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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power (2017) - Official Trailer - Paramount Pictures

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The Bush administration yesterday appeared to end all hope of reviving the Kyoto treaty on global warming, declaring it had "no interest" in its implementation and taking the first steps towards withdrawing the US signature on the accord.

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Trumps pulls US out of Paris climate deal - BBC News

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TRASHED Bande Annonce (Jeremy Irons - Documentaire 2016)

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Leonardo DiCaprio (UN Messenger of Peace) at the opening of Climate Summit 2014

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Future Sea Level Rise: Top 10 Countries In Danger

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Droughts in california

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California's Drought Is More Extreme Than You Realize

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Hi everyone!

Today, I am presenting my family's trash for 2016 (October 2015-October 2016).

As mentioned in my last trash tally post, I expected to end the year with a bigger jar than the previous one. When I wrote that post, I had just broken our tape measure. I had taken it apart and recycled the metals parts, but I was left with a large 2"x1" bit: a hard plastic casing containing a metal spring, that I could not opened (and yes, I did try pounding it with a hammer). I am careful about buying things that are made with materials that can be dismantled to facilitate repair and (at the end of their life cycle) recycling. But the mechanism of this tape measure was so well bound that I had relinquished to putting the whole thing in our landfill jar. It sat in it all year, until I decided to take a tally for this post.

I emptied the jar on the white towel, the mechanism rolled out of it with a "stomp". Leo just happened to be walking by, and out curiosity, I asked if he had a suggestion for taking it apart. "This?", he asked. Before we could even discuss options, he grabbed it, threw it on the concrete, the whole thing came apart, the casing split in half, releasing the spring in the air. Leo is 15 now, and has become much stronger than I am but you should have seen the surprise on his face when the spring went off -a bit a jack clown popping out of box)- I only wish I had had time to videotape it 😉

So, our trash for 2016 fits in pint size jar for the second year in a row! And you can feel lucky you don't get to take a whiff of it: this is the stinkiest one so far!

Here is a rundown of my family's household waste in 2016, clockwise:

Kitchen: produce stickers (lots of them this year! since I traveled a lot on Fridays I missed quite a few Farmers' market days), plastic labels from cheese wheels, 3 bubble gums, the plastic wrapper of a cookie (given to the boys?), ripped jar gasket.

House repair: Dried paint and bits of tape from my latest mural (I reuse painter's tape until it no longer sticks, more on that here), old silicone caulk and toilet paper used to wipe my mess, bits of paint, electrical tape, white piece of duct tape (brought in stuck on someone's shoe from the outside), bits of electrical wire, broken spray from my spray bottle, the broken antenna of our solar converter.

Shipping: Bits from different shipments received, incl. a dryer sheet that an eBayer sent to add scent to her shipment (!?), 5 silica gel packets (a record! and yes, even when you buy secondhand, you get them), the strip from the cardboard envelope used to send me a toothbrush sample.

Kids: A taped school cover, an empty pen refill, a cheap freebie ( remember Max's airplane? Leo did the same with a yellow sticky ball toy at the same age!), a piece of foam from one of Max's computer parts (he built his own this year).

Bathroom: A medicinal packet given to Scott by his doctor, contact lenses stickers, a Band-Aid (we don't buy them, but Max wiped out at a biking event and was treated with one), the bristles of wornout bamboo toothbrushes (contrary to manufacturer's claims, they are not compostable), the plastic labels of my SPF tinted moisturizer (I sent three back to them), the broken spoolie of my mascara wand , a broken hair tie.

Hobbies: A deflated balloon that landed on our property (so unfair), the holiday card from un-reachable long lost friends (but I finally got hold of him on Twitter!), pieces of bike repairs and seat post label.

Wardrobe: Clothing labels (I can't stand them, they're so itchy!)

Misc: Tags and warning labels of all sorts.

