Report by Julia King, Vanessa Longe, and Grace Carpenter
Poverty in the United States
One out of every six Americans is now being served by
at least one government anti-poverty program
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The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily
Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than
the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.
Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year
on weapons was needed to put every child into school by
the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
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Many organizations, such as the
United Nations, Red Cross, and
Salvation Army, raise money for
the impoverished. By donating
food, money, and gently-used
items to these organizations,
fortunate people can help people
in need. Slowly, each donation
makes a difference.
Globally, many groups exist to
provide for those less fortunate.
While an individual donation may
be small, each effort adds up over
time and creates change, making a
difference in communities
everywhere. If fortunate people
keep donating their excess, the
lives of unfortunate people can be
improved.
•http://www.incontext.indiana.edu/2000/
november00/news.asp
•http://www.accuracy.org/release/povertyrate-in-most-states-and-among-childrenlowered-by-new-measure/
•http://www.businessinsider.com/15shocking-facts-about-poverty-in-america2010-9?op=1
•http://www.detroitjcrc.org/WHERE_WE_
STAND/Current_Issues/Poverty/Poverty.as
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•http://beautifulhumanity.tumblr.com/pos
t/7033699030/poverty-facts
•http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/caus
es-of-poverty
•http://answers.yahoo.com/question/inde
x?qid=20091019143222AAsnTub
 Instagram Posts:
 Left picture-Someone in Brazil is suffering from homelessness, this is a world
wide problem.
 Right picture-A Man is sitting with lots of trash bags on the side of the road, in
the United States
More than 5,000 homeless
adults and children sleep each
night in other public and private
shelters, and thousands more
sleep rough on the streets or in
other public spaces.
In New York City: Each night more than
55,000 people including more than
21,000 children experience
homelessness.
 In Indianapolis there are many homeless shelters for
families and single people providing them with food
and a place to sleep
 Next time you pass by a homeless person, maybe you
could:
 Give them a dollar
 Give them some of your leftover dinner
 Just smile, smiles sometimes help people get in a better
mood 
How it has and is
currently changing our
environment
By: Sara Aldridge, Camille Toomey,
and Graysen Montel
Definition:
Population growth is the increase in the number of members of a population over a given time. A
typical time frame for calculating growth is yearly. In the United States, the census tracks
population growth over a 10-year span. - eHow.com
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THREE FACTS:
The Chair of the National Academy of Sciences
Panel on Global Warming calls population growth
the driving force in global warming
The population growth in Mexico dropped 34% in
10 years, boosting the nation's economic, social
and environmental well-being. Soap operas were
the prime influence
Every person leaves an "ecological footprint" on
the Earth -- that amount of land which, assuming it
is endowed with an average amount of resources, is
necessary to sustain one human being indefinitely.
The average American's ecological footprint is
about 25 acres, an area far greater than that taken
up by one's residence and place of school or work
and other places where he or she is. Those 25
additional acres supply the average American with
food, fiber, and other resources, as well as capacity
for waste assimilation and disposal. (The average
footprint of everyone in the world is about 7 acres.)
For further information on the American ecological
footprint.
THE PROBLEM :
With so many people, we are making the
earth sick. with all these people, it
quickly wipes out our limited resources,
causes more litter and pollution, and
naturally with more people comes more
consumption of hazardous materials that
will harm the environment. Also, with
THE SOLUTON:
this many people there will be a lot more
We could spread out and create trash that could easily poison the planet
by floating into the oceans and lands.
large civilizations and spread out
Landfills will fill up faster, causing land
the population. The country
to be destroyed. Plus, over population
leaders could create laws that
can contribute to losing trees,
help stop pollution and littering.
vegetation, and rich and fertile soil that
Large businesses could recycle
we need to grow food. More people
and reuse resources to try to
would use motorized vehicles that
reduce that businesses footprint
pollute the air we breathe.
on this earth. Also, companies
could become greener, by using
clean energy to try to preserve
our earths vegetation and save
power and sponsor support clean
up efforts. People could carpool
or ride a bike or even walk so
that toxic gas doesn’t wreck our
ecosystem.
