Green Living Q & A

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Buy second hand clothes.

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Not sure but you could try Johnson and Johnson website, DuPont website and other major chemical companies websites. There is a huge push for green chemicals and I’m sure they have some information somewhere on their websites. Good luck!

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American grown cotton is not being picked or processed by children. Look for cotton items that say “Made in the USA”. Double check the inside labels on clothing to make sure it doesn’t say ‘assembled in Bangladesh’ or Guatemala or some other foreign country. Look for linen, rayon or viscose if you want a non-cotton natural fiber.

To make your own clothes: check your school, YWCA, community center or local fabric store for classes in sewing and clothing construction. Try it, it’s a great skill and you’ll have clothing as individual as you are.

But remember if you make that conscious choice to not buy certain garments for political reasons (& that’s okay if you do): remember that 67 cents in a third world community with few resources and even fewer choices may be the difference between a whole family eating for a day or two or someone going to bed hungry. And in some poor countries if a child cannot contribute to the family’s welfare they may actually be sold or given away to face a life of cruel exploitation. (There’s still slavery in Uganda & other places in Africa and Arabia, as well as child & adult sexual slavery in many parts of Asia).

It’s easy for your teachers to make political judgments about real people they’ve never known in difficult circumstances they’ve never experienced — what your teacher might spend on fair trade coffee in a year would probably feed a family of four in most third world countries. It sounds like you are getting a big dose of anti-American propaganda as part of your curriculum. “Evil America” provides the majority of humanitarian food aid and emergency relief around the world, (even to North Korea who hates us). Did you know that America has also been the leader in providing funding and medications for HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa?

Here are some eco-friendly clothing lines:
Super cool Tom’s shoes are eco-friendly & they give away a pair of shoes to a needy child every time a pair is purchased. (Regular and Vegan):

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There are a lot online. Eco friendly clothes are becoming a trend these days….

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Green genes in chicago

http://www.green-genes.com/

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See
http://www.enr.gov.nt.ca/_live/pages/wpPages/soe_environmental_awareness_education.aspx

http://canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/ecozones/taigashield/taigashield.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga
especially section 5 – threats.

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First of all you must become a role model by exhibiting a practical solution for our global energy problem. Once it is recognised as a solution, then others who see it will believe and would like to know how it is done and then a club will automatically start. Have a look at the practical solution that has been recognised and honored by the World Bank with a certificate and a knowledge grant:

Solar energy is green energy, clean energy and it is freely available during certain hours of the day and during certain months of the year. It all depends upon how we make use of this infinite energy.
Example: many of us misuse electricity during day time for LIGHTING the interiors of our homes even though free, bright and clean solar energy is available just across our windows and doors, when the sun is shining. Switching on the bulbs during day time is a criminal waste of costly electricity. The bulbs also contribute CO2 and global warming.

Example of savings of electricity that can be effected – one bulb/tube light of 40 volts burnt for 6 hours during day time (whether at home or offices or business complexes), consumes about 8 units of electricity in a month. If this ONE bulb can be switched off during day time, by 100,000 people, we can save 800,000 units of electricity in a month and in six months, when the sun shine is available, we can save 4,800,000 electricity units.
Supposing more than one bulb is switched off, use the above formula to calculate the savings and also how many thousands of tons of CO2 emission can be saved. That is the power of volume.

I am not asking you to live in darkness. Many of us need that one burning bulb to keep our interiors bright because we would have kept our doors and windows shut for various reasons like security, wind, dust etc., but still we need that burning bulb for reading etc.

I have a simple solution for giving you free energy for lighting your interiors. I am not talking about energy that is required for kinetic purpose like running a fan, oven, geyser etc., I am talking about that simple light that brightens the interior of your home. My following solution does not involve any nano technology or billion dollar investment. Anybody can do it with a little innovative mind.

SO, LET US “BRING HOME THE SUNSHINE AND LIVE IN A BRIGHTER WORLD”. How?

