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Environment Day 2011

Environment – Whether you know it or not, palm oil is almost certainly a part of your life. Your shampoo, your ice cream, your margarine – and now even your bio-fuel – all contain this popular vegetable oil. But with palm oil increasingly associated with deforestation, there’s a huge effort to make production more sustainable [...]

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Environment – Nuclear power panic

Journalists at FRANCE 24 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 24/7 (www.france24.com) visiting one of France’s 58 nuclear reactors. One that has borne natures brunt before, damaged by a storm back in 1999. Then, the worst was avoided and extra safety measures have been put in place since. But with 20% of the worlds working reactors lying on fault [...]

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Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development

Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances [...]

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50 years of Protecting Europe’s Environment

More information: ec.europa.eu ec.europa.eu Today the European Union has the most environmentally-friendly arsenal of rules in the world and has done more to tackle pressing ecological problems, such as climate change, than any other major power. But it has not always been like this. Caring for the environment did not feature in the Treaty of [...]

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Population and Environment

I made this for my Population and Environment class, Fall 2006, University of Oregon, Geography Department. Leave a comment, I’d like to know what people think.     Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

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Greener mobile-phones

Nowadays mobile-phones have become an integral part of our life and are the most used mode of communication, some people have to carry more than one at one time and hopefully talking on one of then at the time! More prevalent the use of mobile-phone, more imperative is the need to curtail eco-pollution that emanates [...]

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Burning autumn leaves…

…may be hazardous to our health! Although burning piles of fallen leaves is a seasonal chore, and time-honored tradition in many places, leaf burning also pollutes the air and can cause serious health problems for many people. Fortunately, there are some great eco-alternatives to leaf burning. For example, if you skip the leaf fire this [...]

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Coral Reef Fish Danger – Blue Planet (BBC Environment)

BBC ‘Blue Planet – Deep Trouble’ team explain the environmental dangers facing the world’s shallow waters. With high demands for rare species of fish, coral reefs are in danger of being fished out and deserted. Brilliant natural world video. Video Rating: 4 / 5 Group Project. Educational Video Video Rating: 4 / 5 Did you [...]

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Alternate Energy Investments

The US government must continue to back the expansion of the role of alternative energy research and development and its implementation by companies and homeowners. Although this writer believes in the reign of the free market and that “that government is best which governs least”, our current system has companies and people expecting federal backing [...]

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