We've already taken steps to make sure that some of these do not land in next year's jar. I thought about replacing our broken tape measure with a secondhand one. Instead, I opted for one that supposedly comes with an unconditional lifetime warranty, so I would not be stuck with the same conundrum as I did this past year. The store said they would replace it no matter what, but I just read something different on their site, so I won't vouch for them until I actually put their warranty to the test. But hopefully I'll never have to!

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WHAT'S IN OUR 2016 JAR OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE? - Zero Waste Home

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Hi everyone! Today, I am presenting my family's trash for 2016 (October 2015-October 2016). As mentioned in my last trash tally post, I expected to end the year with a bigger jar than the previous one. When I wrote that post, I had just broken our tape measure.

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A colossal ‘sea of plastic’ which stretches for miles has been found floating in the Caribbean.

So is it time to change our plastic bottle behaviour? (Via BBC Radio 5 live)

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Before the Flood Official Trailer #1 (2016) Leonardo DiCaprio Documentary Movie HD

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Zero Waste Family Makes No Household Garbage for 3 Years!

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Most Eco-Friendly Cities in the World (Part 1)

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Top 10 Eco Friendly Cities in the Wolrld (Part 2)

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Naomi Klein, this changes everything

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Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Observer Book of the Year
New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it's not about carbon-it's about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.

In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth.

Klein exposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. We have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. We have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it-it just requires breaking every rule in the "free-market" playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democracies.

We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight for the next economy and against reckless extraction is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring.

Climate change, Klein argues, is a civilizational wake-up call, a powerful message delivered in the language of fires, floods, storms, and droughts. Confronting it is no longer about changing the light bulbs. It's about changing the world-before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap-or we sink.

Once a decade, Naomi Klein writes a book that redefines its era. No Logo did so for globalization. The Shock Doctrine changed the way we think about austerity. This Changes Everything is about to upend the debate about the stormy era already upon us.

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What People Are Saying

"A book of such ambition and consequence that it is almost unreviewable ... the most momentous and contentious environmental book since "Silent Spring."
- New York Times Book Review

"Written with an elegant blend of science, statistics, field reports and personal insight, it does not paralyze but buoys the reader. The book's exploration of climate change from the perspective of how capitalism functions produces fresh insights and its examination of the interconnectedness between our relationship with nature and the creation of better, fairer societies presents a radical proposal. Klein's urgency and outrage is balanced by meticulous documentation and passionate argument. Heart and mind go hand in hand in this magisterial response to a present crisis."
- Jury citation: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
"Few journalists today take on the big issues as comprehensively and fearlessly as Naomi Klein. She combines rigorous reporting, analysis, history and global scope into a package that not only identifies problems, but also illuminates successful activism and solutions. That goes for her groundbreaking book on climate change and for columns that brilliantly connect the dots - such as the intersection of climate justice and racial justice."
- Jury citation: The Izzy Award
"This is the best book about climate change in a very long time- reminding us just how much the powers-that-be depend on the power of coal, gas and oil. And that in turn should give us hope, because it means the fight for a just world is the same as the fight for a liveable one."
- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and co-founder of 350.org
"An enormous, complex, compelling and, by turns, distressing and rallying analysis of the dysfunctional symbiotic relationships between free-market capitalism, the fossil fuel industry and global warming"
- Booklist Review
"Naomi Klein applies her fine, fierce, and meticulous mind to the greatest, most urgent questions of our times. Her work has changed the terms of the debate. I count her among the most inspirational political thinkers in the world today."
- Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things and Capitalism: A Ghost Story
"Without a doubt one of the most important books of the decade."

"A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote ... makes a muscular case for global warming as the defining, cross-sectional issue of our era."
- Globe & Mail Review

"Naomi Klein has done for politics what Jared Diamond did for the study of human history. She skillfully blends politics, economics and history and distills out simple and powerful truths with universal applicability."
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Naomi Klein's "words and knowledge run deep, inspiring change and the need for immediate action."
- Charlize Theron
"This Changes Everything gets the science right, but it's about much more than facts and figures. This is a deeply insightful exploration of the ideology and interests that have systematically blocked climate action and have undercut even good faith efforts. Klein gives no one a free pass. A rousing must-read!"
- Michael E. Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University and author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

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This Changes Everything - The Book | This Changes Everything

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A book, film and engagement project about why the climate crisis is the best opportunity we've ever had to build a better world.

