How to save our earth from the global warming

Save Our Mother Earth through Electricity by Kessler Fields

2011-03-15T04:49:00.002-07:00

Energy consumptions now days increased rapidly including the electricity usage. We have our yearly savings like Earth our which is very useful to save energy just for a while. The greatest trend of this usage of electricity is the greenhouse effect which will result to Climate Change. Our mother earth is closely endangered as the rampant used of industrial and commercial company. Yet, they have to realize the outcome of their business probably profitable to them but not to our environment. As an ordinary individual, we can't stop these companies which have been there for a couple of decade. But we can share electricity conservation in our home or in the office just to be part to reduce the usage of electricity.
How are we going to do this? For some this is quite simple but not consistent as they don't know the uses of electricity conservation or what maybe the uses of electricity conservation is not their concerns. Being part of this makes our mother earth live longer. I'll give my idea about how this green house effect in relation to our daily life.

Suppose you're car is parking on the open sunlight and the window is closed as well as the Aircon is turn off. The heat of the sun entered to your car because the window is closed, this heat is trapped and causes the increase of your car. This is the same to our earth. The sun's light enters our atmosphere but it is trapped and caused climate changed.
Let's talk about the relation of electricity to the green house effect. As we all know in producing electricity we used Coal burning. Coal is a pure Carbon and mixed with oxygen the result is CO2 or Carbon Dioxide which added the greenhouse gases to our atmosphere. These are the reasons why it is important to save electricity in our home and office or anywhere else. Not just we decreased the effect of climate change but we also save money.

Few Examples of Saving Electricity:

Air Conditioning: Make your air conditioner in fair temperatures; this helps oneself conserve lots of power. Leave it to the temperature at minimum or maximum strongest where you are most comfortable.
Washers: How often do you use your laundry machine? Are you using laundry machine even they are not plenty to wash? Be sure to minimize the quantity of washings by cleaning a load of garments every time.
Television: Unplug the television when not in use. It is not a big deal but certainly it will help reduce your power consumption.
Computer: Very often, we should try to turn off our computers including the monitor when not in used. Start to do this often and you save earth's important powers.
Light bulbs: You must have known compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs, this is being advertised often. You must have even used them more often. To begin with power conservation used this instead of the, Traditional incandescent bulbs. Fluorescent bulbs are more efficient and save more energy. If you worry about the price, I'll tell you that this is more economic because you can save electricity usage in the long turn.

Some simple accessories are being used now is the Home Energy Monitor which is very handy. This allows us to view the current usage and our electricity bill. This very helpful because you can monitor your electricity online, check our website http://currentcost.net/ to more about Home Energy Monitor.

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Solar Energy Is The Ultimate Way To Save The Mother Earth by sonorasolarsolutions

2011-03-15T04:49:00.001-07:00

The threat of global warming and is aggravating day by day. Simultaneously, the use of power and the dependence on fossil fuels are also increasing many folds due to modern day lifestyles and growing industrialization and urbanization. The drastic change in weather has resulted to rise in temperature, irregular rainfall, frequent floods and droughts. The polar caps and icebergs are melting and there is a rise in the level of sea water. All these pose a big threat to the lives of each and every organism from the micro to the macro. Many species of flora and fauna have become extinct and human beings, on the other hand, have got new disorders and diseases difficult to cure.

It is been long since man has been looking for some ways to conserve our natural resources and the bio-diversity. As we know, the fossil fuel reserves will last till around the mid of the 21st century. These hydrocarbons take billions of years to form and because of the human greed and utter carelessness, they are now going to exhaust in some time. So, the last and the only resort available is the solar energy which is non-exhaustible and causes no pollution. Man has so long neglected the importance and usefulness of solar energy. But, now that the threat is looming over us, so all of a sudden, we have started focusing on the solar energy. In this regard, Tuscan Solar has been doing wonderfully in providing solar energy to millions of homes and offices thereby playing a key role of a climate savior.

Indeed, it is happy news for all of us that by adopting Solar Power Tucson we can do a lot for saving our planet. Solar energy is inexhaustible and cheap and, unlike the burning of fossil fuels which releases a lot of harmful chemicals in the air, it does provide us pollution-free power. The photovoltaic cells and solar panels available in the market are used extensively by environment-conscious people all across the world. In fact, now-a-days, while building any house, schools, hospitals or offices, the first thing that the builders keep in mind is to install solar panels for storing solar energy for our own use.

Since it is the concern of each and everyone of us to save the mother earth, now it is high time to think of an alternative safer source of energy. And there is none but the energy from the sun when we think about it. With the use of Solar Energy Tucson we are doing a highly appreciative job for our future.

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Be Carbon Neutral: Save Our Mother Nature by chandan srivastava

2011-03-15T04:48:00.004-07:00

With the ever increasing animosity and the threat of global warning, it becomes imperative for all to rise up and join hands to eradicate this danger and save our planet from facing fatal consequences. The piled up automobiles, the towering industries, and continuous usage of carbon emitting sources have caused adverse effects and now we as well as our coming generations are forced to encounter the disastrous results.

People believe in carefree living which involves enjoying the lifestyle as they please. They love to go for long drives with their friends, leave the lights of their room on even if they are no longer in the room; they use their cars even if they have to go to the nearest shopping center. All these uncaring life and an unconcerned attitude towards our Mother Nature have led to these disastrous consequences wherein the existence of the earth in the near future is unsure and under great threat.

As our mother nature cares for us and furnishes us unconditional loving, the beauty and the soothing ambience should be preserved at all cost. In order to expand the industrial areas and to build multi national companies and roads, people doesn't even think twice before cutting the trees and chopping down the forests. This greatly hampers the environment and highly increasing the pollutants hovering in our atmosphere.

Earlier when the number of trees and the amount of carbon in the atmosphere were restricted, the air used to be crystal clear and the ambience provided a calming and a healing effect which doesn't require the usage of any medication. But these polluted environments have not only led to the change in the climate and also have adverse effects on the health of all.

Therefore, being a responsible habitant, it's our indispensable duty to take steps towards solving or at least reducing this grave problem. Reducing our carbon footprint can be a crucial way to keep a check on this detrimental issue. Not only the individuals, it's the duty and responsibility of all the respectable business and corporate houses to reduce their carbon footprints and pave way towards a better future.

With the usage of the carbon calculators business, the firms can calculate their carbon footprints and buy the carbon credits accordingly and thereby providing a vital contribution towards the prevention of our nature and earth. To emulate yourself and your business as a creditable and responsible firm and to enhance your goodwill being carbon neutral is imperative. So, ponder upon this issue and contribute in saving your land!

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How to Protect Our Mother - Earth by Ann tang

2011-03-15T04:48:00.003-07:00

Copenhagen World Climate Conference ended in Copenhagen, capital of Denmark on Dec. 18th, 2009. This conference is known as the "last chance for human beings to be saved". Those, who have ever seen the movie 2012, may still in a state of shock because, no matter whether the doomsday in 2012 would be realized or not, the environmental and climatic issue has become the principal problem that all human beings need to confront with together.

Hereon, following is the appeal from moderator: Please protect our environment by using the recyclable shopping bags and water-saving. Every little effort from everyone may become a great contribution to the earth.

Nowadays, our human beings are already conscious of the problem on environmental and climatic issue, but we still have very little chance to change our behavior and improve the environment. Under the circumstance that pursuing maximum economic benefits is the fundamental target of enterprise, it is inevitable that the problem on environmental and climatic issue have been overlooked. In the wake of the removal of this forest for cultivation is a desolate, bare, and rocky eroded land. We can look at many magnificent tall buildings around us. The urban heat island effect, caused by dense high-rises in the area, is also set to deteriorate, making a lot of big cities' sultry summer even less bearable. However, our human beings always enjoying what we created never think of what we can leave for our next generation.

The earth, how sweet name it is and how beautiful home it is!

She like a gracious mother offering us resources generously, dark green forests against the earth, how a beautiful scene, the smile of animals bring her so much happiness, of course, she hope we can take care of her, protect her, let her smile permanent. Therefore, I think our human is a stronger team. We are the biggest winner to fight with natural hazards.

Furthermore, everybody should pay more attention on greenhouse effect and green peace. Many hands make light work. Surely, I am the person who always follows the way to recyclable shopping bags when I go shopping. And use the water after washed clothes to clean the floor. Also check all electric such as TV, notebook, bulb whether turned off before we go to work.

All in all, it is a long way to protect our mother land, hope everyone can take part in, after all, every little effort from everyone may become a great contribution to the earth.

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Saving Mother Earth Through Sustainable Packaging by Juno Kamodo

2011-03-15T04:48:00.001-07:00

The very first man made climate change occurred during the industrial revolution. With the influx of revolutionary inventions during that time in history; it has also managed to quadruple the production output while minimizing human interventions. The bad thing with this trend is the fact that it emitted great amounts of carbon dioxide which literally increased the overall temperature of the earth by 2 degrees Celsius!

In the present time, we are also faced with the very same and even worse problem. In the time when everywhere around the world is experiencing climate change, people have taken an extra stride to at least delay its harmful effects for the sake of the next generations. One of the things that contributed to global warming besides carbon dioxide emissions would have to be the production of materials that aren't biodegradable.

Biodegradability simply means the capacity of a material to undergo the "normal" rate and process of decay. Normal carbon cycle will dictate a material's decaying process up to the point when it is consumed by the microorganisms in the ground. But it's another story when we are talking of synthetic materials.

Synthetic non-biodegradable materials have a huge impact when it comes to the environment. It contributes greatly to the number of trash being dumped in the different dumpsites all over the world. And instead of undergoing the normal decaying process, most of these materials could last thousands of years in one piece!

This is the main reason why companies are now developing sustainable packaging for different food and even industrial products. The trend which led to the development of non-eco friendly packages came from the strength of the non-biodegradable materials. It could endure a relatively heavier weight compared to its biodegradable counterpart. Recently, in order to give solution to such dilemma, companies have now developed sustainable packaging for products that are just as durable as the non-eco friendly packaging materials.

The good thing with this kind of trend is basically the reduction of wastes that we have. Knowing the world's condition nowadays, everybody needs to take a small step in achieving the goal of slowing the trends of global warming.

In the past, everyone either recycles or reuses the non-biodegradable packages. For example, a plastic bag turns to a toy when it is used as mold by toy companies. The problem with recycling is its cost. Once you recycle a plastic material into another form of plastic, not only does it cost great, but you are also ignoring the problem. You simply made use of a material that is present already in order to avoid developing newer plastics. Nowadays, the scientists have found a way in order to produce packaging materials that will naturally succumb to the decay process of nature for a very cheap price.

To sum everything up, as we face a new challenge in our present time regarding the world's overall climate and condition; companies producing sustainable packaging for different materials will come a long way especially in today's situation where every help counts. Considering the perks of using a sustainable packaging compared to that of a non-biodegradable material; we might be one step closer in saving our Mother Earth.

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SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT, SAVE OUR PLANET by Varun

2011-03-15T04:47:00.001-07:00

Environment and its depreciating condition is a great cause of concern for us presently. Today one prominent and continuous discussion all around is about the environment and its present state. Even the virtual world is deeply affected by this growing concern. You can find posters, banners and banners around you displaying the only phrase "GO GREEN". The commercial and company logos are promoting the idea and concern with great vigor. There is no commercial greed they are searching for; for most of the industries all around the raw materials come from natural resources only. If there is no resources then how will the industries exists? Not only commercial benefits, but our mother earth is also a cradle of the life support system for all living organisms of the planet. Each one of us has responsibility to make this earth green.

Our planet is a wondrous beauty and the best place to live in. One can find lovable animals everywhere with different kinds of beauty that attracts us. Just realize once what nature has created for us, the sense for protecting this planet would come automatically to our mind. But unfortunately still many people do not appreciate the nature and exploit it like anything in an unhealthy manner. Continuous burning of fossil fuels has resulted in global warming and ozone layer depletion. We are destructing forests and natural habitat of animals. Needless to say just for the sake of human greedy needs we are destructing the natural beauty. Many species are now extinct or on the verge of being extinct. It seems that for coming generation the common forest animals like lion and tiger would just become like a prototype to be found in some museums or just a name of animal to be found in books. We must show care and concern for our nature and environment. Save Green, save the environment. Why can't we switch over to some renewable sources for meeting our daily or industrial needs? Why can't we use bio-fuels in our vehicles in place of diesel or petrol? Why don't we design our buildings and conference halls so that at least during day time it can utilize sunlight for its lighting? Everyone talks about energy efficient buildings all the time but still our auditorium and meeting halls are without windows and even during day time we depend on electricity for its lighting when a plenty of sunlight is available outside. Why these engineers design the buildings in such a way in spite of knowing that a lot of coals or nonrenewable fuels are being burnt to produce this electricity?

What is reasonable expectation to have is people are now coming forward to get together to work for the cause of green world and with healthier environment. Though government is trying its best through its various green programs yet we are the ultimate authorities to make these efforts of government feasible. Let's enjoy the beauty of nature and let it be enjoyable for the coming generation. That is the only solution by which this planet can be saved not only for our future generations but also for all life forms all around us.

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Green lighting design and use will save the planet Earth by James Egan

2011-03-15T04:46:00.002-07:00

How can we reside frivolously on planet Earth and still save money at the same moment? We are all aware that we need to do something for our mother earth, some of us accept what to do but few of us are in fact accomplishing anything! Green Lantern Industries presents an easy and cheap way to help you save our planet, while understanding why.

What is the need to go green? What do we gain from it? Because it is the appropriate thing to do! The focus on electricity and its ecology impacts is a massive one and we can't bind every bend of it here; Green Lantern Industries has offered a solid advancement on greening your electricity and also saving your precious money.
It has dedicated itself in creating and delivering products and services which enable our customers to reduce their carbon footprint both at home and in the workplace. By disposing old power eater lighting and replacing with energy saving LED lightings is working successfully. Incandescent or the fluorescent lamps, as one of the major home appliances, consume about 85% of the electricity and its life expectancy could be as long as 15000 hours. Replacing existing lighting with LED energy saving light bulbs one can save 70% to 90% in lighting energy costs and they have a life span of 50000 hours.
While a large percentage of people out there apprehend that numerous environmental issues are already knocking on our door, only a few of these humans are in fact aggravating to do something to save the planet. Going green seems to be the newest mantra in the cause to save Earth. The better advantage of the go green campaign is that you can resort to simple means to go green and do your bit to save the environment.
All you need is another line of attack in thinking green.

Try out the various products manufactured by Green Lantern Industries at nyleds.com. It can be slow and may take some time to highlight the results, but it becomes second nature. Being green is the right thing to do this to yourself, your loved ones and everyone on the planet earth. Your smallest contribution will be of great help to turning our mother earth into a greener place to live in.

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Rain Barrels – A Household’s Way Of Helping Save Mother Earth by Rain Barrels, Rain Barrel, Composting

2011-03-15T04:46:00.001-07:00

Pollution and overexploitation of natural resources on earth are gradually cause irreparable harm to the environment. We, the inhabitants of the earth must do everything in our power to stop the destruction and trying to preserve what remains of our natural resources. We can do it and we can do the work without charge or detailed manual.

One of the easiest things that every household can do is to integrate the use of rain barrels in your water system. The tanks or barrels can be purchased and installed for very little and have the potential to save hundreds of dollars each year in water bills let alone put the rainwater that would otherwise be lost to use. The savings are endless and the environment is a step in the right direction to save our planet. Using rainwater for outdoor watering needs can save millions of gallons of precious water each year.

Using a rain barrel and water clean toxin-free air can help keep the water clean, we have drinking water. Rain barrels are strategically placed corner of the roof and the downspout. Drain into a barrel and projected supply of abundant water to irrigate gardens and lawns.

A homeowner can save enough rain to get through the drought seasons, without losing their precious gardens. The guns are made of a food grade material and are dark enough to limit bacterial growth. The water in barrels can be stored for months without deterioration or mold growth. Monitors keep small animals and children and dirt.

The rain barrels can be purchased at many home stores in a variety of styles and sizes. These drums can be designed to match the exterior of a house and be very aesthetic. In places like Melbourne, Australia, where river water reaches record low, every summer, water conservation has become a grave necessity.

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Customized Bags To Boost Awareness On Mother Earth by Beth Loggins

2011-03-15T04:45:00.000-07:00

Utilizing bags to save environment? Could that be achievable? Yes, it could but not directly. In fact, the modern trend in advertising a business is to connect it with the worldwide campaign to save Mother Earth. If you would wander around the sphere, each nation concern about global warming and its effects to our only home have their own take on the problem through various activities. One of those is using promotional advertising totes for shopping.

Since the employment of plastic bags is highly discouraged by most organizations that are concerned about the environment, one good solution to the predicament is the use of promotional bag giveaways that are organic-friendly and at the same time promotes the value of good deeds like segregation of waste, recycling and a lot others.

In some trade expos that concentrate chiefly on organic merchandise, they are usually offering promotional bag gifts that comprises produce that are organically grown like fruits, vegetables and others. In fact, there are some of these bags that carry slogans like "Go Green", Reuse, Reduce, Recycle" and other phrases that may persuade people to save the earth and buy their merchandise too.

Using promotional bag items in your merchandise is really a great wheel of advertising. Carrying the bag all through out the neighborhood will let the people know that this certain establishment is engrossed in propagating good seeds in the minds of people that doing this and that might be a great approach to save the environment. And subconsciously, it also says "save the earth, buy our product". Isn't that a magnificent concept?

Promotional logo bags have sufficient space where the slogan can be viewed even from afar. Logos and catchphrases that are embossed in big bold text are very obvious especially in a crowd. The logo bags that we use to carry our purchased merchandise make us models and walking billboard. Jokingly, we should be paid for such advertisement of the brand that we carry along roads in and out of the metro.

Surely, promotional bag is a magnanimous medium if you want your word to be passed on to the society. So, if you're having a business make sure to create a bag that might help you increase your brand recognition to further expand your market value as well as your identity to the public.

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Beth Loggins is a content writer for promotional bag gifts and promotional bag giveaways. Read more articles by Beth Loggins here.

