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Murals Motivate Community Conservation Awareness

Murals depicting marine life can be found in most towns on the Baja peninsula in Mexico - on restaurant walls, the façades of schools, or the sides of gas stations. How much of an impact these murals make on local awareness, opinions, and actions in regard to conservation? Can the artist as well as the scientist make a contribution to toward developing this environmental ethic? The answer is yes.

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Planned Sustainability: Coconut Creek, FL

Coconut Creek, located in Broward County, Florida, is widely recognized as a well-planned community with a unique environmental consciousness. Known as “The Butterfly Capital of the World," Coconut Creek is a picturesque city of 50,000 with an abundance of trees, waterways, attractive landscaped roads, beautiful parks, and butterfly gardens throughout our neighborhoods. The City has taken next steps to ensure that the plans are long term and sustainable. By creating buy-in with the residents, Coconut Creek is asking people to commit to sticking to the plan.

Suburb to Sustainability: Henrietta, NY

Henrietta, NY is one of the numerous towns located just minutes outside of Rochester in Western NY. The tendency for small towns to be enveloped or overshadowed by large cities, effectively losing identity and a sense of place is a real fear. The residents of Henrietta, however, have decided this is not the case in this former agricultural center.



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A Rural Leader: Williamston, NC

Williamston, NC (pop. 5843) is Small Town USA. A former manufacturing and current agricultural center, it is strategically located in northeastern North Carolina on the Roanoke River. Midway between Raleigh and the Outer Banks, Williamston, like many rural areas, has struggled with finding economic vitality in the changing global climate. But Williamston has discovered that what has traditionally be seen as a disadvantage for rural communities is truly an asset.

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