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Controlling pollution: What you can do 20 Articles

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    by Merri Sharp

    So many people dismiss environment protection as unessential - money, politics, and social/humanitarian efforts often get priority. Here's why environmental protection should come first: It's like, if you're having a dinne...read more

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    by Ann Marie Dwyer

    Top 10 Ways Our Family Controls Pollution 1. Plan ahead. Make one trip to town cover all errands. Shop only once a week. Stop at the post office, bank, recycling facility and specialty shops on the way to the grocery. (...read more

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    by Michele Venturini

    The term pollution refers to an alteration of an environmental feature caused, particularly, by an entropic activity. The term is how ever generic and includes a lot of kind of pollution, And the use of this term is not c...read more

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    by Alta Brewer

    You know what the 3 R's are. I know you do. It amazes me how many ways the 3 R's are used. I remember them as Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Those are the 3 basic things we need to get through life. How about this. Re...read more

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    by Jason Nicholas Ritchie

    Global Warming and 2012 The Mayan Calendar, we will be looking at in greater depth this year as well as the predictions set within its messages.. But predictions have also been set in time by Nostrodomous and Edgar Cayce....read more

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    by Lisa Berentsen

    Our world is a collective unit made up of millions of individual parts, and as such, the matter of global warming and conservation must be taken from a personal perspective. We can no longer cast our responsibility upon...read more

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    by Angela S. Young

    I have a different view of the gradual decline of the earth (not about global-warming). The earth is a living thing. All living things begin declining the minute they are born. Whether you believe in billions of years o...read more

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    by Victoria Finney

    As the environmental debates rage, we are constantly reminded that reduction of the damage done to our environment starts at the grassroots, the consumer. This is of course true to a vast extent, whether you believe...read more

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    by Aldo Bonincontro

    We citizen are not only victims of pollution when living in our towns or having a bath in a dirty sea. We are also pollution producers for our superficial, ignorant, or even irresponsible behaviours. There're various li...read more

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    by Phil Hill

    Everything we can do, however small, is going to help beat pollution. They like telling us about carbon footprints and so on, but it's basic stuff really. The closure you live to a natural life, the better the world will b...read more

  • 11 of 20

    by Valli Sarvani

    Nowadays cars have become one of the must-haves. Nearly 70% of the population is using cars in developed countries due to which the environmental pollution is increasing. Certain noxious gases released from cars that inclu...read more

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    by London Avide

    For someone my age, the future should seem so distant and unreal that I shouldn't worry about it. However, in this day and age my generation is being bombarded more and more with pressure to do the right thing for the...read more

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    by Ginger Kazay

    When it comes to controlling pollution many of us feel that as just one person, what we do doesn't make a difference. Actually that is far from the truth. Each and everyone of us can make a difference. The size of tha...read more

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    by Carol Noble

    Pollution comes in all forms. Most people consider air pollution to be the worst kind because whilst you can do without food for 4 weeks, water for 4 days, you can't do without air for more than 4 minutes! We must, ther...read more

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    by James Rathz

    Even if you own a hybrid, don't get so self-righteous about your carbon emissions just yet. If you are a frequent flier, you have already negated the benefits of switching to a hybrid car. Airplane emissions are more harmf...read more

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    by Joel Christophe

    If you ever thought that we are on top of the world and were too good to come to and end soon, well, you might be wrong. Every civilization coomes to and end. I've done some research on the developement and progress of e...read more

  • 17 of 20

    by Peejaydee

    With the effects of climate change becoming more and more visible, it's increasingly important that we all contribute to reducing pollution and the production of greenhouse gases. The effects of global warming are becomin...read more

  • 18 of 20

    by Jason Shi

    I WANT YOUto save the environment "I WANT YOUto save the environment!" Uncle Sam wants you again! This time he doesn't want you to join the army to fight with any other country, but what he wants you to do is to fight wit...read more

  • 19 of 20

    by BuildWith

    After so much press from the rich and famous concerning global warming and waste, we would suspect that a few good resolutions would come forth. After agreeing with them that we need to do something I was disappointed at t...read more

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    by Sue Marchant

    When controlling pollution and protecting our living space, every little helps. If you don't know where to start, try your weekly trip to the supermarket. You'll be amazed how much waste you can save, and how you can hel...read more

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