A Single Lucid Moment Robert Soderstrom‚ Peace Corps Volunteer Country: Papua New Guinea Dates of Service: 1996 As the plane buzzed back over the mountains‚ it was now just us and the villagers of Maimafu. My wife‚ Kerry‚ and I were assigned to this village of 800 people in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. It looked as if we were in for a true Indiana Jones adventure! The mountains were dramatic and thick with rain forest. No roads had ever scarred them. We had loaded
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The Green Belt movement was founded 1977 in Kenya by Professor Wangari Maathai‚ under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya. The Green Belt movement is an indigenous‚ grassroots‚ non-governmental organization that takes a holistic approach to development by focusing on environmental conservation‚ community development and capacity building. The Green Belt Movement organizes women in rural Kenya to plant trees‚ combat deforestation‚ restore their main source of fuel for cooking‚ generate
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Do you ever sit back and think of how you as a human being hurt the earth? In both The Lorax and The mystery of Easter Island people fail to realize how they’re setting themselves and the earth up for disaster. How did they hurt me? Why do they hurt me? The earth wants to know. If I ask you to go build a statue and then bring it 500 miles across the land‚ how would you do it? The residents of Easter Island had their own idea. The islanders used trees to drag the statues across the land‚ cool right
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Red Maples are a deciduous tree found in a diverse range of different habitats and conditions. While the Red Maple will thrive in woodlands‚ this tree can be found in higher altitudes where it is dry and rocky. Also‚ it is common to find them growing in low lying areas where the water does not drain that well‚ or wetlands. They have a great ability to adapt to different types of soils‚ levels of moisture and altitudes. This is why Red Maples are found all over Eastern North America and are the most
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Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean near South America‚ suffered the Tragedy of the Commons‚ which caused the natives of Easter Island to go extinct. The tragedy of the commons is what happens when people don’t communicate and are not conservative of their resources. The islanders cut down all of their trees‚ resulting in the loss of many resources. According to Ralph Faggotter‚ when the people arrived‚ there were large forests and palm trees‚ along with many species of birds and seals.
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reason why Greenpeace exists is so our future generations will be able to enjoy Earth as we do today. Greenpeace has spread the word such as the pollution in our waterways‚ the unrestricted fishing and whaling in the oceans‚ the decimation of the rainforests‚ global warming etc. This information now firmly rooted in our minds Because of the energies that Greenpeace and other associated organizations have steadfastly been "spreading the word on." Have been rooted in the publics consciousness. Earth
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done. TROPICAL RAINFORESTS Tropical rainforests are important to everyone‚ not just to the plants and animals living there. Nowadays‚ the areas covered by rainforests around the world are rapidly shrinking‚ and many countries that have tropical rainforests are poor. These are very big threats that will influence extremely not only nature‚ economy‚ culture but also heath and longevity of human. Therefore‚ it is very necessary to make a conversation about tropical rainforests. Today‚ a few of
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Hannah Pilon Due Date: Friday February 8‚ 2013 Winter Term Library Assignment: Deforestation Marcus‚ B. A. (2009). Tropical forests. (pp. 125-135). Sudbury‚ MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. This chapter was very informative and gave a lot of information about the reasons of deforestation. I knew that logging and agriculture were major causes of deforestation‚ but this chapter taught me that mining too is also a big factor. The author was very knowledgeable about this subject and wrote
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into action. Chico Mendes was an astonishing environmentalist who strived for the preservation and maintenance of the Amazon Rainforest‚ in Brazil. His perseverance‚ determination‚ and dedication towards his mission impacted an entire country and its government. Throughout his life‚ Mendes achieved incredible accomplishments in the efforts of preserving the Amazon Rainforest‚ the place he called home. Chico Mendes was born on December 15‚ 1944 in Porto Rico‚ a small Brazilian village in the Amazon
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Deforestation The “Slashing and burning” of rainforests has to stop. The deforestation of our rainforests is effecting our environment and us more than you may think. We get the oxygen we need from trees‚ forests protect us from Carbon Dioxide‚ and forests protect most of Earth’s plants and animals. We need trees to breathe and rainforests to protect us from harsh things that we emit from our bodies. Many rainforests help and protect us. “More than 20% of the world’s oxygen comes from the Amazon”
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