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And changing your lightbulb isn't going to fix it. See what other countries are doing to curb their impact.
China, the world's biggest consumer of plastic bags, has
banned them nationwide. Rwanda has a similar ban.
German manufacturers are required by law to foot the bill for mandatory
recycling of their products and packaging.Sweden pledges to
kick the oil habit completely by 2020.The island of
Sumatra has pledged to
halt the logging of their forests, preventing billions of tons of carbon from entering atmosphere.
U.S. venture capital film Kleiner Perkins has
invested $1 billion to find and fund the "Google" of clean green energy.
Denmark generates
20 percent of its electricity from wind power, making it the world leader.A third of all of
New Zealand's land has
reserve or national-park status, protecting it from loggers.In what is possibly the largest environmental lawsuit ever, 30,000
Ecuadorians are
suing Chevron for massive pollution.After bumping up coastal no-fishing zones from 4.5 percent to 33 percent
Australia sees fish populations like trout
rebound by 60 percent.