Vote for the Environment- Choose Organic Meat by Gen Wright

2009-08-21T22:38:00.001-07:00

Your everyday meat choices are important - and not just because they impact your health and well being. Making healthy "green" choices for yourself and your family can also benefit the environment for generations to come. When you support organic agricultural practices by choosing organic meat and other organic foods, here's what you do for the planet:

Reduce unhealthy chemicals and toxins in our environment.

Most crops in the US are grown with the aid of various synthetic chemicals including pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides and fungicides. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 60% of herbicides, 90% of fungicides and 30% of insecticides are carcinogenic. Certified organic farmers do no use most conventional pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, bioengineering, or ionizing radiation. Organic agricultural practices prevent pesticides and other chemicals from getting into the air, earth and water that sustain us. When you choose organic meat from small family farms, you "vote" for a planet free of harmful contaminants.

Build healthy soil.

Well-balanced soil is the foundation of healthy, nutritious food. Conventional farming depletes the soil over time. Organic farmers build healthy soils by nourishing the living component of the soil, the microbial inhabitants that release, transform, and transfer nutrients. Soil organic matter contributes to good soil structure and water-holding capacity. Organic farmers feed soil biota and build soil organic matter with cover crops, compost, and biologically based soil amendments. These methods not only produce healthy plants that are better able to resist disease and insect predation, but also protect biodiversity and promote soil stability and fertility. Choosing organic meat and other agricultural products means you're voting to keep essential nutrients in the soil where they belong.

Protect the water supply.

Conventional agricultural practices contribute to water pollution, which is bad for our health and for the environment. As much as 99% of the pesticides applied to crops enter the environment. Contamination of soil and groundwater is a serious threat to many species of wildlife. By eliminating polluting chemicals and nitrogen leaching, and by building healthier soil, organic practices prevent contamination and protect and conserve water resources. So choosing organic meat means you're voting for cleaner water.

Consume less fossil fuel.

Organic farming seeks to make the most efficient use of nonrenewable resources and on-farm resources and integrate, where appropriate, natural biological cycles and controls. Organic farmers use green manures and crop covers, rather than synthetic fertilizers made from petroleum. If you want to vote against global warming, air quality deterioration, oil spills, and acid rain, choose organic meat and other organic foods.

Respect and nurture healthy animals and people.

Choosing organic is a great way to take care of the people you care about. You can nourish yourself, your family, and the planet by supporting sustainable farming practices and eating foods that are truly good for you. We think this the best reason to choose organic meat: because you can enjoy a delicious meal and peace of mind.

Organic Meat Versus Natural: What the Labels Mean

Labeling food is like labeling people. Too often, the description is confusing, or doesn't give you a full picture of what's involved. Organic meat, natural meat, grass-fed beef, free-range chicken, hormone-free milk...there are lots of terms out there in the marketplace.

So what should the average meat lover do? When it comes to agricultural products such as produce, grains, dairy and meats, most of us don't have the enjoyment of getting to know our local farms and farmers. Here are tips to follow:

1) Buy your meat, dairy and produce from a trusted source.

2) Learn how to "read between the lines" of meat labels.

3) Prioritize with relevance such as taste, convenience, health, food safety, the environment, humane animal treatment, and advocating small family farms.

4) Advocate for accurate labeling by the USDA and the FDA.

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Is Organic Distinct from Natural?

The easy answer to the above question is Yes. While some producers of "natural meat" may follow organic farming practices, there is no strict definition of the term. Organic meat, on the other hand, is enforced to adhere to strict standards established by the USDA National Organic Program.

Here's are some examples, useful definitions of Natural, Hormone Free, Organic and Grass Fed:

Natural - "Natural" sounds good, but the truth is that it doesn't mean much on a meat label. The FDA does not confine the use of the word "natural" except for added color, synthetic substances, and flavors. For example: meat labeled natural can be raised on farms that use pesticides on their fields and in their animal feed.

Hormone Free - This claim can be deceptive even when it's technically true. All poultry is free of hormones. Hormones haven't been allowed in poultry or pork in the U.S. since 1959. Look for "no antibiotics" or "free range" or "organic" for more understandable information about how the chicken was raised.

Organic - When you see the USDA "organic" label, you know the food inside has followed strict guidelines. Here's an overview of what it means when meat passes the organic test:

* organic farmers do not use antibiotics or synthetic growth hormones. * organic meat comes from animals that are given 100 percent organic feed. * organic animals are given access to the outdoors and/or pastures. * organic farms do no use most conventional pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, bioengineering, or ionizing radiation. * organic farmers emphasize the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance environmental quality for future generations. * organic farms are inspected by a Government-approved certifier to make sure the farmer is following all the rules necessary to meet USDA organic standards. Companies that handle or process organic meats must be certified, too.

Grass Fed - As of November 2007, the U.S. Department of Agriculture began regulating a voluntary "U.S. Grass Fed" label for beef and lamb. The regulations require that the animal has access to pasture and isn't fed grain. Grass-fed beef is lower in saturated fat and cholesterol than conventional beef, with more vitamins and "good fats" like Omega-3s and CLAs.

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Donna Jefferson has been an advocate living healthy. Organic Meat is her specialty and would like to share facts with the public.

Recycling - Why and How? by Mr.G

2009-08-21T22:36:00.001-07:00

Recycling may be defined as making new articles by reprocessing used and discarded materials. It reduces the ill effect that the waste has on environment which is generated by our consumption. Recycling also solves the problem of disposition of waste and makes the waste reusable. Bio-degradable waste and garden waste are also treated with micro organisms to make organic manure beneficial for plants.

Why Recycling is necessary?

To keep our environment clean, we need to rigorously follow the policy of recycling and encourage usage of products that are recycled or made from recycled material. In this way, we can prevent dangerous substances going in land fills and polluting our soil and water. It also helps us control global warming. It reduces the need for raw materials and saves valuable energy. Recycling helps in keeping our surroundings and atmosphere healthier. It reduces the impact of waste on our environment. Recycling saves money. 75% of the waste can be recycled and put to use. Clothes, metals, papers, plastic, electronic parts, glasses, and batteries are some of the materials that can be recycled.

How is Recycling done?

There are some steps taken before the waste is recycled.

Waste is first collected from homes, commercial establishments and community dumps. This waste is then segregated and sent for recycling. Manufacturing is the third most important step in process of recycling. Some products are manufactured from completely recycled material or partly recycled material.

Recycled glass bottles are made from clear glass containers, while colored glass containers are used to make colored glass material. Recycling of paper is done by removing the ink and shredding it finely and treating it with chemicals to make new sheets of paper.

In bigger cities, Municipal Center plays a great role in collection and segregation of waste and then sending them to the recycle units. Customers are given incentives to bring material for recycling and usage of recycled products.

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Implementing Alternative Energy by Rick Phipps

2009-08-21T22:26:00.000-07:00

Implementing Alternative Energy

There are many alternative energy options and technologies available, but how do we change a system which seems to be very fixed and soldered in? The answer is not in government mandates or relying on the government at all. This method will take way too long and we will never get anywhere. Why should we turn to alternatives? Many believe in Global warming and many don't. However even if we don't take into account that factor and we decide from the viewpoint of not having to depend on the Arab nations to supply most of our transportation energy needs (oil), it still makes sense to look at alternatives. But how will any of these technologies be implemented? The answer is simple.

We have to look at how all great progress has been made in this country. It has been made by individuals with ideas and inventions and private investment. The only exception to this has been NASA which has had a good record of accomplishment; witness the Apollo, and voyager programs. But this has been at an extremely high cost that would not be tolerated in the business world. Also it took NASA over 25 years to realize that the space shuttle was not a very efficient idea. Government mandates do not drive initiative but only a resistance. What drives initiative is individuals who see a problem and want to do something about it. Also the government seems to be a tool used by many vested interests to keep things as they are.

So who is going to take responsibility and make these new things happen? It is us as Americans. So I invite anyone with a scientific creative flair to join in on the alternative evolution which is as sure to happen as the sun will come up tomorrow. What kind of inventions or systems and inventions are there out there? More than you can possibly imagine. There are Tide generators, sewage-water-heat pumps, solar towers, solar arch's, hydrogen fuel cells, other types of fuel cells and things like hybrid fuel injected two stroke cars using a gas vaporization system getting as much as 400 miles to the gallon.

There are various wind farms across the world now. Chile is known as the solar oven capitol of the world now and this is helping to prevent deforestation. There are many many more inventions that could take place if this area was really freed up. Just beware of laws that are being passed that sound like a good idea on the subject they are addressing but hidden and unrelated could be measures that suppress alternative energy.

The oil industry has made billions and billions and I think it is time they gave us something in return for making them so wealthy. They need to get off of their duffs and help create a new economy which is not based on oil. This should never be mandated but only expressed to that industry by people themselves so that they may get their ethics in and start helping.

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What I want to create is success not only for me but for everybody who wants to help build a better world. I want to write science fiction and bring it to the forefront of all genre's with stories that have ideas on how to maintain freedom and create a more successful civilization.

Prevention of Global Warming Begins at Home, Just Like Charity by Nirjara Rustom

2008-12-05T00:56:00.002-08:00

"Global Warming" has been called everything, from "the greatest hoax perpetuated on mankind", to "the greatest challenge to face mankind". Whilst I'm not here to debate on this subject, my primary goal is to make you aware of the simple things we can do, that will go a long way to help curb this problem.

We've heard that "charity begins at home". This sentence means that we should first ensure that at least our nearest family has sufficient resources before we give away to charity. It's the same with global warming. Unless we all individually do something about this, there is no point in blaming how careless people are towards this growing problem. You need to start taking the necessary steps first, before advocating and attacking others.

First of all, we need to understand what global warming really is and why it is happening. Global warming is the increase in temperature of the layer of air covering the earth. Increase in CO2 (carbon dioxide) is the primary cause of global warming. So if we can minimize or eliminate this emission as much as possible, we can possibly curb this to some extent. I have listed a few things below which will help you contribute to this issue. We will start with cars and traveling.

1. Tune up and maintain your car regularly; this increases fuel efficiency by 5-7%.

2. Always keep your tires properly inflated. This improves fuel efficiency by 3-4%.

3. For a change, especially when you're planning to go somewhere nearby, walk down or ride a bike. This helps in 2 ways - it reduces carbon emission and secondly, it's also good for your health. I'm not even considering the savings on fuel and parking!

4. Always try to get the most bang from a car trip by combining errands, meetings, shopping sprees, outings, dropping children to school, traveling to work, etc.

5. Carpool to work if you can. Same goes for dropping children to school - create a group of neighboring children in the same school and have a fixed day of commuting responsibility for each of the group.

6. Use public transport as much as you can. Try to avoid your car at least one day of the week, when you go to work.

7. Try to drive more evenly, with less sudden brakes or hard accelerations. Also maintain your speed at the recommended fuel efficient speed.
Other things you can do at home:

1. Reduce / eliminate meat and switch over to more organic and vegetarian food, which requires less energy to produce.

2. Use strong cloth bags for shopping and not plastic or paper. The latter not only lasts less uses, but are more prone to getting suddenly torn and resulting in a lot of inconvenience and possible damage.

3. Don't use a dryer to dry clothes unless it is urgent. Use the old fashioned way of drying them in natural air.

4. If you're in cold countries, lower the thermostat of your heating system by a few degrees where the cold is bearable. Better still; wear some good sweaters so you don't need a lot of artificial warming.

5. If you're in hot countries, choose an energy efficient air conditioner. Increase the thermostat by a few degrees where you don't feel the heat. Wear cotton clothes so you don't need a lot of cooling. A quick 2 minute shower can also instantly cool you down.

6. Insulate your water heater as well as the walls and ceilings of your home.

7. Replace your most frequently used incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent ones.

8. If your refrigerator is over 10 years old, its time to replace it. The new ones currently
available are a lot more energy efficient. Similarly, washing machines are also available in energy efficient models.

9. Don't use your washing machine or dish washer unless you have enough load. This will reduce the frequency of use and save energy.

10. Stop using screen savers in your computer, they do not save energy. Instead, switch off the monitor and / or set the power settings to switch it off after a predetermined period of inactivity. If you cannot shut down the computer regularly, keep it on sleep or standby mode whenever you're not using it.

11. Try to make your children understand the global warming problem and encourage them to switch off lights and fans when not in use. Reward them with little gifts when they do this regularly. Also encourage them not to burst crackers. Give them the money instead and let them save it separately, and then show them what wonderful things they can buy, instead of the money going up in smoke!

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Nirjara Rustom moderates the Environment Section of http://www.bharatbhasha.com at http://www.bharatbhasha.com/environment.php

Solar Power is the Future by Joe Kazlauskas

2008-12-05T00:56:00.001-08:00

The Future Is Safe If Man Turns To Using Solar Power

There are many incomparable advantages worth considering in regard to using solar power and in fact the number of advantages to this form of power is so many that the few disadvantages that will crop up will pale in comparison. What's more, with a proper approach it is certainly possible to convert the negative aspects of solar power into positive advantages. To take the case of advantages first: first and foremost solar power is a source of renewable energy that as such has led mankind to find a source of energy that does not involve polluting the atmosphere when producing energy.

A Virtual Necessity
Solar power is now a virtual necessity for mankind and when it concerns our precious environment it is perhaps the best alternative which will help to save our priceless Mother Earth from further ravages. Even manufacturers of cars are on the hunt for alternative fuels as well as different kinds of renewable energy sources to combat not only the ever rising prices of gasoline but also to ward off the effects of global warming which is jeopardizing our very existence.

However, solar power has many advantages that will do a lot ensure that our environment remains free from nasty and dangerous pollutants. The need to turn to using solar power for our energy needs cannot be overemphasized and with each rise in the cost of electricity and skyrocketing oil prices it is high time to find suitable alternatives.

The ready availability of solar panels in the different hardware stores is encouraging as North America and Europe can now look at solar power for salvation even though the price of these panels is still on the high side. Nevertheless, there are thousands and thousands of home owners in all parts of the world who are looking to solar power to heat up their homes as well as get their homes illuminated.

More and more homes are being fitted with solar panels and there is also much information available to help anyone to easily install these panels to not only reduce their power bills but to also ensure that the environment remains clear and pure. The subject of home solar power has begun to elicit a lot more interest in all parts of the world and needs to be given serious consideration.

In fact, more and more people are wondering just how much money will solar power help in reducing our electricity bills. The current energy crisis is putting greater strain on our precious resources. In fact, it would also not be wrong to say that the very future of mankind depends on the proper use of solar power which is a clean, renewable and safe source of energy.

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Barack Obama and Global Warming by Barry Jonathan Lough

2008-12-05T00:54:00.000-08:00

Is anybody sure about the cause of global warming? One thing is certain. The answer to THAT question is NO.

A lot of people would say it is air pollution, and the newest president of the USA seems to think so. Can a new government save future generations from global catastrophe? A market for cleaner-burning fuels might help stop climate change and President Obama's administration could make this possible. So a number of environmental groups and lobbyist groups hope.

One such special interest group is known as Ceros. This coalition of environmental organizations and investors wishes for Obama to curtail global warming. They figure he could pass legislation to reduce green house gas emissions by 25% below 1990 levels before 2020, and they might be right.

One step in achieving this end is "honest accounting of financial risks that companies and investors face from climate change," according to Ceros. Another might be dispensing with a system of emissions credits to force this honest accounting instead of providing an avenue for deep-pocketed corporations from easily buying their way out of responsibility.
Who wouldn't want Barack Obama's government to take charge in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and rates of deforestation? Is this even the right person for the job? No one person can do it all, of course.

According to Obama, "The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much is naturally occurring, but what we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return. And unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe."
This tells us that he has some regard for scientific research, and that he believes we CAN do something about global warming. Applying science correctly provides a good start to arriving at a solution. And scientists will play a big role in finding a solution, even if that solution is simply a "wait and see what happens".

A scientific approach includes taking off the blinders and thinking creatively to arrive at one or several solutions. Focussing on carbon in initiatives such as the National Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which is trying to find "clean" fuels instead of the ones we currently consume, takes the sights off other climate drivers and other greenhouse gases. Water vapour being chief amongst those.

Another example, please...
It has been said that the sun is the only source of global warming. A new energy economy proposed by Obama would rely on renewable energy such as solar and wind, both of which depend on sunlight. Other documents have said that extra sunspot activity can reduce cloud cover, resulting in a more heated planet/atmosphere system.

Furthermore, An Inconvenient Truth shows Al Gore putting carbon dioxide as the culprit as far as global warming is concerned. Anthropogenic carbon dioxide. But a credible theory of climate variations points to Milankovitch Cycles, where changes in earth-heating patterns occur in a recurring pattern.

Maybe Obama got in at the right time with his campaign promises and we will see improvements take place that would have happened without anybody's effort at all. Barack will certainly get the credit, though.

About the Author
Barry is an air quality scientist who writes about atmospheric environmental issues. See this Cause of Global Warming article for further perspective on global warming. Barry's Weather Man page gives you more about the author.

Why Build a Home Made Wind Generator? - To Help Save The Earth by Martin Loader

2008-12-05T00:53:00.000-08:00

Many might think that building a home made wind generator is just a bit of a fun, and it's not really a serious undertaking. Many may think that it is probably just to complicated to even think about making one, but like the thought of having one.

Whatever the reason, it really is worth taking a serious look at making a home made wind generator. You can buy some ready made wind generators which although work very well, they can cost upwards of three thousand dollars.

There are some very good reasons therefore, to find yourself a proven design that costs only a few hundred dollars to make and get one set up on your property.

Apart from it being cost effective, the most important issue concerning humanity at this moment is the continuing onset of global warming. It will not go away unless we do something about it right now. We, as individuals, have to take responsibility and not leave it all for the governments to do. If we all had our own power sources, just think how much it would reduce the use of conventional power stations. It is almost incalculable in terms of the reduction of pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.

Not only greenhouse gasses would be reduced. All of the other dangerous emissions would be reduced. Respiratory complaints are very high and they would be decreased dramatically. I would love a world where my children and everyone could breathe clean fresh air.

