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Chelcie

Pollution Persian Gulf - Persian Journal Opinion Latest Iran news & Iranian newspaper o... - 0 views

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shared by Chelcie on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • Chelcie on 28 May 07
     
    This article is about how the Persian Gulf is being polluted due to heavy transportation of oil rigs. "Due to the war and high rate of water evaporation, extended drilling and oil extraction, pollution of the water has increased alarmingly."
Chelcie

China says water pollution so severe that cities could lack safe supplies - 0 views

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shared by Chelcie on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • Chelcie on 28 May 07
     
    This article is about water pollution in China and how shortages of good water could significantly affect their society. An interesting fact is that "China supports 21% of the worlds population with just 7% of its water supplies.
sleavitt

CorpWatch : General Electric - 0 views

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corporations natural_resources pollution

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  • sleavitt on 28 May 07
     
    It is very interesting to see how GE has benefitted from the US's war on terror. 90 percent of GE's nuclear power plants could discharge radiation into the atmosphere. It is responsible for polluting 78 Superfund sites, and is pushing the government to overturn Superfund legislation. Fraud and poor safety for workers are also issues. Why don't we see this on the ecomagination commercials?
bmoran

Global Dimming - Global Issues - 0 views

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shared by bmoran on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • If we were to use global dimming pollutants to stave off the effects of global warming, we would still face many problems, such as:Human health problems from the soot/smogEnvironmental problems such as acid rainEcological problems such as changes in rainfall patterns (as the Ethiopian famine example above reminds us) which can kill millions, if not billions.Climatologists are stressing that the roots of both global dimming causing pollutants and global warming causing greenhouse gases have to be dealt with together and soon.
  • The death toll that global dimming may have already caused is thought to be massive.Climatologists studying this phenomenon believe that the reflection of heat have made waters in the northern hemisphere cooler. As a result, less rain has formed in key areas and crucial rainfall has failed to arrive over the Sahel in Northern Africa.In the 1970s and 1980s, massive famines were caused by failed rains which climatologists had never quite understood why they had failed.The answers that global dimming models seemed to provide, the documentary noted, has led to a chilling conclusion: “what came out of our exhaust pipes and power stations [from Europe and North America] contributed to the deaths of a million people in Africa, and afflicted 50 million more” with hunger and starvation.
sleavitt

Dow Chemical Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • sleavitt on 28 May 07
     
    Second largest chemical manufacturer in the world, and largest producer of plastics. Responsible for 20,000 deaths in the Bhopal disaster in India, was the sole supplier of napalm to the US in  the Vietnam War, and manufactured Agent Orange. The Human Element indeed.
bmoran

The nuclear fallacy | Greenpeace International - 0 views

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shared by bmoran on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • Nuclear power remains dangerous, polluting, expensive and non-renewable. More nuclear power means more nuclear weapons proliferation, more nuclear-armed states, more potential "dirty bombs" and more targets for terrorists. It also means less resources invested in real solutions to growing energy demands.
  • If we would replace all fossil fuels with nuclear power, the world would run out of uranium in less than four years.
  • Currently, nuclear is a marginal energy source, supplying only two percent of the world energy demand, and there is no realistic scenario in which this could be significantly increased.
  • bmoran on 28 May 07
     
    Although nuclear power seems to be an option, this article claims that, with our current technology and resources, it is a non-renewable option that will promote, rather than solve, problems concerning global warming, nuclear arms proliferation, etc.
bmoran

Geothermal | Greenpeace International - 0 views

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  • bmoran on 28 May 07
     
    The earth's core is very hot!  If we can tap into this renewable source of energy, we will be able to satisfy a large chunk of our energy needs while simultaneously cutting down emissions and pollution dramatically.
Lynn Dee

The Center for Clean Products - Welcome - 0 views

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shared by Lynn Dee on 29 May 07 - Cached
  • develop, evaluate, and promote cleaner products and cleaner technologies that minimize pollution at the source and contribute to long-term sustainable development.
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      Lynn Dee on 29 May 07
       
      this site is dedicated to that mission of the organization and gives different examples of things that are being done and things that can be done.
jcoop11

The Maori - Spirituality - New Zealand in History - 0 views

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shared by jcoop11 on 17 May 07 - Cached
  • Most things contain "mana" - spiritual essence. Mana is within man himself, land, nature, and also man-made objects. Contact with mana contained objects or beings by non-authorised persons or objects could cause the mana to be drained away.
  • In the beginning the belief was that the god Tane offered mankind three baskets of knowledge - "Nga Kete-o-te-Wananga". Within these baskets were the stories of creation, instructions concerning magic, etc. The Māori believe all living things are descended from the Gods, embodied within certain mountains, rivers and lakes. All things have a type of soul - the wairua. This is why the Māori have strong spiritual ties to the land.
  • Extremely strict rules of "tapu" protected ceremonial objects
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  • Tapu is the strongest force in Māori life. It has numerous meanings and references. Tapu can be interpreted as "sacred", or defined as "spiritual restriction" or "implied prohibition", containing a strong imposition of rules and prohibitions. A person, an object or a place, which is tapu, may not be touched by human contact. In some cases, not even approached. A person, object or a place could be made sacred by tapu for a certain time, and the two main types of tapu were private and public. Private tapu concerned individuals, and public tapu concerned communities. In earlier times, tribal members of a higher rank would not touch objects which belonged to members of a lower rank. This was considered "pollution". Similarly, persons of a lower rank could not touch the belongings of a highborn person. Death was the penalty.
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