Environmental Leaders Reduce Their Footprint

"Reducing Their Global Footprint"
Cape Cod Times, April 22, 2008
By Doug Fraser

They talk the talk, but do the Cape's environmental leaders walk the walk when they get home?

For Earth Day, today, we asked them to give us tips to make a difference based on what they actually do: Maggie Geist, the executive director of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, grows her own food and keeps bees. ... For Mark Robinson, the executive director of The Compact for Cape Cod Conservation Trusts, on the other hand, a hybrid car is somewhere off in the future. ... Eastham Natural Resource Officer Henry Lind built a 'solar wall' for a little under $500 that helps heat his home. ... ©

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