When the sun is shining outside your windows, locate the spot where maximum hours of sunshine will be available. Take a plastic chair, a pillow, a few pieces of waste thermostat or cardboard and a mirror measuring 1′ X 2′; open one window, keep the chair in the sunshine, pillow on it and the mirror on the pillow. Keep adjusting the angle of the mirror till such time that the deflected sun shine gets inside your home and hits the white ceiling and fine tune the same by keeping small pieces of card board behind the mirror to maintain that angle. LO, AND BEHOLD, YOUR ROOM IS BEAUTIFULLY LIT UP WITH NATURAL LIGHT FROM THE CEILING – FREE FOR YOU.
This is a practical solution for a global problem and everybody can become innovators for helping the world reduce global warming and to get free lighting with the help of infinite solar energy by switching off as many bulbs as possible. Think of the benefits that would accrue by way of savings in terms of investment to generate that many MW of electricity, how much of fossil fuel, coal or water that would be used for generating that much of electricity, investment on machineries, transmission cost, labor, etc. Etc. And also how much of CO2 can be reduced, they have nth value.
Please publish this simple solution or send it to as many people as possible.
This solution has been awarded a Certificate of Honor and a knowledge grant by the world bank – project U-SEE # 585 of IDM 2007 competition. Browse,
For further details and FAQs, mail to vasanthmysoremath@gmail.com +918214243319 / 9845950440

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I dont know

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Prove or Disprove a specific issue is occurring.
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No anecdotes. No stories. Show the maps, math, numbers, dates, etc.
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Show a change that occurred due to an specific incident.
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Example: On a particular date, the Arctic Icecap was this size and (choose) island was this size. NOW, the Arctic Icecap has changed to this size and the (chosen) island has changed to this size.

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Http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithosphere
This link might help you develop and idea for your assignment

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Well, Bush admits that America is addicted to fossil fuels but a pusher doesn’t want the addict cured of the addiction.

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– Japan… The fact is Nuclear power is not safe or clean

Umm. Actually the events go along way to proving that nuclear power is clean and safe. Consider that forty year old plants were hit with an earthquake five times the strength they were designed for and yet they still shut down safely. The generators came on like they were supposed to when grid power was cut. Then the tsunami hit and the generators were wiped out. However, the battery backup still worked for the designed eight hours. The problem happened when no new generators could be put in. Even so the problems have been minimal–media scare mongering for ratings not withstanding.

Here is an informative article describing the situation:
Fukushima Nuclear Accident – a simple and accurate explanation

And here is where you find current, factual status information:
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html

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I’m in the UK but the market in the US has had a massive effect on our financial situation here, When US mortgage lenders lent money to NINJA’s (No Income No Job, No Assets) on property of non standard constuction (Trailer Park type homes) they knew it was a risk, however a lot of this debt was sold off to other financial institutions around the world, when interest rates started to rise and people started to default on their borrowing and repossesions rose, UK banks found that the only assets that they had were on unmortgagble properties, which leaves them with a lot of bad debt, this in turn has a direct effect on the banks ability to lend to it’s Uk customers, and as each financial institution does/did not know how much bad debt each one of them had it limits the flow of money between them and seizes up the system, so thats why there has been the problems with Northern Rock, HBOS and Bradford and Bingley.
Ive not heard on our news about Australia being in trouble but certainly, Iceland, Germany and some banks in Italy so far.
If we hadnt had Tony Blair kissing George Bush’s Ass for 10 years then maybe the UK wouldn’t be in such a bad way now!
Vote well next month USA please!!

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He likes our money going to other countries so they can build super nice cities and have jobs so what’s wrong with that said that what you want ??????

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You know, I was never so deeply into hardware but my interests were in language and grammar. I felt so left out. I WAS left out. All the groups saying you’re too smart for them, people snickering?
I was lucky because I had a close knit group of friends who didn’t care that I loved English and History instead of other stuff. The point is that if you start acting like a friend, people will become your friends. It all starts from you. If you’re not okay with yourself yet, no one else will be either. If you like something someone else likes as well, go and talk about that.

