Yet our consumption-driven lifestyles, and our continued burning of fossil fuels in stupendous quantities (even George W. Bush declared that our nation is "addicted" to oil), make it less and less likely our earth will remain green for future generations.
Last March, a group of ecologists and engineers taking advantage of advances in collecting, storing and analyzing vast quantities of digital data declared a new field of science: soundscape ecology.
Cargo information includes the departure port, cargo's CIF value, and the weight and quantity of the cargoes declared in the manifest.
In the letter of Jan . 24to the president of the Council, Iraq's foreign minister stated that "all imported quantities of growth media were declared".
Soap came into such common use in the 19th century that Justus von Liebig, a German chemist, declared that the quantity of soap consumed by a nation was an accurate measure of its wealth and civilization.
November 11 is St Martin's day, when the new harvest is officially declared, and celebrated city-wide in large quantities of white wine and roast goose.
According to the TSA, moms flying with and without their child are permitted to bring breast milk in quantities greater than three ounces as long as it is declared for inspection at the security checkpoint.
Smallpox, a lethal and highly contagious disease, was declared eradicated in 1980 by the World Health Organization, but small quantities of the smallpox virus were retained in depositories in the United States and the former Soviet Union.
Bobby Flay, chef Mesa Grill, New York "The emphasis was on quantity not quality, with only part of the actual take declared to the authorities.
The new minister promptly declared that she would promote "quality instead of quantity", and announced plans to boost organic farming from just 3% of German agricultural land use to 20% by the end of the decade.
The United Nations concluded that the quantities of biological agents made by Iraq could be "far greater than those declared" and expressed doubt that all had been destroyed.