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Climate Change | Inuit | Jupi Angootealuk | 404 | 1

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Australia's extreme heatwave is a preview of things to come

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Following each summer period, the Heatwave Service maps will be evaluated for accuracy. The service is expected to be reviewed in conjunction with health and emergency sector stakeholders to consider the relevance of these assessment and forecast maps and how a comprehensive heatwave warning system should evolve.

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The Day After Tomorrow: Why Cli-Fi Matters

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Nathaniel Rich is the author of two novels: Odds Against Tomorrow and The Mayor's Tongue

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Odds Against Tomorrow book. Read 289 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A novel about fear of the future-and the future of fearNew Y...

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Ill be blunt, shall I? Ive read cereal boxes that were more exciting than this book.

I might have been able to chalk this up to just another case of Insta!Dystopia and moved on, but my disappointment is compounded by the fact that Ive read Crossans The Weight of Water, and its really good. So I expected more from Breathe. And it did not deliver.

Something called The Shift has caused oxygen levels to plunge and as there are no trees, the drastically reduced population live inside a Pod city....more

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Rusty's Ghost Engine (also known as.......... Jinky Spring)

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Ill be blunt, shall I? Ive read cereal boxes that were more exciting than this book. I might have been able to chalk this up to just another case of Insta!Dystopia and moved on, but my disappointment is compounded by the fact that Ive read Crossans The Weight of Water, and its really good.

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The Islands at the End of the World (Islands at the End of the World, #1)

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The Islands at the End of the World book. Read 397 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Right before my eyes, my beautiful islands are...

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Superstorm book. Read 40 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic stor...

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The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace, #1)

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Remember when you were a kid on the playground and you swapped your peanut butter and jelly sandwich for your friend's Oreo cookies? Well, "grown-up" bartering works the same way. The "value" of the swap is literally set in the marketplace. I have something you want and you have something I want. I need a babysitter and you need a math tutor. Figure out how much each good or service is worth, find a match, and we have a deal. Lately, this trend is taking off. The source? Millennials.

Millennials are unique in their purchasing decisions; they are not lured by owning everything new, particularly if you compare their habits to Baby Boomers. And, their world of barter is disrupting the way we do business, via their "recycling" of goods. Jamie Gutfreund, Chief Marketing Officer for Deep Focus, a global creative agency, quipped in an article by Business Insider, "Instead of paying for something and getting rid of it with no value when you are done - swap and resale gives Millennials the ability to extend the value. It's efficient and it's green." We Baby Boomers need to learn from our Millennials.
The "Once Upon A Time" About Bartering (For Your Young Ones)
Thousands of years ago, people lived in places where there was a food source. They would sometimes follow large herds of animals, not staying in one place for very long, because their food supply would run out (or away). Eventually, one group of people would meet another group and see new things - new things they wanted. (Ask your young ones if they have ever seen something a friend has that they may have wanted.) Different groups would trade with each other; for instance, animal skins for fish. If they both wanted each other's stuff, the trade was easy.

Alas, following the herds and moving from place-to-place became difficult and people decided to stay in one place. They needed to figure out new ways to get food, so they started farming and raising smaller animals, like goats and chickens. These small farms grew into small villages, which grew into towns. Not everyone needed to help grow the food and there became more time to spend developing other skills. People became carpenters, weavers, potters, bakers and butchers. The people couldn't always use everything they made or grew, so they began to trade their goods or skills with other people for things or services they needed or wanted.

