Puff the Magic Dragon

Puff was a magic dragon who lived by the sea. The rest of his life story is not worth much detail since he simply becomes a meth addict and ends up being killed by loan sharks he owed money to.

Sea Turtle Conservation Effort

The WCS is trying to conserve the sea turtle population in Nicaragua.

The main threat to the sea turtles is fishermen over harvesting them and their eggs.

Some of the measures being taken are:

- conduction of population assessments
- conducting genetic stock assessments
- tracking of movement and migration patterns

Toxicology Paper

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc5h2494_510vxbwtncs

Sustainability

1.) Sustainability is an environment's ability to support a trend or way of life.

2.) It means having resources like gasoline for aspects of daily life including travel, production of all their needs, and others.

3.) Since oil (our chief energy source) is used for the production of most goods in at least some way, not having enough of it would mean not being able to develop as much as we were once able to.

4.) They could live closer to where they work; use land better by doing such things as farming on it; and buy locally made products so then out-of-town materials get less funding and therefore would not be as prominent, which would be a good thing because the longer delivery of those products makes them more costly.

Ten Least Green Companies

1.AIG 2.Cargill 3. Cheveron 4. CNPC 5. Constellation Energy Group 6. Dole 7. GE 8. Imperial Sugar 9. Philip Morris International 10. Roche

http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/02/19/10-Worst-Corporate-Polluters

Top 10 Greenest Cities

Portland, Oregon
Austin, Texas
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Boulder, Colorado
Burlington, Vermont
Madison, Wisconsin
New York, New York
San Fransisco, California
Santa Monica, California
Chicago Illinois

Do Global Attitudes and Behaviors Support Sustainable Development?

This article stressed much on our people's influence on our environment, and right from the title you get a question that can really summarize the entire article: Do global attitudes and behaviors support sustainable development? The answer to that question is no -- presently.

From how our world is currently growing, it's obvious that we will outlive our resources. However, recent trends of developing new techniques to sustain and preserve our resources while looking for alternatives could help to rectify this over the years. But if there is no improvement from where we currently stand, this will not happen, as I clearly stated in the first paragraph, though in an understated way in the hopes of making you read further into this blog entry.

Our economy affects our use of resources, too. In third world countries (or developing countries, whatever you want to refer to them as), their population continues to grow at an alarming rate, while it's the developed nations with a growth rate that they are trying to stabilize that are more responsible for the overuse of our planet's resources. It's the fact that the economies of these developed nations are so superior that makes this possible. Without them, they would not be able to afford the resources that they have had the tendency of using so carelessly. Third world countries are not able to afford resources to that extent, and so do not contribute as much to the waste of them. Therefore, the resources used in a nation is highly dependent on the government's economy.

So other than a few key points that are so commonplace that they are not needed to be restated, I've reiterated and elaborated further on every issue brought up in Article 4.