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Morocco Makes It Legal Amid a growing campaign for what are being called ‘the rights of nature’, Morocco recently became the first African country to make a firm commitment to sustainable development and environmental protection. The country announced its new charter on Earth Day. In establishing a National Charter for Environment and Sustainable Development, the country also became the first on the continent to write its environmental goals into law.
Taking in the Good Much as your body is built from the foods you eat, your mind is built from the experiences you have. The flow of experience gradually sculpts your brain, thus shaping your mind. Some of the results can be explicitly recalled: This is what I did last summer; that is how I felt when I was in love. But most of them remain forever unconscious. This is called implicit memory, and it helps form your expectations, models of relationships, emotional tendencies, and general outlook.
The Improbable Dance In a Chinese modern dance competition, a unique couple won one of the top prizes: she without an arm and he with a missing leg. Ma Li, in her thirties, was a dancer who had trained since she was a little girl. Later in life, she lost her entire left arm in a car accident and fell into a state of depression. Someone then asked Ma Li to coach a children's dancing group. From that point on, she realized that she could not forget dancing.
Cards with Perspective Budding young photographers in Peru and India are taking their futures into their own hands through FairMail, innovative Fairtrade certified photographic greeting cards. The project aims to provide underprivileged teenagers with a sustainable future by selling their artwork across Europe and Peru. Half of the profit from each card goes into the photographer’s personal education fund. While enabling students to pay their tuition, they can also use their earnings for home improvements.
Young Rapper puts Fun into Earth Awareness Cardell Hopkins, aka Lil Peppi, has his sights set on saving the planet. And at just eleven years old, the Florida-based rapping prodigy is doing a king-size job at making himself heard, emceeing an inspiring message to protect the Earth and gathering quite a fan base in the process. "When I saw the film Happy Feet, it made me understand more about saving the environment," he explained. "
Crop Mobs Descend on Local Farms ITHACA, NY - Our common human history is an amazing journey. All of our ancestors - whether we are Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, Jew, Pagan, Atheist or other - came from the forests and the grasslands. Then, some of our ancestors chose to stay settled in one place and plant and harvest more and more of their food. We who read newspapers and write articles for newspapers - and eat food from farms - are their descendants.
Celebrating a Load of Trash TOOTING, UK - The Trashcatchers Carnival, a unique summer event with floats and costumes made almost entirely from household trash, saw over 800 participants from schools, community groups and clubs take part. To create the extravaganza, over one million plastic bottles and shopping bags were used, half a tonne of renewable willow, and all sorts of other materials that had been collected over a six month period.