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Environmentalism for the 21st Century
Curated by Samantha Rowling
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment. Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and/or improvement of the natural environment, and may be referred to as a movement to control pollution. Already at this early stage in the 21st century, unique challenges and issues are associated to protecting the natural environment. This learning group is dedicated these issues and the impact of human made pollution on planet Earth.
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Deforestation SOS
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Life on the Reef: Amazing World of Coral Fishes
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Let’s go environmentally responsible
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Health & Environment
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Nukes post-Fukushima
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Jessie Rhodes, Oct. 18, 2011
New Zealand Oil Spill to Get Worse; Officials Fear Rena May Sink. Potential environmental disaster as the ship is lodged on a major reef off the Kiwi coast.
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Jenny Rothberg, Oct. 17, 2011
Trees Cool the Climate…Isn’t That Cool?
Researchers from Carnegie’s Global Ecology department found that evaporation of water from trees not only cools things locally, but also globally, as well. The cycle produces clouds that reflect sunlight, meaning less energy (heat) makes landfall. The net result? Cooling.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-wagner/trees-cool-the-climate-is_b_971032.html
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Marco Masoni Oct. 17, 2011
I recently read an article about designing buildings to absorb CO2. Maybe the idea came from trees. -
Steve Durgan Oct. 17, 2011
A great analogy from the comments section of the article: “trees are gigantic water pumps”…literally pumping water from the ground into the atmosphere. -
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Henry Hamilton, Oct. 14, 2011
New Zealand oil spill should highlight the death of world’s coral reefs:
Containment and clean up of New Zealand’s worst ever environmental disaster are on their way in the Bay of Plenty after a Liberian cargo ship ran aground on a coral reef and began leaking fuel oil late last week.
Hopefully this disaster in New Zealand will bring more attention to the plight of coral reefs around the world, which are vital to local – as well as global – ecologies and economies.
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Bert Breton Oct. 14, 2011
“When my sons were born, an average Caribbean reef was covered by 50 to 60 percent live coral; today it is 5 to 10 percent. This is the equivalent of losing pine forests from Georgia or aspens from the Rocky Mountains in less than 30 years. During this same period, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia lost about 50 percent of its coral cover. Worldwide, coral reefs are being converted to seaweed-covered meadows that do not support the biodiverse assemblage of species that allow a reef to function.”
Mark Hay, biology professor at Georgia Tech University.
http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/a-disappearing-underwater-world/?ref=science -
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Takaki Yoshioka, Oct. 10, 2011
Hi everyone!! I don’t agree with nuclear power. Now we can economize and cut 15% electric power without nuclear power in Japan. I think we should develop thermal ,water, wind power and we can live by only thermal ,water, wind power. Since Fukushima , all people knew nuclear fear. Now we should change!!
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Nina Dumas Oct. 11, 2011
Did you hear that, in May 2011, following the Fukushima disaster, Germany announced that it will stop using nuclear energy by the year 2022?
Environment Minister Norbert Rottgen made the announcement following late-night talks with Chancellor Merkel. Also, there were massive anti-nuclear protests across Germany after March's Fukushima crisis.
Do you think that the Japanese government might also decide to stop using nuclear energy after Fukushima?
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Camilla Pashar, Oct. 9, 2011
Barbie Ends Troubled Relationship With Deforestation:
Barbie is moving her dream house out of the Indonesian rainforest. On Wednesday, toy maker Mattel announced that it will stop using paper products from companies “that are known to be involved in deforestation.” This comes after a major Greenpeace campaign to convince the toy giant to ditch problematic packaging, specifically paper from the company Asia Pulp & Paper. Below is a video Greenpeace had made to bring public awareness to this campaign .
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/10/barbie-ends-troubled-relationship-deforestation
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Pam Miller, Oct. 6, 2011
Wangari Maathai was a person who showed how significant one person can be. She won the Nobel Peace Prize and was the founder of the Green Belt Movement responsible for planting more than 40 million trees in Kenya. What would you like to do to counter deforestation?
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C-USA Alexandra, Oct. 5, 2011
Coral Reefs are depleting in result of careless human interaction. The largest problem is that people are destroying reefs by bottom trawling. This scraps the ocean floor and destroys many habitats for other organisms. Also, pollution is a large issue. The most common is oil spills and carelessness of trash dumping.
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Ty Jones, Oct. 5, 2011
Coral Reefs are dying off due to human activities such as: oil spills, bottom trawling, and blasting of harbors. It is truly a spectacle and the more coral reefs die off, the more fish will die off because there shelter is destroyed. The more we use natural resources the more we kill the resources overuse is possible.
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Hiroki Yoshida, Oct. 5, 2011
Now in Japan nuclear generation are stopped. We economize on power. Because many company like TOYOTA also economize by stopping producing, companies benefit was reduced. So many workers became unemployed.
Change sorts of energy is very difficult. I like game, TV, PC,many electric appliances. I can not image no electric appliances life !!
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