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A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g. flood,(tornado) volcano eruption, earthquake, or landslide) that affects the environment, and leads to financial, environmental and/or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster, and their resilience. This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability." A natural hazard will hence never result in a natural disaster in areas without vulnerability, e.g. strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas. The term natural has consequently been disputed because the events simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement.
  

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Save Planet


from us : "If animals can recycle, so can we." Help the animals save their planet and ours, recycle all you can!

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A.R.T

The art of paintings have their own meaning..okay,let look at this two paintings..can u describe what is the paintings told us about?


picture 1
'Two Roads'
Spring colors tint the forest in delicate blue and green while sunlight bathes the air. Shaded by towering trees, two narrow lanes invite the viewer on a stroll through the woods. Marina Costa paints an enchanted portrait of Brazil where fragrant breezes announce the end of winter. "It doesn't matter which road you take," she says. "Both transmit light, peace and tranquility.

Picture 2

'Forests Before they End'

Jacarandas define the colors of summer in this delightful landscape by Marina Costa. Covered with indigo blossoms and a few early leaves, the flowering trees are haloed in sunshine. The artist makes a plea to save the forests and the animals that inhabit them.


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NASA telescope discovers giant ring around Saturn


PASADENA, Calif. – The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced late Tuesday.
The thin array of ice and dust particles lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system and its orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet's main ring plane, the laboratory said.
JPL spokeswoman Whitney Clavin said the ring is very diffuse and doesn't reflect much visible light but the infrared Spitzer telescope was able to detect it.
Although the ring dust is very cold — minus 316 degrees Fahrenheit — it shines with thermal radiation.
No one had looked at its location with an infrared instrument until now, Clavin said.
The bulk of the ring material starts about 3.7 million miles from the planet and extends outward about another 7.4 million miles.
The newly found ring is so huge it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it, JPL said.
Before the discovery Saturn was known to have seven main rings named A through E and several faint unnamed rings.
A paper on the discovery was to be published online Wednesday by the journal Nature.
"This is one supersized ring," said one of the authors, Anne Verbiscer, an astronomer at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Her co-authors are Douglas Hamilton of the University of Maryland, College Park, and Michael Skrutskie, also of the University of Virginia.
Saturn's moon Phoebe orbits within the ring and is believed to be the source of the material.
The ring also may answer the riddle of another moon, Iapetus, which has a bright side and a very dark side.
The ring circles in the same direction as Phoebe, while Iapetus, the other rings and most of Saturn's other moons go the opposite way. Scientists think material from the outer ring moves inward and slams into Iapetus.
"Astronomers have long suspected that there is a connection between Saturn's outer moon Phoebe and the dark material on Iapetus," said Hamilton. "This new ring provides convincing evidence of that relationship."
The Spitzer mission, launched in 2003, is managed by JPL in Pasadena. Spitzer is 66 million miles from Earth in orbit around the sun.

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EARTH : WHAT CAN I DO

One morning a man was walking down a beach that was covered in dying starfish. The tide the night before had been especially strong and thousands of starfish had been washed up on shore, too far up for them to make it back into the water by themselves. The man shook his head as he trudged along thinking what a shame it was that all of those starfish would die on the beach.

He came upon a boy who was throwing starfish back into the ocean as fast as he could. He was out of breath and it was obvious that he had been at this task for a while. "Son," the man said, "you might as well quit. There are thousands of them. They are washed up all over the beach as far as you can see. There is no way you can make any sort of a difference." The boy did not even pause in what he was doing. He kept bending and throwing but as he did, he spoke to the man, "I can make a difference to this one, and this one, and this one." And the man thought, and he knew the boy was right. He began to help return the animals to their home, smiling at how life's biggest lessons sometimes came from the smallest people."

Moral from the story is even though we can't change everything, we can make a big difference by doing the little things that matter.

p/s : do something, don't just look and see..to save the earth.:)

Source from: Kim Moon
http://holidays.kaboose.com/earthday-cando.html

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ORANG UTAN


Man of the forest vulnerable to forest conversion

Common Name: Orang-utan (Eng & Bahasa Melayu)
Kogiu (Orang Sungai language)
Scientific Name: Pongo pygmaeus (Borneon orang-utan)
Habitat: Lowland forests, also found in tropical, swamp and mountain forests
Status: Endangered globally. Vulnerable in Sabah & Sarawak
Population: Estimated to be about 12,300 in Sabah & Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

Background

Asia’s only great ape, the orang-utan or ‘man of the forest’ is found only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. Globally classified as endangered due to their habitat being destroyed, fragmented and poaching, orang-utans in Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak) are probably best classed as ‘vulnerable’. Much of their prime habitat has been converted to plantations and the rate of habitat loss has hit a very low level in recent years. There is almost no hunting of this species in Malaysia, and most of the remaining populations are found in forests that are protected or under natural forest management.



