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Live Lightly: Create Green Space

 

Consider these ideas for creating green spaces and for preserving what we can of the earth.

 

 

 

GREEN LIVING SPACE IMPROVES MENTAL HEALTH

ITHACA, New York, December 7, 2001 (ENS) - Living in a house surrounded by woods, meadows or other natural habitats provides measurable benefits to a child's mental health, a new study concludes. The study by a Cornell University researcher suggests that a home surrounded by nature can help boost a child's attention capabilities.

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Why not use Compost To Heat your home?
Green Renaissance
Instead of burning wood for heat, some Europeans now build a compost pile over plastic water lines that extract heat from the decomposing plant material. Temperatures can get as high as 149 degrees. With a circulating pump as the only moving part, the compost heater lasts an average of 12 to 16 mos. – and occasionally up to 24 mos. – providing heat and up to 80 percent of the hot water for a 1,500 sq. ft. home.
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2002 DECLARED YEAR OF THE MOUNTAIN
NEW YORK, New York, December 13, 2001 (ENS) - War and other conflicts, and the poverty of mountain peoples, are leading to the decimation of mountain ecosystems and the species which depend upon them, the United Nations said Tuesday. Mountain forests are vanishing across the globe, prompting the organization to designate 2002 as the International Year of Mountains.
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CLIMATE CHANGE COULD COME QUICKLY, STUDY WARNS

WASHINGTON, DC, December 12, 2001 (ENS) - Climate change may come on fast and furious, wreaking sudden and catastrophic damage on people, property, and natural ecosystems, warns a new report from the National Research Council. The study suggests that human caused greenhouse warming may increase the possibility of abrupt and unwelcome climatic events.

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BIODIVERSITY MAY NEED MILLIONS OF YEARS TO RECOVER
BERKELEY, California, January 3, 2002 (ENS) - The worldwide decimation of wildlife by humans could be "permanent on multi-million year timescales," warns James Kirchner of the University of California at Berkeley. Kirchner's analysis of long term trends in the fossil record suggests that natural speed limits constrain how quickly biodiversity can rebound after waves of extinction.
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