A Human Approach to World Peace When we rise in the morning and listen to the radio or read the newspaper, we are confronted with the same sad news: violence, crime, wars, and disasters. I cannot recall a single day without a report of something terrible happening somewhere. Even in these modern times it is clear that one’s precious life is not safe. No former generation has had to experience so much bad news as we face today; this constant…

Trees combat global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen, contribute to soil health, retain water, and cool overheated urban areas. The earth needs more! Today, we are all called upon to walk in Baker’s footsteps. One goal of Earth Day 1990 is to have every one of us plant at least one tree. That’s a good goal to start with. Some are already going further. Scientist James Lovelock, who originated the Gaia theory that the earth operates like…

The giant panda is a well known (and well loved) species that is being driven to extinction by habitat loss. It has become one of the most endangered mammals in the world, with only 1,600 of them left. Although they have been protected from hunting and on the Endangered Species list since 1984, pandas are still disappearing. Their problem is complex. The giant panda eats bamboo and only bamboo. There is so little nutrition in bamboo that they have to…

How we should do to innovate for Children? The Programme’s key objective is to support improvements to the quality of services so that children who need help from the social care system have better chances in life. The 7 Programme also seeks to help LAs and other commissioners to get better value for public money spent to support vulnerable children. Finally the Programme seeks to create conditions in which local systems are better able to innovate in future to drive…

What we should do to save Tiger Extinction? Of the original nine subspecies of tigers, three have become extinct in the last 80 years; an average of one every 20 years. It has been predicted all tigers may become extinct in the wild within the next decade. Poaching, habitat loss and fragmentation have reduced the global population of tigers from over 100,000 in the 1900′s, to less than 4,000 in the 1970′s. Today, four of the remaining subspecies of tigers…

Tornadoes are the most powerful, unpredictable and destructive weather systems on Earth. The National Weather Service (NWS) defines a Tornado as a violently rotating column of air in contact with the earth’s surface (land or water) and commonly associated with a severe thunderstorm. A tornado generally occurs when high winds within a low pressure system (such as a thunderstorm) cause water vapor in the air to condense in to a condensation funnel cloud. Many less severe tornadoes are not even…