Borneo is unique in that it has three distinct populations or subspecies of orang-utans:



  • Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus (northwest populations)


    • Pongo pygmaeus morio (northeast and east populations)
    • Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii (southwest populations)

    Physical and species description

    Orang-utans generally have brown and rust-coloured shaggy fur. Weighing in at an average of 50 kg, female orang-utans grow to about 1.1 m in height and weigh 30 - 50 kg. Males weigh 50-90 kg and stand 1.2 - 1.5 m tall.

    Ecology, Habitat & Distribution Fruit eater sleeps in new nest every night


    Imagine sleeping 2 storeys and above up in the trees every night. The arboreal orang-utan lives up in trees where they bend twigs and small branches together to make a large nest-platform for sleeping. They are the largest tree dwelling mammal in the world. Adult orang-utans are solitary, except during mating. Orang-utans are not territorial, maintaining a loose relationship in a given area although adult males are hostile to one another. Crowding may cause them to fight over the limited supply of fruits. An adult female gives birth about once every six years.


    Diet

    Omnivorous, orang-utans eat both plants and animals but feed mainly on fruits, young leaves, bark and insects. By about the age of ten, an orang-utan can recognise over 200 different food plants. The orang-utan’s favourite food is fruit.

    Population decline of 40% in last two decades
    Orang-utans in Sabah and Sarawak live mainly in lowland rainforests but are also found in tropical, swamp and mountain forests. Sarawak has about 1,300 orang-utans, almost all in the Lanjak-Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary and Batang Ai National Park to the south bordering West Kalimantan, Indonesia. In Sabah, there are about 11,000 individuals today, the population having declined by over 40% in the last 20 years due mainly to planned conversion of forests to plantations in the eastern lowlands. Drought and forest fires, especially during the El Nino events of 1982-83 and 1997-98, but also 1987 and 1991, contributed to the decline.


    Threats

    Destruction of natural forests and unreliable food sources

    Wild orang-utan populations need a reliable source of a variety of fruits and young leaves to survive. They can survive only in extensive natural forests. The availability of food all year round means not all forests can support long-term breeding populations. We now know that this gentle ape can survive only in lowlands - where fertile soils and constant water availability allow steady food production - or where there are several forest types with different fruiting and leaf-producing seasons. There is little point in putting orang-utans where they have historically not existed, as lack of food supply may eventually cause them to die. There are six areas in Malaysia with quite large populations but this does not mean that any one of these places is unimportant. There is always the risk that one or more populations could be devastated by disease, drought or fires.

    Maintaining natural forests with viable wild breeding populations and restoring degraded forests is vital for the continued survival of orang-utans in Malaysia. Hence, the Sabah government’s initiative to retain the largest orang-utan population in the Ulu Segama-Malua Forest Reserves under sustainable forest management (SFM) deserves full support. The Deramakot forest management model, which produces controlled amounts of timber for international auction, certified according to international standards since 1997, shows what can be done. SFM could reduce forest damage and provide enough time for the forest to regenerate. In SFM, reforestation is necessary to ensure the forest rehabilitation or restoration take place in any sustainably managed forest. In the Lower Kinabatangan, various isolated forest patches need to be joined through restoration.

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    Why Plants are important?

    Plants are the backbone of all life on Earth and an essential resource for human well-being. Just think about how your everyday life depends on plants.



    Food: Everything we eat comes directly or indirectly from plants. Throughout human history, approximately 7,000 different plant species have been used as food by people.


    Air: Oxygen is brought to you by plants, as a byproduct of photosynthesis.



    Water: Plants regulate the water cycle: they help distribute and purify the planet's water. They also help move water from the soil to the atmosphere through a process called transpiration

    Medicine: One-quarter of all prescription drugs come directly from or are derivatives of plants. Additionally, four out of five people around the world today rely on plants for primary health care.  Read more about why plant extinction threatens the discovery of new medicine here.


