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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797

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100 People: A World Portrait

"100 People” is a world-wide project aimed at ‘statistically and visually bringing the local with the global”.

New life to the old things

"Live simply so others may simply live” Mahatma Ghandi

We're a generation of consumers. We live to buy and buy to live. And every year the situation is becoming more daunting and gloomy like a vicious circle - you have to work harder to earn more money-for what?-to spend more and more and end up working harder again. Rat race, isn't it?

Australian Endangered Species

No one will ever see a paradise parrot fly across the sky again. Paradise parrots are extinct. Extinction is forever. Since 1788, when the first European settlers came to Australia, thirty species of mammals and birds and about 100 species of plants have become extinct.

Clean means healthy

Clean means healthy: True or False?

There is a Russian proverb translated as "clean means healthy” or "cleanliness is next to godliness” However, nowadays it’s not the case and clean doesn’t always mean healthy.

Value of being green

Since energetic crisis 1973 the problems of ecology and non-renewable energy resources have been getting more and more urgent. Tons of articles and scientific publications have been devoted to environmental degradation in the context of the increasing economic production.

Adverse effect of air pollution

Driving a car is the most air polluting act an average citizen commits. Air pollution is not a good idea for a variety of reasons, large and small. The right ideas for remediation of environmental degradations involve unselfish and compassionate behavior, a scarce commodity. The right ideas involve long-term planning, conservation and a deep commitment to preserving the natural world. Without a healthy natural environment, there will be few or no healthy humans.

It's up to you...

I think there is no need to reiterate all the problems we have with air pollution, garbage recycling and other environmental issues nowadays. This is obvious that all of them are caused by human beings, i.e. by us - you and me. So when I decided to write an article my purpose was to find some easy solutions for everyday life that could help reduce harmful impact of our activities on environment. This is what I came out with.

Do we need natural energy?

For many centuries people have been using energy of minerals, but there isn’t infinite quantity of these. That’s why problem of finding other energy sources appeared.

Water pollution

Water pollution... We’ve heard this phrase a lot of times, almost everybody knows that it’s a highly important ecological problem of the modern world.

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