Today, people still barter instead of using money. In fact, some countries even barter with each other. One country that grows wheat could barter with one that has oil. (Ask your kids or grandchildren what they barter. Ask if it is easy or hard. Ask them to share their thoughts as to whether exchanging work for a good or service is fair.)
How Easy Is It To Barter?
There are over one thousand bartering websites, like SwapRight.com, BarterQuest, Tradeaway, or Kidizen, to name a few. You can even go to Barter USA and pick a state or region where you are. You post what you have or want and people respond. Craigslist will also allow a barter arrangement.
Bartering Tips

Compare Prices And Check The "Stuff"- Go online to get the approximate value of the good or service you want to swap. If math tutoring usually costs $150 an hour, don't try to swap for that used dirt bike that could now cost $400 (unless you're receiving two and a half hours of tutoring). Also, check out the goods, in person if you can. I realize that photos may have to suffice if the swap is long distance; however, many of the aforementioned barter sites include a review section on sellers.

Safety First - Don't show up for the tutoring or golf lessons without checking out where you are going. Do the people have references? Speak to other people who know them, if you can. Make sure your friends or family know where you will be and what you are doing.

If It looks Too Good To Be True - It probably is. If someone is swapping their "hot" Ferrari for your two-year-old iPad, the Ferrari is probably "hot."

You Can Count On Death And Taxes - In this case, taxes. Don't worry, "Big Brother" is watching. The IRS has noted that, "If you barter, you should know that the value of products and services from bartering is taxable income." You have to look up the rules and how they apply to you or your business, because, "Barterers may owe income taxes, self-employment taxes, employment taxes or excise taxes on their bartering income." Bartering can even be multi-layered. They call it, "trading up." You keep trading up the item for another item and your value may even increase, because of the demand or "value" for the new item in the swap.

It seems that the Millennials are just continuing a trend that is human at its core. Adam Smith, Scottish moral philosopher and author of The Wealth of Nations, said it best, "The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals."

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Millennials Show Boomers The Benefits Of Barter: Pass It On

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Bartering has been a system of exchange for thousands of years, but it's "trendy" again, thanks to the Millennial generation. Baby Boomers, we should take a page out of their book, but buyer (or barterer) beware. Make sure you know today's rules for bartering before you dive in.

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"I've always been interested in urban design - how we interact with built environments and how it affects us," said Ms. Kung, who grew up in Krakow, Poland, and never got over the example of its dense and tangled medieval walking streets. Her experience in America, in turn, was immediately intertwined with the downside of the car culture.

"When I moved from Poland to the U.S. in 1997, I got my driver's license and I gained 20 pounds," she said.

Dr. Freeman leads a group called Walk With a Doc, which encourages patients to get out, once a month or so, to stroll the city with their physicians. The group's most recent walk, in January - walkers can be hard-core, too, no matter the season - drew 135 people, including 10 doctors.

"Gosia is working on making it easier and getting people inspired to do walking," Dr. Freeman said. "We're out there because exercise is the best medicine. It's free, and there are no side effects."

An added appeal to patients in an era of time-stressed medicine, he said, is the idea of extended time with a doctor, right there walking at one's side. "We chat," Dr. Freeman said.

But can a walking city really be made? Or is it luck? Manhattan, almost certainly the most pedestrian-dominated urban place in America, never planned for such an outcome; density and the constriction of island life made it just happen as the city grew. Many other cities got so split up or sealed off by the explosion of road building after World War II that pedestrian life all but died, or was never even born.

Denver, founded in the 1850s during the Colorado gold rush, went a third way that city planners said gave them great hope that walkers here could find their feet again.

Certainly, the car culture left its mark, carving out concrete arteries across the city and cleaving neighborhoods where people once walked to the market or their jobs. But the underlying city grid, laid down around the streetcar system that defined Denver's early years, created a dense ring of nearby "streetcar suburbs" that walkers say could, with luck, one day be stitched back together by transit or pedestrian bridges.

The state's broader outdoor culture - with its traditions of hiking and skiing that have helped keep obesity rates lower than in the rest of the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, although they are higher than they used to be - also raises hopes that urban walking can make a big comeback.