But then again, it’s hard. When you really love something, that’s what you love.
You can’t have everything, but doesn’t anyone there in your school like programming?
No one likes games? No one likes computers?
Just don’t be too techy. I wish I had more advise for you but I went through the same thing, especially on the dating, even though my trouble was with boys.

Keep your chin up. And keep doing what you like to do.
Eventually you’ll meet people who like you because you like programing and hardware.

(BTW, with the girl with the AP classes, try texting, messaging, or giving a small gift, like an eraser, to make her laugh!)

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Can you tell what is wrong with energy independence aside from the fact that there are people lobbying for it?

What is your solution, keep burning oil until we run out and our economy collapses because of it?

And if we want a short term solution, it would be to regulate the speculation on oil futures which is driving up the cost of oil past the issues of supply and demand.

If we get rid of all regulations on drilling, we might save 20 cents on gas per gallon 10 years down the line, so it is neither a short term or a long term solution to the problem, just a feel good measure to make it seem like congress is really doing something when it’s not.

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You will have to because they can make it a law which will force you to do whatever they think is good for you. The EU knows what is good for you better than you do. They are your nannies.

Since the bulbs are not as bright, you need more of them, which defeats the purpose. I use them only in multi-bulb fixtures or for lights that I want to leave on for a long time. Regular incandescent bulbs are best for reading. The energy efficient bulbs give off a high volume of low intensity light, regular bulbs give off a lower volume of higher intensity light.

Some lights have to be left on for safety and crime prevention, adverts get business. When ways are found to produce power that costs no more than present methods or is cheaper, then those ways will be used. Any attempts to legislate alternatives will likely result in more costly energy, which lowers the standard of living, causes unemployment and hurts people.

One way is to grow biofuels, using genetically engineered plants, but the nuts say no to genetic engineering. Tidal power is subject to storm damage and changes the environment. Wind power farms are ugly. Solar power arrays are ugly and change the environment. Hydroelectric dams change the environment. Fossil fuels damage the environment. Nuclear waste endangers the environment. The environmental nuts are opposed to all alternative power on a scale large enough to support our civilisation.

Their answer is to have fewer people, fewer things and for all to live in harmony with nature in a pastoral world. My answer is to continue to do what is needed, economise whereever feasible and keep trying to provide energy in better and cheaper ways so our civilization will continue to advance.

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Sure sounds like it doesn’t it. She’s riding on her celebrity bus and she needs to get off before it goes over the cliff.

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Actually, in contrast to the “warmies” who post here on a regular basis(they are SO predictable), the discovery of large amounts of natural gas in the US is good news. So called “renewable energy sources” like wind and solar are not viable due to the high costs, and poor technology which makes them very inefficient. Nuclear energy is an excellent means of generating electricity, however the current administration would never allow a new nuke plant to be built in the US, and good old Harry S. Reed has made sure there is no waste repository in Nevada, although he recently lost a lot of influence in the state of Nevada, when he suggested that all the legal brothels should be closed…he said this in his address to the Nevada State Assembly, to an audience of state legislators, reporters, and concerned prostitutes who work in those targeted brothels…one of the more cynical, likely conservative reporters, stated that Reed was likely the highest paid whore in the room at the time…I am not sure I would agree totally, but he would certainly be near the top of the income curve for that profession.
Conversion of existing vehicles to CNG is both possible, and economically feasible, unlike what another answerer stated, and very likely to happen, and as CNG becomes available at the gas stations, we will see larger numbers of those vehicles on the road. Most of the large truck manufacturers already make comparable CNG engines so the cost of freight by truck would be relatively easy to convert, as the vast majority of the over the road trucks are replaced on a 5 year schedule, and the costs of a CNG engine are comparable to the diesels, and the mileage is comparable, but the operating costs are significantly reduced, so that could happen fairly quickly as the CNG became readily available at truck stops.
Overall, it definitely changes the basis for discussion regarding peak oil.

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I don’t and never did. The hottest year on record is 1934, the third hottest year on record is 1921, if people look at history they will see that what is happening now is normal. Some of the global warming supporters have tried to convince people that the hottest years on record have occurred in this past decade but that is false.

