October 24, 2008
An Interest in Grass-Roots Conservation Lands a Student in Rural China
Merisha Enoe was trekking across the mountainous Xinjiang autonomous region, in northwestern China, last summer with a group of environmentalists when she heard about the karez, a 2,000-year-old system of underground aqueducts there that carry water down from the mountains to a parched desert.
She was one of eight students on the Xinjiang leg of the Green Long March, an event intended to encourage sustainable development in an increasingly modern China. Everywhere along the trek were
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