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Thomas Friedman asks the Vital Question

In his New York Times OpEd of Sunday 7 March, THOMAS FRIEDMAN writes: Let’s … ask a radical but vital question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply [...]

YEP Comments

The Youth Earth Plan, version 0.5, is now available at http://www.ourtask.org/getinvolved/pdfs/yep.pdf, and we welcome comments on it. Note that each line of the draft YEP has a number in the left margin. If you have a general comment on the YEP, you need not specify line numbers. If you have a comment on a specific [...]

From Oceans to Forests to Biodiversity

Environmental changes, such as increased carbon emissions and nitrogen levels, deforestation, and climate changes are harming our oceans and coasts, forest environments, and biodiversity of species. Oceans provide us with fresh rainwater and oxygen and a way to help regulate climate. They absorb and store heat from the sun, transporting it to different parts of [...]