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    1.3 billion tons of food are wasted every year. Nowadays, human has overuse and waste so much natural resources. Consequently, I want to be green, and more friendly to the environment, there are several ways I already did in my life, recycle, and what I can done in different ways. ​ Since I knows, human has overuse natural resources and it will run out of the earth soon. I started to conserve natural sources at my house first. First, what I had done was conserve energy at home. While people at

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    Introduction Every day, society is wasting the Earth’s natural resources in an unsustainable way. By continuing to live in an unsustainable way, it has resulted in the depletion of resources on this planet. Our lifestyles have caused this to become a problem that needs to be fixed. Populations of developing countries are wasting our resources at rates never before seen, yet mankind rarely realizes how it is affecting the planet. If our lifestyles are not changed sooner rather than later, deeper consequences

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    Natural Resource When we looking at the lipstick, the primary ingredients we are going to found are wax, oil, pigment, dyes, alcohol, fragrance, preservatives, and antioxidants. Wax enable the mixture to be formed into the easily recognized shape of the cosmetic. Wax is usually the combination of three type of waxes — Beeswax, Candelilla wax, and Camauba wax. Beeswax is a natural wax produces by honey bees. Candelilla wax is wax derive from the leaves of the small Candelilla shrub native to northern

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    Natural Gas Natural gas is a non-renewable resource, meaning that it will not last forever. If the production of natural gas continues at the same rate, it will only last for approximately another 91 years. Natural gas is a power source used to power particular things in homes, for example heaters, hot water and stoves. The way this particular power source is produced/sourced is that at the bottom of the ocean, deceased animals and plants etc. otherwise called organic matter are found and can be

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    Natural Resources There are different ways people in the United States waste a lot of natural resources. For instance, just like Allen Billington claims, “We are wasteful people.” News programs and print newspapers show that in fact Americans are the greatest consumers of all. Every year trees around the world are cut down specifically for U.S. different purposes. Such as construction of houses, buildings, furniture, educational supplies, books, pencil and paper. Also, California is experiencing

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    The growing concern of climate change and depletion of natural resources has meant an increase in popularity of the term ‘sustainable development’. With this growing popularity there has also been a rise in conflicting opinions on what sustainable development means and whether it is attainable, as even after the release of the Brundtland report which offered a definition of sustainable development there were still criticisms for it suggesting that ‘economic growth, industrial modernization and market

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    RESOURCE CONSERVATION (Marisa) Florida has 12,133 square miles of water and 53,297 square miles of land as stated by Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation. While Florida is recognized for are agriculture and our state's bodies of water, issues in these fields are present and will only continue to grow in the near future. Florida currently has a problem with our water management; though Florida is the Sunshine State, we have a lot of rain, and this rain often overflows into man-made sewer drains

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    Natural Gas as an Alternative Energy Resource Natural gas is one of many energy resources being sought out as an alternative to some of the more pollutant geologic resources used abundantly today. Natural gas is being raved about due to how much cleaner it burns than other traditional fossil fuels, and it is becoming one of the more popular forms of energy because of this trait. It is a colorless, odorless fossil fuel, also known as methane. Today's uses for this resource are heating, cooling

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    Article 1 Summary – Maloney Michelle Maloney argues that the Earth’s natural resources are being depleted at a rate that is not sustainable. Consequently, she argues that the ‘overshoot’ of development and depletion of our natural resources will lead to a ‘collapse’ of our global system. She goes on to demonstrate that this theory is being shown through evidence of global warming, acidification of the oceans and deforestation. Maloney argues a solution to these issues through the adoption of

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    unities and challenges associated with integrating diverse knowledge systems into natural resource management Introduction: The world climate is degrading in different ways to strive with the human need as well as some place of the earth is still occult to modern science. Standing in this situation, we are trying to organize the natural resource management through the utilization of scientific (research based) and local or indigenous knowledge system. On the other hand, to keep a continuous food

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