Sustainability is the capacity to endure. It has become a term that can be applied to almost every living and non-living system on earth, locally and across the globe. Chemical cycling, for instance, is an example of scientific principles of sustainability. Chemical cycles have helped redistribute water, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen through every facet of live and have sustained life since the beginning of time. Solar energy since the beginning of time has constantly provided energy that plants use to produce nutrients. The sun also powers indirect forms of solar energy such as wind and flowing water. Biodiversity has been important to life on earth. The interactions among species has continued to provide vital ecosystem services and kept populations from growing too large
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Coco trees only grow in
Brazil
Cameroon
Celebes
Columbia
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Fiji
Ghana
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Java
Martinique / St. Lucia
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mexico
New Guinea
New Hebrides
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Panama
Peru
Philippines
Solomon Islands
Samoa
San Tome
Sri Lanka
Trinidad
USA (South Florida and Hawai’i; there are no commercial plantations in South Florida)
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