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Many families face a dilemma during the holiday season. Wanting to celebrate with a Christmas tree decorating the house, and beautifully wrapped gifts adorning the tree, while at the same time wanting to reduce, reuse and recycle. How does the holiday season fit with ecological responsibility? Is it even possible to celebrate a “green” Christmas?

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The Rainforest will be gone soon. What will this mean to humankind?

According to The Nature Conservancy, (2008), “Wild and amazing rainforest extend from as far as Alaska and Canada to Latin America, Asia and Africa.” Several thousand different species of plants and animals reside in the rainforest that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.

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The slate pencil sea urchin (Heterocentrotus mammillatus) is found throughout shallow tropical seas. Its five-inch (12cm) spines may be as much as half an inch (1.3cm) thick, stout enough to use as a pencil. This is one of the larger specimens of a genus that encompasses about 700 different species of animals.

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Cephalopods are a class of large, active animals with big heads and soft, fleshy bodies. They have long tentacles with suckers. They include the octopus, squid and nautilus. Only the nautilus lives in shells like most other molluscs. They have horny jaws and a tubular siphon that they use for both breathing and jet propulsion. They also have excellent sight. These animals can change colour very quickly to match their emotions. This is done through cells that cause the blue, red, orange, yellow, violet or black granules in skin-pigment cells to spread rapidly and become more detectable.

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The sedimentary rocks that make up 75 per cent of the Earth’s land surface are composed of material derived from earlier rocks and from animal and plant remains. Sedimentary rocks provide clues to past Earth environments, such as seas and deserts, even though they might now be in areas of dry land forest.

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