Green Living Q & A

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I don’t completely understand what you’re asking, but here’s my point of view:

Clinton wanted to pass a BTU tax of $16/month per resident. This tax was essentially an emissions tax. It wasn’t passed. Looking back on it, only a decade later, it would have been a brilliant policy.

If we don’t implement sustainable policies and developments, we’ll be looking back on the past and regretting it. I don’t want to be on my asthma-related death bed feeling guilty for not doing something to change the outcome of the future.

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You cannot apply the (macro-level) concept of sustainable development to an industry (which is a micro-level entity).

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— sustainable fishing:
fishing with nets that have holes large enough to allow baby fish to escape yet catch adult fish. This allows the babies to grow old, propcreate and be caught at a later time.

— irreversable fishing:
fishing with nets that do not have holes large enough. Everything in its wake is caught and the fish eventually die out.

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Sustainable development is shorthand for…continuing to make a profit out of fuc*ing up the planet.

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I think that the media puts to much emphasis on going green now, and making it seem as if we do it will solve all our problems in the next decade, I’m not saying we shouldn’t, because we defiantly need to protect the environment, but I don’t believe its a fragile to be shattered by a hundred or so years of extreme carbon emissions, so, yeah, protect the environment, drive a hybrid, don’t pollute, but don’t get worked into a frenzy by the media over there theory of were all gonna die, because if the ecosystem collapses, it wont be in our life time.

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You would have to count the total energy cost over the life of the bridge. As well as the safety issues.

As well as the effect on the local environment.

Difficult call. On balance, the concrete bridge would win because of its longevity. Unless you think that dead humans and decaying wood are good for the environment.

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Try out Nature’s Organics http://www.naturesorganics.com.au/ they have some personal care and home cleaning products. Check a smaller health food store or environmental shop and the health food/speciality aisle of your supermarket if there is one. Look for things that say “biodegradable, non-toxic, environmentally safe”. Hope that helps some.

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Yes, but it does not work well in my opinion.
You need a penatrating sealer to keep stains out of the stone and on the surface.
I use Miracle Sealants for polished granite.
To see if you need to seal, throw water across the tops, if it beads up it is ok, if it absorbs into the stone and get dark, sealit again .

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Try this reliable clothes online shop: www.NikeRotterdam.com

I bought my clothes from them.

Inexpensive, stylish and of good quality

Free shipping. Very cute!! You should try.

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All companies are Pseudo Eco Friendly
They become Eco Friendly just to cut cost or to show that they are eco friendly
Had they been real ECO friendly they would have given incentive to customer when they go for Eco friendly things.
For example Dell stopped Shipping User Manual in Paper form in 2005 to save money but did not share the benefit of reducing the cost with the customer.

These guys just do it to save money. Eco friendly is to fool common man to make them feel that if they don’t get a printed manual its ok coz its saving the environmentt.

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Thousands! The poor working fools that are voting for him, are going to get hit big time. Obama is getting big bucks from the liberals who are supporting him and he will have to pay them back, big time! The losers are people like me who did not vote for him.

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I know you’re not supposed to answer a question with a question, but my answer is, “Is the Pope Catholic?”

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If you read the Constitution, it isn’t. Nuff said.

Chas

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This work will fall on the traditional trades.

Plumbers. Electricians. HVACR(heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration) technicians. Auto/truck mechanics.

Degrees don’t hurt a thing. Any engineering degree or anything technical like mathematics, physics, chemistry, construction science…

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It is good that u r good in maths, that is important for engineers

I am Automation Engineer, works for automatising the Electrical Power Stations, which is known as Substation Automation. I did Electrical Engineering and my other collegues too.

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This is precisely what Lindsey Graham is talking about when he says we need to put a price on carbon.

“To jump-start nuclear power, wind and solar and the green economy, you’ve got to price carbon…How you do it is subject to discussion and open debate. But the idea of not pricing carbon, in my view, means you’re not serious about energy independence. The odd thing is you’ll never have energy independence until you clean up the air, and you’ll never clean up the air until you price carbon.”
http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/28/lindsey-graham-price-carbon-not-serious-about-energy-independence-clean-air/

“Every day we wait in this nation China is going to eat our lunch.”
http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/03/energy-only-bill-lindsey-graham-half-assed/

“my concern is that every day that we delay trying to find a price for carbon is a day that China uses to dominate the green economy….China has made a long-term strategic decision and they are going gang-busters.”
http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/31/lindsey-graham-price-for-carbon-china-dominate-the-green-economy-clean-energy-jobs/

The next technology boom is in green energy. The Chinese know it, most Europeans know it, and some Americans know it, but many don’t. If we don’t invest in the technology on par with China, as Graham says, they’re going to eat our lunch and dominate the green economy.

