Would you care to offer an opinion on what a person should do with his obsolete cell phone? Now, now... We don't want to hear about what you thought that guy who was talking on his cell phone during the movie should do with it... The bad manners of a few people aside, cell phones do pose a significant

It's the holiday shopping season, and Grinning Planet would like to point out that the holiday phrase "Ho, ho, ho!" also relates to being green--it's the Jolly Green Giant's tagline. Well, OK, that doesn't exactly get us to the "eco-friendly" meaning of being green. But when shopping for holiday gifts,

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First we must define sustainable development. Sustainable is to say that something such as resources or an environmental system can be continued indefinitely without depleting any of the material or energy resources required to keep it running. Development is the act, process, or result of developing.

© 2003 Vadim Smolyanov and Valentina Smolyanova Translated from Russian. We shall be glad to receive your remarks on stylistics, grammar, and content. Chapter I. Evolution of lifeless matter We more likely fortunately than unfortunately are in the world where there is a time-space and a matter