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I know the creators and artists that have created this website. It is an important in regards to sustainability of our lands and the species that inhabit the lands. Even though this is animated the truth is painful and real! Hope you enjoy! Can't wait until we cover agriculture in our class:-) There are about 20 episodes, just page down below the video screen to select each one.

This is a crucial time for people to rethink how we meet our needs today to help to ensure a desirable future for following generations. Local government officials must play their part in reinventing our institutions to help communities and residents stay healthy and whole. This is because we have entered an era where human generated pressures on the natural world are unprecedented and threaten our current way of life. A few examples include depletion of non-renewable resources - 65% of U.S. oil is gone and the world is at or past peak oil; insufficient drinking water for two thirds of the world's population; consumption of land and loss of topsoil at unsustainable rates; projected loss of 90% of the world's fisheries by 2048; extinction of a distinct species of plant or animal, on average, every 20 minutes (qualifying the present period as one of the six great periods of mass extinction in the history of Earth1); and the presence of 250 persistent toxic chemicals not known before 1945, many of which are now found in human tissues.

Fantastic re-use of old elevated train tracks along the river. It has been reclaimed into an elevated and planted public park. Who has been here? I can't wait to visit. It is in Phase 3 of its development.