Wind energy is a great alternative power source because it is free, it is endless and it doesn't cost the earth. Literally speaking.

It's not a difficult project to get involved in. All of the items that you will need to make your home made wind generator can be purchased from your local hardware store. It's inexpensive and a lot of fun to make.

For goodness sake, don't waste the wind.

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Getting Green to Assist Mother Earth, Solar Energy Facts by Steve Madigan

2008-12-05T00:50:00.000-08:00

If you think that solar energy consists solely of those large panels that reflect off of homes, think again. With the assistance of this article, we will talk about some other solar energy facts.
Although it came to light, so to speak, in the 1960s, solar energy has progressed and can be used for everything from heating our houses to fueling our cars. Solar energy is free.

Our electricity bills get higher each and every year. We can take this solar power using Earth4Energys kit for a fraction of what it cost us for electricity. We hear that the environment is having troubles with global warming, green house gases, but solar power if we decide to use and commit in it, is positive for the environment. These are just some solar energy facts.
A long time ago, we considered people who used solar energy to heat their households pretty much as nuts. Now, they are the ones who are laughing Oil rises one day. We have experienced it as high as $150 a barrel. It has come down, but the price is still high. These fossil fuels are killing our world at the same time. But there are people out there that are employing Green Energy, solar and wind to help with there energy demands. They are the one's that are preserving money month after month.

When new buildings are starting up, in some cases they have some type of alternative energy source built in for saving money as well as thinking about not destroying our earth that we live in. Warming our households and water is only one use for solar and wind energy.

Solar and wind energy can be used for working our appliance's as well as some electronic devices that we use. How about a calculator? Now you can have lights in your yard work on stashed away solar power. No batteries necessary either to run some of these devices. So, why not use that same energy to power other gadgets as well?

Uniting the powers of wind with solar and you can really start to save. Heating our homes, running our automobile, operating electronic devices, appliances are just a couple things for solar energy purposes. Saving lives is another, such as cleaning water for people to drink, in some third world nations. As you can see there are numerous uses for solar and wind energy.

To keep solar and wind energy active and going forward, thought has to be given to the cost of producing this power. We also have to remember to consider the eco system as well. People wanting to save money utilizing solar and individuals who want to protect the environment are in agreement in this way. They both think that solar and wind energy can be an answer to a major problem moving into the next generation.

Now if you really want to save some money then solar and wind energy are the answers, click solar energy facts. This will help to reduce your electric power a bunch. Learn more by clicking on solar panels for homes.

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Environmental Warfare: A Fine Mess We Made

2008-03-09T22:35:00.000-07:00

We are seeing people getting sick and a lot of our surroundings dilapidating over the time. While we are surely living in an unbalanced world, nobody knows what is bound to happen next. We have put ourselves in this predicament. Only time will tell if we can still make a change for the better.

Global warming is an issue that we have created. It is an issue that we can work to resolve. The damage that is already done is irreversible, but we can make changes now to protect the earth's atmosphere in the future. If we reduce the amount of fuel that we burn, by making changes to our lifestyle, we can reduce the amount of damage that is done to the atmosphere.

Saving earth is everyone's responsibility. The damages done to the earth resources have to be slowed-down and eventually stop if we want our children and grand-children to enjoy a healthy outdoor life like we can.

The big polluters have been pointed and rules and regulations to diminish the toxic gas emissions have been put into place. Manufacturers are now targeted to ensure they lower their pollution production.

Although this is a small step in the right direction, more needs to be done to slow down and eventually stop the wastes of our natural resources. Such solutions as walking instead of taking the car for small travels are a good and healthy start. Other measures such as not letting the purified water run aimlessly or better isolation of a house to lower the fuel consumption to heat it are all small steps that have the power to make a difference in the long run.

Detractors love to remind us that global warming is not new - it has been happening for thousands of years - it happened before, when humans were not even around, and it will happen again. That does not change the fact that we are responsible for accelerating it this time, and we can undo the damage if we work hard enough. Recently, Time magazine deemed the rapid overall temperature increase to be an emergency condition. Action needs to be taken. Now!
There is much that we as individuals can do to stop global warming.

For one thing, we can stop global warming by conserving energy . How can you conserve energy? Just join the office car pool, walk or cycle instead of using your car for short journeys. Use public transport. Fit low energy light bulbs in every room. Turn off appliances when they are not in use, and turn the thermostat down one degree - you probably won't even notice it, but over time, that one degree difference will amount to a lot of energy saved. Just imagine this. What if every single person made changes like those? The result would be that the savings would be huge.

Another simple way to do your bit is to recycle - instead of letting rubbish end up in landfill sites, or, worse, be incinerated, if you recycle it you reduce waste, and save on the energy that would have been needed to produce whatever the product was from raw materials.

Also, using eco-friendly fuels and vehicles will help prevent global warming - at the moment some eco-friendly options are more expensive than standard fuel, but in the long run you will be saving immensely.

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Jon Caldwell is an Internet Marketer. Much of his work can be found at http://www.newsportals.net/newsportalsnetcat/newsportalsnetlink.php

Your Role in Global Warming

2008-02-21T04:50:00.000-08:00

Global warming is an issue that we have created. It is an issue that we can work to resolve. The damage that is already done is irreversible, but we can make changes now to protect the earth's atmosphere in the future. If we reduce the amount of fuel that we burn, by making changes to our lifestyle, we can reduce the amount of damage that is done to the atmosphere. Here, you will find what role you can take in order to reduce the effect of global warming on our world.

1) The first step that you can take in order to reduce the effect of global warming is to change all of your light bulbs from standard bulbs to energy efficient light bulbs. Energy efficient light bulbs are generally more expensive, but they will save you a considerable amount of money on your energy costs and will also reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that are released into the earth's atmosphere.

2) The next step that you can take to reduce the effect of global warming is to ensure that you turn things off when you are not using them. This helps to save on the amount of electricity that you use. When you save on electricity, you save money on your power costs and reduce the amount of fuel that is required to burn to give you electricity. This, in turn, helps to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere. You should also ensure that you turn off water when it is not being used to benefit the atmosphere.

3) It is important that you learn to recycle and reuse things when you are able to. You should make sure that you get actively involved in a local recycling program. When you recycle, you can reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that can add to the global warming issue.

4) It is important that you try to use the air conditioner and heater in your home less. You should use a thermostat when one is available to control the usage of these items. You should try to use fans more and less air conditioning. This will help to reduce the effect of global warming by limiting the amount of greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere.

5) You should try to encourage others to conserve energy. Inform them of the dangers of global warming and how greenhouse gases affect the atmosphere. You should let them know that everyone should hold themselves accountable for the energy that they consume, the amount that they drive, and the things that they do not recycle.

6) You should try to buy products that are considered energy efficient. Many appliances that are available now have an energy efficiency rating. You should make an effort to buy appliances that use less electricity in order to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that enter the earth's atmosphere.

These are just a few changes you can make in your everyday life which will contribute to lessening the amount of greenhouse gasses. By all of us working together, we can all have a positive effect on reducing the consequences of global warming.

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www.tellmeaboutglobalwarming.com brings you thought provoking information about global warming. Be sure to check out all the pages and decide for yourself. © 2007 copyright by DSquare Marketing and Della Franklin.

George Bush Bill Clinton Devastated the Mexican Californian Beaches

2008-02-21T04:49:00.000-08:00

George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush have been running the worldâ€™s only superpower for the past 20 years. George H. W. Bush called the worldâ€™s environmentalists â€œthe spotted owl crowdâ€. He meant that the environmentalists were choosing to save the spotted owls to the detriment of human beings. Well now the chickens have come home to roost on their horizontal rods.

The prophet Isaiah said that the name of the Messiah would be Emanuel, the middle name of A-Rod, meaning God is with us. Hopefully the Messiah isnâ€™t planning on doing much scuba diving or surfing off the Pacific Coast of Mexico, California or Hawaii because thanks to our political leaders for the past 20 years the Pacific Ocean has now become a gigantic, poisoned, deadly garbage dump of contaminated plastic being eaten by the fish on your childrensâ€™ plate.

In a recent interview with Time Magazine Al Gore said, â€œWhen I was in the Snow and Ice Data Center receiving a full briefing on the polar ice caps, afterwards I would turn on my TV and there were two networks with the bulletin: Britney Spears loses custody of her children. Weâ€™re living in a madhouse if our priorities focus on the embalming of Anna Nicole Smith, or the trial of O.J. Simpson, while we ignore the greatest crisis this nation has ever faced.â€

The definition of insanity is when a person is a danger to themselves or others because they do not understand the nature and consequences of their actions. In 1998 under intense pressure from their main sponsors the big oil companies, Bill and Hillary Clinton refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Now the U.S., the worldâ€™s largest polluter, under the leadership of George Bush has gutted the Bali Climate Change Agreement of all substance. Hillary Clinton just loaned $5M dollars to her campaign. This money came from the $10 Million dollars per year being payed by the Emir of Dubai to Bill Clinton for doing absolutely nothing. The leaders of Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to the Bill Clinton Presidential Library and hundreds of millions to the Bush family.

In return for the money, the Bush and Clinton families have agreed to allow Saudi Arabia and Dubai to buy Americaâ€™s banks, (Hillary O.K.â€™d this in the Nevada debate), part of Daimler Chrysler, large stakes in Americaâ€™s corporations, Americaâ€™s ports, (remember Bush and Cheney pushing for the Dubai ports deal?), and the Bush and Clinton families have agreed to kill any world environment treaties like Kyoto and Bali which would hamper the Saudi and Persian Gulf Statesâ€™ exporting of 10 million barrels per day at $100 per barrel, a billion dollars every day. How did Saudi Arabia and Dubai buy the Bush and Clinton families so cheaply? Did they buy them at Wal Mart?

Pope Benedict XVI is a champion of the environmental movement and has urged all Catholics to become environmentalists. The Catholic Church has taken a firm stance against global warming. Pope Benedict XVI has warned against the seductive nature of science. Our own experience has been that Bill Clinton has repeatedly demonstrated an inability to resist temptation. God the Father carved in stone, â€œDonâ€™t Murder, or else I will punish you, your children, your grandchildren and your great grandchildren.â€ Donâ€™t Murder means donâ€™t murder people or poison to death the parts people are made of, air, water and earth.

If you put a frog in water and then gradually raise the temperature the frog will boil to death. If you throw a frog into boiling water it will get very hot and jump out. Plastic is made from oil. The great Pacific Ocean Plastic Garbage Dump, the Pacific Ocean Plastic Soup, now stretches from 500 miles off the California coast, past Hawaii almost to Japan. It is twice the size of the United States. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer says that when the plastic soup comes near land, as it does at the Hawaiian archipelago, the gargbage patch vomits, and you get a beach covered with this plastic.

Charles Moore, an oil heir, sold his business, and became an oceanographer. Charles Moore said this week that on our present course the Pacific Plastic Stew will double in size over the next 10 years. Our experience shows us that if Hillary Clinton, a puppet of the oil executives, bought and paid for by the oil barons, becomes President, then when she leaves office, the entire Pacific Ocean and its beaches will be a deadly plastic garbage dump. The end of tourism will be the least of our worries.

Professor David Karl, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii says that the plastic is not biodegrading, and modern plastic is so durable that 50 year old plastic is in the soup. Tony Andrady, a chemist with the U.S. based Research Triangle Institute says that â€œEvery little piece of plastic manufactured in the past 50 years that made it into the ocean is still out there.â€ The Pacific Ocean now has billions of tiny plastic pellets, nurdles, which combine with man made poison petrochemicals, the toxic pesticide DDT, which are eaten by the fish on your childâ€™s dinner plate.

White females over 50 and Latinos are handing Hillary Clinton the Presidency because they trust the bought off by the oil executives, corrupt, lying Clintons who got us all into this mess. White females over 50 and Latinos say that Bill and Hillary Clinton have more experience than Barack Obama, as if the number of years in politics means wisdom, and sound judgment. Look at your childâ€™s globe. In fact the Earth only has one ocean. People think that times were good under the Clintons, in the time that the world was turning into a poisonous greenhouse and the ocean was turning into a deadly plastic garbage dump.

The Bush Clinton American Royal family for the past 20 years tried to sweep this all under the rug. George Bush had Philip Cooney of Exxon Mobil change scientific research to say that there was no human made global warming, and Republicans have been duped into believing this. Now the kaka has hit the fan. The toxic plastic and poison chemicals are now contaminating the American rivers and lakes too. Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American civil rights activist. Which right is more important than the right to poison free air, soil, water and food? Which Democratic Presidential candidate voted to waste American lives and money in Iraq as her Saudi Arabian and Persian Gulf benefactors lined her pockets with gold for the right to poison your children to death?

The Clinton and Bush families are the canidates of change. They have changed the Garden of Eden into a toxic wasteland.

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Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com

Rudy Giuliani to drill hole in sky to let out Greenhouse Gases

2008-01-15T06:51:00.001-08:00

Most people cannot understand the concept of greenhouse gases because when a human being looks at the moon and the sun and the stars the earthâ€™s sky has no ceiling. Sealing wax is a combination of resin and turpentine used for sealing letters and dry cells. It is hard at normal temperatures but softens when heated. Since the earth has no ceiling people reason that smokestack gases and car exhaust fumes just fly off into the infinite and vast expanse of outer space and so whatâ€™s the problem? Yesterday at a Town Hall meeting in Waterloo, Iowa, Republican Presidential Candidate Rudy Giuliani set the record straight on global warming and introduced a brilliant and revolutionary solution to save life on earth in his first term in office. Here is what Rudy Giuliani said to the people of Waterloo, Iowa, yesterday:

Rudy Giuliani: â€œ9/11, 9/11. What a hit job. They tried to do to me what they did to Sonny Corleone. This has taken a huge toll on my new mistress, according to her security detail. The NYPD is spending so much money protecting people connected to me now that my campaign contributors are asking for protection. I told them, â€˜There are no money back guarantees and I told you that going in. This whole security thing is much ado about nothing, just like global warming. In actuality the earthâ€™s sky does have a ceiling but you cannot see it when standing on the earthâ€™s surface. You can only see it when you look at the earthâ€™s blue sky from the international space station and then you can see where the earthâ€™s ceiling meets the black sky of cold space. That is the ceiling of the earthâ€™s blue sky. In my first term in office I intend to send couple construction guys up to the international space station to drill a hole in the ceiling of the earthâ€™s sky to let the greenhouse gases escape. Budda Bing Budda Bang forget about it.â€

At that point Mrs. Mildred R. Crabsnapple of Spirit Lake, Iowa asked Rudy Giuliani, â€œMayor Giuliani, According to Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Secretary of the U.S. Treaury Department, our $10 trillion debt is like a ticking time bomb about to blow our economy into the dirt permanently, and there will be no money for social security, health care or education. How do you plan to solve that problem?â€

Rudy Giuliani replied, â€œHi Mildred itâ€™s great to see you. Howâ€™s your daughter Donna doing? Security O.K.? Social Security. I have a holistic plan. By conquering Iraq and Iran by whatever means it takes, I will add $60 trillion dollars to our coffers immediately, end Islamic Terrorism, bring peace and democracy to the Middle East, cover the cost of sky drilling equipment, and reimburse the NYPD and the Secret Service for my past and future indiscretions. You happy now Mildred?â€

Mildred R. Crabsnapple: â€œMayor Giuliani. Russia and China helped tiny North Vietnam defeat the United States. Russia and China have now formed a strategic military alliance together and with Iran. Russia and China just played war games together. Russia has built Iran a nuclear reactor in Bushehr, Iran and is now delivering the nuclear fuel to Iran. Vladimir Putin has warned the Russian people that the U.S. is coming to conquer Russia and steal their oil. Vladimir Putin also warned the United States that President Bush has created a new Cuban Missile Crisis by stationing American missiles in Poland, the Czech Republic and Taiwan. How do you plan on defeating the combined forces of Russia, China, Iraq and Iran in order to conquer the Middle East oil?â€

Rudy Giuliani: â€œMildred Iâ€™d love to tell you but itâ€™s a matter of security.â€

Mildred R. Crabsnapple: â€œMayor Giuliani donâ€™t give me that evasive politician security double speak. I asked you a serious question. How do you intend to defeat Russia, China, Iraq and Iran in order to conquer the Middle East oil?â€

Rudy Giuliani: â€œMildred, that question has been asked and answered. I would suggest that you sit down now. Do you understand the meaning of the word â€˜taserâ€™? Now donâ€™t make me get rough with you Mildred. You wonâ€™t be the first grandmother Iâ€™ve tased. Any more questions?â€

At this point Mildred R. Crabsnapple was gently escorted from the Hall by Mayor Giuianiâ€™s security detail. Rudy Giuliani then gently escorted his wife Judy from the Hall, to the chants of â€œRudy, Rudy, Rudyâ€.

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Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com

The Al Gore Jamie Lynn Spears Pope Benedict Climate Change Connection

2008-01-15T06:50:00.000-08:00

How could Al Gore, Jamie Lynn Spears and Pope Benedict XVI be connected to each other, world peace and climate change? If climate change leads to melting glaciers, dry rivers, desertification, nuclear world war III fighting over arable land and water, and then a new ice age of world wide nuclear winter, will that solve the global warming problem? Nuclear world war III will have no survivors. Will that solve the overpopulation problem?

Al Gore is fighting to save the world from the disaster of climate change but he has decided not to do it by running for the Presidency of the United States even though he would be a shoo in. Pope Benedict XVI just invited Prince Ghazi of Jordan to bring some of the 138 Muslim scholars, clerics and political leaders to meet with him at the Vatican.

In his invitation, Pope Benedict XVI said, "We must not yield to the negative pressures in our midst, but must affirm the values of mutual respect, solidarity and peace. The life of every human being is sacred, both for Christians and Muslims. Our common ground of, 'Love God and one's neighbor' allows us to base dialogue on effective respect for the dignity of every human person and a common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generation. Once this is achieved, it will be possible to cooperate in a productive way in the areas of culture and society, and for the promotion of justice and peace in society and throughout the world."

