In The Sound of Mountain Water Stegner talks about his first encounter with a mountain river and how after living on the prairie for his whole childhood the sight and sounds of this rushing water moved him greatly. ... He describes traveling to Havasu Canyon on horseback, rafting down the Colorado River through Glen Canyon and his subsequent visit to Lake Powell. He also reflects upon various other travels throughout the region and in "Coda" argues for increased wilderness preservation. ... He lightly dismisses the impacts automobiles have on animal mortality, tears up the desert with his car ...

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Companies need to manage their energy usage as efficient as they can, instead supporting sustainable development, it also help the company to cut their expenses, in other words to help them gain more profits without harming the sustainable development, for example Swiss semiconductor maker ST Microelectronics has saved more than $60 million by cutting its energy usage and more than $20 million by reducing water consumption. ... Many of them are creating a good product and dispose their waste into the river, swamp, sea, and even forest, creating large scale of pollution into the environment. .....

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