Artgurl, no, you’re wrong: Funny you threw 2007 in there, the rest of the libs proclaim that 1998 is the hottest year on record, make up your minds.

Http://articles.latimes.com/2007/aug/15/science/sci-temp15

If NASA says it is the hottest year on record I am going to believe them, not some liberal blogger. There are 200K more links just like that from reputable sources stating that 1934 was and is the hottest year on record.

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Plastic refers to a number of materials not neccesarily made from petroleum based raw materials. Starch and protein can be converted in a relatively simple industrial process into a plastic that is then extruded, molded and formed into different shapes that have similar properties to ‘plastic’ items. To be biodegradeable the material needs certain conditions (adequate moisture, nitrogen, micorganisms, pH etc) to get the process going otherwise it could just sit there.

Http://www.bioplastic.org/Biodegradable-Bioplastic.html

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There are lots of eco-friendly programs that avoid adware and do not allow bad practices.

Eastern Mountain Sports which you can find on Share a Sale for example has eco-friendly products and the Affiliate Manager doesn’t allow any of that nonsense.

Share a Sale also has a green section in their interface for eco-friendly products.

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AfterGlow cosmetics are great, they don’t test on animals and it is all vegan and organic. It is also HEALTHY for your skin. Its just a little expensive.

Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d7lr0X44hM – See it in Action

Physicians Formula is also great! You can find at Target
http://www.physiciansformula.com/en-us/category.html

My favorite for all cosmetics that aren’t make-up, is Lush.Com too because it has all your lotions and soaps that are eco-friendly.
They both have brushes, but they are gorgeous brushes at Target called EcoTools. I have them. They are like buying MAC for 80% off!
Http://www.parispresents.com/EcoTools_s/36.htm

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The most eco friendly thing you can do is not buy things. I wouldn’t replace a bulb until it burned out. My logic is if I use it a lot it will burn out so I will save money by replacing it with a CFL, if it takes 5 years to burn out, I didn’t use it much, so I wasn’t wasting much energy. Look at the consumable items you use, those are items you have to buy every week or month. Try to replace them with reusable items or at least recycled content. For example I use cloth towels and napkins in my kitchen, but sometimes I have a need for paper towels, so when I buy them I get recycled paper, same with toilet paper and tissue. If you are still in school you can get everything you need made from recycled content.

I big on conserving and reducing waste. I look for ways to conserve energy, make use of natural light, make my home energy efficient etc. I find that food waste can be cut dramatically with a little planning, I pay attention to packaging and buy very few processed foods. I plan a menu and shop with a list. I buy local and organic as much as possible and use the bulk bins for a variety of items.

Many of us automatically buy clothes at certain times of year, yet we have more clothes than we need. I have a clour scheme to my wardrobe, so it all coordinates and I only replace things when they are worn out. So, for example I have 5 pairs of jeans, I will never have more. I decided that is enough to last me a almost 2 weeks without doing laundry. That is still probably more than I need. So before you shop count how many items like jeans, shirts etc. To see if you really need any more. Also look at the color of items that you have but never wear and don’t buy anything without trying it on and looking at yourself in the mirror.

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There are a number of reasons why a self-interested public business will serve its best interests by investing in eco friendly products:

1) societal approval – having a great reputation as a corporation is very good for business. Having a bad reputation is bad for business. Example being walmart where they have been hurt financially by their bad reputation b/c many people refuse to shop there. Think about how toyota’s reputation improved after launching the prius hybrid. This not only translates to high sales of its hybrids, but also higher sales of all of its products!

2) great for recruiting employees – especially younger employees under 40, who really want to work for a company that is eco friendly. Many of these folks will be the most talent folks so anything a company can do to improve its image will help it recruit the best employees.

3) eco friendly is more accepted in europe. An eco friendly product will do very well in many european and overseas markets where consumers want this.

4) eco friendly usually means sustainable by definition. Meaning unlike other types of products, there should be no problems securing these basic materials for production. Compare this to petroleum, which has very high cost variability and an uncertain future.

