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A Simple Way To Offset the Environmental Effects of Driving

We all love our cars. They give us the freedom to come and
go as we please, to get to work, to visit family and
friends, to go shopping…on our own schedule. But
automobiles also effect the environment by polluting the air
we breathe and, in the larger scope of life, by creating
unusual climate changes.

But there is a simple thing you can do to offset the
negative environmental effects of driving your car, and It
costs less than $100 a year.

HOW DRIVING YOUR CAR AFFECTS THE ENVIRONMENT

If you drive a standard American automobile, your car emits
about 12,000 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year.
That’s three times the weight of the car! If you drive an
SUV, your car emits around 20,000 pounds of CO2 each year.

CO2 is a major “greenhouse gas.” Back around 1800, before
there were cars and industry, the CO2-concentration in the
air was about 280 ppm (1 ppm CO2= one molecule of CO2 per
one million molecules of air). Today, as the result of human
activities, the CO2-concentration in the air is about 370
ppm, and increasing by 1.7 ppm every year. And we’re adding
CO2 faster than it decomposes. Every molecule of CO2 we add
to the atmosphere stays there for about 100 years.

Many scientists are warning that this increase in CO2 is
raising the average temperature of the planet, known as the
“greenhouse effect.” The widely respected WorldWatch
Institute has warned that severe climate change could
include major shifts in weather patterns and agricultural
zones, resulting in droughts and floods. A wide range of
human and natural systems could be disrupted, displacing
long-standing economic and social systems as well as
established ecosystems.

Twenty percent of the carbon dioxide released into the
atmosphere every year comes from driving cars. That is a
significant percentage. This won’t be changed by
international protocols or government regulations. But each
one of us can make a difference by reducing our own CO2
emissions.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS PRODUCED BY DRIVING
YOUR CAR

CO2 emissions come primarily from the burning of fossil
fuels for energy. When you drive your car, use public
transportation, use electricity in your home or at work, or
fly on an airplane, you are contributing CO2 emissions into
the air. Most consumer products you buy are made with energy
from burning fossil fuels that produce CO2.

But there are also other ways to make energy. Renewable
energy sources such as solar, wind, and biomass are called
“clean” energy sources because they don’t produce CO2.

Today, various products are available that allow you to
offset the CO2 you produce by purchasing an equivalent
amount of energy from renewable sources that do not produce
CO2. This CO2-free energy flows into a local or national
grid, eliminating the need to burn fossil fuels that would
create the same amount of CO2. So while your car is still
adding CO2 to the atmosphere, your purchase of renewable
energy is subtracting the same amount of CO2 that would have
gone into the atmosphere someplace else.

TerraPass is one organization that has a program to purchase
renewable energy to offset the CO2 produced by your car. You
simply choose the TerraPass that corresponds to the type of
car and number of miles you drive. Terra Pass guarantees the
money from your membership will result in a reduction of
carbon dioxide that counterbalances the pollution from your
car through the purchase of renewable energy certificates.
You get a TerraPass decal for your car and the good feeling
that you are doing something to keep our climate as nature
intended.

My husband and I each purchased a TerraPass for our cars. A
TerraPass for my husband’s efficient Geo Metro was only
$39.95/year and my TerraPass for my Honda Del Sol was
$49.95/year. A small price to pay to do something real and
practical to protect our beautiful planet.

About the Author

Hailed as “The Queen of Green” by the New York Times, Debra
Lynn Dadd has been a leading consumer advocate for products
and lifestyle choices that are better for health and the
environment since 1982. Visit her website at
http://www.dld123.com to learn more about her new book Home
Safe Home, to sign up for her free email newsletters, and to
browse 100s of links to 1000s of nontoxic, natural and
earthwise products.

Gorilla Classification

Gorilla Classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Primates

Family: Hominidae

Genus: Gorilla

Species: WESTERN GORILLA | EASTERN GORILLA

Subspecies:

Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Cross River Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli)

Eastern Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri)

Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)

Bwindi Gorilla (Gorilla beringei ?)*

Scientific classification of living organisms is known as
Linnaean Taxonomy, named for the person who developed it,
Carolus Linnaeus. This form of classification designates living
organisms into a descending hierarchical structure, starting
with kingdoms at the top. It should however be noted that many
modern biologists consider Domains to be a classification above
Kingdoms. As seen from the outline above, Kingdoms are divided
into phylum (phyla is the plural form) which in turn are broken
down into subphyla, then into classes and so on and so forth.

Basic concept on how species are named.

A species’ name is binomial (two words in the name). The first
word is the generic name and always starts with a Capital
letter. The second word is the specific name and always begins
with a small letter. If there’s a third word in the name this
refers to the sub-species of that particular species. So for
example Gorilla beringei graueri , Gorilla refers to the genus,
beringei refers to the species and graueri refers to the
sub-species.