The west can still catch up, but only if we ramp up our investments in green tech.

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The air would be cleaner, the mountains in the Appalachians would not be blasted and shoved into the streams and valleys, and we wouldn’t need to fight wars in the middle east.

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Nobody can predict the movement of any stocks whether going up or coming down. Many of the market professionals use fundamental analysis of companies along with technical analysis like chartology, option movements and relative price strength of stocks.

There might be many people who think the same logic as yours and made investment in renewable energy companies. Consequently, some of these companies’ shares have gone up significantly where you might have to find a good spot to buy at certain time.

What you need to do is to study the company’s performance (revenues and earnings and their growth) in relation to the stock price. Also, look into the company’s financial condition (does it have a lot of debts?), market share of its products, product leadership, and earnings browth rates vs. Its competitors.

Since you will be investing your hard earned income, be very careful in doing the preliminary studies before investing. I recommend you also read a couple of books on investment.

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Money.

Lots of things are set up to use oil based products (cars, airplanes, etc), so it would cost a small fortune to switch it over. Third world countries have very little money. Countries that have more money don’t have enough money to do that.

Oil producing countries are very, very rich. They like their money.

Going green is sort of a progressive thing. It’s not something we can such “switch over to.” It will take some time.

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Some of those are going to be beyond your capabilities (geothermal generators)

What you need to understand is your systems share some basic components- the power generation portion- you can use a permanent magnet motor for this part. It works but is inefficient, but will work for your wind and hydro portion.

What is different is the driving mechanism- how are you harnessing the energy of your material source- air, water and making the mechanical connection to your common generator. If you have an RC aircraft propeller, there you ahve the means for harnessing wind- now how are you going to use something similar to harness the water energy? You might have to carve somethig from a block of wood. Your geothermal system will be similar, but you are not likely to be allowed to use live steam to drive a turbine blade in your classroom.

There is the geenral outline you sought. Now you have to apply the process of assembly and understanding your assembly.

To understand how a motor works and conversely your generator- you need to understand magnetism and how that makes the each work.

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Health insurance: AFL, PRU, MET

Alternative energy: FSYS, STP, PTEN

Pharmaceutical: TEVA, GILD, DNA

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I’m a big risk taker with several renewable energy penny stocks but I don’t like BCON. They haven’t filed any NASDAQ paperwork since 2008. In fact, they’re in danger of being de-listed.
And they’re not anywhere close to being profitable.

On the other hand, they’ve recently received over $40 million in funds from the DOE and equity issuance. They’re actually building a power plant in NY with this new technology. Both positive signs.

If you don’t mind the risk and understand you could lose your entire investment, BCON could be a good investment. But the odds are against it.

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Well, it looks like CLNE will be there shortly !!!

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GE electrifies the world by providing reliable, efficient products and services for the energy industry. We help businesses and authorities that generate, transmit or use electricity. We work in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy, as well as with renewable resources such as water and wind energy.
Http://www.gepower.com/home/index.htm

Americas Wind Energy Corporation (AWNE.OB) manufacturing and marketing of medium sized (500 – 1,000 megawatt (MW)) wind turbines for the North American market.

Babcock & Brown Wind Partners (BBWPF.PK) An Australian based specialized investment fund focused on the wind energy generation sector

Gamesa Corp. (GCTAF.PK) 18% of the world’s share of the wind turbine market. Based in Spain.

Kore Holdings (KORH.PK) A power provider and marketer of alternative energy from wind farms, hydro and distributed power facilities.

McKenzie Bay International Ltd. (MKBY.OB) Develops wind powered alternative energy systems.

Mass Megawatts Wind Power Inc. (MMGW.OB) Develops prototype wind energy production equipment.

NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc. (NKW.V TSX Venture Exchange) Wind energy developer in the Haida Energy Field off the coast of British Columbia since 2001.

Scottish Power plc (SPI) A leading developer and operator of renewable energy in both the UK and the US. It is one of the largest providers of wind energy in the US.

