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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
Carbon Change Climate Future People Will
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Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it. Frances Beinecke
Environmental Time Change Obligation Enough Our Dangers Our Time About Protect Climate Climate Change Doing Scourge Children Central Ill Widening
The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution. Frances Beinecke
Change Dangerous Important Single Our Most Protect Most Important Thing Reduce Climate Climate Change Important Thing Pollution Communities Carbon Thing
NEPA's common sense approach to foster discussion and collaboration about major development projects has worked well to protect our national treasures and resources. Frances Beinecke
National Sense Approach Our Resources Collaboration Projects About Development Major Protect Well Discussion Common Common Sense Worked Foster Treasures
Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste. Frances Beinecke
Good Character You Animals Lost Wild Once Recreate Never Clear Toxic Industrialized Untouched Crystal Encountered Mountain Meadows Landscape Waste Streams
We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places. Frances Beinecke
Power Wild Our Economy Without Places
Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention. Frances Beinecke
Cause Problems Language Nervous Young Pay Pay Attention System Recognized Fine Ability Threatening Nervous System Life-Long Develop Mercury Attention Developmental Most Motor Children Young Children Commonly Low Skills Even Exposure Function Levels
The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability. Frances Beinecke
Strange Mad High Hat Phrase Mental Instability Developed Poisoned Mercury Well Alteration Because Felt Makers Were Traits Uneven Processing Gait Personalities Workers Used Levels
The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team. Frances Beinecke
Life Remember School College My Life Long Spent Part Along Hours Surf Oceans Been Fishing Off Rocky Child Cape Coast Team Nova Nova Scotia Playing
Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike. Frances Beinecke
Change Will Wind Energy Other Our Wildlife Alike Severe Reliance Threat Clean Combat Renewable Renewable Energy Climate Climate Change End Fuels Help Fossil Fossil Fuels Humans Poses
The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species. Frances Beinecke
Edge Sheep Mountains Other Dramatic Rampart City Threatened Rise More Over Towering Feet Like Reach Attract Safeguarding Forests Mountain Mature Endangered Than Endangered Species Lions Gabriel San Places Acres Species Streams Peaks
The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations. Frances Beinecke
Work Future Obligation World Better Honor Will Weather Become Our Extreme Future Generations More Neutral Better Place Lifetimes Put Generations Make Leave Shield American Process Place Communities Companies Carbon Millions Competitive
Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution. Frances Beinecke
Approach Could Putting Global Global Warming Effective Tax Pollution Warming Carbon
Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future. Frances Beinecke
Future Water Will Recycling Other Local Supplies California Efficiency Help Flourish
Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them. Frances Beinecke
Balance Wind Understanding Energy Starts Our Striking Wildlife Threats Development Between Operating How Affecting Them Farms Actions Including Eagle Conservation
Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification. Frances Beinecke
People Seen Power Destructive Rising Attacks Excite Feed Over Undergo Also Practices Oceans Years Fishing Sustain Them Growing
Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic. Frances Beinecke
Decision Victory Plug Arctic Drilling Major Shell Oil Sea Pull
Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems. Frances Beinecke
Before Sidewalk Sewage Systems Absorb Roadside Reduce Proven Been Green Pavement Gardens Flooding Streets
Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools. Frances Beinecke
Back Out Would Hospitals Proposed Fail Schools Industry Chemical America EPA
When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe. Frances Beinecke
School Weather Three Consider Extreme Daughters Never New Globe Vulnerable Around How Left Wondered York May New York Storm Whether Apartment Realities Communities
In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease. Frances Beinecke
Heart Memory Vision Cause Pressure Evidence Fingers Lead Mercury Also Affect Loss Blood Blood Pressure Fertility Heart Disease Disease May Body Toes Regulation Exposure Growing Grownups
When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things. Frances Beinecke
Love Together People Achieve Ocean Extraordinary Extraordinary Things Come Who Things
When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems. Frances Beinecke
Environmental Food Home Shopping Problems Dinner Our Broader Those Solve Some More Environmental Problems Traces Go Than Store Use Help Plates Bring
The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage. Frances Beinecke
Food Respect People Living Earn Harvest Must Wage America Who Living Wage Treated
Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions. Frances Beinecke
Made Promises Become Ensure Pledges Countries Impressive Pollution Cut Actions Carbon
We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost. Frances Beinecke
Work People Faster Too Back Air Cost Clean Clean Air Look Than Amendment Afford Expected Going Screamed Expensive Where Worked Much Act Less
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