Temple Tigers

The monastery's main objectives are to propagate Buddhism and to provide a sanctuary for wildlife. The temple has endangered tigers from the wild where they were hunted by poachers. The temple is located in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. The temple is a tourist attraction where people pay to come and look at the tigers and other wildlife and all the money goes to helping out the tigers. Also the monks would take care ofthem and breed them so that they would stop being endangered.

Sustainability

1. Sustainability is the ability to maintain a certain process or state.
2. Sustainability in a community means the amount of energy and resources to keep their community going. People realized that they need to find other ways to survive and not depend on fossil fuel.
3. Demand for energy affects sustainable living because when those energy runs out people will have a hard time surviving because they mostly rely on it too much.
4. People can start working together and helping each other out in a community. Also people can go back to growing their own food and use the environment to help them survive. People need to stop taking the easy way out and not depend on others to supply them with energy.

11th hour Movie

Our planet is going through an extremely changing climate where many people would think that it will cause the downfall of our Earth. The movies shows that it is not the case and that the Earth is not dying. However these changes that the Earth will cause will majorly effect us. We are the major cause of the climate change and that is what will eventually kill us. It is pretty much karma, because we are the ones that is harming our planet and now our planet is paying us back.

Top 10 Worst Companies

10) DaimlerChrysler
9) General Motors Corporation
8) ChevronTexaco Corporation
7) Ford
6) Sprint
5) Comcast
4) Exxon
3) Northwest Airlines
2) Citgo
1) Halliburton

Top ten most Green Cities

1. Portland, Ore.

2. San Francisco, Calif.

3. Boston, Mass.

4. Oakland, Calif.

5. Eugene, Ore.

6. Cambridge, Mass.

7. Berkeley, Calif.

8. Seattle, Wash.

9. Chicago, Ill.

10. Austin, Tex.

http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2008-02/americas-50-greenest-cities?page=1

Do global attitudes and behaviors support sustainable development?

The development of civilization had grown for thousands of years. They developed in many ways such as economic development. Economic development lead to greater perceived happiness as countries make the transition from subsistence to advanced industrial economies. Human development causes the country to have a higher chance to become sustainable by providing people to fill the jobs that increase its economy. Although human development can also increase the spread of diseases because people are so packed together. The trade offs between environmental protection and economic growth can also effect development. 52% of respondents worldwide agreed that protecting the environment should be top priority and 74% prefer economic growth. To solve this crisis the environmental protection by creating new energy system to benefit both sides.