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Marketing TerraLogos green home energy services to certified home inspectors

TerraLogos Green Home Energy Services, Inc. is a service-based company located in Baltimore, Maryland. It provides advice to home owners and prospective home owners as to how to make a home healthier, more environmentally friendly, and energy efficient.

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KiwiSaver as a New Zealand social policy program

A vitally important social / economic policy that the New Zealand Government launched - thanks in part to the progressive influences of the Labour Alliance Coalition and cooperation from private providers and employers - is called KiwiSaver ("Poua he Oranga").

~17 min read

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The World Bank's evolution from post-war reconstruction to modern development

World Bank (also sometimes known as "The World Bank Group" [WBG]) and its major accomplishments. Created in 1944, the World Bank's goal was to aid Europe after the end of World War II. It proved to be extremely valuable during the post-war reconstruction as world trade struggled.

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Environmental security, resource scarcity, and conflict prevention in Europe

The environment and its preservation for future generations has become one of the most important current issues not only in general society, but also in the political arena. As such, the issue has enjoyed attention from the highest and most powerful entities.

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Does multinational conflict management violate national sovereignty?

Does the Concept Conflict with Sovereignty? Conflict among nations and peoples is old as humanity itself. Throughout much of human history, these disagreements have been solved by violent means. The belief that "might makes right" ensured that war remained a major instrumental of policy.

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Environmental attitudes in developed and developing countries

The objective of this work is to examine the differences in attitudes towards the environment in the developed and developing world.

~15 min read

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2,700 words

The green movement's origins, evolution, and future in a consumer society

Green Here to Stay? The "Green Movement" encompasses the ideology of ecology, conservation, environmental concerns, the feminist movement, and peace movement. If it sounds like the hippies of the 1960s grown up, it is probably at least partially true.

~14 min read

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Celilo Falls, stormwater detention basins, and stream restoration systems

Celilo Falls: This is an issue that was originally created when the government of the U.S. damned up a portion of the Columbia River - the Bonneville Dam in 1938 - for a source of electric power and for navigation. It created Celilo Falls.

~14 min read

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Pinniped predation on anadromous fish in the Sacramento Delta

The project is designed to examine the link between marine mammals and fisheries in the area of the Sacramento Delta, looking particularly to the impact pinnipeds have on the anadramous fish populations and recreational fishery in this region.

~14 min read

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Environmental ethics, capitalism, and political inaction in developing nations

It is an awe-inspiring natural world that humans have evolved into and inherited. In it, through it, and notwithstanding its fragile underpinnings, for better or for worse (more on the "worse" side than the "better") humans have carved out cities, countries, societies and standards of living.

~20 min read

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