    Habitat: Of course, aside from humans' myriad uses, plants make up the backbone of all habitats. Other species of fish and wildlife also depend on plants for food and shelter.
     
     


    Climate: Plants store carbon, and have helped keep much of the carbon dioxide produced from the burning of fossil fuels out of the atmosphere.
     
    p/s: Your actions can help conserve the world's plants and the wildlife that depends upon them for survival.

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    what is Plant Conservation Day?


    Plant Conservation Day (May 18th) is a fantastic excuse to celebrate the importance of plants and learn more about the key role we all play in their conservation.Plant Conservation Day was started in 2001 by the Association of Zoological Horticulture (AZH), and has been actively celebrated by zoos throughout the United States since then. In 2006, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) partnered with AZH to help expand Plant Conservation Day celebrations to botanic gardens and develop resources to make celebrating easy and fun for any organization, group, or individual interested in conserving the world's plants. These resources are all available at www.plantconservationday.org.In 2008, Plant Conservation Day celebrations were held around the U.S. and in Europe. In 2009, funding from the Boeing Company is allowing BGCI and AZH to work with their membership networks and partners around the world to hold celebrations in more countries and to involve many thousands more people. Boeing employees will also be volunteering at selected botanic gardens to support Plant Conservation Day in Australia, China, Europe, Russia, and the United States. Funding from Boeing has also supported this website, which features easy activities botanic gardens, zoos, and individual organizers can do to celebrate Plant Conservation Day and help conserve the world’s plants

    p/s:  celebrating the world's plants and taking action to conserve them

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    Global Warming








    what is the future of our next generations?

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    Environmental Pollution Effects on Humans



    Air pollution 
    • Irritation of eyes, nose, mouth and throat
    • Asthma attacks
    • Respiratory symptoms such as coughing and wheezing
    • Increased respiratory disease such as bronchitis
    • Reduced energy levels
    • Reduced lung functioning
    • Headaches and dizziness
    • Disruption of endocrine, reproductive and immune systems
    • Neurobehavioral disorders
    • Cardiovascular problems
    • Cancer
    • Premature death 

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    Environmental Pollution

    Although pollution had been known to exist for a very long time (at least since people started using fire thousands of years ago), it had seen the growth of truly global proportions only since the onset of the industrialrevolution during the 19th century.

    The industrial revolution brought with it technological progress such as discovery of oil and its virtually universal use throughout different industries.
    Technological progress facilitated by super efficiency of capitalist business practices (division of labour – cheaper production costs – overproduction – overconsumption – overpollution) had probably become one of the main causes of serious deterioration of natural resources.
    At the same time, of course, development of natural sciences led to the better understanding of negative effects produced by pollution on the environment.
    Environmental pollution is a problem both in developed and developing countries. Factors such as population growth and urbanization invariably place greater demands on the planet and stretch the use of natural resources to the maximum.
    It has been argued that the carrying capacity of Earth is significantly smaller than the demands placed on it by large numbers of human populations. And overuse of natural resources often results in nature’s degradation.

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    The Universe by Sylvia Stults




    Sliding down the milky way as the harvest moon lights the way
    This starts my journey through the galaxy
    My first stop, Gould's Belt, at 20 degrees.

    It was Orion I first met there, with sword in hand without a fear
    While Scorpio and Carina sat at the atmospheric shore
    Discussing their next voyage, one I wanted to explore

    I mentioned I was on a quest to see what the Universe holds
    When Carina looked at Scorpio and said, It needs to be shown.�
    At first I wondered what he meant, for it made no sense to me
    But then Carina turned and said, Would you like to join me at sea?�

    Upon the ship of Argo with Vela as the sail
    Carina keeled through the quake cut by Cetus the giant whale
    When far off in the distance and much to my surprise
    Was Delphinus the Dolphin signaling everything was alright

    I pulled out my compass and noticed an awful flaw
    When Carina said there is no East or West, my friend,
    We go by Kepler's Law

    So with each planetary motion
    My light show soon began, with Jupiter, then Saturn
    With rings of glistening bands

    All the planets took their turn in showing off their luster
    When all of a sudden, off to the side, particles started to cluster
    Hues of greens, yellows, reds, and blues all began to mingle
    Creating such a magnificent site my skin started to tingle

    This is a nebula, said Carina This is the core.
    This is the birthplace of the planets galore
    Each planet started with just one spark, searing in it's colors
    The nebula makes each color their own all different then the others.

