Exam 5: Solving Ecological Problems

Eco-pioneers Paul and Julie Mankiewicz are co-directors of the Gaia Institute which is working on urban composting systems that can reduce the urban waste stream.

Global town meetings reflect the dictum, "think globally, act locally," thereby recognizing the devolution of issues with global implications for consideration at the local level only.

The phenomenon of green consumerism has been most successful in northern European countries with high levels of ecological consciousness among the general public.

Rainforests convert carbon dioxide into oxygen.

Journalist Steve Lerner spent most of the early 1990s writing about the Rio Earth Summit, but later grew impatient with global diplomacy and sought hands-on environmental innovators, and the result was his book, Eco-Pioneers.

The idea that economic development is a basic human right is officially recognized in the 1966 International Covenant on Social and Humanitarian Rights, thus it carries the force of international law.

The Beni Biosphere Reserve is located in Costa Rica.

The 1989 Montreal Protocol dealt specifically with:

Name the country in which the Mainstream Environmental Movement has had the greatest opportunities to showcase its philosophy of protected islands of nature:

The first debt-for-nature swap occurred in the Latin American country of Bolivia.