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Afghan park The State Department has championed a biodiversity program to pass environmental laws and create national parks in an unexpected place: Afghanistan. The park, called Band-e-Amir, was created on Earth Day, April 22,...

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Schoolyards to Playgrounds Receives Best of Parks Capital Team Award

On Earth Day 2007, Mayor Bloomberg laid out the ambitious PlaNYC to make our city more environmentally friendly and accessible to its citizens. One aspect of the plan, Schoolyards to Playgrounds, aims to transform asphalt...

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1.5 billion people have no electricity

Remember Earth Day? UN Development Programme submitted its findings just 13 days before the world climate change summit in Denmark meets to consider energy use and global warming. "The majority of the 1.5 billion people who...

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Merscom and I-play in collaboration with Robosoft Launch Nat Geo's Plan It Green for the iPhone

Robosoft Technologies, a renowned developer of Mac games, today announced the release of Plan It Green for the iPhone. National Geographic Games initially launched this casual game for the PC on Earth Day. The iPhone version of...

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Remarks by The First Lady at Hollin Meadows School Visit

10:54 A.M. EST MRS. OBAMA: Well, thank you so much, Principal Gates, for everyone here. I'm not going to talk long because I'm really here to listen and learn. You know, we know the statistics, we know that the school lunch and...

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Is There a Generational Failure on Climate Change? Not Yet.

By Eban Goodstein I have attended a lot of college climate change talks lately by 50+ year old white guy experts. They all feature a curious line directed at the students: “Our generation screwed up; we are sorry to leave you...

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Religion, Science, & the Environment: A Black Sea Cruise

Nov 17, 2009 at 12:00PM - The first Earth Day in 1970 provided hope and a rallying point for addressing environmental quality needs that had grown acute in "backyards," and some that had been festering for decades on a much...

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11 eco-disasters caught on film

By Jevon Phillips, Patrick Day, and Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers On Earth Day, we look at a handful of eco-centric films in which characters do battle and or lose the war against Mother Nature. Whether...

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Oceans

Release Date: April 22, 2010 Studio: Disneynature Director: Plot Summary: Disneynature, the studio that presented the record-breaking film "Earth," brings "Oceans" to the big screen on Earth Day, 2010. Nearly three-quarters of...

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Wing City Action News is hiring.

Alright gang, Wing City Action News is hiring reporters and broadcasters who will be able to post in the News Feed stories and news flashes pertinent to the multiverse. There has to be a clear and concise manner to reporting in...

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