http://www.attorney.org Attorney Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:56:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_859" align="aligncenter" width="481" caption="Rutgers Sixteen Days"][/caption] Attorney.org believes that whether your organization promotes women's rights, minority rights, youth rights, or any other category, it is ultimately in the pursuit of fundamental human rights -- rights that we, as a member of the human race, are guaranteed at birth. Therefore, as part ... http://www.attorney.org/rutgers-sixteen-days.html Dubbed the largest landfill in the world, the North Pacific Garbage Patch spans a distance estimated to be twice the size of Texas and contains over 100 million tons of plastic waste from all corners of the world. Because most plastics will never completely biodegrade, they remain in the water ... http://www.attorney.org/the-garbage-patch.html [caption id="attachment_836" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="World Resources Institute"][/caption] The World Resources Institute is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people’s lives. Their mission is to move human society towards a lifestyle that protects the Earth's environment and its capacity to provide ... http://www.attorney.org/world-resources-institute.html [caption id="attachment_830" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="American Forests"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_831" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="www.americanforests.org"][/caption] Trees have an irreplaceable role in maintaining the health of our Earth’s ecosystems and atmosphere. While humans and other animals breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, trees and other plants capture and store carbon dioxide and release oxygen back into ... http://www.attorney.org/american-forests.html [caption id="attachment_821" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="www.pennfuture.org"][/caption] PennFuture (Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future) works to create a just future where nature, communities and the economy thrive. The organization enforces environmental laws and advocates for the transformation of public policy, public opinion and the marketplace to restore and protect the environment and safeguard public health. ... http://www.attorney.org/pennfuture.html [caption id="attachment_815" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Buckminster Fuller"][/caption] The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet's ecosystems. The organization aims to deeply influence the ascendance of a new generation of design-science pioneers who are leading the ... http://www.attorney.org/buckminster-fuller-institute.html [caption id="attachment_805" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Human Rights Organizations"][/caption] The DNA sequences between humans and chimpanzees are 98.5% similar; the similarity is 99.9% between humans. As we know today, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. Unfortunately, ... http://www.attorney.org/human-rights-organizations.html [caption id="attachment_799" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Water Matters"][/caption] Water Matters @ Columbia is the blog of the Columbia Water Center. The Center is leading intellectual inquiry into the assessment, prediction and solution of the growing scarcity of fresh water. The Water Center conducts research on water shortages in some of the most challenging ... http://www.attorney.org/water-matters.html [caption id="attachment_794" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Ecological Tower"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_795" align="aligncenter" width="274" caption="Earth Policy Institute"][/caption] The Earth Policy Institute (EPI), founded in 2001, is dedicated to providing a vision of a sustainable global economy and a roadmap of how to get from here to there, what we call Plan B, the alternative to business ... http://www.attorney.org/earth-policy-institute.html [caption id="attachment_789" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Human Rights"][/caption] Although human rights has come a long way since men dragged women by their hair, our world still has just as long a way to go in order to achieve global peace and harmony. The problem with human rights is that it pervades every level ... http://www.attorney.org/human-rights-2.html