Environment
Traditional Definition:
- The circumstances or conditions that surround one; surroundings.
- The totality of circumstances surrounding an organism or group of
organisms, especially:
a) The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence
the growth, development, and survival of organisms
b) The complex of social and cultural conditions affecting the nature
of an individual or community.
New World Definition:
The natural conditions that exist around us.
Articles
Planting
the Seeds of Peace by Positive News
Dr. Maathai labored to further women's rights and protect the
environment -- often at great personal cost and under the threat of
physical violence. One of the leading lights of the National Council
of Women in Kenya in the mid-1970s, Dr. Maathai and members of the Green
party in Kenya were instrumental in stopping the Moi government from
building a 62-story tower block in Uhuru Park, the main public green
space in Nairobi. Dr. Maathai's campaign was ultimately successful,
but she saw seven associates killed and was herself a victim of intimidation
and threats. When Dr. Maathai used the park as a rallying point for
a campaign to release political prisoners, she was beaten by government
thugs.
World-renowned
quantum physicist Hagelin promotes peaceful solutions to the world's problems
by Sally Peden
In 1992, Dr. Hagelin was appointed director of the Institute
of Science, Technology and Public Policy, a science and public policy
think-tank. As institute director, he successfully headed a nationwide
effort to identify, scientifically evaluate and promote innovative solutions
to critical social problems in the areas of crime, health
care, education, economy and the environment.
Quotations
"We shall never understand the natural environment until
we see it as a living organism"
~Paul Brooks
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
~ Margaret Mead
"We stand today poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet
we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking
open space and of an overall environment that is diminished daily by
pollution and noise and blight. This, in brief, is the quiet conservation
crisis."
~Stewart L. Udall