THE LONG WINDING ROAD TO MODERN DAY GORILLA
CLASSIFICATION

Gorillas were originally designated the scientific name
Troglodytes gorilla by Thomas Savage in 1847.
However the genus Troglodytes had already been described for the
chimpanzee. And the plot thickens yet; fifty or so years later
someone made the astute observation that the genus Troglodytes
couldn’t properly belong to the chimpanzee because prior to
being ascribed to the chimpanzee, it had actually been allocated
to a bird. The wren!

Evidently taxonomy back then was not an exact science. It was
not uncommon for species to be named on the basis of a whim. In
the case of gorilla classification, quite often the individual
who published the description was ignorant (or at best had a
very vague idea) of the geography of Africa, never mind
accurately pin-pointing the place-of-origin of a specimen.

In 1852 the gorilla was eventually designated the genus Gorilla
by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. After that the process of
gorilla taxonomy hummed along more smoothly. That said, it
should be pointed out that even today there’re still some issues
of contention; though most experts recognize two species with
corresponding two sub-species apiece, there still some who
contend that there is only one true gorilla species and four
subspecies.

Tip: Gorilla gorilla = Western Species | Gorilla
beringei = Eastern Species

_____________________________

* The question mark reflects the current contention on whether
this is a true subspecies or merely a mountain gorilla variation
(as it was considered until fairly recently).

Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day to everyone!
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What can you do to make a difference - pick up a copy of our book, Trash Talk, & we’ll show you a myriad of simple ideas to reduce consumption of resources & new ways to manage your contribution to the landfill. (okay - forgive us for the little plug!)

Just the other day there was a group of children walking down our streets downtown with bags cleaning up the area. We could all learn from this selfless act. Did you know that wind and traffic breezes carry waste from inland to water ways? Up to 80% of the waste found in water ways originates inland. Something to think about…

There are all kinds of things we can do today, starting right now that make an immediate difference: choose to walk or bicycle to your destinations or bring home a tree or other environmentally beneficial plant that produces food, cleans air, water and soil or prevents erosion. Look around your home and office. Are you managine waste and energy as efficiently as you can? How about stand-by power use? This is the power continually consumed by flashing lights and power lights (on appliances, stereos, computer equipment and so on) when equipment is not in use. Unplug these power drains today.

Yes, these are just little things, but they do make a difference. Earth Day is about awareness - it is about engaging individuals to make a difference. Pretty soon it is like ripples in a pond, the waves just keep getting bigger.

About the Author

– Written by Dave and Lillian Brummet based on the concept of their book, Trash Talk. The book offers useful solutions for the individual to reduce waste and better manage resources. A guide for anyone concerned about their impact on the environment. (http://www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit)

Thirty positive actions for a sustainable Earth

There are many ways we can use our human energy to lighten the load on natural resources and tread lightly on our home planet. Check how many of these you do already:

1. Recycle and re-use
Wherever possible, separate waste into compost material, bottles, tins, paper, clothing etc and make sure that these get recycled. See if your local council has a policy for recycling, food reclamation to fuel or even methane extraction from waste. If they don’t - start one. Ask your neighbours to contribute to a local composting station.

“The UK has one of the worst recycling records in Europe (12.4%) compared with 64% in Austria, 52% in Belgium, 50% in Germany and 47% in the Netherlands.
In the UK we bury 80% of our rubbish in landfills, compared to the Swiss who only landfill 7% of their rubbish.” (The Observer 2004)

2. Shop locally or order a veg box
Give your local farmers a boost by buying direct - either by visiting farms, farmer’s markets or through vegetable box schemes - which are usually organic. This saves transport costs in ‘food miles’ and guarantees, fresh, local, un-polluted and healthy, in-season food. Try and avoid supermarkets and shop locally when possible to enhance your own local micro-economy.

“The average household [in UK] spends £470 a year (or one sixth of its total food budget) on packaging. In a typical Asda or Tesco shopping basket only 26% of the cost is accounted for by food; the rest is packaging, processing, transport, store overheads, advertising and the mark-up of supermarkets which is sometimes as high as 45%.” (National Farmers’ Union)

3. Make more of your own food from fresh
Stop buying ready-meals and throw away your microwave. Take the time to make healthy, balanced and delicious meals and condiments from wholesome raw ingredients. Be like the French and live to eat - rather than eat to live ! Eating food is the only activity apart from sex that involves all of our senses.

4. Promote community exchange
If you can exchange skills, items or energy direct with other people without the use of money - this makes your activities more efficient. If you can share resources with people around you - then you don’t have to earn so much to buy things and you don’t have to work as much.

