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GMO Crops: Sustainability, Safety, and Feeding 9 Billion

An argumentative essay examining why GMO crops fail to address hunger, long-term sustainability, and food safety concerns in the global food system.

Environment

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Fall of the Roman Empire: Social Complexity Theory

Explores Joseph Tainter's social complexity theory as the strongest explanation for the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century.

History

~4 min read

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Utilitarianism as a Framework for Environmental Ethics

Explores how utilitarian ethics supports environmental responsibility by linking clean ecosystems, sustainability, and biodiversity to the greatest good for the greatest number.

Ethics

~6 min read

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Valeo's Sustainability Strategies in the Automotive Industry

Explores how Valeo applies Natural Capitalism, biomimicry, and the Triple Bottom Line to reduce emissions and advance environmental sustainability in auto manufacturing.

Environment

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Coral reef desertification: global threats and management challenges

Coral reefs are under threat worldwide. An estimated 58% of reefs are classified as threatened and 11% of the original amount of coral reefs has already been lost. The makeup of remaining coral reefs is also rapidly changing.

~14 min read

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Sustainability as an integrated framework for business, environment, and society

Across the globe there continues to be a crescendo in the discussion by political and business leaders, academics, the science community, and ordinary citizens regarding the notion of sustainability.

~4 min read

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908 words

Debating global warming: natural cycles versus human causes

As a scientific concept, global warming has both proponents and disbelievers. The evidence, which can often be construed one way or another, points to the fact that pollutants have a negative impact on the environment, and that these pollutants have begun to cause a massive global weather shift.

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Overpopulation and resource depletion as environmental crises

The world population is growing at an astounding rate. As the population clock is racing towards the 7 billion mark, we are faced with a huge problem. [U.S. Census Bureau] A problem of balancing the ever-increasing demands for the earth's natural resources and the fast depleting sources.

~8 min read

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Weather systems and the water cycle lesson plan

Grade Level -- Easily adaptable from 3-6 grades, depending on depth, vocabulary, and speed of lesson. Science, part of unit on Earth science and systems.

~9 min read

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1,655 words

Food security, political stability, and international cooperation

Is there Really an Elephant in there with those Blind Men? Food security has been defined as the ability of the population to obtain a safe, nutritionally sufficient food intake through a sustainable food system that amplifies community self-sufficiency and social justice (Bellows & Hamm, 2003).

~9 min read

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