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Joelle Nebbe-Mornod

BEarthright - Spiritual Economics - 0 views

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    "If you own no land to support yourself, you must rent, hire or buy it from those that do, so that you may both live and make a living If you cannot use the planet to feed, clothe and provide for yourself then to stay alive, you must choose to either work for those who own your planet, to become a thief or a beggar, or to die. This servitude has taken on many forms throughout history: slavery, serfdom, day-labour, employment. The only variation being the share of the wealth produced left to the planet borrowers by the planet owners This simple reality underlies much of today's poverty, inequality, lack of freedom, unemployment and powerlessness, experienced as the sheer struggle to get by that looms so large in so many peoples' lives These latter day pharaohs, the planet owners, the richest 5% - allow the rest of us to pay day after day for the right to live on their planet. And as we make them richer, they buy yet more of the planet for themselves, and use their wealth and power to fight amongst themselves over what each posesses ~ though of course it's actually us who have to fight and die in their wars"
Benno Hansen

Memory, The Most Important Overlooked Environmental Tool? : TreeHugger - 0 views

  • what we consider normal levels of energy use, gadget use, clothing purchases, car usage, flying, et cetera etc etc in the really not so distant past were lower.
  • Just one example, air conditioning use. What once was considering a luxury is unquestioningly now called a necessity in more and more places--in the process ignoring entirely the fact that 1) air conditioning is a historically modern invention, 2) places used to be built with natural cooling in mind, 3) it simply isn't a necessity for the vast majority of people
  • How often people used to eat meat
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  • how to build communities not centered around de facto mandatory automobile ownership
  • how many fish used to swim in streams and the oceans, how many birds used to fly in the skies, how many bigger animals used to be in our forests
window-tinting

Chicago Window Tint Can Escape You From Glass Shards - 0 views

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    Are you interested in decorating your home windows and doors? You can make use of Chicago window tint for this purpose, instead of using other window treatments like drapes, curtains, etc. You can get number of benefits from tinting the windows rather than using other treatments.
eyal matsliah

The No Impact sustainable eating plan - 0 views

  • A diet that is local, unfrozen and unprocessed, seasonal, organic or near-organic, has no packaging and is based on mostly grain and vegetables, including little or no beef or dairy
  • Production has its impact by water use, land use, energy use, and herbicide and pesticide use:
  • Eat organic or close to it—to cut down on the chemicals.
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  • Eating seasonally—avoids carbon emissions produced by oil-guzzling boilers used to heat greenhouses and by power plants used to keep things frozen.
  • If  you’re veggie, eat more eggs than cheese—one pound of cheese takes ten pounds of milk to make. It has about the same impact as a pound of beef.  I’ve read that far-away beans as a protein source may be better than local cheese. Eat fresh and seasonal—freezing and keeping food frozen is not so low impact.
  • Bring your own cloth shopping bags and buy loose produce.
  • Distribution means transportation and the average piece of American food has traveled 1500 Miles to get to your plate. I emphasize local because: A regional and local food system would release five to seventeen times less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than our current national and international model (according to this Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture study).
Benno Hansen

'The hockey stick is broken' | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist - 1 views

  • Study of the past can be informative for scientists, but it is not explanatory of the present nor is it predictive of the future.
  • The infamous "Hockey Stick" graph was featured prominently in the IPCC TAR Summary for Policymakers.
  • Two Canadians, an economist and a petroleum geologist, took it upon themselves to verify this proxy reconstruction by getting the data and examining the methodology for themselves. They found errors in the description published in Nature of the data used -- errors that prevented them from duplicating the study. Mann et al., the hockey stick's creators, published a correction in Nature, noting where the description did not match what had actually been done.
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  • The fact is, there are dozens of other temperature reconstructions. They tend to show more variability than the original hockey stick (their sticks are not as straight), but they all support the general conclusions the IPCC TAR presented in 2001: late 20th century warming is anomalous in the last one or two thousand years, and the 1990s were likely warmer than any other time in that period.
  • dozens of other proxy reconstructions, some by the same team or involving some of its members, some by completely different people, some using tree rings, some using corals, some using stalagmites, some using borehole measurements -- all supporting the same general conclusion. That general conclusion is what's important to me, not whether or not one Bristlecone pine was or was not included correctly in a single eight-year-old study.
Jack Travis

Use Lithium-ion battery storage to stabilize the power grid - 0 views

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    For many, using lithium-ion batteries to store energy has proven to be too expensive to be worth-while. This happens to not be the case for Chris Shelton of AES Energy Storage.
window-tinting

Watch promotional Videos on 3m window films in Illinois - 0 views

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    Looking for Videos about 3M Window Films in Chicago Illinois? You've found us! Visit our website today for more information or just give us a call at (708 )388-2800!
teremoso

Girl Gone Wild on Free Porn Videos - 1 views

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Mark Kabbbash

WM Stock News : Waste Management and Shanghai Chengtou Holding Partner in China's Fast ... - 0 views

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    "SC Holding and SEG are great partners for us as we venture into the growing Chinese market," said David Steiner, CEO of Waste Management. "We see waste as a resource, and we see international expansion of our waste-to-energy business through our subsidiary, Wheelabrator Technologies Inc, as a growth engine for us in the future. Wheelabrator's operational excellence coupled with SEG's market position and local expertise provides a strong competitive advantage. Through this joint venture, SEG can bring increased operating and technical efficiencies and solutions to the rapidly growing Chinese waste-to-energy market."
Maluvia Haseltine

