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A Grand Place to See Wildlife
Living in Arizona, there’s no way you can escape wildlife, no matter how hard you may try. I guess it’s a good thing I love all things wildlife! The beauty of Arizona is that the elevation rises dramatically as you head up north. My Southern town’s elevation is 500 feet above sea level. A short hour and a half drive north will put you at an elevation above 2,000 feet. The highest elevation in Arizona is 12,633 feet above sea level; an elevation that seems inconceivable in this dry, Western State.
By Eli5 years ago in Earth
To Save the Water Cycle: Stop Building Cities
As we all hopefully learnt at some point in our educational history, water cycles through its different phases. It spends time in the sky in clouds before it precipitates down onto land and bodies of water, where it can seep into the groundwater or lakes. Eventually, it will get drawn back up again to renew the cycle. But what if I told you that we're breaking that water cycle?
By Melissa in the Blue5 years ago in Earth
Smaller Footprint, Bigger Wave
At first thought, leaving less of a carbon footprint may seem like too tall of an order for anyone to tackle. Before taking that step though, I think it is important to note that we know something must be done to protect our oceans and atmosphere from the carbon emissions that we are producing.
By Michael Owczarek5 years ago in Earth
Growing the resistance
It’s such a mess, isn’t it? The topic of how we as individuals can slow the climate catastrophe train is so fraught and depressing, because even as we take radical action – having no more than one child, eliminating meat from our diets, buying hybrid or all-electric cars, thinking hard about all the places we dream of going and which very few feel essential enough to justify the noxious emissions of greenhouse gases high into the atmosphere – even as we reexamine everything about how we live, the fiercely-defended ignorance of others slows the sea change that must occur at all levels to stop this runaway train. But here’s the thing: while we do our little part to advocate for those systemic changes, we have to do what we can in our own lives. What else are we going to do? Reduce life to some logical gamesmanship where we take no action until everyone does? How can those of us who understand the impacts of everything we do convince ourselves that our individual acts are too small to matter?
By Gina King5 years ago in Earth
Two is Better Than One
My Roger, He’s a Trumphead. A confederate flag hangs in the front yard. He can rattle off ten complaints about the Biden administration in less than five minutes. He hates the fact that Biden shut down the oil pipeline and put people out of work.
By Michelle Blackerby5 years ago in Earth
The Repurpose Driven Life
The reason this meme is so funny is its accuracy. I remember opening my grandma's refrigerator to get out something she asked for and being overwhelmed by the butter containers and milk jugs that held everything but butter and milk. Due to my grandparents' age, they were used to keeping everything they thought they might use again. For my grandpa, it was screws, nails, nuts and bolts; stored in a coffee can.
By Yvonne Lovejoy5 years ago in Earth
Cleaning the Ego With the Fight Against Littering
It’s never been cooler to be focused on being clean, and those who create the wave are often less noticed than those who choose to run on it. While the planet spins at ridiculous speeds through an unforgiving cosmos, we are caught trying our best to stand still, take pause, and enjoy the moment. Unfortunately, in our efforts to do this, we forget about our spherical creator and the accumulation of trash the human race has dumped across Earth.
By Kishan Baskaran5 years ago in Earth
Bodies of Water
My first step toward making waves of transformation was a scary one. I listened to my heart pound every night like the rhythm of the waves crashing violently as I lay in bed anticipating my new life adventure and leaving behind my old life as a carpenter and a painter. I began to recognize through the years that this feeling was my aliveness coming to get me, like a swinging trapeze bar according to Danaan Parry in Warriors of the Heart. I had never been whitewater rafting before or been camping longer than a weekend. Now I was about to become a whitewater raft guide and live out of my tent for the summer. Little did I know that I was about to take a huge vote for mother earth and myself. To the average person, I may seem like a ski bum, a river bum or the crazy water lady telling everyone to "hydrate your brain". Little did I know that one day I would be rowing my own 18ft raft down the heart of the Grand Canyon and navigating class five rapids. I am beginning to see that this wave I am making is building into a massive title wave.
By Arieal Pearl Healy5 years ago in Earth
Animal Agriculture
Animal Agriculture is a leading cause of water and air pollution, biodiversity loss, and deforestation. Animal agriculture is one of the number 1 leading causes of climate change. It's the 2nd largest contributor to human-made greenhouse gas emissions after fossil fuels. 1
By Chloe Moers5 years ago in Earth
ELAINE'S SNAPSHOTS FROM CANADA
Covid has opened a wide arena for meeting new people. I met a new friend Elaine through an acquaintance. An online friend, who has become a phone friend and a
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Earth
A Human Role
By now, I’ve realised that actions so slight compose no such difference on the grass I walk on or the sky I gaze. Still, to feed my moral compass, I walk to college, recycle aluminium cans, recycle food waste, recycle glass bottles, recycle paper and cardboard, recycle batteries, never drop litter and use reusable face masks. Perchance just yesterday, living in the belief that fellow actions like these made such change. The world saw no change. No improvement.
By Hannah Pressman5 years ago in Earth
The role of the hospitality industry in food waste
The hotel industry is a subset of the hospitality industry that focuses on offering accommodation services to customers. In 2019, the global hotel and resort industry was valued at 1.21 trillion US dollars, down from 1.24 trillion US dollars the previous year. In 2021, the industry is expected to be worth $1.22 trillion.
By Andrew Anderson5 years ago in Earth