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The method of reconnecting people to nature through traditions and beliefs to foster a desire to protect nature. [29] The basis is that instead of forcing compliance to separate from nature onto the people, instead conservationists work with locals and their traditions to find conservation efforts that work for all. [29]
However, in its broadest sense, environmental protection may be seen to be the responsibility of all the people and not simply that of government. Decisions that impact the environment will ideally involve a broad range of stakeholders including industry, indigenous groups, environmental group and community representatives.
A better way to protect a forest, particularly old growth forests in remote areas, is to obtain a part of it and to live on and monitor the purchased land. Even in the United States, these measures sometimes do not suffice because arson can burn a forest to the ground, leaving burnt areas free for different use.
The bank says it strives to make sure its borrowers provide real help to people pushed aside by big projects. In Laos, the bank says, authorities built more than 1,300 new homes with electricity and toilets, 32 schools and two health centers for thousands of people forced to move to make way for a World Bank-financed dam.
Overprotection can keep people from becoming all they could become. Many of our best achievements came the hard way: We took risks, fell flat, suffered, picked ourselves up, and tried again. Sometimes we made it and sometimes we did not. Even so, we were given the chance to try. Persons with special needs need these chances, too.
Some governments and NGOs are attempting to reduce this complexity with Eco-labels that make differences in energy efficiency easy to research while shopping. [30] To provide the kind of information and support people need to invest money, time and effort in energy conservation, it is important to understand and link to people's topical ...
Oklahoma is in an affordable housing crisis, 81,000 units short of what it needs. Even if tenants find a place, many tenants — like Almetra Bailey and her kids — lack the money to move.
"The whole system is a bit of a mess. There are a lot of people working very hard, but they’re swimming upstream in a system that’s not really supporting them in the way that it should,” he ...