Jamie Lynn Spears, 16, just announced that she is pregnant with the child of her boyfriend. The self righteous United States Republican majority is now hurling every slur in the book at Jamie Lynn Spears. This shows how far human beings have come from their roots, not to mention their lack of respect for the dignity of every human person and the call to love thy neighbor. Not too long ago the average life expectancy was 25 years old. If the Lord created humanity, then the Lord determined that women should begin to have children at the age of 13, at which point women become of child bearing age. To hurl insults at Jamie Lynn Spears is to criticize God for producing women who become of child bearing age at 13.

Al Gore has decided not to run for the Presidency of the United States of America. He explained that in 1997, when he begged the 100 Senators to ratify the Kyoto Treaty to combat climate change and global warming only 1, ONE, senator agreed, and 99 senators said, "NO". In the old days for 5 million years our ancestors knew that poison from snakes was deadly. Today our elders have become so detached from reality that 99% of them are saying "Yes" to poisoning the air, water and earth. To love a person, to respect a person is to not poison their air, water and earth.

The self righteous pro life Republican moral majority are acting as though they would bee happier if Jamie Lynn Spears did not have a child growing inside of her, that it would be better if Jamie Lynn Spears had gotten rid of the child. Pope Benedict XVI forbids Jamie Lynn Spears from aborting her child. Al Gore refuses to run for President now because he says that the average person could care less about climate change and global warming.

In his recent interview with Time Magazine, Nobel Laureate Al Gore said, "Everything I do is within the context of priority number one: how can I help contribute to a solution to the climate crisis? When I was in the snow and ice data center, receiving a full briefing on the polar ice caps, afterwards I would turn on my TV and there were two networks with bulletins: 'Britney Spears loses custody of her children'. We're living in a madhouse if our priorities focus on the embalming of Anna Nicole Smith, or the trial of O.J. Simpson, while we ignore the greatest crisis this nation has ever faced, climate change."

Pope Benedict XVI and Prince Ghazi are calling for common respect among the younger generation of Christians and Muslims. Al Gore says that what is needed is a grassroots movement for climate change and global warming to protect against climate change and resulting world wars fighting over water and soil after desertification. Grassroots means the common people, people best representing the basic interests of the people. Basic means essential. What could be more essential than clean, pure, unpoisoned air, water and earth? Love and Respect means not hurting yourself or anyone else, as "The Queen of Soul", Aretha Franklin sings here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFOcj0siWFo Instead of the younger Christian and Muslim worlds arguing over religious differences, we all need to follow the advice of Pope Benedict XVI, Prince Ghazi and Al Gore, and unite against our real enemies, lack of love and respect for one another leading us all into nuclear world war III, and the poisoning to death of our common home, Planet Earth.

About the Author

Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com

Peace, The Balm To Soothe Troubled Lives And Times

2008-01-07T00:21:00.001-08:00

In his masterpiece, "Man's Search for Meaning," Viktor Frankl writes, "Every age has its own collective neurosis and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it." There is a collective neurosis in our world today, it is the cry for peace emanating from individuals, groups, communities and nations, impacting the mass consciousness.

The cries and marches for peace, power and freedom that marked recent decades, present a backdrop for today's human conditions of stress, anxiety, insecurity and turmoil. There are as many civil wars and wars between nations. From the individual perspective, the cry for peace is heralded as respite from the turbulence of today's hectic lifestyle. In the past four to five decades we have lived in such a way as to create challenging situations in our lives and create even more havoc as we try to solve the resulting problems.

There is a popular bumper sticker that states, "Peace begins within," and a hymn that is sung in thousands of churches world-wide on Sundays, "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me." Yes, peace begins within the heart and mind of every person. Until we reignite the flame of peace, love and unity there can be no lasting peace in individuals, among people and nations of the world.

Frankl, who lived a life shaped by war, states that, "Man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life by answering to his own life, to life he can only respond by being responsible." The question of whether or not we have lived responsibly in recent decades, has spawned national and international debates. With the widely reported impending consequences of global warming, catastrophes of war and economic collapses, the outlook is bleak. These impact the human condition as they are fed in large daily doses at breakfast, dinner and all throughout the day. Conditions of fear, stress, anger, frustration, rage, insecurity and strife are the results.

For individuals to have lasting peace they must live their lives from the inside out. This idea might send off alarm bells with shouts of hogwash. Well, let us see how real this is and how easily it can be accomplished. "Be in the world but not of the world," was prescribed by one of the great enlightened spiritual minds, eons ago. Is this possible you may ask, I dare to say it is.

To the degree that we become caught up in the dictates and excesses of the outside world, is the extent to which we will experience chaos and turbulence and lack inner peace.

I had first hand experience of this two decades ago. For a while I worked as a journalist and it is a well known fact that the profession is demanding and can be stressful. My publisher and editor was an excess living, driven workaholic, who was always in conflicts, off deadlines and antagonistic to life and everyone in it. He would often ask me how I remained so calm and in control, "Nothing seems to bother you," he would state. My response was always the same, "Be in the world but not of the world." He was fascinated by the idea and wanted to know how I accomplish that. He had no knowledge of spiritual matters and showed no interest in learning. He later became an appendage who watched, studied and leaned on me for answers and solutions. Years later he became feeble, sick and broken.

Stress is a natural response to the excesses that overwhelm our physical and emotional capabilities and life. The real or reality of us lies within us. Strength, courage, peace and power all emanate from within. Our minds that create the thoughts that become things are within us. The learned and great apostle Paul admonishes us not to conform to the world but to be transformed by the renewing of our mind, that we may prove what is the good, acceptable and perfect will of God. He knew over zealousness, rejection, defeat and triumph, but through renewal of his mind, he left us a legacy in spiritual transformation.

When we conform to the world we allow the dictates of the world and its appearances to control our lives. The real of man is spiritual and divine, not the ego driven personality that responds to the whims and fancies of every Tom, Dick and Harry. Stress and conflict occur when the inner spiritual self and its outer personality self are in opposing viewpoints.

Frankl theorizes that mans search for meaning is a primary force in his life which is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone. Our greatness as human beings lies in our ability to change our minds and the conditions of our lives. What is so great about living in a free, democratic country is that it affords us the privilege of freedom to be all we want to be. Individually we must desire freedom and make the choice for freedom as we live our life. The great author and self help guru, Stuart Wilde, teaches that we should "Concentrate on ourselves and leave the world alone. As we strengthen ourselves we save all of humanity, because we are all linked to one another."

We must desire a change from the stress and turbulent lifestyle we live today. We must dare to rise up, declare, pursue and claim peace for ourselves. This will impact the lives of family and friends and spread out to our communities and our world. The pursuit of peace is perhaps the most followed path to spiritual enlightenment. A peaceful disposition calms the rough and tossed seas of turbulence, strife, fear and discontent.

The book, "Anchor in the spirit as God Beings - More than Mere Human," is presented as an easy to follow guidebook for spiritual transformation. It clearly sets out the conditions that support transformation and offers major tools that will help achieve it. The aim is a changed consciousness by acknowledging the need for change and practicing and living a lifestyle that foster peace, confidence, love and compassion within ourselves. This we then radiate out to touch the lives of others and transform our world. Individually transformed lives will create a mass consciousness of peace and there will be peace on earth, beginning with every one of us.

What better time than the upcoming holy season and the new year, to reignite the flame of peace, love and unity within the hearts and minds of persons and radiate it person to person to blanket our world. It begins with one person, one step at a time, let your new year commitment be to take that first step.

About the Author

Phyllis Reid is a Clinical Social Worker who works as a Psychotherapist with inner city children and their families. She is the author of the book, Anchor in the Spirit as God Beings, More than Mere Human and can be contacted at Philmar2000

nostradamus third anti christ MABUS george BUSh AND MESBAH yazdi

2008-01-07T00:20:00.001-08:00

Behold and ye shall see Satanâ€™s Master Plan to destroy life on earth forever as decoded from the already astonishingly accurate prophecies of Dr. Michel de Nostradame aka Nostradamus. You are about to discover the identity of Dr. Nostradamusâ€™ Third Anti Christ, the Third and final Anti Christ who is now poised to destroy every man, woman and child on earth right now unless we stop the Devil in his tracks immediately.

The Devil today has control of the minds of the people of earth and that is why we are like Santaâ€™s elves merrily going about the business of creating our own real live global warming and nuclear inferno real live Hell on Earth. The Devil is very cunning. All Adam and Eve had to do to retain paradise on earth forever was to follow one simple command of God of Mount Sinai (aka God the Father, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, Allah, Yehovah, Elohim), not to eat the fruit of the knowledge tree, but the snake, Satan, got Eve to convince Adam that it would be O.K. to eat this fruit. Cunning means skillful in lying, deceiving, slyness and craftiness. Nostradamusâ€™ Third Anti Christâ€™s plan for our imminent destruction is extremely cunning. Satan did not gain control of our planet by being an idiot. If we are to survive we all must take back control of earth from Satan now.

Nostradamus lived in the 1500â€™s. He lived during the Inquisition and was forced to write his prophecies in code. Prophecy often comes in code and is open to different interpretations. The codes for Nostradamusâ€™ three Anti Christs did not need Jack Bauer to decode them. How do we recognize Satan? George Bush has said on numerous occasions, â€œYou are either with me or against me.â€ God of Mount Sinai carved the same thing in stone on two stone tablets Himself on Mount Sinai 3,200 years ago.

God said, â€œObey my 10 commandments and I will bless you for thousands of generations. Break my 10 commandments and I will punish you, your children, your grandchildren and your great grandchildren. For I Am a jealous God.â€ That is the deal, the Covenant, the Contract, entered into by Moses, Jesus Christ, and the Prophet Muhammad on behalf of 15 million Jews on earth today, 2 billion Christians and 1.3 billion Muslims.

You can tell the Devil because his rulebook is to break every one of these commandments in order to destroy us all, to create His burning, famine stricken Hell of people screaming in real live Hell right on earth, and we are a hair trigger away right now from finishing building it for Him. The Devil today is laughing his head off at us all and he can already taste his ultimate victory. Fortunately we now know the identity of Nostradamusâ€™ Third Anti Christ and we can choose not to follow him to our destruction. The great deception is that the Anti Christ Himself believes that he is a man of God, and his people believe that too.

Nostradamusâ€™ first Anti Christ was code named Napaulon Roy, aka Napoleon, the French Emperor who lost his army in Russia. Nostradamusâ€™ second Anti Christ was code named Hister, aka Hitler, the German Emperor who lost his army in Russia. The code name of Nostradamusâ€™ Third Anti Christ is MABUS.

Here is the ingenious master plan of the Devil to destroy all life on earth forever using us to do it for him. Satan Himself has possessed two mighty leaders on earth today and set them against each other in order to bring about nuclear world war III, the aftermath of which nuclear winter then ultraviolet summer will have no survivors. This is the ultimate reality T.V. show, â€œNo Survivors Hellâ€.

Nostradamusâ€™ Third Anti Christ, the prince of lies is code named â€œMABUSâ€. Here is Mabus number 1: â€œmaBUSâ€. Turn the m upside down. W BUS. This is American President george W BUSh. Here is Mabus number 2: The fanatically hardline puppet master and daily advisor of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose goal is to conquer the world for Islam, Ayatollah â€œMESBAHâ€ (pronounced Maybuh) Yazdi. Today, Sunday Dec. 2, 2007, the United States and Iran, with its allies Russia and China who helped tiny North Vietnam defeat the United States are about to go to nuclear world war fighting over two thirds of the worldâ€™s oil, black gold. Gold is the Devilâ€™s Cow. This conflict is certain to escalate into Nuclear World War III, the Apocalypse, Armageddon. The question is how do we pull back from the brink of extinction? In 1964, Barry McGuire recorded the song, â€œEve of Destructionâ€. The updated music video which applies to our present situation is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akoukq5DvAE

WE/COME Back. Here is Nostradamusâ€™ Third Anti Christ prophecy: â€œMABUS will soon die, then will come, A horrible undoing of people and animals, At once one will see vengeance, One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.â€ (Century 2, Quatrain 62). â€œThe Anti-Christ very soon annihilates the three, twenty-seven years his war will last. The unbelievers are dead, captive, exiled; with blood, human bodies, water and red hail covering the earth.â€ (Century 8, Quatrain 77).

The horrible undoing of people and animals refers to the extinction of life on earth forever. The vengeance is the American over reaction to 9/11. One hundred powers refers to close to the number of countries on earth today. World wide thirst and famine, death by starvation will result from nuclear world war 3 and its aftermath nuclear winter then ultraviolet summer. The comet just hit Peru, leaving a small sulfurous pond boiling with noxious chemicals and making the villagers sick. Nuclear World War 3â€™s ultraviolet summer will cause the melting of Antarctica, the Arctic and Greenland which will cause the earthâ€™s one ocean to rise permanently 100 feet and the survivors of nuclear world war 3 will drown in a radioactive soup. The Anti Christ Satan annihilates the three children of God of Mount Sinai who cannot settle their differences, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Within 27 years all life on earth will be gone forever. The unbelievers are the Christian, Muslim and Jewish people and everyone else because how can a Christian believe in Islam or Judaism, how can a Muslim believe in Christianity or Judaism, and how can a Jew believe in Christianity or Islam? According to each religion, all people outside of their religion are unbelievers. All of us, â€œthe unbelieversâ€ are dead, with blood, human bodies, water and blood red hail covering the earth.

The Devil is very cunning. He has George Bush in the West with an enormous arsenal believing that the Apocalypse will be a wondrous occasion in which Jesus Christ the Messiah will come to save and conquer the world for Christianity. Satan has Iranâ€™s Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi in the East believing that the Apocalypse will be a wondrous occasion in which the Muslim Messiahs Jesus Christ and the Mahdi will come to save and conquer the world for Islam. Satan has the Jews believing that the Messiah will come and save and conquer the world for Israel and the Jewish people. The Christian, Muslim and Jewish people are now about to begin the Apocalypse gleefully, anticipating that the result will be paradise on earth and in heaven for them. They all believe that a permanently uninhabitable radioactive earth will be a paradise on earth for them. Insanity is when you cannot appreciate the nature and consequences of your actions. How did Satan drive the people of earth totally insane?

Your God of Mount Sinaiâ€™s answer and our way out of Satanâ€™s web can be found on the 10 page website of The Temple of Love ï¿½ï¿½" The World Peace Religion. The Temple makes peace among and unites Christianity, Islam, Judaism and everyone else and the countries they all live in by tying them together with their common threads and resolving all their differences once and for all.

Since its founding 2 Â½ years ago The Temple has already spawned the official website of moderate Islam, â€œA Common Word between you and us, Loveâ€ http://www.acommonword.com By tying us together with our common threads the Muslim Scholars led by Jordanâ€™s King Abdullah II have gone a long way to uniting the leaders of Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Read the letter and the Christian, Jewish and media responses to see how they brought Pope Benedict XVI, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the world wide Anglican Church, the chief Rabbi of Israel Yonah Metzger and a top Iranian Ayatollah together for lunch in Naples recently, embracing each other in peace and love. King Abdullah II was also responsible for bringing together Israel, the moderate Sunni Arab countries, and the Christian United States at the Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, recently.

The problem now is that even though â€œA Common Word, Loveâ€, tied the leaders of moderate Islam, Christianity and Judaism together with their common threads with spectacular and miraculous results in the two months since the release of their letter, they did not go far enough, they did not resolve the differences between and unite the religions as one as The Temple has done, for fear of offending the religions. The question is, how can people be offended by the word and the plan of their own God of Mount Sinai, as revealed in the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran to every Biblical Prophet of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the plan to save the world now, and wrest control of earth from Satan and give it to your God of Mount Sinai, now?

Satan hates your guts and wants you all to die an agonizing death and God of Mount Sinai loves you all and wants to bless you all. Once you see the simple and wondrous plan of your own God of Mount Sinai to bring everlasting peace to earth forever, begin to take down the signs on every Church, Mosque, and Synagogue, and replace them with the sign, â€œThe Temple of Love ï¿½ï¿½" The World Peace Religionâ€. The job of the Messiah is to purify Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Be Messiahs, not slaves of Satan. Purified Judaism is purified Christianity is purified Islam is The Temple of Love. In 1943, who would have believed that today Germany, the United States, Israel and Japan would be sitting united in Annapolis, Maryland? We can do this. Now, go to your God of Mount Sinaiâ€™s Temple of Love, and read your Godâ€™s plan for you all to save the world yourselves, and follow it to paradise on earth forever. http://www.thetempleoflove.com

About the Author

Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com

Rudy Giuliani to drill hole in sky to let out Greenhouse Gases

2008-01-07T00:19:00.000-08:00

Rudy Giuliani: â€œMildred Iâ€™d love to tell you but itâ€™s a matter of security.â€

About the Author

Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com

The Al Gore Jamie Lynn Spears Pope Benedict Climate Change Connection

2008-01-07T00:18:00.000-08:00

ow could Al Gore, Jamie Lynn Spears and Pope Benedict XVI be connected to each other, world peace and climate change? If climate change leads to melting glaciers, dry rivers, desertification, nuclear world war III fighting over arable land and water, and then a new ice age of world wide nuclear winter, will that solve the global warming problem? Nuclear world war III will have no survivors. Will that solve the overpopulation problem?

About the Author

Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com

GLOBAL WARMING: a new role for Al Gore

2007-11-04T20:33:00.000-08:00

New York November 2, 2007. Now Ban Ki Moon can count upon former Vice President, Al Gore, as United Nations' most invaluable asset in its war on global warming. Not because, Gore has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize, jointly with the UN's Science body, IPCC but because, he has made his views public on this global organization, of which Ban Ki Moon is the Secretary General.

It is now Al Gore's unflinching faith that the United Nations is the only appropriate forum to address the crisis that our planet is faced with and this assures the victory of the global war on global warming. In his speech in the 24th September Climate Summit held at the UN headquarters in New York, Al Gore told the gathering of 80 heads of state and government that it was now the time for action. "I would like to propose that the heads of the state around the world call an emergency session of this gathering in the beginning of next year to review the results of the Bali Summit," insisted Al Gore.