5) government regulatory environment. Some eco friendly processes that reduce carbon emissions may eventually help the company to save lots of money if the us government passes a carbon cap and trade scheme, as has been done in europe.

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Yes.

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Health Care,
Racism,
Socialism,
Sinking Economy.

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No, though you are on to something.

Far too much emphasis has been made on the ‘gender’ of divinity. When monotheism took hold, that deity took on characteristics of the masculine because the cultures where monotheism flourished were patriarchal in nature. These cultures were the ones who ended up taking over the world leading to the environmental catastrophe we’re now facing.

It is easy to wonder and point to what is missing and assume it is the reason behind these changes. It is tempting to consider the absence of the feminine in the divine and make judgements based on that. I think you’ll find that when exploring the issue you’ll see that the distinction between us and them (pre-agricultural indigenous cosmologies) is more related to the whole nature of the human experience than it is with the gender identity of the divine.

Religion is an attempt to supernaturalize the human experience.

Naturalistic worldviews and indigenous cosmologies tend to consider life as something cyclical. We live as part of the environment and our death is often seen as giving life to other things which can in turn give life to us. Such is the circle of life.

Agriculture changed all that. It was no longer the case that the environment was something we belonged to as suddenly everything belonged to us. Humans decided what animals were food and even what animals could eat food. Humans suddenly decided who should live and who should die and invariably humans chose to only allow those who directly benefited humans to live and saw the rest as competitors who should die. Actually, let me clarify. Humans didn’t decide to live like this as evident by the number of indigenous tribes still around who clearly do not share this attitude like the Kalahari Bushmen or the Piraha of the Amazon. Only one tribe started to live this way, a particular group of Anatolian farmers who lived about 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent.

Also living nearby at the time was a group of Semitic shepherds who watched these Anatolians with great interest. “That’s insane,” they said, “how can they have such knowledge of good and evil of who should live and who should die? This is the knowledge of the gods! Surely they will die for this land is a paradise and takes care of us as we have always lived as one with the forests. They can’t do this forever by destroying the forests because the forest is what feeds us all.”

Agriculture allows for a food surplus which will always result in an increased population which requires territory expansion allowing for more food production in an ever increasing cycle. This also meant the Anatolians eventually began to pressure the Semites and as you can imagine, there were many incidents of the farmers killing the shepherds. In fact, the same story repeated itself all over the world as the agriculturalists expanded their reign by killing or assimilating any other tribe along its path. Cain is still killing Abel even today.

There is only one thing that could justify this behaviour by these agriculturalists, many of whom clearly saw the destruction they were causing. The only way they could possibly have the authority to do this was from the authority of authorities — the most authoritative entity imaginable, the creator of everything. Read Genesis 1 again. This story is not about how everything was created, if it was, it would have been more detailed and, you know, correct. It was all about establishing the authority because by Gen 1:28 that entity is giving us the authority or command even to take over the world. This is not something indigenous peoples even consider.

Living in complete disregard for the environment left its toll on the psyche of the agriculturalists. No longer did they see themselves as part of the cycle, they saw themselves as separate from it and more temporal. If they weren’t part of the cycle, the only value is in eternity. Compare the Green Man to Jesus. The Green Man dies and is born again year after year with the seasons representing the cyclical nature of life and death. Jesus died once and was raised again once and only once so we could live forever in heaven! Thus changing a cyclical worldview into a linear one. Believing they’d live forever is the only consolation for living in a way so destructive to the environment.

And that is why religion is so bad. By supernaturalizing the human experience, they can’t possible consider and value humanity’s place within the natural environment.

Adam and Eve and the Agricultural Revolution
http://www.noonespecial.ca/adam-and-eve/

Edit: Look at “An Old Priestess”‘s answer. She thinks the point of the ‘war’ was between war-gods and goddesses? Why? Too much emphasis on gender identity, not enough on history and cause and effect.

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I can’t guarantee anything, but have a look.

It promises to locate that, which you are seeking.

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Megan, I can tell you’re autistic, and that for some reason you’ve got an unhealthy obsession about New Zealand. It’s also clear someone has given you the bad spin about the place (probably some loserBogan from Queensland who’s never spent much time out of Australia) and that you make gross generalisations about people from places and apply value judgements.