 20 km thick
 15-35 km above Earth’s surface
 About 90% exists in the stratosphere
 Site-
http://youth.cedare.int/cedare.int/Main.aspx?code=113
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http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/edu/k12/OzoneLayer/body
Smithsonian Magazine@SmithsonianMag22 Apr
Climate change could erode the ozone layer and 9 other #EarthDay facts we’ve
learned since last year http://ow.ly/kihPg
10 Things We’ve Learned About the Earth Since Last Earth Day
Pigeon-eating catfish, Antarctic trash, and more: A list of surprising, alarming,
and exciting discoveries about or planet from the past year
Smithsonian Magazine@SmithsonianMag Follow
 Prevent pollution
 Stop smoking
 Use less hair spray
 Stop using too much oil
 Recycle
 Definition: The stripping of trees from an area of land
 The Amazon Rainforest is vanishing at a rate of 200,00
square miles per year
 Half the world’s tropical forests have been cleared or
degraded. Every hour, at least 4,500 acres of forest fall
to chain saws, machetes, flames, or bulldozers.
Population growth, poverty, and unequal access to
land are among the major causes of deforestation.
 The net loss of the world’s forests is estimated at 7.3
million hectares (18 million acres) per year.
 Worldwide, 1.6 billion people rely on forest products
for all or part of their livelihoods.
 Destroying the rain forest means destroying one of the
earth's biomes and a habitat for literally thousands of
species.
 Many plants are being found in the Amazon that has
important medical properties.
 Tropical rain forests are among the most efficient regions in
oxygen production, surpassed only by coral reefs.
 http://www.envirocitizen.org/forums/rainforest/25-
important-facts-why-destroying-rainforest-bad-idea.html
 These were the words of President Candoso of Brasil
after the announcement of record high levels of
deforestation in the Amazon, up 34% since 1991. The
history of international attempts to prevent the
destruction of forests supports these words.
 http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/education/depth
-articles/environment/destroying-worlds-forests
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Since the late 1990s, climate change has driven a massive
expansion of forest-destroying Mountain Pine Beetles in Canada,
delivering the country one of the worst ecological disasters in its
history. The insects are not technically invasive, and until recently
they existed in a natural balance with their environment; killing off
older trees and making room for new growth. But as a new
documentary chronicles, climate change eliminated many of the
natural limits on the beetles’ geographic spread and their rate of
reproduction. … Making matters worse, the beetles are also
producing a positive feedback loop that worsens climate change.
As forests are killed off, it means fewer trees are left to draw
carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
 http://blog.mjbrown.com/2013/04/climate-change-forest-
destroying-beetles-and-feedback-loops/
http://facts.ra
ndomhistory.
com/2009/01/
29_globalwarming.html
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 The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat
or ecosystem.
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Biodiversity “hotspots” are areas of the world with a high number of endemic species (that is,
species found only in that place).
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In 1980, in the tropical rainforests of Panama, scientists discovered 1,200 species of beetles living in
and around just 19 trees… and fully 80% of these species were previously unknown to science
(Equator Initiative)
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biologists who specialize in identifying and classifying life on the planet—have named
approximately 1.7 million species about 13,000 more species are added to the list of known
organisms. (National Wildlife Magazine)
http://www.nwf.org/Eco-Schools-USA/Become-an-Eco-School/Pathways/Biodiversity/Facts.aspx
Worldwide Fact:
 Over 50% of the world’s plant species and 42% of all terrestrial vertebrate species are endemic, native
to that country and naturally do not exist anywhere else, to just 34 biodiversity hotspots
(Conservation International).
http://www.facingthefuture.org/TakeAction/FastFactsQuickActions/Biodiversity/tabid/300/
Default.aspx#.UX8OM6Lvveg
 One way you can solve biodiversity is to make
protected areas on mountains and places to help keep
the environment healthy.
 Lack of proper nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced
nutrition
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