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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…
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Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a…
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There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis,…
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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size…
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Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long…
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If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be…
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
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The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years…
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As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an…
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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…
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According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the…
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The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.
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The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.
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Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o'clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And…
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From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good…
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Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch…
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I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just…
— Ed Markey
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Usually it takes a bottle of Bacardi and a gallon of Coke to get John out of his seat.
— Eamon Dunphy
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The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to…
— Henry R. Towne
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I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly,…
— Dennis Hopper
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We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn’t pay their mortgages…
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Do not let one moment go by that doesn’t remind you that your heart beats 900 times a day, and there are…
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