Word: ecosystems
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...hard to think of anyone or anything less urgently in need of parody than Jacques Cousteau, the saintly French oceanographer whose underseas documentaries, from the '50s through the '80s, did so much to make the world aware of the beauty and fragility of our watery ecosystem. But the sheer audacity of this basic joke--its awesome satiric irrelevance--is the crucial thing about The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. If you go with it, you'll love the film. If you don't, you'll just sit there wondering how (and why) Wes Anderson, the director and a co-writer...
...borne energy hardships for 80 years without harvesting the oil from this beautiful preserve. We survived the oil embargo of the 1970s without extracting oil from the Western Arctic Reserve. The fact that oil prices have risen in the last few years does not justify destroying such a sizable ecosystem...
After the fall of Hussein’s regime, the Marsh Arabs tore down the dams. The restoration of the marshlands has since sparked international commitments to restore the marsh ecosystem and economy...
...guidelines, which aim to ensure that new buildings are resource efficient and cause minimum disruption to the “campus ecosystem,” came in response to concerns raised by students and others following University President Lawrence H. Summers’ October 2003 announcement of plans to develop the new 341-acre campus in Allston...
...principles include promoting sustainability through institutional practices like energy efficiency, ensuring health and productivity through “the design and maintenance of the built environment,” improving the campus ecosystem, developing analytical tools, encouraging environmental awareness and monitoring progress on sustainability...