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More Americans = Less Wilderness
For decades, federal immigration laws have been a hot-button issue. Nearly 55 years ago, on October 3, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration [...]
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Overpopulation Sparks Calif. Wildfires
California is once again in the news. As always, bad news puts the state’s latest crisis above the daily newspaper’s fold. Instead of [...]
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World Population Nears 8 Billion
World Population Day, created by the United Nations “to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues,” came and passed [...]
Read MoreCelebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Virtually
With much of the U.S. on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the momentous physical celebration planned to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of [...]
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Practice the Five Rs to Lower U.S. Carbon Footprint
For the first time in decades, Americans living in the nation’s major urban areas have a sense of what less populated metropolises could [...]
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Hawaii’s Earth Day Challenge: Balance Tourism with Environmental Practices
Having just spent the better part of three months in Hawaii, I found the state doing what it can to encourage environmentally sound [...]
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What is the Greatest Threat to Endangered Species? Hint: It’s Not Trump’s New Rules
The Trump administration is about to implement new rules that it claims will “modernize” and “improve” the Endangered Species Act (ESA). All too [...]
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IFSPP @ EarthX 2019
As in prior years, IFSPP had the opportunity to participate in EarthX 2019, in Dallas, TX. Attendance at our booth was high and [...]
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Earth Day 2019: Since Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon Population Doubled
Fifty years ago, in 1969 when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, the world’s population was 3.6 [...]
Read MoreWe Are Scheduled to Attend EarthX in Dallas
DALLAS (April 21, 2019) – Increasing awareness of damage done to the environment by human impact in the 20th century, spurred by works [...]
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