The shift to a cleaner energy economy won't happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. ... Big business will stay away from having to make any changes and they are not small ones as an article from The Guardian states "and even positive developments, like the growing use of renewable energy, can lead to instability as coal producing areas will need new economic lifeblood"( Larkin). ... Other forms of credit production can be produced by no carbon producing energy sites such as wind turbines as depicted by this quote"[T}he development of a wind turbi...

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Expansion assumes economic growth, and economic growth is impossible without industry, which needs energy resources. ... In turn, the conventional sources of energy we use today cause pollution, so economic growth is almost inevitably associated with environmental damage. ... Non-dualist, Cronon, does not believe humans can help in the progression of conservation because we are the problem, however, Donald Waller disagrees. ...

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Most Americans do not plan their everyday road trips around conservation. ... The Ultra uses about five times less energy per person than other forms of transportation such as subway trains and cars, and uses parts that are easily attainable and already proven. ... So far the program has been very sucessful, and if it gains support it could help clear up some traffic and energy usage in German cities (Komoron 24). ...

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Some of these activities include cutting $39 million from federal spending on libraries, cutting funding for research into renewable energy sources by fifty percent, and breaking a campaign promise to invest $100 million in rain forest conservation. ...

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The United States Department of Agriculture provides guidance on the topics related to food, agriculture, and natural resources, including energy, based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management.   ... The Farm Service Agency was created to help the farmers in need with disaster relief, conservation payments, and commodity price supports. ...

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According to the Department of Ecology in California, "The wetland plants act as a buffer zone by dissipating the water's energy and providing stability by binding the soils with their extensive root systems" (Godt 1998). ...

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Everything is unstable and now scientists can only predict various outcomes, one prediction that according to the California Department of Conservation Division of mines and geology will occur in the next 20 to 50 years is an earthquake magnitude 7.5 or greater and has been given the name, "The Big One". ... The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, an organization dedicated to reducing impacts of earthquakes in the states of Washington and Oregon reported, "The earthquake will release enough energy to equal 16,000 Hiroshima nuclear bombs....

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