    But what about that planet there? I said with a defying glare,
    That planets colors are all dim and black
    With ugly fumes of soot and ash.

    Carina suddenly lost her braggadocios tone
    And with sadness in her eyes
    She said, That is what you call home.

    At one time it was I, Carina, that would sit throughout the night
    With hopes that I may catch one glimpse of your planet's awesome site
    Your blues, which you call oceans, the greens, which you call grass,
    the pinks and yellows of your skies sparkled like effervescent glass

    The music that filled the air lulled us to sleep from birds I hear
    What are birds? I do not know, other then
    Colorful creatures with musical souls

    Then gradually your planet started to dim
    A thick black dust choked life from within.
    No longer do we hear the songbirds sing
    What a horrible lost, What a horrible thing

    No longer do the song birds sing
    No longer do the song birds sing

    P.S. From us: THINK GREEN :)

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    Arrest Raises Concerns Over Poaching in Belum - Temenggor Forest


    Pangolin scales seized by authorities during the ambush just off the Gerik-Jeli Highway in the Belum-Temengor Forest Complex, Perak.
     
    A Thai poacher was nabbed with scales of a pangolin and six sacks of agarwood (gaharu) by police on Sunday morning in a forested area just off the Gerik-Jeli Highway in the Belum-Temengor Forest Complex, Perak.

    Police were acting on information provided by WWF’s Wildlife Protection Unit (WPU), which regularly patrols the area with other enforcement agencies.
    The 55-year-old from Chiang Rai, was among a party of five poachers ambushed by police. Four others escaped, leaving behind a camp stocked with 30 kilogrammes of rice and other essentials – indicating they were planning long-term operations.
    The man now faces charges under three separate laws. Gerik OCPD, Superintendent Mahad Nor bin Abdullah, confirmed that the poacher would be charged under Section Six of the Immigration Act, for illegally entering the country. The poacher will also face charges under Section 64 (2) (a) of the Protection of Wildlife Act for possession of the Pangolin scales and Section 15 of the Forestry Act, for collecting agarwood without a license.
    Cases involving foreign poachers like this one, in Perak’s forests, are becoming an issue of increasing concern, with several cases already documented so far this year.
    In May, the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan) caught three Cambodian poachers in the Bintang Hijau Forest Reserve in Ulu Lawin, near Gerik with several kilogrammes of smoked Wild Boar meat, Argus Pheasant meat and feathers, and agarwood.
    That same month in Sungai Mendelum, near the Royal Belum State Park, authorities uncovered poaching camps and confiscated six wire snares, while in March, three Thai nationals were caught with several protected birds in Felda Kelian Intan, in Pengkalan Hulu.
    In January, Anti-Smuggling Unit officers detained two Thai nationals attempting to smuggle seven Pig-tailed Macaques from a forested area in Bukit Berapit, near the Malaysia–Thailand border.
    These forests are home to many of the world’s most threatened mammals, including Sumatran Rhinos, Malayan Tigers and Asian Elephants.
    According to a scientific report, the Belum-Temengor forest complex is also part of an area of global priority for Tiger conservation, yet it is one of the most accessible areas because of the 80-km long Gerik-Jeli highway that cuts across this landscape, providing hundreds of easy entry points for poachers.
    “Together with Perhilitan and Police, the WPU have jointly-removed over 73 snares and arrested nine poachers in the last seven months in this very area.” said Ahmad Zafir, leader of the WPU. “Camera traps set up to capture wildlife pictures for research also often capture photographs of poachers.”
    “Intelligence-led investigations are needed to remove the masterminds and backers behind the scourge of poaching and illegal trade,” says Chris R. Shepherd of TRAFFIC Southeast Asia.  Ridding the forests of poachers is an on-going and important task, but it is essential to remove the main culprits behind the scenes – the big dealers running the show.”

    “While Perhilitan, police and the WPU have been doing a good job so far, stopping armed poachers is dangerous and difficult work that needs the support of many agencies. I urge the government to form a Task Force , comprising additional enforcement agencies such as the Army, Immigrations, Customs, Perak State Parks Corporation and Forestry Department, to join the fight in Belum-Temengor to stamp out poaching and cross-border encroachment.” said Dato’ Dr. Dionysius Sharma, CEO of WWF-Malaysia.

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    HElp Save Turtle!


