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We Are What We Eat – Empowering Kids to Make Personal Choices |
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Food matters. What we eat affects our environmental, social, and
personal health. According to some estimates, agriculture uses 30% of
the usable land on Earth. One of the most powerful anthropogenic
forces on Earth, agriculture contributes significantly to our
environmental problems today: habitat loss, loss of biodiversity,
climate change, and pollution of air, soil, and water. For us to find
solutions to our current environmental challenges and live sustainably,
it's critical to understand the connections that we have to nature
through food - the ecology of the food that we eat.
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Learning about Plants and Our Food: Exploring Fruits and Seeds |
This is the time of year when seeds are developing and the fruits begin
to grow. We have passed the fertilization process where angiosperm
plants have pollinated and fertilized the seeds and now enter the
growing season while light levels are at their strongest. Here is a lesson that will create some curiosity in children and help connect them to the biology of what they eat.
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Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy |
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Dear Colleague,
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently released Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy , a peer-reviewed study showing that the United States can dramatically cut global warming pollution while saving households and businesses in every region of the nation billions of dollars in energy costs. As the U.S. House of Representatives is now considering its first-ever piece of legislation to limit carbon emissions that cause global warming, and the Senate will likely start moving on its bill later this summer, the economic costs of taking this action are front and center.
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