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The environment is a "complex" (of) dynamic, interrelated physical, geographic, biological, social, cultural and political conditions that an individual or organism is immersed in, and that ultimately determines its own form and nature of its survival.
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 Ecology, the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment, is from the Greek oikos for "household" and logos for "knowledge". The biologist and artist-illustrator Ernst Haeckel coined the word ecology.
Planet Earth is the only known environment for humanity and our activity is finally being widely recognized as contributing to the fragile equalibrium of conditions that can sustain Life as humanity has become accustomed to.
- Ecology Posters selection of education posters for teachers, classrooms, libraries, homeschoolers
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- Forum on Religion & Ecology at Harvard University is the largest international multireligious project of its kind exploring religious worldviews, texts, and ethics in order to broaden understanding of the complex nature of current environmental concerns. The Forum recognizes that religions need to be in dialogue with other disciplines (e.g., science, ethics, economics, education, public policy, gender) in seeking comprehensive solutions to both global and local environmental problems.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.
- U.S. Geological Survey - Environment - USGS activities in the environment theme area include studies of natural physical, chemical, and biological processes, and of the results of human actions; the goal is to provide the understanding and scientific information needed to recognize and mitigate adverse impacts and to sustain the environment. Activities include data collection, long-term assessments, ecosystem analysis, predictive modeling, and process research on the occurrence, distribution, transport, and fate of contaminants as well as the impacts of contaminants on biota.
- Union of Concerned Scientists - The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.
- Environmental News Network - For over twenty years, ENN has published news, commentary, and information about how we live on earth and provided a global perspective on environmental issues and promoted thought, discussion, and awareness among our readers with content that is balanced, non-partisan, comprehensive and educational in nature.
- United Nations Environment Programme - mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
- UNESCO Science Portal - mission is to improve human security through a better management of the environment and . . . enhance human and institutional capacities in science and technology to allow the widest possible participation in the knowledge society, and to adapt science policy to societal needs.
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In 1986 ten areas of concern were selected as focus points for The Future Is Now World Peace Celebration - a ‘complex’ of dynamic interrelated human activities that cannot be separated out from one another.
If your primary concern is environment then you will also be involved in educating yourself and others in what the issues are around the environment and your best way to educate might be to communicate through art. The equitible sharing of resources brings in justice; science methodology is useful in observing what is happening around us; forming a healthy community is imperative for solving problems; and without a spiritual metanoia all the above is still working on the problems with the same consciousness that created the problems.
To the millions who have been checking their carbon footprint for years, more out of intuition and respect for creation than hard facts and economic prompts- “Thank You”. To the hundreds (thousands) that pass by this building daily in a ridiculous attempt to beat the lights between Main and Broadway, here is the bus schedule for KCMO. Or, oh duh... everyone who fled the inner city to build big crackerboxes on farmland are now moving back to city centers, forcing out the very people they fled from 40 years ago.
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