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In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.

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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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In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents. — Alex Shoumatoff
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness. — Os Guinness

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