Al Gore deeply feels that mankind is faced with a planetary emergency, which requires very urgent attention. He, therefore, suggests that the discussions, deliberations and decisions shall be carried on at the Summit levels, rather than at the ministerial or bureaucratic level. He reiterated this stand in his Berlin Speech on October 23, 2007 when he unambiguously endorsed UN supremacy as the organizer of a concerted battle. "World leaders should meet in January under the auspicious of UN to act on the results of the Bali Talks," he said.

These are the indications that Al Gore has taken upon himself a new role of motivating and galvanizing the world leaders to combat global warming in a concerted manner and that, too, under the leadership of the United Nations. It is, therefore, imperative that the world body facilitates this move by Al Gore.

And this role much bigger than the role; he has already played as a motivator, which won him many accolades, par excellence, including the 2007 Nobel Prize. Whether in politics, in power or out of power, Al Gore has always been a climate activist. Media has rightly called him a climate warrior. Additionally, he is a great motivator. He is preparing humanity to fight the global warming. Al Gore was the first American Politician in Congress who organized the Congressional hearing in 1980 on the subject.

He gathered scientists and put them in touch with the politicians to let the scientific truth become a part of political decision-making. As the Vice President in the Clinton Administration, he worked on the implementation of the Carbon Tax. This tax was meant to give incentives to the industry to cut down the use of fossil fuels to lessen the emission of greenhouse gases. He also facilitated the funding of a satellite named Triana, launched to study the atmosphere. But his real opportunity came in 1997.

The second report by IPCC had been released in 1995. The urgency to deal with climate change crisis was being felt. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) had called its annual Conference of the Parties number three (CoP3) to be held at Kyoto, Japan in December 1997. It was here that Al Gore played the role of a broker, bringing the parties together and convincing them to agree on cuts in emissions. This international climate treaty, which bound 36 developed nations to cut the emission of greenhouse gases and bring it to the level of 5% below the 1990 level, came to be known as the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol enters into compliance stage in 2008, to be completed by 2012. The success and failure of this treaty will determine the fate of our planet.

And perhaps, this is Al Gore's destiny. He helped broker the Kyoto Protocol and, now, he needs to work for its success also. Al Gore has already given a call to reach the targets by 2010, instead of by 2012. Al Gore's obsession with climate change issue is that of a missionary. It is not motivated by a politician's unending desire for global visibility or to enhance the prospects of elect ability. It dates back to his student days, much before he chose his career. At Harvard University, his professor, Roger Reveille, sowed in him the seeds of an interest to learn the role of carbon dioxide in atmosphere. This interest has been growing since then. Al Gore went deep and deep into the topic, presented slide shows and delivered lectures on the topic.

Al Gore says that he presented about 1000 slide shows before he was given the offer to transform his collections into a documentary movie. Two producers, Laurie David and Lawrence Bender, saw one of his slide shows in 2004 in New York and were so impressed and inspired that they, with the help of Director Davis Guggenheim used the material to make the movie that was named, An Inconvenient Truth. The movie weaves very skillfully Al Gore's motivational skills and his insight into the causes and effects of global warming, along with the human costs, including 100 million people feared to be rendered homeless in lsland states and coastal areas because of rising sea levels.

Consequently, An Inconvenient Truth distributed by Paramount Classics, became a big box office hit, grossing over $ 49 billion worldwide. It, also, won inspirational comments by the film reviewers. Robert Elbert, a film critic wrote these lines. "In 39 years, I have never written these words in movie review, but here, they are. You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not and you have grandchildren, you should explain them why you decided not to." To further spread the knowledge, Al Gore founded an NGO, The Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan initiative. His zeal and sincerity to the cause is evident from the fact that he and his wife, Tipper, gave away all the proceeds from the movie and its companion book to this organization.

"Tipper and I are donating 100% of the profits from the book and movie to a new bipartisan educational campaign to further spread the message about global warming." And he knows no stopping. On July 7, 2007, he joined Kevin wall of "Save Our Selves" and organized star-studded "Live Earth Concerts" to "promote environmentalism worldwide." His global mission is advancing and the world is recognizing his contributions that he has made through his speeches, slide shows, books, columns and movie,.

He has taken the issue out of political arena into the humanitarian field. During his brief speech during the Oscar Award given to the Director of An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, he told the celebrity-audience: "My fellow Americans and people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It is not a political issue; it is a moral issue. We have everything; we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act.

That is a renewable resource. Let us renew it." His fellow Americans and the people all over the world, not only feel pleasure in listening to his message, they, also, get elevated when the world rewards him with accolades in return for his services to mankind. His slide shows have got standing ovations; he is one of the most respected international speakers; he is the winner of Academy Award, and also of Emmy. And now, he is honored with the world's most prestigious award, the Nobel Peace Prize, 2007, which he shares with the UN's Science Panel, IPCC, headed by Rajendra K.Pachauri.

The Nobel Prize Committee acknowledges Al Gore's contributions in its citation. "Al Gore is probably the single individual who has done most to create worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted." But Al Gore does not ignore the services that the IPCC is doing in strengthening the knowledge and ideological base of the climate warriors, including his. He praised the IPCC as "the world's pre-eminent body devoted to improving the understanding of the climate crisis.

" This year's Nobel Prize clearly shows Al Gore and UN marching in the same direction, trying to reach the same goal. The only requirement for victory is change in attitude, whereby Al Gore becomes the Climate Warrior of the United Nations and Ban Ki Moon's dream comes true. These are Ban's words on the Nobel Prize award to him, in partnership with IPCC.

"Largely thanks to the IPCC's lucid and well-documented findings, it is now established that climate change is happening and that much of it is caused by human activity. As a result, there is now unprecedented momentum for action on climate change around the world and recognition of the UN as the forum/" "Recognition of the UN as forum" is coming up as the main battle cry. Ban has been working on it since he took office and Al Gore has endorsed it. Oslo, the Headquarter of the Nobel Prize Committee, has become the WATERLOO of the skeptics of science of global warming. The only hurdle will be President Bush's approach towards the combat strategy and Al Gore is the only high profile, internationally recognized pro-earth politician who can rally the world politicians under the flag of UN.

Al Gore is a great motivator. One has to listen to the opening monologue in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth", where he shows the beauty of nature vanishing if no action were taken to prevent. "You look at the river gently flowing by. You notice the leaves rustling with the wind. You hear the birds; you hear the tree frogs in the distance. You hear the cow. The mud gives a little bit on the riverbank. It is quiet; it is peaceful. And all of a sudden, there is a gearshift inside you. And it is like taking a deep breath and going. "Oh yeah, I forgot about this.""

And once again, on October 23, in Berlin, he motivated the world for an action to save the planet and that too, urgently and immediately. He posed two questions. What is going to be one of the two probable questions that the next generations will ask when they look back at the year 2007.

"I believe our children and grand children will look towards the year 2007 and ask one of the two questions. They will ask about us-what were they doing? What were they thinking about and how could they let that catastrophe happen? Didn't they listen to the scientists? Didn't they see the glaciers and polar caps melting? Didn't they see that fire? Or, will they ask another question. I want them to ask this question. How did they find the moral courage to rise up and solve the problem everyone said was impossible to solve?"

By showing preference for the second question, he wants us to gird up the loins for an action, a real action. But to get that done, Al Gore will have to add a bigger role to his existing role of awareness creator, even at the cost of lessening his work as a motivator. I propose that Al Gore now begins motivating the world leaders to join the mainstream battle under the aegis of the United Nations.

He has the leverage for it. He can easily break the American resistance. He can demand the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in exchange for his endorsement to any one of the Presidential candidates in race for 2008 elections.

Al Gore and Ban Ki Moon shall shake hands, in the interest of humanity, to form a global coalition of the politicians, activists, organizations and governments to combat global warming and save the "Planet in Peril." There are very many pro-earth leaders on this earth, who would be more than happy to join this coalition. I sincerely believe that one such leader of repute is German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. (Stay tuned to know about the German Chancellor's role in the battle on global warming) (NOTE: This is chapter 9 of 10 of the 1st episode of 5-episode documentary by the Better India: Global Warming and United Nations. For other chapters; write to www.betterindiausa.com. Give reference: Global warming)

About the Author
Free lance journalist; takes up social justice issues

Global Warming - A Threat To Humanity And Environment

2007-10-25T18:43:00.001-07:00

Some thirty years ago, scientists had already alerted the world regarding the possible repercussions of global warming. It is the biggest threat to our civilization after the cold war. Due to climate change that is brought about by global warming, glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, devastating storms prevailing, floods and landslides aggravating, droughts affecting crops and livestock production happening and etc.

They are some of the catastrophic effects brought forth in our midst where solutions and immediate resolve urgently needed to cope with the situation. Have we done something to address the problem? Are we allowing it to continue without the objective to combat it? Well, it is now considered a mega proportion predicament that we need to put up our collective effort and partnership that every country and government should promote environmental awareness to their citizens on how they can contribute in alleviating the situation. It should not only encourage and inspire action individuals, businesses, but also other countries and governments worlwide as well.

The partnership aims to conduct research and experiments on the long term effect of climate change. How will it affect our rainforests and the world's major bodies of water like the lakes, rivers, oceans and the livelihood of people who are depending on them. Addressing this particular environmental issue is profoundly vital in tackling the impact of global warming. We need to initiate to reduce carbon emission and other greenhouse gases, educate the people about climate change issues and what practical solutions can be done.

Each country have to map out of how much carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases it has produced and emitted into the atmosphere and the same way it has to come out of how much greening it has to the environment through reforestation in the rural and planting of plants/trees in urban areas, to neutralize these harmful gases emitted into the air. Once these gases are in the atmosphere, they stay there for a long time thus trapping the heat in the lower atmosphere and radiating some of it back to earth. With huge amount of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere it would increase the global surface temperature, thus causing drought, change in weather, higher sea levels, melting the north/south pole glaciers and disrupting not only the natural balance of world's climate but also the ecological balance of the environment as well.

Through environmental awareness, every individual can contribute in his own little way in combating climate change. Every little thing you can do at home, say the use of gas emitting equipments or vehicles, you need to minimize their use if you cannot totally avoid them. Any equipment or vehicle using oil and gas when burned produces carbon dioxide, nothwithstanding the greenhouse gas emitted by compressor run equipments like the airconditioning units, refrigeration and freezing units, etc. which need to be regulated because of the effect it can bring to our ozone layer.

These gases are the most devastating global warming gases remaining in the atmosphere. Energy efficient appliances and by saving energy help reduce gas emission of power plant generators generating electricity. So it is better to discard inefficient equipments and switch off the appliances, lights and compressor run equipment when not in use. If you are going somewhere not far from your home try walking, it is not only a good exercise but you also help save the environment from deteriorating.

About the Author
Arnold Cafe is an active online marketer and the author of Ideas Galore at website: http://www.affleap.com/blog/

Go Green Earth!

2007-10-25T18:40:00.000-07:00

Go green earth, Go Green earth, Go Green Earth, GO GREEN Earth. . . GO GREEN EARTH! GO GREEN EARTH! GO GREEN EARTH! We are grass root, energized, self-made environmentalists with a cause to save earth. . .save earth, save our incredibly, rich green-blue planet.

Go Green Earth! No one can discourage us because our motivation is super justified, yet we practice humility. We are inspired. . .inspired by earth itself! We are homemakers, movie stars, film producers, politicians, naturalist, authors, bank presidents, dentists, physical fitness instructors, nurses, artists, teachers, retail managers, air traffic controllers, pilots, husbands, priests, wives, students, scientists, ministers, photographers, forest rangers, native Americans. . . We are young, middle age and elderly.

We are in every walk of life, in every nationality, in every country, in our magnificent wildernesses, walking through our cornfields, swimming in our freshwater rivers, ponds, and lakes, sailing on our seas, and flying through our skies. We carry a sense of awe when seeing a bald eagle circling overhead staring down at us. We devote hours on end to bird watching and counts, defend the rights of nature against hazardous waste landfills, analyze effects of deforestation, and overdevelopment projects. We desperately care about our elements of life, and earth's continued existence. Yes. . .yes! We are environmentalists! Yes we are. Yes. . .We. . .Are! We feel great! Great! WE get so existed sometimes we can hardly sit down for fear of missing a nature event.

Because we are environmentalists we support preservation, restoration, and enhancement of nature. We pledge to protect our land from destruction and pollution. Go Green Earth! Go Green Earth! We research our air, water, food, land, and shelter. We present environmental education programs and wildlife lectures on our school systems, lead ecology tours in national parks of the world, guide canoe and backing expeditions through earths prairies, mountains, beaches, wetlands, and forests. We truly, deeply love our work, so much so at times tears come to our eyes in extraordianry sunrises or rainstorms.

We want every human being on earth to be environmentalists. We embrace earth, every tree, bush, flower, orchid, every species of wildlife-the entire food chain, each other. Quit simply, We Love Earth. It is our home. It is where we raise our children. Here we go! All the way! Can't stop! Won't stop! Always faithful! Save earth! Go Green Earth! As environmentalists we know about global warming and what to do about it, the real meaning of the tree of life and how to save energy, seek out the ultimate oasis for eco-victories, and constantly re-define our quest for survival to save humankind. We are as much a part of the ingredients of earth as earth is of us. Our quest is earth's quest in this seemingly endless, vast Universe. Go. . . Green. . . Earth. . . Go GREEN. . . GO GREEN EARTH. . . GO GREEN EARTH!

About the Author
James McMullen is an author/naturalist in the Florida Everglades. He wrote the New York Times best seller Cry of the Panther: Quest of a Species, and How To Awaken The Writer Within. If you would like to know more go to the link below. http://www.awakenthewriterwithin.com

I Need To Wake Up and So Do You.

2007-08-13T02:49:00.000-07:00

I Need To Wake Up and So Do You.

Melissa Etheridge's chilling video says it all in "I Need to Wake up" and so do all of us.

Global warming and it's life extinction threat is no longer a speculative or theoretical possibility.
We are already there! Everyday we are presented with a rude awakening in the newspaper headlines of yet another disaster directly attributable to unnatural and unprecedented climate changes.

Any one who has seen the Melissa Etheridge video depicting the graphic and horrific effects and consequences of global warming must have become just a little more awake.

How could we human beings, claiming to be intelligent life forms yet, think we could indefinitely get away with the obscene amount of insults and injuries that we subject our earth and communal life support system to and expect no adverse repercussions?

Have we been sleepwalking though this? No! There were always the voices of the aware ones crying out a warning. But avarice and greed drowned them out
Well mercifully the balance is shifting and we are waking up to the reality that our destruction is almost at our doors. What will we do about global warming and its devastating effects that are already being felt daily? Pull the covers up and go back to sleep? Wait for someone else to save us? There is no one else!

We need to wake up and stay awake! Clean up our mess with every action we take from now on. Some experts are saying it may already be too late. Well be that as it may, we must try. For, what is the alternative?

When a situation calls for action, we must act! What can we do? Let us add our voices to those who tell the inconvenient truth of global warming. Join: http://www.StopGlobalWarming.org
Tell everyone you know about the things that you are doing to help stop this disaster AND ask them to join you. Spend your money wisely and stop supporting any action economic, political or social that continues to destroy our home the earth.

Wake up and stay alert! For this is literally and not virtually a fight for our collective lives.

About the Author
Yvonne Finn is and has always been passionately active in her efforts to clean up and protect the environment. She seeks out products and service that are earth-friendly and environmentally protective, yet cost effective and efficient. See one of her latest finds here: http://www.partnersintrade.net/savemoneyongas

Yehovah Jesus Allah Call for an End to Judaism Christianity and Islam

2007-08-13T02:47:00.000-07:00

Yehovah Jesus Allah Call for an End to Judaism Christianity and Islam

The world is in turmoil today. President Bush publicly declared a Christian Crusade. President Ahmadinejad publicly declared his intention for World Jihad, for the creation of a world Islamic state. Prime Minister Olmert is preparing plans to nuke Iran. The United Nations sees all of this. They see that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are engaged in a clash of civilizations leading us all into nuclear world war 3. The High Level Group of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations recently completed and issued their report. Their conclusion was that the clash between Islam, Christianity and Judaism which is about to lead us all into the radioactive fires of real live Hell on earth did not have a religious cause. Either the study group members were suffering from severe retardation or they did a cover up for Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

The Pope recently came out with three reasons that there is no peace on earth. Religion was not one of them.

Let us say that you have a weed, a dandelion in your backyard. Lets say that you take a scissors and cut off the top. Not only will the weed return but it will spread. The only way to solve the problem is to take your $2 weeder and dig the weed out by the roots. We need to root out the problem facing the world now. If we continue to bury our heads in the sand then soon our God will lead us all into extinction in nuclear world war 3 and its aftermath nuclear winter and then ultraviolet summer. Every scientist knows that nuclear world war 3 will have zero survivors.
The Jewish people follow the Old Testament. The Christian people follow the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Muslim people follow the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran. All of them follow God of Mount Sinai who handed the 10 commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai. Let us assume as Judaism, Christianity and Islam do that these Holy Bibles are the absolute word of God. In the Gospel of John it opens up by saying "The Word was God." This means that "God is the Word of God". God has three groups of followers, three children, the Jews, Christians and Muslims. Let us see what their God says.

The Old Testament is followed by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Old Testament contains The Psalms. In Psalm 2 God of Mount Sinai says that he will send his Messiah. The Messiah will take a rod of iron and smash all non group members into a million pieces like a potter's vessel and conquer the world for each group. This means that the Jewish Messiah will massacre every non Jewish man, woman and child on earth and conquer the world for Judaism. This means that the very same God of Mount Sinai will massacre every non Christian man, woman and child on earth and conquer the world for Christianity. This means that the very same God of Mount Sinai will slaughter every non Muslim man, woman and child and conquer the world for Islam. This means that God of Mount Sinai has promised the whole world to each of his three children if they go out and kill God's other 2 children. This means that God of Mount Sinai is a vile, vicious, sadistic warmonger leading us all into nuclear world war 3, our present course.

