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Environmental Issues: Land Use Change is an interdisciplinary technology-embedded middle school science unit. This curricular unit focuses on how human activities influence environmental changes related to land use. Students use geospatial information technology (GIT) tools including Google Earth and remotely sensed images to investigate modern day land use issues and land use change over time.

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Giant jelly fish are taking over parts of the world's oceans due to overfishing and other human activities, say researchers.

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From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

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Since becoming the “renewable energy island,” Samsø has increasingly found itself an object of study. Researchers often travel great distances to get there, a fact that is not without its own irony.

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"Architecture for Humanity represents the finest of the new breed of architectural leadership, employing architectural skills and directing them for the larger good. Committed, unapologetically architectural in name and mission, Architecture for Humanity stands up for people in need."
– Robert Ivy, Editor in Chief, Architectural Record

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Google aims to find a way to significantly reduce the cost of renewable energy generation to bring it more on par with the cost of coal.

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Very sad photo - last time I order scallops

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The team at Earth2Tech has put together a nice Google Maps mash-up that shows coal plants that have been cancelled due to concerns over climate change and global warming.

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A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar shipped its first solar panels -- priced at $1 a watt. That's the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. Curious that this story is not on every front page.

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Here are a few of our favorite gadgets released this year that will lower your electric bill and save a tiny bit of planet earth.

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"I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think." - Marshall McLuhan

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There is an enormous amount of methane (CH4) on earth frozen into a type of ice called methane hydrate.

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Switching to organic is tough for many families who don’t want to pay higher prices or give up their favorite foods.

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Excellent use of Google maps on Wiser Earth

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Futurefarmers work across many media. We enjoy creating platforms for sociability, play and culitvating consciousness.

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Like an animal enlarging its own teeth, sharpening its own claws, we have actively re-endowed our own ferocity, so much as to exceed the scope of possible targets. I dare say an animal that could claw the world in two so fairly might.

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Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment.

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Green is glamour for Sarah Hood, whose jewelry “is a constant exploration of the natural world. I hope to showcase the ordinary in extraordinary ways.”

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a prototype of this urban design project, which was developed by british designer ross lovegrove at a suggestion of peter noever, director mak, is presented to the public for the first time in vienna.

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Why pay to offset your carbon emissions when you can convert to carbon neutral Vegetable Oil as fuel, saving money and the environment?

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