Tag: essay
group name: earthwatch
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April 30, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
The Blue World
Our trash is sorted and separated, recyclables get recycled. Oh yeah, I sort and recycle my trash too! I am talking about all the trash in my community. That is what the . . .
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April 04, 2007 06:05 PM EDT --
When Margaret Mead said"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, devoted citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that has"; she never envisioned the negative effects from . . .
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April 30, 2007 11:53 PM EDT --
FARMERS, A DYING BREED An important cornerstone of this world is in jeopardy. Farmers all over the world are unrecognized, under-valued and many times struggling to sustain their passion to . . .
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April 04, 2007 03:14 PM EDT --
One day, on a low-slung white building in my neighborhood, these words were scrawled in huge, black spray-painted letters: You Suck Pigs. In the hollowed-out windows of the building, metal appliance parts . . .
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April 22, 2007 01:50 PM EDT --
I have spent most of my life aware and heart-sick over our planet's environmental status. As a result I have practiced many of the strategies promoted by like-minded . . .
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April 05, 2007 09:45 PM EDT --
I walked out my door every morning and there it was…sitting there, staring me in the face. It was everywhere: in the gutter, on the sidewalk and blowing against fences. Trash. Liter. My East Boston . . .
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April 26, 2007 05:34 PM EDT --
An individual can galvanize a group, a community, a town, a state, a nation and a world. So what permeates social fabric to such a degree that a readily galvanized international web of environmentalists . . .
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April 13, 2007 05:29 PM EDT --
I’ve been working as a student teacher at a high school and one of my students’ statement stood out to me: “I’m . . .
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April 15, 2007 06:44 PM EDT --
Trace the lineage of any theme in literature, and you’re sure to find yourself at a common beginning – identity. Identity is something . . .
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April 27, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
People walk fast. Too fast ...with their face down.
They can not see me.....looks like i dont exist for them.
I am walking in the Park...where people walk their Dogs,
and i can see that nothing else . . .
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April 11, 2007 12:50 PM EDT --
Margaret Mead said "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, devoted citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that has.”
Here is the course these citizens have . . .
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April 04, 2007 11:16 AM EDT --
My Granny's schooling never went beyond high school. She didn't write environmental policies or lobby for change or join political groups and leaders to fight social causes. She just did what . . .
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April 29, 2007 11:08 AM EDT --
The Encarta World English Dictionary defines activism as “vigorous and sometimes aggressive action in pursuing a political or social end”. For me it started very young; enthusiastically recycling . . .
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April 30, 2007 10:25 PM EDT --
2oday is a new day, a new day for change.
Goal? The goal is to encourage at least one or two people to work together and help the
environment. It is time that money, and leisure things will be put aside. . . .
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April 03, 2007 10:56 AM EDT --
Our one and only planet earth, our home, needs us.
Each and every one of us might be a friend the way we
honor earth in the rituals of daily life, buying local
produce, recycling, planting and gardening, . . .
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April 03, 2007 05:51 PM EDT --
When I worked with Earthwatch at Lake Naivasha Kenya 20 years ago, it changed my preconceptions about how I could help the world. Sure, our work group took population samples of fish in the lake, . . .
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April 09, 2007 09:56 AM EDT --
There are a plethora of problems which plague our environment today. The industrial revolution, or in other words human activity, has contributed environmental problems since the middle of the last century, . . .
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April 09, 2007 08:21 PM EDT --
It’s 9:45am on a cold, wet weekday. A group of squirmy elementary school children and their longsuffering chaperones hike the one-lane public road to the trailhead. The children carry . . .
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April 18, 2007 06:37 PM EDT --
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, devoted citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that has." - Margaret Mead
This quote, as inspirational as it is, is more . . .
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April 05, 2007 10:39 AM EDT --
Solomon said, “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” If this is an affirmed belief, then whatever immediate and long term objectives any . . .
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