5. Improve local diversity of nature
See what you can do to provide the right ecosystems to promote local biodiversity. Bring butterflies, moths, birds, wild flowers and so on into your local environment by providing the resources they need.

6. Review domestic energy use
Check whether you can save energy by cutting down consumption or being more efficient. There are government schemes in the UK to help with heating efficiency and insulation. Even switching off at the plug at night saves power -those little red ‘power on’ lights add up to over £4 million of electricity used in the UK each year ! Look at how your home uses energy and where it can be saved, even if it means putting a jumper on occasionally.

7. Start a local investment scheme
If you want to save for a future - doesn’t it make sense to invest in something you can see and touch - like a local investment system that brings a return on your money and improves your own locality ? Invest money where you can see what it is doing - and where you can lend a hand if needs be. Community companies, local co-operatives and credit unions are a growing resource for sustainable local investment. What better way is there than to invest your energy directly into your local micro-economy where you can cherish it ?

8. Use an ethical banking system
Just what does your money do when you invest it a bank? Do you invest in the land mines that blow off children’s legs ? Do you support armaments manufacturing, the over-exploitation of rainforests, globalised cartels intent on raping the planet ? Does your default investment in a bank endorse child slavery and prostitution, international drug running and money laundering ? Check the investment policies of your bank to see just where they are putting your energy as an investment. If you
don’t like what you see, at least consider using an ethical bank that might invest in things you want in the world. Even better - reach for a lifestyle that doesn’t include a bank account at all.

Did you invest in this ?
“Japanese physicist Professor Yagasaki calculated that the 500+ metric tonnes of depleted uranium (DU) that the US unleashed on Afghanistan was the radioactive equivalent of 51,875 atomic bombs of the size dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
During the 2003 Gulf War the amount of DU used was the equivalent of 103,750 atomic bombs the size of that dropped on Nagasaki. DU fallout will travel from the Middle East to the UK, US and parts of Asia.” (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War)

9. Review car use and petrol consumption
The real price of petrol, if you apply economic principles to its production - that includes the time the earth has taken to make it - comes in at over £1 million per gallon. Its use produces awful chemical pollution and extreme noise. Most internal combustion engines run at an incredibly low efficiency (usually about 20%). The logic of having something that weighs over a ton to transport a single person defeats me. Yes, I know they’re incredibly convenient compared to the alternatives and that many motors have cult status but - come on - there has to be a better way than this ! Boy am I looking forward to hydrogen / oxygen fuel cells. Cycling is great!

10. Start a local energy collective
Your roofs are a resource ! Take a look at some of the rooftop energy panels available today. Chat with your neighbours about a collective approach to local energy needs. Sell your excess energy back to the grid ! Intermediate technology combined with modern technology in wind, solar or water power has come of age so start your own power supply.

11. Learn more about the nature in your local environment
Which wild animals and plants live in your environment? Share some time with them and see what they can teach you. Become a direct ‘friend of nature’ and explore how other species see the world we share. You could even adopt some wild nature near you and ‘look out’ for it.

12. Make things from found or recycled materials
Do you remember the fun you had whittling wood when you were younger? Keep an eye out for interesting wood you can prepare to make useful things. So much stuff is just thrown away or destroyed that could be useful again given a little T.L.C. Wild wood can make attractive coat hangers, boxes, shelves, even furniture.
Waste skips often have objects that can easily be given a ‘new life’. Working with your hands to make things ‘new’ can be a deeply satisfying experience.

13. Make your own Christmas and birthday presents
Take time out to make things that you enjoy and give them away to people you love. These have a value way over anything you can buy. If you have a creative hobby - use it to make gifts instead of buying them. If you don’t - find a hobby or activity that puts you in touch with natural things.

14. Stop using pharmaceutical drugs and chemicals and go natural
We are in a culture where medical consumerism is the norm. Explore some of the alternatives like using your food as preventative and curative medicine, or learn about the herbs and spices that have traditionally boosted mankind’s health for millennia. There are many gentle ways to find, promote and maintain health and you will find some excellent examples at the StarFields Network.

15. Join an environmental group
Express your energy in a collective way by joining a group that voices your concerns. Put your energy into changing the situation for the better by directly sponsoring a specific environmental cause.

16. Use natural materials from a sustainable source over synthetic materials
The more natural a product is - the less pollution is usually incurred in its production. Support your environment by valuing natural materials over synthetic, for example (organic) cotton over polyester. Think about where building materials or other resources have come from and the processes it takes to make them.