Four New Solar-Powered Ferries Coming to Hong Kong : TreeHugger - 0 views

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    Wow! Incredible use of Solar Power! Hope they start using these in Puget Sound!
Benno Hansen

Industrialized Farming Endangers World Food Supply - 0 views

  • Multi-national food corporations are increasingly using global food insecurity as a tool for political control.
  • rich countries are buying poor countries’ fertile soil, water and sun to ship food and fuel back home.
  • “USAID is actually an arm of the US-Department of Defense; it serves US foreign policy interest and has little to do with humanism.”
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  • South Africa repeats the pattern of Iraq and of Afghanistan, where new laws prohibit farmers to save or trade their own seeds.
  • The Oil-for-Food program in Iraq forced the large-scale importation of food after the first Gulf War. Devastated Iraqi farmers then became the victims of USAID.
  • Under US occupation, Iraqi farmers must pay a “technology fee” plus an annual license fee to agribusinesses supplying the seeds and equipment. Similar policies exist in Afghanistan
  • “The war provides these corporations with both a lucrative short-term market in the blossoming “reconstruction” industry and an opportunity to integrate Afghanistan into their global production networks and markets in the long term.”
Maluvia Haseltine

KickStart :: About Us - 0 views

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    KickStart's mission is to help millions of people out of poverty. We promote sustainable economic growth and employment creation in Kenya and other countries. We develop and promote technologies that can be used by dynamic entrepreneurs to establish and run profitable small scale enterprises.
silodistillery

Best Bourbon whiskey - 0 views

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    Our Bourbon is aged from spirits made entirely in house using Vermont corn and rye. We craft it in small batches to ensure a consistently exceptional flavor, using small American white oak barrels. It is equally smokey and rich, with just the right amount of sweet. Awarded Bronze by the New York International Spirits Competition, 2014 Double Gold by TheFiftyBest.com, 2015
Alex Parker

US wind energy by state: Ranking the top 10 - 1 views

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    The US is the second largest producer of wind energy in the world, but output by state varies by factors including size, climate and policy. What are the top ten US states by wind energy capacity
insaangroup

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: INSAAN GROUP - insaan ... - 0 views

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    At today scenario people used to work for themselves so to get all those things which make them superstar in another eyes and they used to do those work which harm others. Now a days you have only…
biodegradable123

Disposable bowls - 0 views

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    Disposable bowls have been the standard for convenience and ease of use for a long time. However, the impact of this convenience on the environment has become increasingly apparent in recent years. The use of disposable bowls contributes to a large amount of waste, and the disposal of these products can take hundreds of years to decompose. Biodegradable salad bowls are a more sustainable alternative to disposable bowls, offering a range of benefits for both consumers and the environment.
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    Disposable bowls have been the standard for convenience and ease of use for a long time. However, the impact of this convenience on the environment has become increasingly apparent in recent years. The use of disposable bowls contributes to a large amount of waste, and the disposal of these products can take hundreds of years to decompose. Biodegradable salad bowls are a more sustainable alternative to disposable bowls, offering a range of benefits for both consumers and the environment.
Plantora App

4 Ways to Propagate Hydrangeas to Create New Plants - Plantora - 0 views

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    Hydrangeas are easily propagated, and doing so will provide you with an abundance of these flowering shrubs. These plants are easily propagated using various methods, and they look beautiful both indoors and outdoors. Plant propagation is the process of growing new plants from existing ones. This simple procedure allows you to fill your garden with a variety of plants, including Hydrangeas. These plants come in a dozen kinds, and nearly all of them may be reproduced. Hydrangeas have large flowers in a variety of colors, including pink, blue, white, purple, and more. All you need are some healthy hydrangeas, and with the right time and effort, you can multiply these plants. Hydrangeas are beautiful flowering plants that may grow in both indoor and outdoor environments. This post will explain how to propagate hydrangeas and the various methods you can utilize. So, without further ado, let us begin.
Jon Snow

Documents: Leaked Industry E-Mails and Reports Shale gas = Ponzi scheme - 0 views

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    Des fuites d'industriels US qui descendent les gaz de schistes: non sens economique, bulle spéculative, pyramide de ponzi, stocks incertains... On parle meme pas de pollution.
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Reliable Professional Funeral Service - 1 views

As we all know, it is really difficult to make major decisions when you are grieving which I have experienced during my mom's death. No one in the family was able to fully decide on the kind of fun...

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Benno Hansen

World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch | Environment | ... - 1 views

  • humans are using 30% more resources than the Earth can replenish each year, which is leading to deforestation, degraded soils, polluted air and water, and dramatic declines in numbers of fish and other species
  • we are running up an ecological debt of $4tr (£2.5tr) to $4.5tr every year
  • populations and consumption keep growing faster than technology finds new ways of expanding what can be produced from the natural world
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  • by 2030, if nothing changes, mankind would need two planets to sustain its lifestyle
  • Sir David King, the British government's former chief scientific adviser, said: "We all need to agree that there's a crisis of understanding, that we're removing the planet's biodiverse resources at a rate which is as fast if not faster than the world's last great extinction."
  • 50 countries are already experiencing "moderate to severe water stress on a year-round basis"
  • 27 countries are "importing" more than half the water they consume - in the form of water used to produce goods from wheat to cotton - including the UK, Switzerland, Austria, Norway and the Netherlands.
  • A person's footprint ranges vastly across the globe, from eight or more "global hectares" (20 acres or more) for the biggest consumers in the United Arab Emirates, the US, Kuwait and Denmark, to half a hectare in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Afghanistan and Malawi.
  • The global average consumption was 2.7 hectares a person, compared with a notional sustainable capacity of 2.1 hectares.
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