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The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by…

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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta…
Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a…
There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis,…
The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size…
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long…
If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be…
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years…
As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an…
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is…
According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the…
The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.

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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in… — Samuel Beckett
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that… — Dave Brubeck
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt… — George A. Sheehan
And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the… — Jean de Joinville
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. — Red Auerbach
He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with… — Orison Swett Marden
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed… — Thomas Jefferson
An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than… — Denis Hayes
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. — William Shakespeare
There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an… — Henry Ford
I was in Australia....Lotta leg room down under. Apartments: dollar a month. 2000-acre den....think of the parties. — Bill Hicks
All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

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