Shear Wind Inc. (SWX.V Canadian Venture Exchange )Provider of wind-generated energy in Atlantic Canada.

Sea Breeze Power Corp. (SBX.V Canadian Venture Exchange ) Developer of large-scale windfarms and underwater electricity transmission lines in British Columbia.

Tower Tech Holdings Inc. (TWRT.OB) Involved in the engineering, manufacture, and sale of wind turbine extension towers and monopiles to the wind energy industry

Vector Wind Energy Inc. (VWE.V Canadian Venture Exchange ) developer of wind energy projects in Canada.

Vestas Wind Systems (VWSYF.PK) 34% of the world’s share of the wind turbine market. Based in Denmark.

U.S. Wind Farming (USWF.PK) The federal court in Chicago entered a Final Judgment as to U.S. Wind Farming on October 20, 2006.

Western Wind Energy (WNDEF.PK) Produces clean renewable electrical energy from over 500 wind turbine generators located in Tehachapi and San Gorgonio Pass (Palm Springs), California.

Most of your stock brokers or online brokers will help you to invest. Here is a is of brokers that Yahoo came up with:

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=Auvom3gSuh4oaAf7rtI4eqMazKIX/SIG=111gjvvgj/*-http://search.yahoo.com/search?search=stock+brokers&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&ico-yahoo-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAmRh_LlDgmwpO3QSkb8_hOAazKIX%2FSIG%3D111gjvvgj%2F*-http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&ico-wikipedia-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAlG2aqCnjBEFyYm0aUT7MZ4azKIX%2FSIG%3D11ia1qo58%2F**http%253a%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%253aSearch&p=stock+brokers

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It is a very wide subject.
Here are a few pointers:
Les activités humaines mettent notre planète en danger. Elles sont une des causes du réchauffement global et de la pollution de l’air que nous respirons, de l’eau que nous buvons , de la mer et de la terre qui nous nous fournissent notre nourriture.
Nous voyageons trop, simplement pour le plaisir, et pas nécessairement par nécessité.
Nous consomons trop de matières premières apauvrissant les resources pour les générations futures. Les carburants que nous utilisons, les choses que nous brulons, la déforestation dans certaines parties du globe sont tous contributeurs de gaz carbonique qui cause l’effet de serre.
Nous manufacturons trop de choses inutiles dont nous disposons rapidement et que nous mettons dans nos poubelles.
Nous utilisons aussi des produits nocifs qui causent un nombre croissant de cancers dans la population.
Dans les pays prospères les gens mangent trop et de manière malsaine. Le nombre de gens obèses croit continuellement tandis que les habitants d’autres pays meurent de faim et de soif. En Afrique en particulier, les conditions de vie deviennent de plus en plus difficiles.

Toutefois la France fait de gros efforts pour utiliser des sources d’énergie propre: l’eau des montagnes, le vent ( éoliennes) et exerce le recyclage depuis un certain nombre d’années. Les gens y achètent des produits durables et de meilleure qualité en préférence aux pacotilles. On y mange moins de produits artificiels que dans d’autres pays, et le régime alimentaire y est plus modeste. C’est un pays agricole et les bois et les plantes y sont préservés et respectés. On y évite la pollution de l’eau et on minimise l’utilisation des engrais chimiques artificiels.

This is just a sketch and you have to add your own ideas, but it gives you a start. You will have to do a great deal of learning overnight.
Good luck with your oral!

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People want to be cool…or think they are cool

When everyone is doing something to be non-conforming……

It really isn’t non-conforming anymore……

It’s a fad

I saw 2 kids sitting on a sofa texting each other

They could of just turned to each other and had a conversation

BUT SOMEONE FIGURED OUT A WAY TO MAKE THEM PAY TO HAVE A CONVERSATION

and feel like they were “cool” while doing it

back to your question

Non-conformist?????

From Brando to James Dean to Steve McQueen to Easy Rider

The Baby Boomers ate it up…people still do

OF COURSE ..the one’s with “the knowing ” will cash in

Fads…from politics to sports teams to …..

“Buying our Identity”…by what cloths you wear , or if you have Long hair or shave your head, to riding a Harley to Hip Hop culture

YES we are duped

There is a lazar dot coming out of our television and computers and
magazines……

And it is on the foreheads of millions

Just take a course or do some extensive reading on “Public Relations”

It is easy enough to see…if you choose to look

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In terms of history, yes, most environmentally friendly Presidents were indeed Republican, in fact it was Republican President Teddy Roosevelt who established the national forests we have today. But as a former Republican myself, I can tell you that, most assuredly, the Democrats care more about the environment today. Some, however, try to exaggerate the issues of the environment in order to assert primacy as the nations leading environmentalists, and subsequently hurt the economy.

