Imagine a world where there are no bird songs.
Imagine a world where there are no whale songs.
Imagine a world where the delicate interplay between nature’s organisms is stopped forever.
Imagine no more, because we are fast creating such a reality. Humanity, is entering the Age of Loneliness. During this Age, we will realize what we had, [...]
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We are all passengers on a train heading towards a cliff. We idly sit in the train cars gorging ourselves while those running the train debate how much the train should be slowed, and at what point the slowing of the train should begin. Some of those running the train feel that a long-term slowing [...]
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We are at a crossroads and we stand in front of two paths. Once on these paths, there is no going back, there is no do-over. The choice will have been made, and those who follow us will have to live with the decision we make right now.
On one path, is a future where our [...]
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The average baby uses 10,000 diapers before being toilet trained. Each year, 1,000,000,000 trees go to the use of making diapers.
By the age of six months, the average Canadian consumes the same amount of resources as a person in the developing world does in their entire lives.
North America has eight percent of the world’s population, [...]
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As the home state of George W. Bush, Texas was seen as the home of oil and CO2 emissions, but that seems to be changing. The state is becoming a leader in the United States in the fight against CO2 emissions and their recent success shows it. Now, Texas is still the nations biggest industrial [...]
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In another great move from China, which is trying to position itself as a leader for the environment in the future, the government has announced it will crack down on any investment projects that did not follow strict environmental rules. The country has made the decision to crack down on environmental problems in engineering and construction [...]
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Other than the kangaroo, no other animal is so identified with Australia as the Koala is. The Koala is a symbol of the land down under, but that symbol is disappearing.
The number of Koalas found around in Australia (the only place they are found) are falling fast and many experts feel that within in the [...]
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The International Union for Nature Conservation (IUNC) has come out with the list of species at risk for extinction and the numbers are truly staggering.
Roughly 17,000 species on Earth are threatened with extinction, with 47,677 species of plants and animals listed as endangered according to the group based out of Switzerland. Of those species 1,895 [...]
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