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Brain teaser 1 Can we develop without further damaging the environment? 1| 2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13| Next >>
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Women in Bhutan prepare a field for planting buckwheat by using fallen pine branches as fertilizer.


Secondly, with a growing acceptance that environmental action is ultimately in everyone's interest, there is an increased global focus on sustainable development — in other words, development that can continue without using up resources and otherwise damaging the environment. Millennium Development Goal number 7 is to ensure environmental sustainability. Technology can be harnessed to help us meet this goal, for example by producing cleaner sources of energy.

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