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Yes, sometimes it seems that we do what is politically feasible rather than what would actually have the greatest impact.

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Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

How Israel is preventing peace, doesn’t care about peace, and doesn’t want it.
Why would they anyway? They are living better lives than most Americans at the US taxpayers expense.

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Here is da website

http://www.shop.com/Clothes-a-Recycled+Fabric-q-k24-st.shtml

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Http://www.target.com/ Target has an eco- friendly line of clothing
http://www.mavi.com/ Mavi jeans are organic and pesticide free!
Http://www.shophullabaloo.com/catalog/index.html Vintage clothing and stuff… Recycling!
Http://www.nimli.com/ My personal favorite, Nimli has tons of eco- friendly clothing
http://www.growfreeusa.com/index.html another favorite, 100% organic cotton, AND made in the USA!

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I dunno i don’t think the logo is catchy enough. I like the idea but i don’t think i’ll pay any attion to it make up a new name and a better logo. It looks more like a local campian to start liveing green.

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It is very interesting when you are so concerned about eco friendly/organic clothing. Most clothing to be PC is made to “look” like animal skin and fur. Eco friendly/organic clothing is “real fur” and “real leather”. Most “look” like animal skin and fur is made out of synthetics, which is a by product of petroleum. Throw those PC clothes out and the degrading process is as long as a plastic bag and a styrofoam cup, etc. To answer your inseam question would best be served by Coldwater Creek, LL Bean, and Cabela. Among others which deal with higher end more expensive so called eco friendly/organic clothing (oxymoron) made from petroleum.

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Girl, these sites carry awesome and gorgeous clothing made from all eco-friendly materials like: organic cotton, hemp, soy, tencel and bamboo.

Faeries dance, lotus organics, kasper organics, prana (uses wind power too), blue canoe…and always check coop america, but those 5 are my top picks. Good luck! ~N

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Cuba, Peak Oil and Permaculture

Cuba is THE inspirational model for sustainable living.

The collapse of trade relations with the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries, and the tightening of the US blockade in early 1990s ceated a major economic crisis in Cuba known as the Special Period. Cuba lost half their oil overnight, lost 80% inport and export markets, food was scarce; people started to starve. They had a food crisis; they were unable to import food, farm chemicals nor use machinery to grow food by conventional means. Cuba HAD to become self sufficient and sustainable. Sustainable agriculture meant Permaculture style: organic farming, urban gardens and allotments, smaller farms, animal traction and biological means of pest control and fertilisation.

Government could not act quickly enough so gave the power back to the communities as people were starving. They made changes in land tenure, promoted agricultural education and training, and technological changes. Individuals and communities used Permaculture principles as the new model of food production using ecological pest management, intercropping, animal traction, organic soil management and the integration of crops and livestock. Without Oil they now live sustainably, supported by organic agriculture, urban gardens, renewable energy sources and they even transformed their transportation systems. There are approx 2.2 million people in Havana and 85% of all food comes from within the city grown on plots, roofs and in community spaces.

Cubans had no choice but to drastically reduce their energy consumption. However, there have been substantial benefits in Health due to improved diet and an increase in exercise from bike riding/walking/gardening. They have had to develop networks so community is strengthened and many say they have a much better quality of life than ever before. Their new values of cooperation, conservation and curtailment have enriched their lives. Cuba has a lot to show the world with how to deal with energy adversery. The Peak Oil crisis will effect us all, will mean a major change in all of our lives, so Cuba is a fantastic model for the rest of the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsnuTb4V9Qo
http://globalpublicmedia.com/articles/657
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~cohousing/cuba/hab9606/hab9606.htm
http://www.cosg.supanet.com/greencuba.html
http://www.cosg.org.uk/book-review1.htm
http://www.thepeakist.com/the-power-of-community-how-cuba-survived-peak-oil/#more-156
http://permaculture.org.au/?p=116
http://www.cityfarmer.org/NunezUA.html
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~cohousing/cuba/hab9606/hab9606.htm
http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2006/04/how-cuba-survived-peak-oil.html
http://www.newint.org/features/2007/07/01/international/

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I believe I also have a sustainable resource that will take the emphasis away from fossil fuels–well . . . Some undigested pinto beans, phewwwwww!

