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Colorado River: Adventure, Learning, and Advocacy
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Greendex 2010: Consumer Choice and the Environment — A worldwide tracking survey
ABOUT THE SURVEY:
National Geographic and international polling firm GlobeScan recently released the results of the third annual Greendex survey. The Greendex is a quantitative study of 17,000 consumers in 17 countries. Participants were asked questions about their energy use, consumer product use, transportation practices, beliefs about the environment and sustainability, and knowledge of environmental issues. The answers were then calculated to churn out a Greendex score–the relative environmental impact of a person’s consumer choices. Individual scores are averaged to create a mean score for each country. The Greendex measures the impact of the average consumer in each country surveyed; it does not measure the environmental impact of a total country.
Here are some of the results:
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Team Mexico wins National Geographic World Championships
Subscribe to this blog’s feed In a North American showdown, three Mexican teenagers bested finalists from neighboring Canada and the United States to clutch the National Geographic World Championship title earlier this month. Moderated by Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek at Sea World, San Diego, teams of elite geography students, top performers in their own geography competitions from 17 regions endured two days of written exams … Continue reading Team Mexico wins National Geographic World Championships