17. Feed your neighbour
A quick story based on Dante’s Inferno:
Dante (or someone like him) visits Hell and finds a room of ‘food torture’. The inhabitants are glued to chairs round a large table covered with food, but they all have their arms replaced by 10 foot chopsticks. They lift bits of food high over their heads and drop it down onto their faces in a pathetic attempt to feed themselves.
Later, our hero visits heaven and finds exactly the same situation except for one thing. The people in heaven are feeding each other across the table !

18. Dance, sing and laugh. Look after yourself and have fun
If you are happy, fulfilled, in good humour, enjoying life’s journey and so on - the chances are that others around you will be able to feel that way too. This moves us all along.

19. Don’t fly in airplanes
If possible, take a ship or train for long hauls or holidays. Aircraft are extremely expensive in pollution terms. Enjoy the sensation of travelling more slowly. Accept the journey as part of the trip.

20. Take an action holiday
Why not donate your energy to a cause like helping indigenous people set up sustainable economies ? There are many companies offering the experience of useful voluntary work overseas. This is a most direct way to contribute to a sustainable world and gives you face-to-face contact with other cultures.

21. Grow more plants indoors
Enhance your pact with nature by turning your home into a plant haven. Even simple spider plants can improve your space by bringing nature in and cleaning the air.
Plants are pretty undemanding compared to pets and they bring life in and produce air. Go the whole hog and grow some trees.

22. Consider changing your employment
What does your ‘means of income’ do in energy terms ? If the ‘ethics’ of your employment is distant from your own values then you have essentially sold your soul for money. Think carefully about the consequences of your employment. Consider finding employment that is near to your core values and you will find a more
fulfilled ‘you’.

23. Review how you are investing in your own future
Concerned about pensions ? It is certainly looking like someone has pulled the plug on that one. Anyone under 45 should be looking to exactly what they want in older years and finding ways to achieve it that may not involve money. There are serious flaws in our investment systems that are becoming more and more evident.
Co-operative or communal solutions to support in older years will be an increasing solution to lack of money.

24. Review your usage of water
If you have metered water, review how much you use and where savings might be made. For example bath water (without chemicals) can be used to water plants, a brick in the water cistern saves flush water. Can you use the water that lands on your roof that you pay for the privilege of having removed ? Water butts are cheaper than ever and some local councils offer price reductions to residents.
There are many water filters on the market that improve the quality of tap-water and water is a key issue in health, we are mostly made of it ! Water is a key issue on planet earth in the 21st century.

” Nearly 97% of the world’s water is sea water or otherwise undrinkable. Another 2% is locked up in ice caps and glaciers. This leaves 1% to meet all of humanities growing needs, including agriculture, manufacturing, community and personal household needs. Of that 1%, one quarter of the world’s fresh water is found in Canada’s lakes, rivers and streams.” (CPS June 2004)

25. Cut down on noise and light pollution
Many birds in cities sing at night as it’s the only way they can make themselves heard. Generally birds in cities have to sing louder and the stress this causes gives them shortened life spans.
Listen for a moment now - what can you hear beyond the hum of computer fan? How much of this noise is really needed? Wouldn’t just some ‘quiet times’ be nice?
Get together with your neighbours and see if you can negotiate a local ‘quiet time’, like a Sunday morning.
Unnecessary light also interferes with wildlife and even worse - it blocks out the stars - a source of wonder till the end of time.

26. Start your own herb garden
Grow your own medicinal and culinary herbs. Many of these are easy to grow on a windowsill, in a window box or tub somewhere. The direct growing and use of plants ties you into natural cycles and rhythms - you could even learn about ‘moon gardening’ cycles and biodynamics !

27. Grow your own food
Even simple growing such as mustard cress or delicious sprouting seeds contributes to a good diet. A surprising amount of your own food can be grown in a little space by using ‘potato stacks’ or climbing fruits. There is no better feeling than harvesting your own crop and eating it with friends. There are many dwarf bush varieties of fruit, some even have more than one fruit type on the same bush.

28. Downsize
Think about how you can work less and keep a good quality of life. Balance quality of life with standard of living. Contribute less to GDP and the national/global economy and more to a wholesome local and global ecology. Think global and act local.

29. Go organic
Whatever you consume, source it from a place that values natural processes over industrial ones. There are many enterprises providing organic food, drink, clothing or materials from sustainable sources. Take pride in tracking these down and using them in preference to more exploitative practices.

30. Spend time with nature
Take the time to visit nature and spend time relating with it. Find and adopt special places where you can go to feel the cycles and forces of nature and know that it is an aspect of you, and you of it. Many people are forming ‘collectives’ to protect or improve special places they value.

About the Author

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Efficiency in the Office

Efficiency in the Office
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Nearly every office, be it commercial or home-based, may have areas of inefficiency that can be improved upon. We are not talking sales figures or profit margins or budgets, but inefficient waste and resource management. For instance, let us look at some common aspects and consider how consumption can be reduced and how to make better use of resources.