    "Turtles play a critical role in keeping marine ecosystems healthy; the same ecosystems which sustain our fisheries and tourism industries that provide food and livelihoods for millions of people. Marine turtles are threatened with extinction due to various factors, including: the practice of consuming turtle eggs, marine and nesting beach pollution as well as illegal trade of turtles and their parts.
    Leatherback turtles have already been declared functionally extinct in Malaysia. In the 1950s, there were 10,000 leatherback nests in Rantau Abang each year; now there are less than 10. Moreover, turtle protection laws are inadequate.

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    Tiger rescue points to urgent need for more patrols


    Kuala Lumpur - The rescue of a tiger from a snare set by poachers near the Gerik-Jeli highway yesterday should set alarm bells ringing for the remaining wild tigers in the Belum-Temengor forests, one of the last strongholds for this species and other mammals in Malaysia.

    The five-year-old male tiger was freed from its snare by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (PERHILITAN) officers after it was discovered late yesterday by WWF’s Wildlife Protection Unit (WPU), which conducts regular patrols together with PERHILITAN in the area. The tiger has been taken to the Malacca Zoo for treatment.
    The WPU rangers on a routine patrol had earlier detected two men on motorcycles near the site who fled when they saw the WPU rangers approach.  When rangers returned to check the area, they found the tiger with its front right paw caught in a snare.
    The snare had been set on a ridge in a forested area near the Perak-Kelantan border, not too far from the highway.

    The Belum-Temengor forest complex is one of three priority areas identified in the National Tiger Action Plan. It is also part of an area of global priority for Tiger conservation. Yet it is highly vulnerable to encroachment and poaching due to its proximity to the porous Malaysia-Thai border and among the most easily accessible because of the 80-km long Gerik-Jeli highway that cuts across the landscape, providing hundreds of easy entry points for poachers.

    Apart from the PERHILITAN-WPU joint patrols, this vast and wildlife-rich forest complex and its highway are not systematically or thoroughly patrolled, making it an open target for poachers.

    In the past year alone, PERHILITAN and the WPU have also recorded numerous encroachers in Perak’s jungles, particularly near the Belum-Temengor area, with the most recent incident in August, when a Thai national was caught by the police with pangolin scales and agarwood in the forest near the highway.

    PERHILITAN, Police and the WPU have worked together to remove 101 snares and arrest 10 poachers in the last nine months. But there is a need for other government agencies to join in this difficult fight against wildlife crime.

    Research carried out in the area by WWF and TRAFFIC has indicated that the rescued tiger is very likely just one of many that have been poached in the area.  Illegal hunting in the Belum-Temengor area is rampant and the demand for tigers continues to drive criminals into the forest to kill the remaining ones.

    “If the WPU rangers had not spotted the suspected poachers the story might have been very different  for that tiger. We were lucky this time. Who knows how many tigers we have already lost?” said Dato’ Dr. Dionysius Sharma, CEO of WWF-Malaysia.

    “This incident clearly demonstrates the need for a stronger enforcement presence in the Belum-Temengor area. If this isn’t enough of a clarion call for the government to afford more resources to form an anti-poaching Task Force, I don’t know what is,” he added.

    The official estimate of the wild tigers in Peninsular Malaysia is only 500, a sharp decline from 3000 estimated in the 1950s, explained wildlife biologist Dr Kae Kawanishi.

     “Snares kill indiscriminately. This illegal act of cruelty should be condemned by the whole society. Despite the harsh penalty imposed by the law, it has been a major problem to wildlife throughout the country,” said Kae a member of the Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers Secretariat.

    “In order for the Malaysia to realize the goal of the National Tiger Action Plan, which is to double the number of wild tigers in the country by the year 2020, poaching cannot be tolerated,” she added.

    “At the rate tigers are being killed throughout their entire range, they do not stand a chance, but here in Malaysia, there is still hope of saving tigers. It will mean increasing enforcement efforts to protect crucial strongholds such as the Belum-Temengor complex and coming down hard on poachers,” said Chris R. Shepherd, TRAFFIC Southeast Asia’s Regional Acting Director. 

     “These poachers are criminals, and are robbing the world of one of the most amazing species to have ever walked the earth”, he said.






    PERHILITAN officers removing the wire snare from the animal's leg






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    Easy Ways to Recycle and Reduce Waste


    • Look for products marked with "Post-Consumer Content" and "Recycled Content"
      Computer printer paper, notebooks, paper towels, toilet paper, plastic products, and many other household items can be found that are made from at least partially recycled materials. 