Unfortunately this is just the beginning of what your sadistic murderous God commands each of his children. The Old Testament is packed with passages where your God of Mount Sinai commands each group to go out and slaughter mercilessly every single other group, every man, woman and child and burn their villages to the ground. In the New Testament your God of Mount Sinai commands every Christian to go out and throw every single non Christian man, woman and child into the fire because they are Devils. (Matthew 13:36-43). In the Koran God of Mount Sinai says to the Muslim people, "Make war on the Christians, Jews and Infidels and I will give you eternal paradise with me in Heaven with crystal clear streams, 72 virgins and endless wine with no side effects." (Koran Sura 9:5, 29-30, Sura 56.)

It should be clear by now that as long as Judaism, Christianity and Islam exist there can never be peace on earth. This is why your God says through every single Biblical prophet including and especially Jesus Christ that the Holy Bibles are not his word. Your God says through every single Biblical prophet including and especially Jesus Christ that the Holy Bibles except for the 10 commandments carved in stone by God himself are forgeries written by human beings and signed "God." (Ezekiel 13:6). God called your Holy Bibles a pack of lies written by a bunch of ignorant drunks which would lead us all into the fire. (Isaiah 28:9-15). Jesus Christ the Jewish born Messiah of Christianity and Islam said that when he returned he would command all of his angels to take the poisonous weeds, the Tares, the 3 Holy Bibles and toss them into the fire to save you all from them, except for the 10 commandments. (Matt. 13:24-30). The 10 page Temple of Love website http://www.thetempleoflove.com sets out exactly what your God said through every Biblical prophet, the parts your religion does not teach you because if they did you would run out the door, and your God's simple map for how you all save life on earth yourselves. In The Temple of Love you will finally be joining together with your God and following the map of your God which leads to the survival of life one earth.

The sixth commandment of God of Mount Sinai is "Don't Murder." We are all composed of air, water and earth. If we stop murdering tomorrow then it means that we stop poisoning to death our components air, water and earth. An end to murder would mean an end to pollution, global warming, murder and war. Your God is not a sadistic warmonger. Your human savage Bible writers were sadistic warmongers. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim people today are following these Bible writers right into the agonizing extinction of all life on earth forever in nuclear world war 3, Armageddon, and rejecting the word of their God, the 10 commandments.

We may already have passed the point of no return on this planet but the worse thing that we can do is to give up hope. Jesus called the Rabbis, Priests and Ayatollahs following the Old Testament today "corrupt, hypocritical, venomous poisonous murderous snakes and blind guides leading you all into the fire." (Matthew 23). These people will never tell you to set aside your Bibles because they would lose their money and power over you. Your mainstream media will never print this article because they are owned by the Jews, Christians and Muslims. This means that the people of earth will never know that The Temple of Love aka The Temple of 10ve aka The World Peace Religion aka The Third Temple has been rebuilt, with your God of Mount Sinai's (aka God the Father, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, Allah, Yehovah, Elohim, the God of your ancestors who led you out of slavery in Egypt, I Am Who I Am, and all of those in every language) blueprint for you all to save life on earth yourselves.

Yehovah, Jesus and Allah call for an end to the Old Testament, the cornerstone of Judaism, Christianity and Islam repeatedly right in your Holy Bibles, except for the 10 commandments. God carved in stone "Don't Murder" and the 3 Bibles call out "Murder!" endlessly. How simple it would be if tomorrow every Synagogue, Church and Mosque on earth changed their name to The Temple of Love and turned from haters into lovers. Otherwise just walk out the door and don't look back. You must break the bonds which your religious leaders have you tied up in now in order to achieve peace on earth. Then we would have a chance, according to your God who loves you all and your own common sense. Your political leaders are using these religions to set you all against yourselves. In a nuclear age where nuclear world war 3 and its aftermath, Armageddon, will have no survivors we cannot afford to be divided. It seems like we need to have a love party.

About the Author
Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com

The World Peace Religion is the Middle East Solution

2007-08-13T02:45:00.000-07:00

The World Peace Religion is the Middle East Solution

The Temple of Love - The World Peace Religion is the Middle East Solution and the solution for everlasting peace on Earth.

What is needed more than anything else today is a simple change in attitude by the Christian, Muslim and Jewish people. Instead of focusing on your differences focus on your similarities.
The Muslim, Christian and Jewish people today are like scientists looking at a speck of dust under a high powered microscope. Instead of seeing the speck of dust in its true perspective as a harmless speck of dust they see it as a gigantic monster about to consume them and their grandchildren.

People today think that the situation in the world is hopeless. President Bush is expanding his Christian Crusade into Syria and Iran. Iran is preparing its Muslim Jihad to take over the world and create an Islamic state. The World is hurtling into nuclear world war 3 the Apocalypse. Christians and Muslims are thrilled to see the coming Armageddon because they believe that this will hasten the arrival of the Messiahs Jesus Christ and the Mahdi to conquer the world for them and bring everlasting peace because they read this in their Holy Scriptures.

Ask any nuclear scientist and they will tell you that nuclear world war 3 and its aftermath nuclear winter then ultraviolet summer will have zero survivors. Insanity is defined as being a danger to yourself or to others and not understanding the nature and consequences of your actions. The belief that nuclear world war three will bring your group the world and everlasting peace on earth is the delusion and insanity which endangers life on Earth today.

The time has come to use your own mind and your own common sense to save yourselves. At The Temple of Love - The World Peace Religion on a ten page website we take the Holy Bible verses of Judaism, Christianity and Islam like pieces of a puzzle all mixed up in a box. Then we throw the pieces up into the air and scramble them. Then we rearrange them as God of Mount Sinai said to do through every single Biblical prophet including the Jewish born Messiah of Christianity and Islam Jesus Christ and we add in the light of modern discoveries. What we come up with is the world map of God of Mount Sinai to the survival of life on earth and a far different story than the one being taught by your Christian, Muslim and Jewish teachers. God of Mount Sinai's map to survival is simple and it works. The road you are all on today leads to disaster. Will it take watching your children being vaporized instantly into black ashes until you understand this?

Are you hypnotized so badly that you do not understand that the earth moves even though your Holy Bible says three times that the earth does not move and it never will? Are you hypnotized so badly that you believe that nuclear world war 3 is the road to everlasting peace on earth?
What is needed more than anything else is a simple change in attitude by the Christian, Muslim and Jewish people. Instead of focusing on your differences focus on your similarities. The Jewish, Muslim and Christian people all share the same planet earth. They all have the same human DNA. Humans have been on earth for 5 million years and Judaism is only 4 thousand years old, Christianity 2 thousand years old and Islam 1400 years old. Therefore prior to 4,000 years ago Christians, Muslims and Jews all share the same Pagan ancestors and the same Pagan bloodlines. The Christian, Muslim and Jewish people all believe that there is only one God. The Muslim, Christian and Jewish people all believe that this God is the God who handed the 10 commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai 3,200 years ago today. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim people all believe that the 10 commandments of their God of Mount Sinai are the Divine Constitution of the Universe. If you stop right there then every Christian, Muslim and Jew belongs to the same group, The Temple of Love - The World Peace Religion.

The 10 commandments of our God of Mount Sinai are extremely powerful almost to the point of being miraculous, supernatural. Take the sixth commandment "Don't Murder". Human beings are composed of earth, water and air. Now let us unite as 10vers in The Temple of Love aka The Temple of 10ve. If we stop murdering then we must stop poisoning to death the pieces we are made of air, water and earth. This will bring an immediate end to pollution, global warming, crime and war.

What about our different beliefs which divide us all and are leading us all against each other into nuclear world war three? God of Mount Sinai showed us all exactly how to set these differences aside through every single Biblical Prophet of Islam, Judaism and Christianity in your Holy Bibles. Go now to The Temple of Love website and see for yourselves and teach the answer in your schools. Put the link for The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com on every website today. Change the name of your Church, Mosque and Synagogue to The Temple of Love today. All you need to do is to follow one single word of your God of Mount Sinai 10ve to survive. If you do then we will survive and if you do not then we will all soon perish in the coming fires of nuclear world war three and global warming.

What is needed more than anything else is a simple change in attitude by the Christian, Muslim and Jewish people. Instead of focusing on your differences focus on your similarities. Every Christian, Muslim and Jew believes in God of Mount Sinai. This is one of your countless similarities. You all believe in the same God. Instead of uniting with this common belief, you divide because you all give your God a different name. This is like dividing because you all give gravity a different name in your different languages. Gravity and God exist and pull you in the right direction no matter what you call it, God the Father, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, Allah, Elohim, Yehovah, Adonai, Hashem, I Am that I Am, the God of your forefathers who led you out of slavery in Egypt and all of these names in every language.

In a nuclear age we cannot afford to be divided. The Muslims have divided into Shiite and Sunni. They all believe what 10vers believe. They are divided because the Shiites follow as their religious leader the descendants of the son in law of the Prophet Muhammad and the Sunnis follow the descendants of the General of the Prophet Muhammad. It is now time to cast this difference aside and follow the word of your God 10ve.

I hereby command in the name of God of Mount Sinai every website and newspaper on earth to publish this article in its entirety. God said to the Prophet Zachariah, "Get out my message. If you do and the people do not listen then I will hold you blameless. If you do not and harm comes to the people then the blood of the innocent men, women and children will be upon your head." The people of earth want their Messiah to come and change things for the better and yet they refuse to change a thing. Stay the course and perish. Follow the one word of your God 10ve and survive. Is this to plain? You are all 99 per cent the same and just one inch from everlasting world peace today. Walk that final inch now. 10ve

About the Author
Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com

How to find your calling after forty - Step Up for a great New Year!

2007-08-13T02:44:00.000-07:00

How to find your calling after forty - Step Up for a great New Year!

How to find your calling after forty - Step Up for a great New Year!

December,2006 By Craig Nathanson - The Vocational Coach™ What is my calling?
That's the first question I usually get. The second question is "how do I find it"?
I say, "Well, first you have to go looking for it!"

Most of us are afraid to take that little peak inside to see what we really want. After forty, it's time to listen to one's heart, not one's mom or boss or spouse or what we think the rest of the world wants.

Evaluate and envision your journey
Evaluate where you have been in your life and ask yourself, "Is this enough?" Do you get out of bed in the morning and decide you would rather pull the covers back over your head? Do you still yearn to write that first novel, open up your first deli, or simply stop working for other people? Can you envision what it would be like if you could only do what you love--now?

Fire your boss and your job
No one over forty deserves to be working in JUST a job or for JUST a boss. This is our time to work for ourselves, crafting and selling the natural gifts we have to offer the world...if we could just figure out what they are!

What aisle do you drift to?

Walk into your favorite bookstore; which aisle do you gravitate towards? If you had a day to yourself, what would you do and why? Who inspires you? What movies inspire you?

Start with some research
Google search is probably the greatest single technology ever invented. Take your passion and start with a simple search. Find someone else who is doing what you want to do. Insect collecting, wine tasting, making films--it doesn't matter what it is.

Don't judge the book by its cover
At this stage of your search, don't share what you are doing with anyone just yet--not even with those who love you. They will confuse your passion with their view around the practical aspects of making money. Money comes in just a moment.

Make a list of all the possibilities for your passions. Let's pretend your passion is making films. What might be possible? What films might be possible? What films do you want to make and why? What would be the best features of your films? Who would benefit from your films? Who would be the ideal niche audience for your films?

Find a filmmaker who makes the kind of films you would like to make. Interview him or her and find out what small steps you might take to get started.

Time over money
If you quit your unfulfilling job today, how long could you go without making an income? Would your answer be one month, six months, one year? How could you expand your time? The more time the better. Different answers will drive different strategies. If you can go a year without making an income, then you can afford to take a few more risks then the person who must make an income within three months.

Could you lengthen your time? Could you cash in your retirement fund? Scary, but why not? You won't need it if you are doing what you love! Once you start making an income, how much, exactly, do you need to make? Expect to make around 50% less money in the first four years than you made in your traditional job if you go into business for yourself.

Expect to make about 25% less if you follow your passion and work for someone else.
In my research, I have noticed that after about four years, people who have pursued their passion start to make to close to what they made in their old unfulfilling jobs--sometimes even more.

Nothing is off limits
When it comes to following your passion, you'll need a lighter backpack for this part of the journey. Sounds difficult, but if this part was easy, everybody would be answering their calling!

Create multiple streams of income

Starting out, you might find yourself working Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for someone else, and Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays for yourself. The current model of work for those over forty is outdated and well past its prime. The corporate world, as an entity, can be helpful to those just starting out as they seek to build ego and self in the world. This stage is critical to one's development. After forty, however, the corporate world can ruin one's soul and sense of self.

Be a rebel with a cause
Twenty thousand people die each day from starvation. We waste billions of dollars on needless wars and even more justifying them. Follow the global warming trends, and earth itself might not be here in one hundred years. This won't affect you but it will affect your grandchildren.
So while large corporations compete for the most dollars without regard for our future, you can be different. You must be different. There are too many people working in faceless jobs for faceless bosses for faceless firms. Can't help cure starvation? Can't help reduce wars or save the planet? Start with your own happiness. It will spread like wildfire to all those you encounter.

Make an impact in your second half

This is one set of New Year's resolutions that won't go unnoticed by your soul. Stand up!
Shout it out loud! You are through with an empty life devoid of energy, passion and meaning!
Stand up for what you believe in. Be the change now that you want to see in the world. It all starts with your calling--what calls you now? Take your first steps; in some small ways this earth we all share will be just a little better because of you.

I'll be cheering you on each small step of the way.

About the Author
Craig Nathanson is the author of P Is For Perfect: Your Perfect Vocational Day and a coaching expert who works with people over forty. Craig's new E-book, Discover and live your passion 365 days a year is a workshop in a box designed to help busy adults go insane with their work. Craig's systematic approach, the trademark "Ten P" process,'' helps people break free and move toward the work they love. Visit Craig's online community at w

What If Your Car Could RUN ON WATER? You Can Fight Global Warming

2007-08-13T02:42:00.000-07:00

What If Your Car Could RUN ON WATER? You Can Fight Global Warming

What if your car could RUN ON WATER ?! You Can Fight Global Warming

I am writing in response to the Oregonian's report on global warming, I am concerned, as many are, at the prospect of closing Hwy 35, or any highway, because of global warming. Fellow Americans, I urge you to take action wherever you can to at least slow this down. In this article I would like to go over the causes of global warming, and how you may help fight this very real threat to humanity.

According to the Oregonian newspaper, the root cause of global warming, whether you live in Oregon or the Orient, is excessive carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is literally emitted by us daily as we breathe, as you may well know. It is also emitted from daily activities such as when we cook, do our laundry, and take our showers. But most of all, global warming gases are emitted when we drive our vehicles.

In the Oregonian's global warming report, the average Portland area family of 3 with 2 automobiles (05 Subaru Outback at 12,500 miles per year, and a '98 Ford Taurus at 6,000 miles per year) emitted 42,949 lbs of carbon dioxide annually. 24,884 of those pounds were from the automobiles! These figures are startling, since I have to admit, we drive more than the 18,500 miles represented above, and I thought the newer vehicles would emit less global warming carbon dioxide, but these facts don't encourage me.

Another major contributor to global warming are airplanes and jets. For a family of three to fly round trip from Portland to Disney World in Orlando, FL, 5 tons of carbon dioxide (10,000 pounds!) are created and released, according to the US. Department of Energy. The carbon dioxide that we create ( I hate to use the word 'create' for something so destructive!) in 11 hours, takes five residents of India, or nearly 3 Brazilians an entire year to generate!
I was harshly reminded of the seriousness of global warming when I read a few days ago that they might close Hwy 35, due to a glacier on Mt. Hood melting. Exposed sand and rocks that were under the ice came crashing onto the highway and spilled into White River causing the river to change course and about 10 miles of road to become buried under millions of cubic yards of rock! If global warming continues, with glaciers and polar ice caps melting, coastal cities will be gone, including New York. I am quickly abandoning my apathy about global warming! Britain has recently released a 700 page report to world superpowers saying there is no future without quick action! I am amazed but understand our addiction to modern conveniences, since, lets face it, nobody here wants to live like those in third world countries. But we have to realize that global warming is to the point of destroying our earth, so we must find alternatives. We DO have an alternative, one that those that have made money selling gasoline and petroleum products, have managed to stifle. This alternative will not only help prevent global warming, but I believe it will help to reverse it, because it actually cleans the air!

I am fortunate enough to have been exposed to this technology earlier than most, because I have a friend who was married to someone who invented a way to bypass the gasoline tank, and run his car on water. At that time, he was shot at, and his car was destroyed. This incident happened about 20 years ago. Intimidation from big oil is why there is no patent on such a system. Here is where we have come to gain hope concerning global warming. We have come to know of a scientist who has written a manual on how to build a fuel system that will run a vehicle using water. He is almost giving this technology away, knowing that the more people that start using it, the less anyone will be able to do to stop this wonderful invention from being used. This one powerful idea would slow and possibly reverse our current descent into global warming. I nominate him for the Nobel Prize!

What I propose to slow global warming will cost you the price of the manual and a trip to the mechanic. But it will save you whatever you spend on gas, (isn't that huge?!) and more than cut in half the amount of carbon dioxide a family of 3 puts into our atmosphere. I say more than cut in half, because this system releases the oxygen out of the water (the hydrogen is burned), back into the atmosphere! Fresh air in the cities? Can you imagine? Save money and slow global warming?

I urge everyone to look into this invention. I have written this article earlier than I intended, stirred by Hwy 35 being destroyed due to global warming. I have not installed the fuel conversion system yet, however, I have the manual, and my husband, who knows a thing or two about mechanics, thinks its ingenious, and this is definitely his winter project to reduce global warming. Wouldn't it speak volumes to our world community if the country who bears the greatest responsibility for global warming, has now taken such a drastic step toward the cure?
To our children's future.

