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Video » While the world’s population tripled in the 20th century, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold. Within the next fifty years, the world population will increase by another 40 to 50 %. This population growth – coupled with industrialization and urbanization – will result in an increasing demand for water and will have serious consequences on the environment.

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You might think the headline sounds crazy, but that is exactly what two dutch men have set out to do. On July 4, 2010, Joost Notenboom & Michiel Roodenburg, have begun an 18 month bicycle journey from Deadhorse in northern Alaska to the most southern tip of Argentina at Ushuaia. Their  mission is to take one [...]

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Deforestation in Paraguay is forcing the people of the Ayoreo tribe to leave land they have occupied for generations.
Recent satellite imagery confirmed that about one million hectares, or nearly 10%, of the virgin, dry forest in northern Paraguay has been cleared in just four years by ranchers using fire, chains and bulldozers to open up land.

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_____________________________________________________________________________________________ [ Disaster ] Plans to build a highway through Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park will destroy one of the world’s last great wildlife sanctuaries, a group of conservation experts has warned. The scientific journal ‘Nature’ published an article which gathers statements from 27 scientists who are asking for a re-think of the new 50 kilometer (31 [...]

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One bee alone may not amount to much, but collectively they become a powerful and vital force, responsible for pollinating almost 75% of the world’s food crops. Without bees our world would be a very different place.

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The Success is from the Reserva Ecologica De Guapi Assu (REGUA), Brazil, a small nature reserve not farm from Rio de Janeiro. A report suggests that as many as 60’000 trees have been planted to help pump CO2 from the atmosphere.

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In 1992 the Meso-American community in South Central LA was given a rat infested, garbage strewn 14-acre lot by the city of LA. It was an effort to revive the battered community devastated by the riots that year. 350 poverty-level families were given plots to plant as a way to supplement donations from the LA Food Bank with home grown produce. The “South Central Farm” became the largest community garden in the US…

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Ecuador Signs Historic Deal To Keep Oil in the Soil and CO2 out of the Atmosphere Ecuador have signed and agreement  with the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) that will open an international trust fund to receive donations supporting the government’s proposal to keep some 900 million barrels of oil in the ground. The heavy [...]

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The original text in ‘The Miniature Earth’ was first published on May 29, 1990 with the title “State of the Village Report”, written by Donella Meadows. Nowadays Sustainability Institute, through Donella’s Foundation, carries on her ideas and projects. The text used in this film has been modified. The statistics have been updated based on specialized publications and mainly reports on the world’s population provided by The UN, PRB and others.’ – The Miniature Earth

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In case you don’t know, human consumption is destroying the rainforests of the world, unfortunately for us, they are vital to our very existence. Why are these rainforests so important?

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Three months ago, Greenpeace started a competition to redesign BP’s green sunflower logo with something that would reflect the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. The competition was open to everyone and in the three months in which the world saw with anger how a massive plume of oil gushed into the ocean threatening all kinds of wildlife, millions were also watching the amazing entries that were being submitted as a response.

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Plastic bottles are a big problem in general but perhaps one that can be avoided with something as essential as milk. How much is the milk I’m feeding my family costing the planet? Can I buy milk and still be green?

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Some academics have calculated that if the grain fed to animals in western countries were consumed directly by people instead of animals, we could feed at least twice as many people. if this isn’t reason enough to turn vegetarian, here are 7 more reasons for you to ponder…

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Learn how the constant stream of eco-tourism is greatly affecting the Galapagos islands.

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Does the Amazon belong to Humanity? It is so often described as the “lungs of humanity”, however to a lot of people in Brazil, its a home and a source of national pride.

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It is estimated that one third of the world food production depends on the honey bee and its relatives, but unfortunately for us they are disappearing…

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By 2030 the United Nations estimates two-thirds of our planet will lack access to clean drinking water. Tapped a new documentary by the producers of the mesmerizing ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’ illustrates the massive ecological damage that the lucrative bottled water industry is causing to the environment.

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FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An audiovisual manifesto filmed over the course of 4 years and 4 continents, FIRST EARTH makes the case that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world; and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, it is incumbent upon us to transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages, a new North American dream.

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Cerro de Pasco in Peru is Being Eaten By Open Pit Mine. The city is being swallowed by ever-expanding, open-pit zinc and lead mine. A colonial church dating back to 1748 has disappeared, along with the town’s center square.
You can see the shocking, Sarlacc-like situation from satellite images, notes theGoogle Earth Blog.

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