Plastic pollution is having much more of a dramatic negative impact on life in the oceans than you might've imagined. The massive North Pacific Subtropical Gyre is a swirling vortex comprised mostly of plastic debris that's roughly twice the size of Texas!

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A short post on an experience of car drivers. A nice rant, and I'm sure others can relate to it. It mostly goes on about how car drivers have no respect for pedestrians in their gas guzzling, pollution producing machines. It’s not having a go at all drivers, just those with no apparent manners! I’m sure they are worse when the weather is bad

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What's the Most Important Thing to You?

Here is an exercise in stripping away what we think we believe to be what we think as important to reveal something else.

Just pose the question to yourself and write whatever comes into your mind.

Do not make any judgements to whether you think it is suitable or unsuitable just write it down.

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There are so many ways that we human beings have failed to look after our environment. What about the birds, fish, animals and earth, what have we done to them. Here are a few things we have not been responsible about in Canada.

* Wild salmon are being threatened by our fish farming practices.
* Sturgeon endangered, the flow of

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Imagine a car that causes zero pollution and is run on air. Further imagine that the air used in the brakes is recycled back into the air tank. And to top that off, the process involved in running the engine creates very cold air which is suitable for air conditioning! My son told me about this yesterday. He learned about it in an English Lan

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Due to high level of pollution, crime, over-population or other socio-economic or political issues, some places cannot even pretend to claim as being tourist destinatinons. Some of them have buses with bullet holes in them, some have a high rate of kidnapping and some simply represent a perfect picture of chaos.  &nbs

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Have you ever wondered about the pollution caused by doing laundry. All that laundry detergent and softener. All those chemicals in the waste water. Now there is an adequate solution and it will save you money as well. A company has come up with a product they call Ecoballs. These basically aid in the agitation portion of the w

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This is a report and analysis of New York City's law to make manufacturers responsible for cleanup of toxic electronic waste. It is an important step in avoiding the further pollution of groundwater by seepage fro landfills- electronic equipment contains many toxic substances that pose no problem when they are sealed in place

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News about years of PCB pollution associated with French chemical plants and the recently discovered PCB levels in fish from the Rhone river. The levels of toxic PCB's in fish are ten-fold higher than what is considered safe. This has been called "the French Chernobyl" by the World Wildlife fund. PCBs are toxic components

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This clarifies some possible confusions caused by the previous, rather terse post (which has also since been revised based on reader feedback).

The term "French Chernobyl" was coined by the World Wildlife Fund to indicate the magnitude of the PCB pollution problem in France's Rhone river, but, of course, no problem like t

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Tips for human Americans on how to survive the recession from expert alien beings.
Bringing your lunch to work is cheaper than going out to a restaurant, saves gas and reduces pollution. If you are an intelligent being, you will bring a healthy sandwich.
Lunch box leads to company commitment leads to saving money leads to a h

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A summary and interpretation of scientific publications which indicate that using ethanol as a liquid fuel will not improve air quality. This is additional information that must be considered when judging the relative merits of various approaches to alternative fuels. Bioethanol will not solve all of our problem, though, as a

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In an attempt to market themselves better in the green supermarkets war in the UK, Marks & Spencer have pulled a weak publicity stunt. I think it's a bad start and it's weak, and rather than addressing the problem at its root, they are simply helping their own profits by charging customers more. Shouldn't we start by switc

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Earthlings, come to your senses. Trade in your SUVs to save money during your recession. Trade your super-sized, gasoline drinking, pollution-distributing SUV for a higher mileage transportation device you call automobile. The price of your black gold, you call oil, is not going to go down anytime soon. Please do not believe an

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Earthlings, why do humans always want things bigger and bigger? If you are going to survive the recession, you will have to change your mentality to 'less is more.'

Less eating, spending, driving, partying, smoking.

Less of those things means more of other things.
More money, time with family, relaxing, reading, enjoyi

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