Creating a sustainable, economic, social and ecological environment that provides everyone the opportunity to succeed is my mission in Congress.

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When we look at that environment, that ecological niche if you like, we found (past tense, for of course all of these models are up in the air now) that in different parts of the environment different models worked.

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On Day 1 in Burlington, considered by many the heart of green business, John Erickson, professor of ecological economics at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, clearly touched a nerve.

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"In response to people's expectations of having a good living environment, we should greatly strengthen ecological improvement and environmental protection, " Wen said.

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The report, Nurturing Nature highlighted the importance of the natural environment to economic activity - that ecological processes deliver the resources needed for economic progress - but 11 of 15 of the most important UK habitats are declining.

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Lastly, the third challenge is to pose strict limits on the processes of commodification of the environment which are at the root of the ecological damage that affects Latin America today.

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The high-resolution picture is of the Rio San Pablo, an ecological transition zone that's marked as a protected area by the National Environment Authority of Panama.

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From 1998 to 2001, funds from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) were used to allot grants to villagers for ecological forest management and to compensate them for the loss of the right to exploit the forest.

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