This is an amazing documentary. While compiling images of the our planet from the air, Yann Arthus-Bertrand got turned on to environmentalism. The perspective you get while taking aerial photographs provides considerable insight into the scale of the problems facing our environment. In a true act of beneficence, Arthus-Bertrand encouraged people to spread this video [...]

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Since stories have started surfacing more recently, many have wondered, if the rumors are true. Are there really ‘continents’, or massive floating garbage patches residing in the pacific ocean? Apparently, the rumors are true, and these unsightly patches are reportedly killing marine life and releasing poisons that enter the human food chain, as well. http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/12/are-there-reall.html

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In a rainforest area roughly three times the size of Manhattan, Texaco carved out 350 oil wells, and upon leaving the country in 1992, left behind some 1,000 open toxic waste pits. Many of these pits leak into the water table or overflow in heavy rains, polluting rivers and streams that 30,000 people depend on [...]

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Traffic jams really capture the essence of humanity’s absurd systems of living. Rather than cooperate to build infrastructure that may have a large up front cost but long term benefits, many cities continue to pursue the “have 10,000 engines running at once going 1 km/h model” of transportation planning. It’s such a simple problem to [...]

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