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The Amazon, 'lungs of the planet'

11/30/2016

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BY Declan McInerney

PictureAlex Grey, Gaia, 1989, Oil on Linen, 96 x 144 in. www.AlexGrey.com
Ever since human beings could tell stories, the planet has been imagined through myth as a whole, functional being. The Greeks called her 'Gaia,' the source and mother of all life. While this personification may not be literally true, the essence of the myth is, Where would we be if not for planet Earth?

The Earth, like a mother, provides the nourishment life requires. Today, the more evolved myth of science tells us that the planet does indeed work as a whole, not unlike an organic body. 



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'At what cost?' Enjoying the Chicago skyline from the water

11/30/2016

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BY DJ Singh

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The Chicago skyline as seen from Lake Michigan during an architecture cruise. (Photo credit: JM Vogt)
The Great Lakes account for the largest amount of freshwater in the world, outside of the polar ice caps. It is essential to preserve these lakes and keep pollution away, chiefly as global warming continually depletes the large ice caps. For the most part these lakes are surrounded by dense forestry and nature preserves but not along the coast of Chicago, the largest city touching any of the lakes.

Chicago's 63-mile coastline only accounts for less than .04% of the lake’s total coastline but accounts for the largest amount of pollution into the lake. Lake Michigan is the third largest of the Great Lakes, behind Superior and Huron respectively, and provides over 6 million people with drinking water. For the most part, the city of Chicago has done a mediocre job monitoring the lakes conditions; capitalism has had an influence keeping the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in check. Recently, a large spike in Asian Carp migration to the lake, from connecting rivers, caused a disturbance in the natural ecosystem. The city was quick to act and poached the large population to a smaller scalable size that will not deter the natural order of the water. There have been new efforts to reduce the amount of waste going into the lake and more strict requirements for water quality. 

However, the larger problem remains pollution added to the lake and surrounding environment caused by excess boating on the lake (Holden 2016). 

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      • 2017 CommuniTree Interview Script
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      • 2021 CommuniTree Tree Inventory Protocol
    • TreeKeepers Motivations
    • Tree Preservation >
      • Home Builder Survey
      • Study Home Owner Survey
      • Comparison Home Owner Survey
    • Urban Forests as SESs
    • Virtual Tree Inventory
    • Interdisciplinary UF
    • UF for the Anthropocene
    • Neighborhood Tree Planting
    • Climate Change
    • Work as a Future Earth Fellow
    • Cost of Not Maintaining Trees
    • Educators' Summit May 2019 >
      • Call for Contributions
      • Program >
        • Monday Talk Descriptions
        • Poster Presentation Descriptions
        • Tuesday Talk Descriptions
        • Workshop Descriptions
  • Pubs
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    • ENV 151 >
      • Student Blog Posts
      • ENV 151 Photo Gallery
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      • Urban Forestry Online Teaching Resources
    • ENV 407
    • ENV 506
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