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  • iKids: How to Teach them!

         Many people, including myself, spend a lot of time knocking the American education system but let me tell you one place where I think they are doing alright or at least headed in the right direction.

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  • Are We Openminded Enough To Change Outdated Practices So That We Can Adapt to Our New Climate?

    With today's unpredictable climate, producing an ample food supply for the world's population has become increasingly challenging, especially in developing countries. Much of the farmland in these areas have been made available by clearing rainforests, which only compounds the problem of global warming. Even after the land has been cleared, there's no guarantee that the field will produce a bountiful harvest. Often, a flood, drought, or other natural disaster will prevail, leaving farmers with little or no reward for all their hard work. If the crops do come through, they must be shipped hundreds or thousands of miles to the highest bidding consumers all around the world, and all too often, thrown in the trash where they end up in a landfill. We know our population is growing and demand for food is growing. We know weather conditions will only get worse. How will we adapt as a species to the new habitat that we've created for ourselves? What is the solution?

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  • Katrina Evacuees or Climate Refugees

    When the first pictures of Hurricane Katrina flashed on television in 2005, media used “refugee” to describe those displaced residents.

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  • I Can Make That

    Growing up, my family only bought what we could not make ourselves. Mother made all of our meals from scratch, even while we were on the road. She sewed curtains, crocheted blankets, even made soap by melting down all of our soap scraps. My father had a wood shop in our garage and knew how to use it. He would produce coat racks, toy chests, shelves, desks and other furniture as needed.

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  • A Modest Proposal....A New Bear Market

    What to do about the polar bears? These lumbering, albion hued predators of the North are, it seems, up a certain creek with only a rapidly melting ice shelf for a paddle. As we are inundated by frightening and sad footage of polar bears pathetically paddling in the now endless arctic ocean, the federal government has stepped in.

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  • Why Aren't Schools Greener?

     I am very dissappointed that schools are lagging so far behind when it comes to "Going Green".  I would argue that schools are some of the biggest environmental offenders (excluding the corporate world of course, schools do not pollute oceans and rivers and emit toxic funes into the skies).

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