About the Author
Roxanne Vick lives with her family in the beautiful PNW, but is thinking of moving to Alaska, if the global warming continues. But yikes! It might be under water too!....Maybe the Midwest? Please order the manual and help save our planet so I don't have to move again! www.myrawfooddietrecipes.com

The Impact of Global Warming

2007-08-13T02:40:00.000-07:00

The Impact of Global Warming

The Earth's temperature has risen by about one degree Fahrenheit in the past century, with accelerated warming during the past two decades. According to the National Academy of Sciences, this is attributed to the rise of greenhouse gases - primarily carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

Energy from the sun drives the earth's climate and weather. It heats the earth's surface, the earth radiates energy, bouncing it back into space. Greenhouse gases trap some of the outgoing energy which retains heat. Hence, giving us the name of, "The Greenhouse Effect."

Since the birth of the industrial revolution, concentrations of carbon dioxide have increased nearly 30%., methane concentrations have more than doubled, and nitrous oxide has risen about 15%. All of these increases has increased the heat-trapping capability of the earth's atmosphere. Trees and plants breathe in carbon dioxide, and have been what's kept our carbon dioxide emissions in balance. But the destruction of our rain forests and woodland areas, have dramatically decreased this intake. Also, increasing agriculture, landfills, industrial production and mining contribute significantly.

Globally, sea level has risen four-eight inches, over the past century. Worldwide participation over land has increased by about one percent. The frequency of extreme rainfalls has increased throughout much of the U.S. Scientists expect that the average global surface temperature could rise one - four-point-five degrees, Fahrenheit, in the next fifty years. And two-point-two - ten degrees, Fahrenheit, in the next century. Which could cause fifty percent of our animal life to be extinct in our children's/grand children's lifetime.

Evaporation will increase as the climate warms, which will increase average global participation. Sea levels are likely to rise two feet along most of the U.S coast.
Carbon Dioxide is released to the atmosphere when solid waste, fossil fuels, (oil, natural gas, and coal), and wood and wood products are burned.

Methane is emitted during the production and transport of coal, natural gas, and oil. Methane emissions also results from the decomposition of organic wastes in municipal solid landfills, and the raising of livestock.

Nitrous Oxide is emitted during the agricultural and industrial activities, as well as during combustion of solid waste and fossil fuels. (EPA global warming).

Some global warming signs are: heat waves, and periods of unusually warm weather, ocean warming, sea-level rise, coastal flooding, glaciers melting, Arctic warming, Antarctic warming, insect diseases spreading, earlier spring arrival, plant and animal range shifts, and population changes, coral reef bleaching, downpours, heavy snowfalls, flooding, droughts and fires. How many do you recognize happening right now?

People can make a difference. Here's some steps you can take:
Drive a fuel-efficient car. Look for the model with the best fuel economy in its class. Each gallon of gas you use releases 25 pounds of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, (CO2), into the atmosphere. Another great reason to car pool! Choose clean power- more than ½ the electricity in the U.S comes from polluting coal-fired power plants. Power plants are the largest source of heat-trapping emissions. Try to switch to electricity suppliers that provide 50-100% renewable energy. Look for the energy star- when it comes to replacing appliances, look for the energy star label. (Refrigerators, freezers, furnaces, air conditioners, and water heaters, use the most energy). If each U.S household replaced its existing appliances with the most efficient models available, we would save fifteen billion in energy costs and eliminate 175 million tons of heat-trapping emissions. Unplug a freezer- if you own an extra refrigerator or freezer you rarely use, one of the quickest ways to reduce your global warming impact would be to unplug it. (Only plug it in when needed). This can reduce the family's carbon dioxide by nearly ten percent.

If we all work together, we can make a huge impact on global warming. You could literally have your child or grandchild's lives in your hands.

Tracey Criswell Wilson is an author on http://www.Writing.Com/ which is a site for Writers. Most of Tracey's writings can be found at http://www.writing.com/authors/intuey

About the Author
Tracey Criswell Wilson is an author on http://www.Writing.Com/ which is a site for Writers. Most of Tracey's writings can be found at http://www.writing.com/authors/intuey

Solar Power

2007-08-13T02:33:00.000-07:00

Solar Power

These days we are experiencing a growing awareness to the fact that our energy resources, as they have been used in the last few years, are probably not going to last for long and that the energy markets are exposed to more and more rapid changes, some due to political reasons and others because of the changing climate of the planet. The main conclusion that we all need to get to is that all sources of energy should be explored and that we should harness the forces of nature to assist us in this quest.

Solar power is not a new concept, it has been properly introduced to the global public many years ago and successfully implemented in different parts of the world in different ways, so it is fairly safe to say that solar power is known to most people, but it is still not as popular as it should be, as a cheap replacement for other sources of energy. The energy of the sun, from its direct sun rays that are projected directly at the earth or by giant wind turbines is free fro us to use, to manipulate for our needs, and this can be done by almost anyone in any place, it just needs to technology and the know-how.

The most successful way that solar energy has been used up till today is in water heating and heating in general, the way to use the solar power to heat water is by holding water in a tank that is located in a place that is exposed to the sun, during the day the sun warms the tank and increases the temperature of the water, the tank than preserves the heat and the hot water can be used late at night, hours after the sun had heated the water, this is due to a simple concept of heat preservation. The heat warming technique has been changing peoples lives, especially in communities that live in deserts, where the day temperature is extremely hot and that night temperature tends to be significantly lower than the day the use of solar power to heat water is very effective indeed.

The main issue with the solar power products is the cost, sometimes the cost is too high for some, making it difficult on the potential clients to realize that the use of the solar power product will ultimately save them money, since these solar power application can be usually used for many dozens of years they will be doing their work many years after the initial investment will be long forgotten. If you are in the market for a solar power product you should try and make the calculation of running the same application on other sources of energy like running a generator on gas for some minutes every day for years and years. Even without the changes in costs and the growing problem of the availability of those energy sources, it will be clear that the one time investment in solar power will pay itself off in a matter of few years and will not keep costing you like the other traditional energy sources.

About the Author
David Evermon has been involved in many environment related projects, writing on many subjects related to the environment and project management his hobbies and knowledge of construction, David writes articles about Solar Power.

Reclaim the stolen harvest - re-localising agriculture, economies and community

2007-08-13T02:32:00.000-07:00

Reclaim the stolen harvest - re-localising agriculture, economies and community

Those of you in Australia who visit a health food store on a regular basis may have come across a free magazine called "Living Now". In this month's edition (August 2006) I just read a fabulous article about the increasing importance of reviving urban agriculture in these days of rising fuel prices and subsequent food costs. The author, Amadis Lacheta, speaks with a passion about the things in life that are so valuable and which we as a society have taken for granted but which are now becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. Things like clean water, nature places in our cities, fresh organic food, biological diversity, cultural diversity and harmony.

Lacheta highlights the need to increase our awareness of food production and to get back in touch with our food and where it comes from. To recognize the 'true cost' of our food, both economic and social and to work towards reclaiming the growing of food as a community activity.
Lacheta quotes Indian Activist Vandan Shiva who wrote,
"The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and most revolutionary act." From this quote, Lacheta is reminded of the ancient link between people and food, our ancestors who understood the importance of the 'sacred connection between the land and those who live from it' and the importance of people as caretakers of the earth protecting and saving biological diversity for generations to follow. As he says, "This ongoing, patient and crucial endeavour now provides us with the wealth of food varieties that we have the pleasure of eating." He warns that over the years, increasingly since the mass production of food started with the Industrial Revolution, we have significantly eroded away biodiversity of fruits and vegetables so that we're now eating only one or two varieties of these foods which are often genetically modified and grown simply for disease-resistance and appearance, NOT taste. On this subject, Lacheta quotes Sandor Katz who says,

"Cultural practices such as languages, beliefs and food (including fermentation) are incredibly diverse. But that rich diversity is threatened by the expansion of trade into a unified global market. Local identity, culture and taste are subsumed by the ever-diminishing lowest common denominator." Lacheta goes on to paraphrase Katz who laments "our urbanised society, cut off from the process of growing food and accustomed to buying food that has already been processed in a factory." Think about the proliferation of 'pre-packaged' and 'pre-chopped vegetables' at the major supermarkets! Many of these preparations are aimed at time-poor, working consumers but they really only help to proliferate the general apathy and laziness of our society when we must buy our vegetables pre-chopped rather than do it ourselves!
Lacheta quotes poet and philosopher Wendell Berry who said,

"Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality and the result is a kind of solitude, unprecedented in human experience in which the eater may think of eating as first a purely commercial transaction between him and a supplier, and then as a purely appetitive transaction between him and his food."

I'm reminded of multi-national corporations such as Monsanto who are trying against mass opposition to create a seed bank whereby the wolrd's major crop growers must buy their seed from Monsanto which is genetically modified to be sterile. This thus forces the growers to buy more seed from Monsanto as seed will not be available anywhere else in such large quantities. What this means is the effective end of crop diversity on this planet. If you want to grow a different variety of corn in a mass planting for example, you can't. That is why seed-saving groups around the world are so important because they protect our crop and plant diversity. It is thanks to groups like the Digger's Club in Australia who save and nourish heirloom seeds and crops so that we can all enjoy diverse and tasty fruit and vegetables, some varieties of which have been in Australia since first settlement.

Food for the inhabitants of the Western World mean a visit to the local multi-national supermarket for fruit and vegetables that have been pre-packaged and sprayed, genetically modified and artificially stored for up to a year. "Fresh" is a misnomer. Some of the apples we eat have been in cold storage since last season!

I was made aware of this issue first-hand recently when I grew my own mushrooms. I went to Bunnings and got a mushroom grwoing kit which produced a bumper crop. Having bought mushrooms from the supermarket in the past, I noticed how long they kept in a brown paper bag in the fridge. Up to two weeks in some cases.

So, I harvested my own mushrooms and literally within an hour of picking, if I didn't put them in a paper bag in the fridge, they dried up and went brown on top. They only last a few days in the fridge in this way before they dry out. Can you imagine what they must spray on the supermarket mushies to keep them that long???

Back to Lacheta's article. He says,
"As important as preserving genetic diversity and organic farming practices are, even more important is the cultivation of local food and its complement, local economies. Many sources now argue that agriculture in its industrial form is the single most destructive human activity to the environment."

Lacheta highlights the 'true' cost of our food and reminds us that the days of cheap food may soon be over as the increasing costs of rising fuel, lack of water, long-distance transportation and storage, genetically modified crops and global warming all take their toll on the world's and particularly Australia's agricultural industries.

Discussion of 'peak oil' theory escalates as many theorists around the world begin to speculate that the total amount of oil that can be exracted and utilised will have reached its maximum from this time forward. "This descent in cheap energy availability will most likely be haphazard - it could be gradual or abrupt."

So what does this mean for our future? Lacheta proposes that we will probably see a return to a way of life before the Industrial Revolution where food production was on a small, localised scale and communities grew enough for their own needs in a sustainable fashion, without mass use of pesticides and using time-onoured organic farming methods. 'Permaculture - permanent agriculture' will become the farming norm whereby growers recognize the importance of "our dependance on the earth for all of our needs" where we work "in symbiotic relationship (with the earth) rather than dominance and exploitation."

To achieve this goal will require progressive forward planning - the return to market gardens and community plots, fuit and vegetable gardens in schools, the return to urban agricultural enterprises. Like the small-scale urban farms that our parents grew up with in the outer suburbs of Brisbane and that have been lost to developers over the last 20-30 years.

The most inmportant message, aside from the doom and gloom regarding the rising cost of fuel and food is this -

You can do your bit to feed yourself and your family by growing food in your backyard or apartment simply and sustainably . A raised garden bed of 4 x 2 metres will be enough to feed a family of four all-year-round. Fruit trees can be planted in pots, as can herbs. A pumpkin or melon vine can be planted along a fence or garden wall. Potatoes can be planted in old tyres, a bathtub (with a plughole) or in a straw-bale plot as I have done (see next blog post). It's not difficult to feed yourself, just a little time and effort but the rewards are outstanding! Your family will thank you for it and you will have taught your children valuable life lessons about the value of food, and good gardening skills.

Certain extracts and quotes in this article have been reproduced from the original - PP 12-14, "Living Now" Magazine, August 2006, Victoria, Australia.

About the Author
Gabrielle Edwards is an organic skincare expert who writes articles for various health and beauty e-zines and environmental websites. She is an avid environmentalist with a passion about organics and sustainable living. She is keen to raise awareness of the plight of our earth and how we can live more sustainably upon it. You can visit her website at - www.skinorganicsonline.com

ALTERNATIVE 3: EVIDENCE THAT WE WERE ON MARS IN 1962

2007-08-13T02:29:00.000-07:00

ALTERNATIVE 3: EVIDENCE THAT WE WERE ON MARS IN 1962

"ALTERNATIVE 3"
Evidence That We Landed on Mars in 1962
by Stephanie Relfe B.Sc. (Sydney)

"Alternative 3" was the final documentary done by the well respected "Science Report" of Anglia Television in England on April 1st 1977. Within an hour of broadcasting the television station issued a hurried statement stating that the show was a hoax.

We believe that the film is 95% fake but that 5% of it is the most important footage of the 20th Century and totally accurate. That is the NASA footage of people on Mars. We believe that much of the story is also the truth.

Besides filming the show on April 1st, the producers later said that the show was fake. It was quite evident at the end of the movie that something was fake because almost every single person filmed on the show was an actor, not genuine footage. It's a huge let-down when the list of credits role at the end, and a source of major confusion if you are expecting that this whole thing is real. We believe that there is no way that a respected documentary would be explicit that it was produced on April 1st unless it was decided beforehand that that was what they wanted to do.

The people who created this show risked a HUGE amount. They risked that people would never again trust that anything on TV or portrayed by science is the truth. However, we believe that somebody felt that this risk was worth taking because they needed to DISCREDIT THE NASA TAPE OF MARS and the story that went with it, before somebody got it out to the public.
Remember, in the times we are in, "DISCERNMENT " is a KEY ABILITY. Learn to trust your intuition, your gut feelings, your "knowingness" while at the same time being as rational as Sherlock Holmes.

The TV Show "Alternative 3" starts off as an investigation of the "Brain Drain" of England where hundreds of top scientists were leaving the country. Then it turns out that 24 of these scientists just vanished, never to be heard from again.

The name "Alternative 3" comes from the third of three different propositions to save the human species from extinction in the event that humans are wiped off from planet earth by global warming, catastrophes etc.

One man mailed a reel of video tape to an editor at a newspaper whom he was friends with. He then drives to meet with this editor but is killed in a car crash before he gets there. The Science Report TV Show gets hold of the tape but there is only static on the tape.

Later another man who has connections with NASA gives to the Science Report a decoder circuit board from NASA which makes the tape viewable.

What you will see on this tape may do for you what it did for me - my hair stood on end (I believe this is an indication of the truth). It shows the view through a window of some kind of flying vehicle that is flying over the surface of Mars. You see a blue sky and you can hear American and Russians in the background cheer that they have found life on Mars, when they see a small burrowing animal on the ground.

The 'bad guys' have a spiritual law that they have to tell you what is going on, it's just that they don't have to portray the truth in any particular way. Hence there is much truth in many movies. We believe that the movie "Total Recall" has elements of truth in it also. Al Bielek, survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment, said that he remembers being taken to Mars and seeing ancient machines like those on Total Recall, and that these machines were used to recreate an atmosphere there, which had been locked up in the soil.

Interestingly, they mentioned this same theory in Alternative 3 - that the atmosphere had been locked up in the soil.

After the show, a book came out called "Alternative 3" by Leslie Watkins. Here is what Leslie Watkins had to say:

Placed in the public domain from the VANGARD SCIENCES archives on October 28 1989. PO BOX 1031, Mesquite, TX 75150. Voice phone (Jerry 214-324-8741...Ron 214-484-3189 KeelyNet (214) 324-3501

The Truth about Alternative 3 from its author, Leslie Watkins
(This article is taken from the Windwords newsletter) address not available
In our June issue, we told you about the controversial book Alternative 3, by British author Leslie Watkins. In out attempt to find out if the shocking theories in the book were true, we called Avon Books, the American publisher; they said the book was out of print in the states.
We called Penguin Books in London and found that it was listed on their NON-FICTION list.
A senior editor there told us that it was officially classified as FICTION BASED ON FACT.
The author's agent told us it was most definitely fiction.

We wrote to the author himself to try to get the real story, and here is the letter he sent us.
Dear Ms. Dittrich: Thank you for your letter, which reached me today. Naturally, I am delighted by your interest in Alternative 3 and by the fact that you plan to sell it in the Windwords bookstore. I will certainly cooperate in any way I can.

The correct description of Alternative 3 was given to you by the representative from Penguin Books. The book is based on fact, but uses that fact as a launchpad for a HIGH DIVE INTO FICTION. In answer to your specific questions:

1) There is no astronaut named Grodin. 2) There is no Sceptre Television and the reported Benson is also fictional. 3) There is no Dr. Gerstein. 4) Yes, a "documentary" was televised in June 1977 on Anglia Television, which went out to the entire national network in Britain. It was called Alternative 3 and was written by David Ambrose and produced by Christopher Miles (whose names were on the book for contractual reasons).

This original TV version, which I EXPANDED IMMENSELY for the book, was ACTUALLY A HOAX which had been scheduled for transmission on April Fools' Day. Because of certain problems in finding the right network slot, the transmission was delayed. The TV program did cause a tremendous uproar because viewers refused to believe it was fiction.

I initially took the view that the basic premise was so way-out, particularly the way I aimed to present it in the book, that no one would regard it as non-fiction. Immediately after publication, I realized I was totally wrong.

In fact, the amazing mountains of letters from virtually all parts of the world- including vast numbers from highly intelligent people in positions of responsibility-convinced me that I had ACCIDENTALLY trespassed into a range of top-secret truths.

Documentary evidence provided by many of these correspondents decided me to write a serious and COMPLETELY NON-FICTION sequel.

Unfortunately, a chest containing the bulk of the letters was among the items which were mysteriously LOST IN TRANSIT some four years when I moved from London, England, to Sydney, Australia, before I moved on to settle in New Zealand.

