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Planet Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the Earth, Planet Earth, the World, and Terra. Home to millions of species, including humans, Earth is the only place in the universe where life is known to exist.

Scientific evidence indicates that the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago, and life appeared on its surface within a billion years. Since then, Earth's biosphere has significantly altered the atmosphere and other abiotic conditions on the planet, enabling the proliferation of aerobic organisms as well as the formation of the ozone layer which, together with Earth's magnetic field, blocks harmful radiation, permitting life on land.

Earth's outer surface is divided into several rigid segments, or tectonic plates, that gradually migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years. About 71% of the surface is covered with salt-water oceans, the remainder consisting of continents and islands; liquid water, necessary for all known life, is not known to exist on any other planet's surface. Earth's interior remains active, with a thick layer of relatively solid mantle, a liquid outer core that generates a magnetic field, and a solid iron inner core. Earth interacts with other objects in outer space, including the Sun and the Moon.

At present, Earth orbits the Sun once for every roughly 366.26 times it rotates about its axis. This length of time is a sidereal year, which is equal to 365.26 solar days. The Earth's axis of rotation is tilted 23.4° away from the perpendicular to its orbital plane, producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface with a period of one tropical year (365.24 solar days). Earth's only known natural satellite, the Moon, which began orbiting it about 4.53 billion years ago, provides ocean tides, stabilizes the axial tilt and gradually slows the planet's rotation. A cometary bombardment during the early history of the planet played a role in the formation of the oceans. Later, asteroid impacts caused significant changes to the surface environment.

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INDEX • Associates • Business • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Community • Development • Economics • HEALTH + WELLNESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Insurance • Marketing • Money • Non-Profits • Opportunities • Promotion • Real Estate • Services • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY •

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INDEX • Audios • Books • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Communications • Computers • Film • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Internet • Journalism • Libraries • Media • Networking • News Sources • Resource Centers • Services • Social Media Networks • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Web Tools

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INDEX • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Children • Community • Culture • Family • Festivals • Green Conferences + Events • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Lifestyle • Love • Men • Parents • Relationship • Seniors • Social Media Networks • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Women • Youth

Eco-Tours + Travel

INDEX • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Earth • Eco-Lodging • Eco-Tours • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Retreats • Spas • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Travel • Wellness Centers

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INDEX • Audios • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Conferences • Education • Films • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Herstory • History • Learning • Lectures + Speakers • Neurolinguistic Programing (NLP) • Schools • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Whole Systems • Wisdom • Workshops + Classes

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INDEX • Arts • Books • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Celebration • Culture • Dance • Entertainment • Events • Festivals • Film • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Media • Music • Performing Arts • Poetry • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Theater

Health + Wellness Service Directory

INDEX • Acupressure • Acupuncture • Anti-Aging • Aromatherapy • Astrology • Ayurveda • Bodywork • Breathwork • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Cancer Therapies • Caregiving • Childbirth • Chinese Medicine • Chiropractors • Cleansing • Craniosacral Therapy • Dental • Detox • Diet • Dreamwork • Eastern Medicine • Energy Medicine • Fitness • Flower Essences • Hakomi • Healing • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Health Coaching • Herbology • Holistic MDs • Homeopathy • Hospitals • Hot Springs • Hypnotherapy • Integrative Physicians • Life Coaching • Lifestyle • Massage • Medical Marihuana • Meditation • Mental Health • Midwifery • Naturopathy • NLP • Nutrition • Oxygen + Ozone Therapies • Physical Therapy • Pilates • Pranic Healing • Products • Psychics • Psychotherapy • Pranic Healing • Qi Gong • Reiki • Reflexology • Retreats • Sexuality • Shiatsu • Sleep • Spas • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • Spiritual Counseling • Supplements • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Tai Chi • Tantra • Water Therapy + Watsu • Wellness Centers • Yoga

Resource Centers

INDEX • USA • ARKANSAS (Hot Springs / Little Rock) • ARIZONA (Phoenix / Sedona / Tucson) • CALIFORNIA (Arcata / Chico / Costa Mesa / East Bay / Encinitas / Grass Valley / Los Angeles / Marin County / Middletown / Mt. Shasta / Nevada City / Ojai / Redding / San Diego / San Francisco / Santa Barbara / Santa Cruz / Santa Monica / Sebastopol / Sonoma County) • CASCADIAN (Pacific Northwest) • COLORADO (Boulder / Crestone / Denver / Steamboat Springs) • GOLD COUNTRY (Grass Valley / Nevada City / Penn Valley / Truckee) • HAWAIIAN ISLANDS (Niʻihau / Kauaʻi / Oʻahu / Molokaʻi / Lānaʻi / Kahoʻolawe / Maui / Hawai'i) • IDAHO (Sandpoint) • ILLINOIS (Chicago / Oak Park / Urbana) • INDIANA (Bloomington / Indianapolis / Muncie) • MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor / Birmingham / Detroit / East Lansing / Flint / Kalamazoo / Lansing / Lapeer / Grand Rapids / Traverse City) • MONTANA (Missoula) • NEW MEXICO (Albuquerque / Las Cruces / Santa Fe) • Nevada (Carson City / Las Vegas / Reno) • OHIO (Columbus / Yellow Springs) • OREGON (Ashland / Astoria / Bend / Corvallis / Eugene / Grants Pass / Klamath Falls / Medford / Portland / Roseburg / Salem) • TEXAS (Austin / Dallas / Ft Worth / Houston) • UTAH (Park City / Salt Lake City) • WASHINGTON (Bellingham / Olympia / Port Townsend / Seattle / Spokane / Whitbey Island) • WYOMING (Jackson / Laramie) • CANADA • British Columbia (Saltsprings & Gulf Islands / Vancouver) •

Science + Technology

INDEX • Air • Astronomy • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Communications • Earth • Energy • Environment • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Oxygen • Science • Space • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Technology • Water • Whole Systems

Sovereignty

INDEX • Activism • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Economic Justice • Empowerment • Freedom • Governance • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Indigenous • Law • Political • Security • Social Justice • Sovereignty • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY •

Spiritual + Metaphysical Directory

INDEX • Astrology • Awakening • Breathwork • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Consciousness • Dreamwork • Empowerment • Enlightenment • Entheogens • First Peoples • Healing • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Indigenous • Internet • Life Coaching • Love • Meditation • Metaphysics • Mindfulness • Religion • Shamanism • Sleep • Source • Spiritual + Psychic Counseling • SPIRITUAL + METAPHYSICAL DIRECTORY • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Tantra • Transformation • Vision Quest • Wisdom • Yoga

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INDEX • Air • Biodiversity • BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY • Culture • Earth • Eco-Tours • Eco-Lodging • Energy • Environment • Farming • Feng Shui • Food • Gardening • Green Building • Green Conferences + Events • HEALTH + WELLNESS DIRECTORY • Hemp • Lifestyle • Non-Toxic Cleaning • Organic Alcohol • Organic Products • Restaurants • Retail Stores • Services • Shelter • Solar Energy • SUSTAINABLE LIVING + GREEN DIRECTORY • Sustainability • Transportation • Travel • Water • Wind Energy

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