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Environmental Sustainability

Some Pictures:
1.) The link below shows you an image of someone holding the earth in their hands. I think this is an excellent example that shows the importance of human intervention with the environment. It tells us that it is our responsibility to take care of it and coexist with it.

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2.) The link below shows 4 separate pictures of people researching the environment. I believe that this is critical to discovering better methods and persuading legislature to enact laws to protect the environment.

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3.) The link below shows an individual recylcling glass bottles. I think recycling is critical to maintaining the earths limited resources by getting the maximum use out of what would normally have been trash occupying space in a landfill.

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4.) The below link shows a landscape scattered with wind turbines. Alternative energy is crucial to living sustainably and reducing the affects of global warming.

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Some quotes:

"We have not inherited the world from our forefathers -- we have borrowed it from our children."
- Kashmiri proverb

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian
"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired in value."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late."

- Michael Crichton

"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed."

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Some Songs:
We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands

One World
- Lucas Miller

Clear Blue Skies- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Traffic Jam- James Taylor

The 3 Rs
- Jack Johnson


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