But seriously, I suggest peat moss–great resource!!!

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There may or may not be a national green conference, but I am guessing there is because there is one in the Upper Midwest of the USA. Here is the link:

http://www.o2umw.org/intro.html

I am sure that once you are browsing their website you’ll find something along the lines of what you’re looking for. Happy green designing!

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Get into too much debt.

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Read up about amish, they have minimal contact with outside world:
http://www.amish.net/faq.asp

If you literally mean zero contact with outside world, read this: http://www.wilderness-survival.net/

You can also watch the Village movie (2004, M. Night Shyamalan)

Electricity will not happen in a self-sufficient community. Even if you have all the necessary minerals, it will take close to a hundred people specializing in different aspects of mining, metal smelting, metalworking, making generators and electrical appliances, repairing them when they break. Your community will need thousands people to feed that hundred. On the other side, making candles can be done by 1 full-time person, or several people making them in their spare time.

In practice, such communities are typically farmers who trade organic producer with outside world for tools and machines. To set up a community, you will need farmland, equipment or animals to work it, and people who know how to farm, build and maintain houses, make and mend clothes, etc. Life in a community is hard, there is lots of manual labor and not much entertainment. You’d need a very charismatic leader to keep the people from leaving.

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Garbage in space

The plastic belt in the ocean

Organic Farming

Environmental Sustainability

Groundwater pollution

Acid deposition

Mammal Extinction

The Ocean Dead Zones

Polar Sea Ice Loss

Population Explosion

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I am not sure what you are attempting to convey with your question. If accounting the solve all for social and environmental issues? No, ethical standards must equal the company’s sustainability within the community. Any company concerned with social and/or environmental issues must develop a combination of not only way to support these theories through funding but also through their performance of services to the community. Nothing in the business world is purely numbers or words, although each play a part in the whole picture.

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Dead zones/algal blooms
Intensive farming
Logging
Resource depletion by overpopulation

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Drought.

Loss of habitat for native animals.

Global warming.

Rubbish in the waterways.

In appropriate chemicals in the waterways.

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Great question but wow – that’s really tough.

Ok – it’s a toss up for me between addressing the continued burning of fossil fuels and the increasing loss of biodiversity through habitat destruction, hunting, and overfishing. But – if I had to choose, I say the loss of biodiversity – extinction. My reson is this.

While the our reliance on fossil fuels is causing tremendous environmental problems and itself leading to extinctions through global warming, oil spills, etc. I believe that if we can preserve large areas of ecosystems and protect the organisms in those ecosystems, we will have a better chance of preserving Earth’s diversity. Doing so can in itself offset somewhat the effects of global warming. If these ecosystems can be preserved from human destruction and pressure, the organisms in their will have a better chance of being able to adjust to the climate changes. We have got to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels. But if we put preserving habitats and species on the back burner while doing this – we’ll be in much worse shape at the end. Each organism is irreplaceble and unique, and a link in the ecology of the region. Losing one can result in losing many more. And each one is a treasure.that we can never bring back. I can’t stomach that. We’ve got to find ways to get people invested in saving these areas or organisms. People have to feel the need, and I beleive when people are invested in saving the environment, they also push for solutions to global warming and the energy issues. They go hand in hand.

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The three r’s are recycle, reuse, reduce electrical use. Sorry that’s all I Know.

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….by not polluting the surroundings.

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I am assuming you are in the UK…
Http://www.defra.gov.UK/environment/sustainable/index.htm
this is the UK sustainable development main govt. Site… If you read the pdfs which are linked to on this page,,, that might help..
The introductions often give a good overview of the subject… That and the executive summaries (if there are any)…. Usually help. They may also refer to other papers which are relevant to the subject… Also have a look at any referencing… If you find the original source,,, it may give you further clarification with out being clouded by interpretation for the second or sometimes third time…
Good luck…
This may also be useful
http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/what/index.htm

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Hemp cloth, rice paper, cotton, bamboo, etc

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Based on experiences of many countries of the last crisis in 1997, the fiscal deficit should not exceed 8% of GDP. It will induce speculants to attack the dollars. The value of the dollars is now sinking to the floor. That is the problem we are worried about. Is it a crossroad or temporarily situation? We don’t know for now.