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Natural Heritage

Natural Heritage
Preserving the natural patrimony is the most inexpensive and efficient environmental economics. The term natural heritage derives from the French "patrimoine naturel", the totality of natural assets, including those of historical, cultural or scenic beauty. It give us understanding the importance of natural environment: where we came from, what we do and how we will be. Our lives are connected to the landscapes of our daily lives, as well as we keep the memories of places we went. The destruction of these landscapes cause irreversible environmental damage, and are an insult to our memory, causing loss of quality of life.

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Saturday, March 17, 2012

NationMaster - Nothing But The Facts, Ma'am

http://www.nationmaster.com

Nationmaster.com - A massive online database that lets you graphically compare nations in thousands of ways. Whether it be olympic medals, soldiers or cell phones, this site searches more than 4,000 files and draws graphs and charts that are simply astounding...
-- Mike Wendland, NBC News, 15 September 2004 



 NationMaster — Nothing But The Facts, Ma'am (http://www.treehugger.com)
  
If one of the oft touted ideals of the web is that it can put information at your fingertips, then get your pinkies poised. For NationMaster is a fact gatherers absolute delight. For example, who has the worlds heaviest ecological footprint? Mmmm. Maybe the United Arab Emirates built Ski Dubai, just so they didn't lose the dubious honour of topping this list of 141 countries. It takes almost 16 hectares, per each resident of the UAE, to keep them in the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed. The USA comfortably holds second place, using a bit over 12 hectares. Australia is seventh at 8.5ha. Yet for all that material wealth, the US is only the twentieth most generous, when it comes to ...... development assistance to less developed countries, providing $23.33 per American in aid, whereas Luxembourg heads this particular table offering $313.71 per citizen. America wins a gold medal topping the chart of the most municipal waste per person, with 760 kgs (1,676 lbs) each. Us Aussies did our best to beat the US, but could only scrounge up 690 kgs per head, to come in second for the silver. But for all its landmass, the US only scores a fortieth ranking in countries with the most amount of land area (per capita) under conservation protection. (New Zealand score best here). NationMaster is an amazing resource. It's the brainchild of Luke Metcalfe, who wanted "To promote education and understanding about the world." Go Luke. ::NationMaster (on Ecological Foorprints)



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