Not all paper work and receipts need to be shredded, but sometimes, for the sake of security, it is necessary. This shredded paper is recyclable or it can be contributed in layers to a compost or worm bin. It can also be donated to animal shelters or pet stores where it is used in the bottom of cages to help keep them clean. This will ease workloads on staff, keep operational costs down, and the animals are more comfortable in their cages. The animal waste along with the bedding is easily composted.

Technology now makes it possible to save paper on a daily basis by sending emails. Worth mentioning, is the time saved as compared to communicating via the postal system. When sending a fax, if possible, refrain from using a cover sheet. For efficient paper use at the photocopy machine, set it to automatically print pages on both sides. When making draft copies with the photocopier or printer, use the reverse side of any suitable scrap paper. We keep a box of this paper handy for visiting children to color and draw upon. The blank side of any scrap paper can be used for shopping lists, reminder notes, game scoring, or the perpetual to do list(s) that we all have.

We often use sheets of adhesive labels in our office printer. The edges, top and bottom of each used sheet have 1/4″ of remaining unused material. These can be trimmed to convenient lengths and stored in a small jar (or other storage container of choice). These labels come in handy when labeling items destined for the freezer, jam jars, bulk foods or shop and craft supplies.

Keep computer equipment such as external drives, printers and scanners powered off when they are not in use – turn them on only for the duration that they are needed. Stand-by power (lights or clock displays) can be eliminated by either using a power bar or by manually unplugging the equipment. Sleep the computer during the day when not in use (lunch, coffee, or meetings) and turn all equipment off before leaving at the end of the day.
These are some simple suggestions, yet they will save time, money, and resources, which is in the best interest of any office.

About the Author

– Written by Dave and Lillian Brummet based on the concept of their book, Trash Talk. The book offers useful solutions for the individual to reduce waste and better manage resources. A guide for anyone concerned about their impact on the environment. (http://www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit)

Smoking Ban - Fair or Foul?

Smoking Bans - Fair or Foul?
 


By Dan Buglio, June - 2005 style=”font-family: Arial;”>


City halls and town councils are
packed with people arguing both sides of this heated debate.
 Should we ban smoking in bars, restaurants and other public
places or not?   I pose this question:  Did the
government intervene because every bar and restaurant has state of the
art smoke
eater technology installed - providing a comfortable, safe and odor
free dining or drinking experience?  I doubt it. 

I may not make any friends here, but I say that it is the very same bar
and restaurant owners who cry about the smoking bans putting  them
out of business that actually brought the smoking bans upon
themselves.  For those of you who style=”font-style: italic;”>have invested in the right href=”http://www.my-air-purifier.com/site/678219/page/199829″ rel=”nofollow”>smoke
eater technology, my apologies.  But look around.  Most
bars, night clubs and restaurants haven’t done enough… or anything at
all.  Why not?  Don’t these owners realize it’s their health
too?  Bartenders and owners working in a smoky bar are 50% more
likely to develop lung cancer than those working in a smoke free
environment.  Yes, 50% more likely! style=”font-family: Arial;”>


I don’t smoke.  Never have,
never will.  I hate the stuff.  But in spite of that, I feel
that a bar or restaurant  has a right to allow smoking in their
privately owned business.  The customer also has a right to not be
a patron.  It’s a free country, do as you wish. 
Unfortunately, our government feels they need to get involved to
protect the staff and customers because the bar owners haven’t.   style=”font-family: Arial;”>

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So what should we do about smoking in
bars, night clubs and restaurants?  My vote is that it should be
up to the owner of the establishment to decide.  If allowing
smoking causes a bar or restaurant to gain or lose business, that is
their choice.  Many people argue in favor of the health of the
bartenders and wait staff.  Shouldn’t they be provided a safe
place to work?  Again, it’s a matter of choice.  If you don’t
want to work in a smoky bar, don’t work there or push your management
to get some quality  href=”http://www.my-air-purifier.com/site/678219/page/199829″ rel=”nofollow”>smoke
eaters.  As a
customer, if you don’t want to eat in a smoky restaurant, don’t eat
there.  There are plenty of alternatives.  Simple right? style=”font-family: Arial;”>