Not everyone in New Zealand is the same, and has the same opinions and values and behaves the same. Does everyone in Australia pick their nose, talk about absolute nonsense all loud and crass and have little intellect? No of course not! So why on earth would you assume that every single Kiwi is negative, ignorant, pig-headed, arrogant, uneducated, naive, has a chip on their shoulder, etc?
Most people in NZ aren’t even interested in Australia. Some ignorant people are concerned about the brain drain created by Australians earning on average half as much again. And yes, NZ and Australia have an open immigration policy, if it stopped benifiting either country they’d stop it.
People are concerned about crime because the media sensationalizes it to sell more papers/airtime.

Why would you assume that issues and government policies such as the emissions trading scheme, anti-smacking legislation, 3 strikes law, welfare, etc. Have anywhere near 100% backing form the public, and not be hotly debated with about 50/50 support on either side?

You make too many gross black and white generalizations and assumptions about other countries. And until you stop, nobody will take you seriously.

P.S. I would agree that Australians are on the whole more liberal than New Zealanders, but it’s not by much. It’s a gross exaggeration to say Australians are far more liberal.

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Depletion of the forest for construction materials such as woods and cements. Environmental damages in the construction site.

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Recycling (please–blue bags in with the rest of the garbage? What were you thinking?)
encouraging public transit & lessening the number of cars
cleaning the river (altho that has improved over the decades)

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NO !!! They just want to wake up alive tomorrow.

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Radiation in enviorment

caused by: war, nukes, and misiles

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A government can only do what is within its power to do:

1. The Building Code must change within the next five years to reflect that the 100 year storm will be the 10 year storm.
2. The infrastructure must be built to support green forms of energy
3. Stop giving tax free gas to airlines, give them tax free hydrogen.
4. Use grants to fill in the financial gaps to make green technologies and products viable.

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Goodwill and other secondhand shops are where i buy my clothing for farming-cheap, eco-friendly (as you are buying used thus reusing) and usually high quality. I take it you have never worked on a farm as the cloths are always casual and the work tends to ruin cloths-stains, rips, etc., pretty quickly

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I know roots sells stuff that has sayings like that on it. Some of their stuff is okay.

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It sounds like shopping online is definitely your best bet. Ecomall.com and HappyHippie.com are good places to start, both comprehensive directories of eco friendly products, including clothes and shoes.

The the most eco-friendly clothing fabrics are:

•Cotton
•Bamboo
•Hemp
•Ingeo (fermented plant sugars)
•Linen
•Lyocell (wood pulp)

And the ones to avoid are:

•Acetate
•Acrylic
•Nylon
•Polyester
•Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
•Rayon
•Triacetate

For more on eco-friendly clothing, check out AltFuelsNow.com: http://www.altfuelsnow.com/checklist/eco-friendly-clothing.shtml

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I’m on a similar quest. I’ve found a few items at a few places. Target has a new limited line with organic cotton. REI has a new eco friendly line, many items are on sale right now. I’ve seen a few items at a store called Steinmart.

You can go to treehugger.com or biggreenpurse.com and they have links to many clothes stores with eco friendly items.

The other cheap option is used or vintage. That is always a great choice. The resources have already been expended and you are saving items from the landfill. Another option to refresh your wardrobe on a budget is a swap party. You invite friends and have them bring gently used items they no longer wear and you swap with them.

My number one tip for conserving resources where clothes are concerned is to get your colors done. I have a color chart that I keep in my purse and it helps me select colors that I will look good in. Have you ever had an item that you think looks great, but you never where it, chances are it’s not a good color for you.

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The first one is 100% certified organic jeans and the last three are nice high quality hemp jeans which will last a long while. I think its cool that the jeans at Levi’s is organic cotton but i would like to see hemp jeans available there as well.

