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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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Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems… — James Buchan
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. — Pierre de Coubertin
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. — Harold Wilson
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me. — Jerry Uelsmann
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social… — Prince Charles
Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was… — Anne McCaffrey
I have been studying now for about 2 years, on a rather intensive basis, the UFO problem. I have interviewed several hundred… — James MacDonald
One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that… — Kate Winslet
I was shocked by the reaction I got for Bleak House. It was very intensive but one of the best jobs of… — Anna Maxwell Martin
I love that the world is data intensive … unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.' — Werner Vogels
Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had… — Aliko Dangote

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