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    Go Green is a new catchphrase and phenomenon which aspires to raise environmental consciousness. Environmental awareness is a broad term including global warming, pollution, clean accessible water, organic foods, animal protection, and reforestation. Today’s environmental movement encompasses many ideas and concerns, but the modern environmental movement originated in the 1960s with one particular issue: pesticides. Rachel Carson, a biologist, raised American consciousness about pesticides with…

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    Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies endeavors to answer a simple but vastly complicated question of how did certain people develop useful items, or “cargo” as Yali, the man who asked the original question, worded it, while other people did not. According to Diamond, while the developments immediately preceding interaction among groups of people is what decides the outcomes of the interactions, it 's where the people come from, their environment, that…

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    Free-Choice Learning

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    we use to describe the learning that occurs in environmental education settings when the learning is largely under the choice and control of the learner - most casual visitors who do not…

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    The environment is a broad category and is intertwined in a complex relationship with human interactions that depict and impact the current environmental state; some for the better and some for the worse. It is important to understand the human relations and social struggle that we as individuals face in order to apprehend how it affects the environment. Ayiko Soloman, a Wilfrid Laurier graduate, spend a fair amount of years providing humanitarian support and aid to people in Uganda and has…

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    New Urbanism: Serenbe

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    The car makes a sharp turn into the mass of greenery, greeting an image torn right off the pages of a fiction novel. Fairytale houses are woven within the trees, dappled sunlight tinting their roofs, and a dirt trail winds down to a dreamy fishing pond and a farm populated with llamas, donkeys, rabbits, and sheep. The air tastes crisp. The warm sun draws families out: parents chat with neighbors over ice tea as their children bounce along the community trampoline, and an aged couple saunters…

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    Environmental Education & Sustainability in Schools Many school districts are debating whether or not to include some form of environmental education in their curriculum. Environmental education not only benefits student health and knowledge, but encourages them to develop into citizens who are prepared to make a positive impact in local and global communities. According to the United Stated Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “Environmental education is a process that allows individuals…

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    trend as far as the environment, population and productivity are concerned continues, survival on earth will continually be shortened. This work will analyze the environmental issue.…

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    Each year thousands of students go off to college for their fist time. They are filled with excitement to start a new chapter in their life but many forget the importance of eating healthy. In several universities they offer different eating options for their students unfortunately here at saint josephs college there is a lack of healthy options for students. When you walk into the cafeteria you will notice that there is only one healthy food option for students. The rest of it is all greasy…

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    The warmer weather has caused all flower populations to decline. Relevance to Environmental Science Environmental science studies human interactions with the environment. One of the most prominent effects of human interaction is climate change, which affects all other living organisms on earth. This article is an example of the effects of climate…

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    My Environmental Ethics Growing up in a highly capitalized area, Macau, and being taught the idea that wealth is the ruler of power and status, I learned that I would have to find a job with decent extra benefit and high salary in the future. Until the time I have taken geography and moral education classes in my high school, I started to consider a bigger picture when I was thinking about public policy and my decision making. I knew that what I did could affect anyone around me and possibly…

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