To the owners who cry foul when their
city or town bans smoking, what are you waiting for?  As the owner
of a company selling air
purifiers, href=”http://www.my-air-purifier.com/site/678219/page/566969″ rel=”nofollow”>air
cleaners and href=”http://www.my-air-purifier.com/site/678219/page/199829″ rel=”nofollow”>smoke
eaters, I speak to hundreds of bar and restaurant owners about
their smoke problems each year.  Most have href=”http://www.my-air-purifier.com/site/678219/page/199829″ rel=”nofollow”>smoke
eaters that are either 20 years old and poorly maintained or they
have nothing at all.  Then when they find out what it takes to
really get rid of the smoke, many claim “it’s too expensive” and don’t
do anything.  6 months later, I follow up and they still haven’t
done anything.  What’s the excuse?  They have none. style=”font-family: Arial;”>


What drives me crazy is that href=”http://www.my-air-purifier.com/site/678219/page/199829″ rel=”nofollow”>smoke
removal isn’t rocket science.  Maybe people don’t realize that
there is technology available to handle smoke.  For those who feel
that bars have always been smoky and that’s just the way it is, here’s
how it works:  To get rid of smoke, you simply need to invest in
some commercial
smoke eaters.  Equipment that will effectively filter out the
majority of the fine microscopic smoke particles.  Filtration only
solves half the problem.  You then need to get rid of the harmful
gases, fumes and odors from cigarettes.  Commercial href=”http://www.my-air-purifier.com/site/678219/page/497659″ rel=”nofollow”> href=”http://www.my-air-purifier.com/site/678219/page/497659″ rel=”nofollow”>HVAC UV
air purifiers have really improved to the point that an odor ridden
smoky bar is no longer a necessity.  You CAN have a nearly smoke
free environment…if you are willing to spend the money on some
quality href=”http://www.my-air-purifier.com/site/678219/page/199829″ rel=”nofollow”>commercial
smoke eaters.  



When it comes to cost, many fail
to realize is that a good href=”http://www.my-air-purifier.com/site/678219/page/199829″ rel=”nofollow”>smoke
removal system will pay for itself in short order.  Think
about it, if just 4 patrons stay an hour longer than normal, spending
an extra $10 each, that’s $40 bucks a day in increased
revenue.  Do the math, that’s $14,600 a year in style=”font-style: italic;”>extra revenue.  With the
markup on beer and liquor, the investment in state of the art  href=”http://www.my-air-purifier.com/site/678219/page/199829″ rel=”nofollow”>smoke
eater  technology will likely pay for itself inside of 6-9
months through increased revenue.  Hype it up with customers and
local media and you can easily recoup your investment even quicker. style=”font-family: Arial;”>


To wrap it up:  For those
customers who patronize a smoky bar or restaurant, tell them to do
something about the smoke or you’ll take your business elsewhere. 
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Cities, States and Others Step up Action on Climate, Despite Federal Reluctance

Last year, Pentagon defense adviser Andrew Marshall issued a
harsh warning of the consequences of climate change: mass chaos,
national security crises and food shortages. If climate change
occurs abruptly, the report declared, there could be a
catastrophic breakdown in international security. Wars over
access to food, water, and energy would likely break out between
states. Even if climate change is more gradual, recent studies
have argued that as many as one million plant and animal species
could be rendered extinct by 2050 due to the effects of global
warming. Climate change is the most serious challenge facing
the international community. In order to plan for a sustainable
future - one that meets needs today without compromising meeting
the needs of future generations - global warming must be
addressed. We have arrived at a stage in human evolution that
requires international cooperation - a stage which demands that
world leaders put world priorities ahead of national political
agendas in order to halt the peril threatening humanity. In
1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)
asked all nations to renew their commitment to implement
policies based on the three pillars of sustainable development -
economic, environmental and social - in order to arrest
environmental deterioration and revive world economic growth. In
particular, the report stated, poverty has played a major role
in environmental degradation. Not only is it our moral
obligation to eliminate poverty, the report revealed it is
essential to protecting and improving the environment. Further
reports have concluded that environmentally unsound technology
has been exponentially far more detrimental to sustainable
development than even population growth. In order to achieve
sustainable development, the Commission reported, our cities
must be considered in the global concerted effort. Since
three-fourths of the global warming pollution could be solved if
we decreased burning fossil fuels, one of the most effective
ways to transform urban growth is by switching to alternative
energy sources. Fortunately, there are many means of harnessing
energy which have less damaging impacts on our environment than
fossil fuels, and we already have developed all the
technological resources needed. Now we must admit there is a
problem and start working in the direction to make this
transition. If our current leaders do not want to face this
pressing challenge with integrity, then as Leonardo Dicaprio
urges, we need to vote for leaders who care about the
environment and our health and the future generations who will
bear the burden long after the Administration is gone.

