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An example of a major transition when people decide to make a difference.

Excellent series that relates to Dylan's iceberg presentation.

Innovative and more sustainable vending machine.

Shows how consumer demand for more sustainable methods for harvesting things such as palm oil can really make an impact...

puts things into perspective

Well I feel like a total jerk for tweeting at least half of this stuff ...

Well that was possibly the most well done and unpleasant advertisement ever.

Posted: Print Article This story originally appeared on Mother Nature Network: It's beyond sobering and bordering on infuriating: Almost every piece of plastic ever made still exists today - and plenty of those bottle caps, lighters, pen casings, and plastic bottles have ended up in the ocean, where their accumulated debris have formed giant bits-of-plastic gyres in every major ocean on Earth.

This podcast is not only connected to what we learned in class, but also raises questions to the way we think about economic environmentalism! It even has a short bit on my iceberg "replacing the gas automobile".

This was shared by Richard. We will discuss more during the "Food" unit.

For instance, this is a map of the word over time where the size of a circle is the nation's CO2 emissions, and the color is the nation's GDP.

Interesting article that suggests that we are reaching the limits of economic globalism, and that the only way to keep expanding is to focus internally. Particularly interesting for Honors kids because it supports Bill McKibben's ideas about localism from a financial standpoint

PARETS DEL VALLÈS, Spain - From a sleek gray distribution center near Barcelona, the global fashion brand Mango ships 60 million garments in a year. Automated conveyor belts whir through the building like subway lines, sorting and organizing blouses, sweaters and other items to be shipped around the world.