Your Questions About Green Living

The launch of Yahoo university college centre sustainable strategic integrated learning and living (YUCCSSILL)

Education is to be exact definate useful calculative accountable transparent informative orderly and neutral.It means”a food that satisfies you all the time and also remember to always wash your hands before eating that traditional food that you enjoy very much which quenches your thirst for human wants for life in one of our liguistics dialects about 2000 years ago.Education is to remember your own home mother father upbring life style and always let the world know how you have been brought up, and why you think the way you think or do things the way you do them or say things the way you say them.The beggining and the end of our sustainable class is”Know why you are called by your name”from our global satelite navigation transmission station(GSNTS)our space Shuttle curretly in the orbit,Mission Oask G8 a soundsonic silence device travelling for 880 days to cover 880 billion air land sea fields miles to collect all Dna bio-metrics genetics organics genes account records on all humans

Would you go to and earth friendly cafe?

I’m thinking of opening a cafe centered around sustainable, chemical and hormone free foods. Vegetarian, vegan, etc.
I do have experience, I ‘m just wondering if my dream is really worth the investment..
Any ideas?
Wow!
Thanks for all the response! I actually am already a chef, who works 17 hour days 6 days a week, so this would actually be a Reduction in hours!!
It’s really great to see so many people aware and willing to change their habits. I am in Vermont, already a key crowd to target with healthy alternatives, and a great area to utilize locally produced foods!

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CHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An analysis of 20 years’ worth of real-life observations supports recent U.N. computer predictions that by 2050, summer sea ice off Alaska’s north coast will probably shrink to nearly half the area it covered in the 1980s, federal scientists say.

The polar bear is being considered for threatened species status because of changes in habitat.

Such a loss could have profound effects on mammals dependent on the sea ice, such as polar bears, now being considered for threatened species status because of changes in habitat due to global warming. It could also threaten the catch of fishermen.

In the 1980s, sea ice receded 30 to 50 miles each summer off the north coast, said James Overland, a Seattle-based oceanographer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

“Now we’re talking about 300 to 500 miles north of Alaska,” he said of projections for 2050.

That’s far past the edge of the highly productive waters over the relatively shallow continental shelf, considered important habitat for polar bears and their main prey, ringed seals, as well as other ice-dependent mammals, such as walrus.

The NOAA researchers reviewed 20 computer scenarios of the effects of warming on sea ice, used by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its assessment report released this year.

The researchers compared those models with observations from 1979 through 1999, Overland said, and concluded that the summer ice in the Beaufort Sea likely will have diminished by 40 percent, compared with its 1980s area.

The same is likely for the East Siberian-Chukchi Sea region off northwest Alaska and Russia. In contrast, Canada’s Baffin Bay and Labrador showed little predicted change.

There was less confidence for winter ice, but the models also predict a sea ice loss of more than 40 percent for the Bering Sea off Alaska’s west coast, the Sea of Okhotsk east of Siberia and the Barents Sea north of Norway.

The research paper by Overland and Muyin Wang, a NOAA meteorologist, will be published Saturday in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.

The situation is dire for polar bears, said Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity, who wrote the petition seeking federal protection for the animals.

“They’re going to drown, they’re going to starve, they’re going to resort to cannibalism, they’re going to become extinct,” she said.

As ice recedes, many bears will get stuck on land in summer, where they have virtually no sustainable food source, Siegel said. Some will try and fail to swim to sea ice, she said.

Bears that stay on sea ice will find water beyond the continental shelf to be less productive, she said, and females trying to den on land in the fall will face a long swim.

“It’s absolutely horrifying from the polar bear perspective,” she said.

Less sea ice also will mean a changing ecosystem for commercial fishermen and marine mammals in the Bering Sea, Overland said.

With sea ice present, many of the nutrients produced in the ocean feed simple plankton that bloom and sink to the ocean floor, providing rich habitat for crabs, clams and the mammals that feed on them, including gray whales and walrus.

“If you don’t have the ice around, the productivity stays up closer to the surface of the ocean,” Overland said. “You actually have a change in the whole ecosystem from one that depends on the animals that live on the bottom to one that depends on the animals that live in the water column. So you have winners and losers.”

That could mean short-term gains for salmon and pollock, he said. But it also could mean that fishermen will have to travel farther north to fish in Alaska’s productive waters, and warm-water predators might move north.

The contribution to warming by greenhouse gas emissions likely is set, he said. Emissions stay in the atmosphere for 40 to 50 years before the ocean absorbs them. The amount emitted in the past 20 years and the carbon dioxide put out in the next 20 will linger, Overland said.

“I’m afraid to say, a lot of the images we are going to see in the next 30 to 40 years are pretty much already established,” he said.

Since republicans hate food stamps, that means they must want low income workers to starve, right?

http://news.yahoo.com/usa-becomes-food-stamp-nation-sustainable-160645036.html;_ylt=Aob26E_3.t6LP61jfBV4AGDxh7l_

So why do you Republicans hate the low income workers so much that you would rather have them starve or have to choose between homelessness or eating? Why do you automatically assume (incorrectly ) that ll food stamp recipients are poor? and WHY under ANY circumstances do yu think its okay to let people starve? Why do you believe (wrongfully) that private charities are in anyway sufficient to make up for the BAD wages being paid by many companies like Wal-Mart, which not even a flea could live on…

Never mind that most food stamp recipients work hard at low-paying dead end jobs, never mind that those jobs don’t offer growth opportunities, never mind that those jobs don’t allow a person with as family or even a single person to rent an apartment, or pay utilities, or food, MUCH LESS education…never mind that while these people get paid CRAP, CEO billionaires are making billions of their cheap labor while these people can barely live, and have no hope…no you people always seem to oppose things like food stamps

Is it because you are all naive fools, or just really greedy, evil, selfish, self centered human beings with no concern for anyone else and no concept of economic reality (capitalism ONLY helps the rich get richer)? Im honest here, this isn’t a rhetorical question…so what is it? And WHY do you want poor people to starve?

PS –you can report this all you want, ill keep posting…not that you republicans will btther reading before answering my questions…

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LCA is a method used to analyze the consumption and environmental burdens associated with a product. LCA takes into account energy input and output involved in all stages of the life cycle including production, processing, packaging, transport and retirement. LCA evaluation accounts for a matrix of sustainability indicators beyond greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), including resource depletion, air and water pollution, human health impacts and waste generation. This method provides a more holistic approach to assessing the impact our food choices have on the environment. If a life cycle assessment approach is pursued, hopefully pressure will shift from reducing “food miles” – which can be a small percentage of the total energy input – to reducing emissions in all stages in the cycle of world

Proponents of reducing food miles often suggest that buying local food will reduce the amount of energy involved in the transportation process, as food sourced locally travels shorter distances. The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture has conducted several studies that compare the distance traveled by conventional versus local foods. Figure 3, compiled by the Leopold Center, compares food miles for local versus conventional produce traveling to Iowa. In all cases, the locally grown food travels a significantly shorter distance than the conventionally sourced food. It is interesting to note that when the transportation method was taken into account, the local food system required more energy and emitted more CO2 than the regional system. This is because the trunks supplying food locally had a smaller capacity, therefore requiring more trips and logging more miles. It has been shown that local food systems do reduce food miles, which in turn tend to reduce energy consumption, but there are exceptions. Local transportation systems may not always be as efficient as regional systems, depending on the mode of transport and load capacity.