A Call to Action

On October 25, 2005, Senator Hillary Clinton (NY) called for a
national energy strategy enlisting the oil industry in a process
that would help consumers while making the transition to
alternative energy technologies. Her plan redirects the hidden
“tax” that Americans are already paying to OPEC and the oil
companies, but lasts only long enough to” kick-start the
alternative energy market that we all know is out there,” she
explained. Speaking to Cleantech Venture Network, a group of
venture capitalists who recently were named by Wall Street
Journal reports for their success in developing clean energy as
a viable investment category, Clinton emphasized the immediate
concern which is how to help citizens pay their bills and keep
the economy moving in the face of dramatically higher energy
costs. There is no question, she said, that our failure to make
better energy choices is sapping our pocketbooks, limiting our
competitiveness, threatening our environment and even our
national security. “Hurricanes Katrina and Rita made that
brutally clear.” The far reaching problem we face, Senator
Clinton stated, is coping with the impacts of massive economic
development and competition for oil in other parts of the world
such as India and China in the next twenty years. “Loosening
environmental standards or opening up a new oil field or two is
not going to offset this seismic shift in energy demand,” she
explained. Her plan unburdens the American people of foreign oil
dependence, investing a portion of the profits into the U.S.
energy future, instead of regimes we would never choose to
subsidize. The oil industries can choose to either reinvest
their profits into America’s energy future or contribute to a
new Strategic Energy Fund, she said. The Strategic Energy Fund
would help consumers cope with spiraling energy costs, promote
adoption of existing clean energy and conservation technologies,
while stimulating research and investment by the private sector.
She also recommends assessing an alternative energy development
fee for those companies deciding not to directly reinvest in our
energy future. That fee, she explained would help fund energy
transition. “The Fund could generate as much as $20 billion a
year to help with home heating oil costs and develop new energy
strategies.” In this way, she explained, we would reduce our
reliance on fossil fuel, make existing alternative technologies
more affordable, jump start our technology, and regain U.S.
world leadership. It’s got “Made in America” written on it, in
addition to providing a role model for developing nations. The
“energy revolution” can be as big and important as the
industrial revolution and the explosion of the information age.
However, we have to do what America has always done when faced
with a big challenge, she said, “roll up our sleeves and
dedicate this country to finding a solution.” In effect, she
explained, “the country that put a man on the moon can be the
country to find new lower cost and cleaner forms of energy. Our
nation needs it. Our planet needs it.”