    • Reusable bags
      Rather than using paper or plastic disposal bags, use reusable bags instead.

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    Looking Skyward



    Stars alight twinkling, glittering
    Jewel like reflecting brilliance
    It shines with shadows of shapes
    Around to circles of rings
    Alone amid the glow -
    The movement of grey, surrounding cover
    No company, darkening
    To be under like forever the clouds
    They sail across and see a sail in the sky
    I am breathing again the glow of a rainbow
    Around me
    What a magnificent wonder- Look to
    The heavens with praise and gaze at the universe
    Eternal and thank the great sprit for his blessings


    A poem written by an 11 year old who loves this world.


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    wonderful scenery


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    Earth Issues

    LOGGING UNCONTROLLED




    GLOBAL WARMING





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    10 Ways You Can Improve Earth’s Health



    1. Change light bulbs
    2. Drive differently, or drive a different vehicle
    3. Control your temperature
    4. Tame the refrigerator monster
    5. Twist some knobs
    6. Plant smartly
    7. Invest in green energy
    8. Go organic
    9. Buy recycled
    10. Be a minimalist
    TIPS:

    • Buy quality products that will last longer. Over time, you’ll obviously buy fewer products that way.
    • Be creative in what you use for work, play and leisure. You don’t always have to buy new products for activities. Re-use in creative ways.

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    THE PAPER TRAIL

    Once upon a time there was a piece of paper. It could do all sorts of cool things. Like bend, flex, fold, lie flat, stand up, even make paper airplanes. The kids loved playing with it! They would draw on it, cut it out, make shapes, make airplanes on it. But one day the paper found itself old, and wrinkled. Too used up for the kids to keep playing with it. And it was sad. Before it knew what was going on, it found itself stuck at the bottom of the trash can. It got sent out to the big dumpster where the trash men came and picked it up. The little piece of paper was thrown into the truck with all the other papers who were old, wrinkled, and quite grumpy.
    The journey was bumpy and windy, too long for such a tired piece of paper. It went from light to dark, from wind to rain. It was grabbed at and squished, and finally thrown onto a conveyer with the rest of the paper. It quickly got sorted and pushed, and moved around. The poor little piece of paper could do very little in its weak condition. Soon it saw a massive crusher and realized O NO! This is the end! There was so much I wanted to do! I wanted to be a pamphlet for Hawaii, or a legal binding document. But alas this is the end. And before it new it, it was crushed back into a thin piece of paper. Hm, it thought, that's not so bad. Then it saw the slicer! And the crusher O NO! the paper tried to run, it tried to fight with the other papers, but it had one corner caught. It started to tear as it was trying to pull away. It barely broke off, just a fragment got stuck. I can make it! But it was too late. The crusher and ripper sucked in the rest of the papers. And the paper closed its eyes. Slowly it blinked. And realized it was perfectly quiet. Even a bit sunny. Looking around the paper realized it was sitting next to a batch of fresh paper. It looked down at itself. Completely clean, smooth with a fresh coat of bleach! Then bending over to examine the rest of itself, to see what was going on it noticed a fine watermark on its back. What is this? It asked. A recycled logo!

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    10 Easy Ways To Be Green

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    1. Reduce Just by turning off the tap while brushing your teeth or shaving, you can save more than 200 gallons of water per month. Here are some other effective ways you can help to conserve resources …
    • Turn off the lights when leaving a room.
    • Use both sides of the paper when printing and copying.
    • Walk or bike instead of driving.
    • Take short showers.
    • Drink tap water instead of bottled water.
    • Remove unnecessary items from your car to reduce weight.
    • Regularly replace the filter on your HVAC system.
    • Install faucet aerators.
    • Use cold water to wash clothes.
    • Stop junk mail.
    • Install a programmable thermostat in your home.

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    Can Earth Be Earth?


    Can earth be Earth when all it’s trees are gone,
    And sudsy waters have become unfit,
    And poisoned life no longer greets the dawn
    With raucous sounds that death has caused to quit?
    Will trees no longer wave, with limbs unfurled,
    On hapless earth, that ever in orbit roams?
    Will human ego sacrifice the world
    To satiate its lust for pompous homes?
    Will distant space look down on orb that’s bald.
    I now can hear the mother say,
    “I was once called Earth.
    But now , bereft of mirth, I weep.
    That treeless orb’s no longer Earth”
    Can earth be earth?



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