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Cons of alternative energy are most of the new fuel are environmental friendly also they last longer.
Sorry no web

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A good place to start might be –

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Solar (Sun), Eolic (Wind), Geothermal (hot springs & vulcanic), Effluid (Animal waste) Tides (Movement of water on the coast); Night & Day Pumping (pump up at night & flow down in the day), there are lot’s more, but the biggest source is “Saving Energy”, our society wastes so much in terms of energy (, utensils, apparatus, E.lines, vehicles) we would need half the energy we consume if we didn’t waste.
I didn’t mention Nuclear, because it is already -in, not -alternative.

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Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live 100% off of the grid and are completely self-sufficient with a 0% Carbon footprint. I believe this is the first step anyone can make “help the environment”. Once you convert your own life style to a greener more eco friendly route, you can start helping others.

Alternative Fuels, also known as non-conventional fuels, are any materials or substances that can be used as a fuel, other than conventional fuels. Conventional fuels include: fossil fuels (petroleum (oil), coal, propane, & natural gas), & also in some instances nuclear materials such as uranium. Some well known alternative fuels include biodiesel, ethanol, butanol, chemically stored electricity (batteries & fuel cells), hydrogen, methane, natural gas, vegetable oil, biomass, & peanut oil.

Now alternative (or renewable) energy is a little different…

Renewable energy flows involve natural phenomena such as sunlight, wind, tides & geothermal heat. Each of these sources has unique characteristics which influence how & where they are used.

Short but sweet that’s the specifics of it. If you’re interested in using some form of alternative fuel or renewable energy in your vehicle or home, feel free to contact me. I live 100% off the grid on alternative energy and have converted many vehicles to run on biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen and EV.

In fact I currently run 2 trucks, my home hot water heater, home stove and home generator on hydrogen and one car is EV. I offer step by step DIY guides to walk anyone threw the process if you’re interested. You can find them at

www agua-luna com
Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

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Alterative Energy / Sustainable Consultant, Living 100% on Alternative & Author of How One Simple Yet Incredibly Powerful Resource Is Transforming The Lives of Regular People From All Over The World… Instantly Elevating Their Income & Lowering Their Debt, While Saving The Environment by Using FREE ENERGY… All With Just One Click of A Mouse…For more info Visit:

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Http://www.fuelefficiency.org/generatorschematics.html

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When you think about it, do you really want the Government telling you what to do about anything?
Democracy is freedom of choice, and while it is a great idea to use wisely, having the Government in position of that much power is wayyyyyyyy to close to Communism for meand mine.

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Knowmore.org

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Because it is not a sec- analysis of the problem. Environmental problems are unsustainable rates of resource extraction, to high rates of ecosystem degradation, or pollution beyond the regenerative capacity of our environment. (i think those are pretty much all categories.
Overpopulation is a political solution (and a very undesirable one at that), disguised as an analysis. It gears you towards only one solution: less people, instead of piecemeal solution of actual problems

And then there are some nasty, hidden questions, such as: Which people then should be allowed to live on? In what lifestyle? Your life style? The lifestyle of a Namibian? And how many of these people are allowed in our spacious utopia? What kind of people should that be? The higher the resource use, the lesser the people allowed on the planet.

Food has ceased to be a real problem, at least in terms of quantity. It’s the mechanisms of distribution that are failing. Demanding market reforms for the economically weak countries has proven to be disastrous

Funny thing on the side is that prosperous western countries, which use a lot of resources, often have very low reproductivity rates, whereas poorer countries, with low per capita use of resources have high rates of resource use. Children, in countries where pensions are non-existent, serve as you retirement fund. So do you choose for the people who pollute the planet the most, but who don’t reproduce so much, or for those with little impact, but who reproduce a lot?

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As long no one do anything to stop the population growth, then you can save as much energy you like.
The world population will be doubled in the next 60 years and nothing is done to stop that. Laws who allow max 2 child per family is a must NOW, even someone like it or not.

I think the climate is changed perceptibly year after year now. A small panic will spread
and the consequences are that more and more start selling their houses, because they
feel the time is running out faster than they are told.

We’ll see an unemployment as never before. Companies which produce too much have to produce
less and to follow the quotas they implement. The future will be a hell