Addressing Climate Change in the Environment of a Hostile U.S.
Administration One of the most important outcomes of the 2002
World Sustainable Summit Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg,
South Africa, was the decision to address climate change at the
global level, starting at the local level– all mandates that
must be enacted locally as well as globally in order to begin to
impact the effects of climate change. A decade earlier, the Rio
de Janeiro Summit articulated the need to include humanity as
well as environmental protection in the sustainability equation.
Hence, it concluded, the critical problem of poverty must also
be addressed. When the United Nations authorized the World
Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, it had already
realized poverty had deepened and environmental degradation had
worsened since the 1992 Summit. The world needed a new summit of
actions with results, and not just intent. Managing urban
environmental conditions ultimately belongs with national
governments, businesses, scientific bodies, and communities
working together; but history shows us U.S. involvement has
always sped and strengthened global progress in improving urban
environmental conditions for sustainable development. Although
U.S. partnership is needed to meet the increasingly urgent
demands to make cities livable, the Bush Administration has not
been forthcoming. While the 2002 WSSD Johannesburg Summit was
the highest attended conference by world leaders, President Bush
was sorely missed. According to original plans, explained
participant Kaarin Taipale, “the 2002 WSSD summit would have
coincided with the first anniversary of 9/11.” Conference dates
were changed at that the last minute in order to make it easier
for the President to attend. Instead, Secretary of State Colin
Powell traveled to Johannesburg to speak on the President’s
behalf, where as Taipale recalls, “he was infamously booed.”
Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky
soon retorted by telling Summit attendees to focus on actions,
“actions being better than words.” U.S. action has been remiss.
Vice Chairman of Friends of the Earth Tony Juniper said the
United States has a lot to answer for what has gone wrong since
the Rio de Janeiro Summit in 1992. Many trends that were
categorized as urgent at that summit - such as poverty,
biodiversity loss, deforestation, and overexploitation of
renewable resources - had either stayed the same or become
worse. First, the U.S. refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol at
the 2002 Summit - the single most important environmental treaty
to stop Climate Change. In addition, Juniper reported, the Bush
Administration had been telling the world about the importance
of free trade while protecting its own steel industry and hiking
agricultural subsidies to the degree of harming other nations.
In fact, heavy pressure on the U.S. Administration for Bush not
to attend the Summit, said Juniper, seemed to originate with the
big business and corporate lobby. U. S. representatives to the
Summit proposed business friendly partnerships, but opposed the
very necessary targetive actions on sustainable development.
Although the United States makes up four percent of the world’s
population and produces 22 percent of the world’s greenhouse
gases, it’s refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol’s call for
reductions in the greenhouse gases merely underscores Federal
unwillingness to address climate change. Claiming that the
treaty would raise energy prices and kill five million U.S.
jobs, the Administration has even raised questions about the
scientific legitimacy of climate change. As British Petroleum
CEO John Browne put it, “The time to consider the policy
dimensions of climate change is not when the link is
conclusively proven, but when the possibility cannot be
discounted.” The Union of Concerned Scientists, a group of 6,000
scientists, including 48 Nobel laureates, warns that the Bush
administration’s overtly anti-science bias undercuts scientific
integrity. This bias was clear when the The New York Times
reported that a White House official who once led the oil
industry’s fight against limits on greenhouse gases had
repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play
down links between such emission and global warming. The White
House response: the reports were “scientifically sound.” As
Journalist and author Chris Mooney explained, the Administration
relied on those energy interests who have a documented history
of muddying the role that humanity plays in climate change while
consciously strategizing to “sow confusion on the issue and sway
journalists.” According to a study published by Princeton
professors Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala, the U.S. could
reduce emissions to below the 1970 levels just with its current
technology. “We in fact already have everything we need to face
this challenge,” Vice President Gore has said, “save perhaps
political will. But in our democracy political will is a
renewable resource.” Because the Federal government has failed
to get involved internationally, state and local officials have
been left alone to address the gravity of excess greenhouse gas
emissions. Without Federal direction, Senator Clinton has
warned, the varying standards that result from the differences
in local policies could create havoc for the private sector. To
make matters worse, approximately 100 high-level Administration
officials who help regulate industries they once represented -
as lobbyists, lawyers, or company advocates - are all part of an
effort to avoid addressing global warming. (2004, Natural
Resources Defense Council (NRDC)). London’s “Guardian” has
further reported that the environmental group Greenpeace
obtained documents indicating President Bush’s global climate
policy was heavily influenced by Exxon, Mobil and other oil
companies. In briefing papers given to U.S. Under Secretary of
State Paula Dobriansky between 2001 and 2004, “the
administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the
company’s ‘active involvement’ in helping to determine climate
change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate
change policies the company might find acceptable.” Quietly, in
the background of policy change, by mid August 2004 the
Administration had already rolled back more than 400 major
environmental mandates, causing the protection of our nation’s
air, water, public land and wildlife to be severely weakened.
This anti-environment spirit, reports Robert Kennedy, Jr.,
pervades virtually all of the Sub-secretariats today, including
the Department of Agriculture, Interior, and Energy. In contrast
to entering public service for the public interest, these
officials are motivated by the intent to specifically subvert
the very law they are now charged with enforcing. “The current
Administration,” he says, “has put the most insidious polluters
in charge of all the agencies that are supposed to protect the
American people from pollution.” One notable exception was
Christine Whitman, appointed by Bush to head the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). In 2002, she released a report stating
that Climate Change was an urgent problem created by human
activity that would quickly create other problems unless
immediately addressed. A public relations crisis ensued when
Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute declared
“someone should be fired” over this. Apparently, White House
Chief of Staff on Environmental Quality and former lobbyist for
the American Petroleum Institute Philip Cooney did not see
(edit) the report before it was released. President Bush
publicly discounted the report by calling it a report from “the
bureaucracy.” Whitman resigned from the EPA soon after. At the
Clinton Global Initiative, a summit of actions and results held
by President Clinton in New York last September, Al Gore
reported that some of those who benefit from unrestrained
pollution from global warming also spend millions of dollars
each year creating pseudo-studies that cloud the issue. This is
not the first time this type of swaying from industry lobbyists
has occurred. After the Surgeon General warning of the dangers
of smoking, Gore noted, the tobacco industry hired ’scientific
prostitutes’ to argue that smoking was good for people. While
such actions can be understood, he said, they are not
acceptable, “not when the fate of the earth - rather, the fate
of a habitable earth for human beings — is at stake.” He quoted
muckraker Upton Sinclair who wrote more than a century ago: “It
is difficult to get a man to understand something when his
salary depends upon him not understanding it.”

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RRI Launches New Enviromental Portal

RRI is in the process of adding the final touches to its new portal - www.earthrestoration.org, which is an extention of it’s current website - www,rain4est.org.

The new portal will be packed with Enviromental news and activities of the organisation in Asia, especially where the Tsunami is concerned.

Dr Ranil Senanayake who is the Chairman of RRI, has written lots of articles on the progress made in terms of handling the destruction caused to the habitat by the Tsunami.

Log on to www.earthrestoration.org in a while and experience the activities of RRI.

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