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- Added on: May 5th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Frank
- Listed in: Social Networking Secondary Education
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See the U.S.A.
Written by Kara Bowman, Educator If you live in America, or even if you don’t, it’s likely that you’ve had the urge to see for yourself some of this huge, varied, spectacular land of ours. Everything is available here: a rich hi...
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The Environmental Movement: Where Are We Now?
Written by Kara Bowman, Educator “Pollution, pollution,Wear a gas mask and a veil, Then you can breathe,Long as you don’t inhale.”From Pollution by Tom Lehrer ...
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Fun with Statistics
Written by Kara Bowman, Educator “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.” Rita Mae Br...
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Pay Attention, Please Written by Kara Bowman, Educator "I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention." Diane Sawyer I’m not much of a natural when it comes to...
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Food for Thought, or Thought for Food
Written by Kara Bowman, Educator I used to know someone in college who was far skinnier than he wanted to be and would lose weight if he didn’t make an effort to keep it on. We would go out for lunch sometimes and he would say, “I ...
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The Architect in Each of Us
Written by Kara Bowman, Educator Apparently long before David Letterman appeared on the scene, people were obsessed with lists. The historian Herodotus (484 BC–ca. 425 BC), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca 305–240 BC) list...
Many of us sensed the disfunctional economics of consumption. I remember the environmental movement of the 60&70's and it really irked me how the business lobbies defeated one effort after the other.
I remember in particular how great it was to have a deposit on bottles and cans of a few pennies and going around the neighborhood with a wagon to collect them. I remember being the US virgin islands, it may be true today, where the minute you finished a drink there was somebody there to grab the empty container.
Most of all the remember the qualitative economics principles in particular where the cost of an item should include all economics costs to make it and dispose of it properly and any other environmental costs. But you know what happened to all those theories. And all the land use theories which would have put some limitations on us for the good of us all. The rampant light polution because it was too deliberating to require minimal light pollution type fixtures..the list goes on and on
Posted: 2009-12-10