Denver city planners had already set a goal of having 15 percent of residents get to their jobs on bike or on foot by 2020, up from about 6 percent according to the most recent census survey. They said they were grateful that Ms. Kung and her volunteers were keeping the pressure on.

"There are strong biker advocacy organizations in the city, but there hasn't been one primarily focused on pedestrians," said Cindy Patton, a senior city planner at Denver Department of Public Works. "We need organizations like that to push us."

For the moment, Ms. Kung said, her goal is not an all-out mobilization of the city's would-be pedestrian army, but rather the creation of structures that would, over time, create that army.

She is working, for example, with four elementary schools to start a "walking school bus" program next year. Children and adult leaders would walk home together, burning a few calories and maybe absorbing a new habit.

In June, Walk Denver and a coalition of other groups plan to descend on a run-down block in north Denver for a weekend to show - if only for a couple of days - how economic life and foot traffic could go together. The idea, called the Better Block Project, was pioneered in Dallas around the idea that brief makeovers can pave the way for permanent change.

In the Denver demonstration project, temporary businesses selling ice cream or art will be installed in empty storefronts. Outdoor cafes will rise like flash mobs, there for a weekend and then gone, leaving an echo for inspiration. Live music will beckon people to the neighborhood, organizers say.

Money for making America, or Denver, more pedestrian friendly is not exactly falling from the sky these days. Two transportation bills now in Congress, for example, would sharply reduce or eliminate programs to foster more biking and walking. Ms. Patton at the Public Works Department said the need for grants, or "O.P.M., other people's money," as she put it, was more crucial than ever.

But the flip side is that walking itself can save money in gas or bus fare and cost nothing but shoe leather. The Denver Walk With a Doc Web page, for example, uses the word "free" three times, in all capital letters, in case anyone should confuse with it with a regular office visit.

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Denver Pedestrians Promote Walking's Urban Potential

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"I've always been interested in urban design - how we interact with built environments and how it affects us," said Ms. Kung, who grew up in Krakow, Poland, and never got over the example of its dense and tangled medieval walking streets. Her experience in America, in turn, was immediately intertwined with the downside of the car culture.

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The Day After Tomorrow - Official® Trailer [HD]

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WALL•E  | Trailer | Official Disney Pixar UK

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Click here to download this explanation as a pdf.

Click here for all the exercises about modal verbs

Here's a list of the modal verbs in English:

Modals are different from normal verbs:

1: They don't use an 's' for the third person singular.
2: They make questions by inversion ('she can go' becomes 'can she go?').
3: They are followed directly by the infinitive of another verb (without 'to').

Probability:

First, they can be used when we want to say how sure we are that something happened / is happening / will happen. We often call these 'modals of deduction' or 'speculation' or 'certainty' or 'probability'.

For example:
Click here to find out more about probability.
Ability
We use 'can' and 'could' to talk about a skill or ability.

For example:Click here to find out more about ability.
Obligation and Advice
We can use verbs such as 'must' or 'should' to say when something is necessary or unnecessary, or to give advice.

For example:Click here to find out more about obligation
Permission
We can use verbs such as 'can', 'could' and 'may' to ask for and give permission. We also use modal verbs to say something is not allowed.

For example:
Habits
We can use 'will' and 'would' to talk about habits or things we usually do, or did in the past.

For example:

When I lived in Italy, we would often eat in the restaurant next to my flat.

John will always be late!

Past modals
The past modals 'could have + past participle', 'should have + past participle' and 'would have + past participle' can be confusing. I explain about them here.

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Using modal verbs can be complicated. Here are some easy explanations and lots of exercises.

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Greta Thunberg at the Climate Action Summit 2019

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Greta Thunberg at the Climate Action Summit 2019

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In full: Climate activist Greta Thunberg rebukes world leaders | A New Climate

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Documenting and promoting the global contemproary green art movement