when it comes to ecology, but overall they’ve shown enough green concern that they rise to the top of the presidential crop. 
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