For some time after Alternative 3 was originally published, I have reason to suppose that my home telephone was being tapped and my contacts who were experienced in such matters were convinced that certain intelligence agencies considered that I probably knew too much.
So, summing up, the book is FICTION BASED ON FACT. But I now feel that I inadvertently got VERY CLOSE TO A SECRET TRUTH. I hope this is of some help to you and I look forward to hearing from you again.

With best wishes, Leslie Watkins
Captain Bill Robertson in a Lecture he gave in 1990 made these comments on the NASA footage which comes at the end of the Alternative 3 show. It would appear that Captain Bill believes the whole video to be true, but his comments are of interest never-the-less. (Source: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/alternative3.html)
And you are going to see it and are going to see and analyze what it really means.
This is the supposed landing on Mars 1962 by the Americans. That's the tape.
Now the thing he said at the last, he says - Boy, when they take the wraps off this, it'll be the biggest day in history. 22nd May 1962, we're on Mars and we have life.

Now, we're gonna watch this - I'll show you something interesting. OK let's pause. All right, here you go. Look; let's first of all examine the possibility that this was made in Hollywood. If they did make it in Hollywood what would be the point of making it so secret that they had to kill people to keep it from being known? Would they just be doing it to...Why would they keep it a secret, if they made it in Hollywood? They would want everyone to know about it and say - Look we landed on Mars! and they never said that. So what would they want it for as a fake, and how could this professor have recorded it coming from outer space, this tape, if they made it in Hollywood, you see. So let's take their word for it is true. They did kill enough people, they threatened the radio station with closing the license - I mean the television with closing the license of the program, they did fire the people who worked on it. And when the book came out they banned it in America. So knowing all those indicators of a secret conspiracy going on, let's take it as a true tape, but let's analyze it as to what is the real truth.

Look at that porthole they are taking the pictures out of. That is not from an earth type spacecraft. That has a square, curved outer hull surface, and it's very thin as you can see. There's no bolts, you understand, and all that stuff they have on American and Russian spacecrafts. Right, it's very big. You remember the first spaceships that went up. They had little tiny holes in them like that with bolts, like on a ship. That's the first point I want you to see. Now I want you to see something else here. There, you see the curves? Aha, you see this - stand by to scan, that's what he said. Now watch this, watch what happens to the picture. See how slowly it's moving? America and Russia never had any spaceships that are landing on the Moon, landing on any other planet that could slow down and do this. Watch this: the ship is rotating, slowly. Then it stops - Stand by to move on. Watch... see there, now they're back on the landing pattern.

If you analyze this from an aeronautical point of view, you have the ship coming in. All of a sudden it stops, rotates around like this stand by to go-ahead, resume landing. Does that remind you of anything? It reminds you of the stories of "flying saucers". They go, they stop, they move around a little bit, they go. All right. What's that? (I never saw that one before.) OK, we go on with the analysis.

That, see this? Every time they change mode there's interference on the transmission, or they've stopped the transmission and started it again. This interference with any radio transmission frequency is caused by a high intensity electromagnetic field. Also this is in the stories of UFO reports where people's car radios stop and the pilots, their compass goes around like this. There are also stories written how, obviously, UFO's are controlled by high intensity electromagnetic fields. And if you were broadcasting from there back to Earth you would expect the broadcast to be interfered with every time they had to change the controls, altitude or path of the flying saucer, and it does!

And now... watch again. Now look how slowly it's going. Temperature 4 degrees Celsius, 21 km/h wind. 707,7 Mb air pressure. 760 (is normal), no 1013 Mb. This is only 7/10 as much as Earth. OK, next. I want you to observe this place they're coming toward. You didn't notice that, did you? There's a tower, like a control tower. And there are 1, 2, 3 pads to land on, but they are only round ones, and they look like they are a hundred or so feet in diameter, 30-40 meter or more. 1, 2, 3 and they're round. Now what could you land there if you have never been there before? Could they have built a landing base, if they had never been there before? Now watch this when they land: They get to static again, because they have to put in the electromagnetic field. So you don't see them actually landing there, but you can believe they are going to land on this one or one of these. Right. Watch that closely. You see that? There it is, there it comes. Stand by for landing. Let's do it again, so you can see it. There are: 1, 2, and 3. There's the building. Now they are obviously sitting on one of the pads looking out away from the building. And now they see the brown very closely. Americans... some kind of mole, a mole. OK, now.
What the cover-up was, what the secret of Alternative 3 was, which is still a secret, is that the Americans did get to Mars in 1962 with a radio and television camera, but they didn't make the ship. That was an alien flying saucer. You wanna see it again? This is the big secret. That's what they didn't want anyone to know. They were just passengers. Imagine it.... on a flying saucer, you see it? The base, the little pads. OK.

So I told you it would be amazing. I took you on a videotrip on a flying saucer as the first thing. That's how they work, just like that, you see it from the inside. How did you like that trip? That was the big secret of Alternative 3. The Americans did not land on Mars. They took as passengers on a flying saucer. All this Alternative 3 stuff was cover.

A DVD of alternative 3 is available from www.metatech.org
Copyright ©: Stephanie Relfe - 2006 Permission is granted to copy and distribute this article or parts of this article, so long as you link to http://www.metatech.org

About the Author
Stephanie Relfe was born in Sydney Australia. She now lives in the USA with her husband and son. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Sydney University. She is a professional kinesiologist and the webmaster of "Health, Wealth & Happiness" at www.relfe.com, plus www.metatech.org.

Al Gore's Inconvenient Infomercial: A Movie Review

2007-08-13T02:26:00.000-07:00

Al Gore's Inconvenient Infomercial: A Movie Review

Who is the chubby, aging baby boomer waddling through airport after empty airport, wearily tugging along his 2-piece luggage roller? Hey, it's not Michael Moore (again). Why, for heaven's sake, it's none other than a bored, disgruntled Al Gore, Jr. - the Man Who Personally Believes He Coulda/Woulda/Shoulda Been King! Well, at least Saturday Night Live believed him. Instead of ruling the Western World with a Green Fist, he's starred in a new movie persuading us to stop using up so much energy. Meanwhile, Al Gore Jr. cruises about foreign capitals in one gas-guzzling, chauffeured Mercedes after another, pondering one very deep thought after another while solemnly tapping away on his Mac Powerbook. Earth to Al Gore: Actor Steven Seagal already nailed down the slick but glazed 'poseur look' about nine movies ago.

Is "An Inconvenient Truth" a documentary about Global Warming, or Al Gore's microphone-grabbing, spotlight-snatching platform to whine about, and revisit, his presidential election loss, six years ago? Is former Veep Gore really hoping to educate film audiences about the very serious dangers of carbon dioxide emissions, greenhouse gases and abrupt climate change, or conniving to create a multi-media white paper for the Democratic Party's energy agenda? We're not sure, actually. Perhaps, it is because Al Gore, and the film's executive producer Davis Guggenheim, were themselves confused as to the direction in which they were heading with this narcissistic political propaganda.

C'mon, a former high-profile Vice President of the United States shuffling through airport security like the rest of us hoi polloi? If so, then why didn't the alarm bells go off? For those who missed it, in one scene Gore wore a belt buckle the size of a small dish, when passing through the airport's metal detector. And it didn't screech? Right! Or how about the scene where a pompous Al Gore (sans bodyguards) was hailing a cab in Manhattan, but no one recognized him? Well, perhaps that part was realistic. Who really cares about Al? Was the former #2 man doing a for-the-people inspirational routine, along the lines of "He Walks Among Us," so that we'd buy his punch line about self-sacrifice at the end of the movie?

The man, who at one time claimed to have invented the Internet, more carefully documented his alleged 30-year personal campaign to help bring Global Warming to a screeching halt. Amazingly, he didn't include footnotes with his film speech. We're sure Gore was anticipating the "I invented the Internet" jokes and dutifully prepared his track record for audiences. He shamelessly dredged up memories of his old Harvard science professor, Roger Revelle, whom he once called into congressional hearings to have the scientist warn about CO2 emissions and rising water temperatures.

How seriously can we take 'Scientist' Al Gore? In a Washington Post article (March 19, 2000), Al's grades and scores were questioned, during the presidential campaign, and the assistant headmaster at Gore's private school, St. Albans, reportedly "chuckled at (Gore's) science results." He had scored so poorly.

Gore's one constant, his glibness, manifests in this quasi-documentary. Mostly it's a political infomercial, but for whatever reason Gore was so fervently pitching and hyping Al Gore was never made clear. He hasn't quite grasped how serious the earth's climactic changes could impact our civilization, other than flicking through multiple photos of receding glaciers and a few other tidbits. Gore mentions we might have 100 million refugees if sea levels rise, as if those many would actually survive. In contrast, Dr. Lovelock, author of "The Revenge of Gaia," is forecasting the demise of billions of people under the same "earth is melting" scenario. Whom do we believe? We vote Lovelock, not Gore. After all, the politician admits, in a recent Rolling Stone magazine interview, Lovelock has forgotten more science than Gore has ever learned.
Whatever gravity the poseur portrayed during his supercilious narration, and in his deep-thinking (but awkward) poses, Gore nullified these moments with clumsy flashbacks to the 2000 presidential campaign. (Well, Gore reportedly did a lot of drugs in college, so we guess he's entitled to his flashbacks.) While he claimed in his movie to have moved on, the man still sounded downright bitter during this pre-campaigning film farce. His movie oozes contempt for the man who defeated him, and offers the same ill will toward anyone distantly related - family, business or otherwise - to the man who is now President of the United States. For those who helped keep him out of the White House or dissed him? He repays his enemies in a way only a screenwriter could: Gore adds his enemies to his movie.

Gore's rapid-fire "subliminal images" are cleverly aimed at Florida and the 2000 presidential campaign. Take that Senator Katherine Harris! Guess which state gets submerged first when the polar ice caps melt? You got it, Florida. Of all the lakes in the world which are drying up, Gore selects Lake Chad. For those who have forgotten, it was the notorious "chads," which cost Gore the presidency. Darn it Al, will you let it go? It's been six years, you know. You LOST the election!

Film goers should wonder why an ex-tobacco farmer, and erstwhile U.S. presidential candidate (going 0 for 2 on presidential campaigns), has only NOW come out against fossil fuels because of Global Warming. What's his agenda? To educate the public? If that is the case, then the filmmakers should have focused on the matter at hand - the earth is getting hotter, and we need a solution. Dr. James Lovelock's mandate is simple: Nuclear energy is the single solution. Listen up, Hillary Clinton - you might have enjoyed Al's ramblings, and said so in your pretentious New York Press Club speech last May, but where is Gore's actual solution to the Global Warming crisis?

The self-righteous Al Jr. offers no solution in his movie. Even when asked by an audience in China for his solution, Gore spouts non-sequiturs - political rhetoric, but no word of a solution. The movie director deftly cuts away before Al can look even sillier, while we wonder why Al offered no solution.

The film shows images of a nuclear reactor, a wind farm and running water. Was the blustering Al or his bewildered movie director hoping the audience would choose a solution for them? At least Ross Perot, in his infomercials, had some solution for the ills then facing America. Al has none. Zippo. Nada. Just join Al's crusade and start driving a hybrid car. Or did he mean a bicycle? After all, in one scene, Al boasts about the Chinese riding their bicycles and flashes a dated photo showing this. Wake up, Al, last we heard, the Chinese were driving Beemers and Benzes, not bicycles. Bikes are reserved for environmentalist weenies who can't find a real job.
Al seems to be pro-nuclear, but claims there are problems with proliferation and waste disposal. In an interview with Australia's The Age newspaper, published in November 2005, Gore told the reporter he was not "reflexively against" nuclear energy. Wearing his hat as a fund manager for the Generation Fund, he told the newspaper that investing in uranium mining comes down to sustainability. In another interview with "Grist Magazine's" David Roberts, published in May of this year, Gore responded to questioning about the nuclear energy renaissance, saying, " I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now." How's that for naiveté in the context of dozens of countries having already announced their plans to advance their nuclear energy programs?

Perhaps, Gore will begin touting renewables, as Hillary Clinton has done on behalf of lapdog/energy guru Amory Lovins. We asked third-term Wyoming legislator, David R. Miller, who is also president of a U.S. uranium development company, Strathmore Minerals, about the madness over renewables becoming a serious factor for baseload electricity generation. Miller told us, "We were 100 percent renewable 300 years ago, 50 percent renewable 100 years ago and 30 percent renewable 50 years ago. Now, we are less than 10 percent renewable and shrinking fast."

About nuclear energy, Miller added, "It nearly unlimited. We are learning to use better technology to make purer energy to do more for us." Miller's rebuttal on Al Gore's message was emphatic, "Those that preach about saving the earth should practice what they speak, but the loudest voices are those that consume the most." Miller pointed out, "Only the rich and idle have time to rail against too much consumption. But they want you to stop the consuming, not them."
One could look deeper to better understand Al Gore's ambiguity toward any solution. For example, is Al Gore's family still a large shareholder of Occidental Petroleum? After all, his father took a consultancy with a subsidiary of the multi-national oil firm, upon leaving the U.S. Senate in 1970. Just in time to cash in on the oil embargo of 1973, Al Gore's dad was paid $500,000 per year for his services. Al Gore Sr. also served as a company director. Why was Al Gore's father on such great terms with Armand Hammer, the founder of Occidental Petroleum? Hammer was a good buddy of Josef Stalin and his Kremlin successors. Hammer's dad introduced Little Armand to Stalin, who helped him build the Hammer Empire. All this in return for one small favor: Julius Hammer founded the U.S. Communist Party.

Have the sins of the father visited the son? For the past thirty or forty years, Al Gore has allegedly received a "mining royalty" check from Occidental Petroleum for zinc ore discovered on the Gore family property. Reportedly, Al has been paid about $20,000 annually for mining rights to the property. But, that's just chump change. Long before the Buddhist Temple fund-raising fiasco in Los Angeles, Al Gore was involved in dubious political financings.

We didn't look that much more deeply into Al Gore. Truthfully, why bother? Gore's remorse appears rigged; his acting is pathetic. For example, his sister died of lung cancer, before the family stopped growing tobacco. He makes a really big deal about this in his movie (despite his own alleged chain-smoking habits as a college student). But he failed to mention he continued receiving royalties from his tobacco farm for years after his sister died.

Gore also forgot his vivid 1988 presidential election campaign speeches, defending tobacco farmers in the southern United States. Imagine Mr. Clean telling tobacco farmers about how he, himself, tilled the soil with his bare hands and picked dem dar tobacco leaves wit his own fingers! Our research shows Gore continued accepting campaign donations from tobacco companies until at least 1990. Instead of being truthful with his audience, Gore mentioned in passing that the reason he ran for President in 1988 was to give Global Warming some exposure. Hypocrisy or ambivalence? You decide.

In his film, Gore claimed to have changed the way he performed his congressional duties after his six-year old son was hit by a car and nearly died. Throughout his movie, Gore uses every personal tragedy to play upon the audience's heart strings. What does that have to do with Global Warming? Nothing, but it aids and abets an otherwise insincere politician to better sell his purported sincerity concerning abrupt climate change. The message is good; the messenger needs to take up a new hobby. Like unsuccessfully running for president again so he can finally get his just deserves: "Strike Three, you're outa here!"

Why pay good money to get bored out of your skull with this blasé movie? Save the $7 to $10 (or more) on "Al Gore's Inconvenient Infomercial" by reading the same stuff for no charge whatsoever (and without the deep-thinking, brooding ex-politician who spends nearly all of his 100 minutes preaching in your face). Kevin Bambrough and Eric Sprott wrote a detailed report, covering a great deal, if not more than what the Gore movie attempted to discuss.

About the Author
James Finch contributes to StockInterview.com and other publications. Visit http://www.stockinterview.com to read more articles by James Finch.

Democrats, Here is your Platform: "It's Time for a Change!"

2007-08-13T02:22:00.001-07:00

Democrats, Here is your Platform: "It's Time for a Change!"

Jesus Christ called the Religious and Political Leaders of his time "Blind Guides". The United States of America has been led so blindly into imminent disaster by George W. Bush and the Republican Party that the US is now looking like the Titanic hurtling into the Iceberg about to go down and take the rest of the world with it. The US has so many enormous problems that a child could defeat the Republicans, but the leaders of the Democratic Party are such a bunch of bumbling fools that they are tripping all over themselves like drunks in Times Square on New Years Eve. We are now beginning the countdown to the 2008 Presidential election and the Democrats do not even have a platform and they are busy fighting among themselves. Karl Rove cannot deal with the big issues like Iraq and the Deficit and Global Warming and so he wraps the Republicans up in the flag and attacks the New York Times. Let me now dismantle this leaky midget and right the Democratic ship.

The scenario we are now facing is very similar to the scene in "The American President" when President Michael Douglas finally decides to take a stand and says to the challenger Richard Dreyfuss, "These are serious times and you are way out of your league." The Democrats need to clean house and bring in some tough white male brilliant candidate because not one red state will vote for a black man or Hillary Clinton. The racism is just too inbred, even if Barak Obama is the best choice. Hilary has too much baggage, no platform, and the US is involved in a war. The US will not elect a woman.

Now lets get to the platform. Lets start at the beginning. Lets start with the spiritual leader of the United States of America, Jesus Christ, "Mr. I am the truth!" An overwhelming majority of Americans know that they were misled into the war in Iraq by deliberate Republican lies and they want the troops to come home. It is now time to play the integrity card. "How can you trust a Republican? They misled us into another Vietnam. Lets redeploy the troops back a bit into Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and let the Iraqis sort out their own problems. This war has already cost us 3,000 soldiers, and another 17,000 American men and women have had their arms and legs blown off. How did the Republicans hijack Jesus Christ exclusively to themselves? Jesus wants us out of Iraq! Jesus was the Prince of Peace! Jesus was a total Pacifist! Jesus commanded us to turn the other cheek, not to hit back even in self defense! We are a Christian country and this war goes against everything that Jesus Christ stood for! We Democrats go to Church! We are leaving Iraq now! It's Time for a Change!"

Who gave the Republicans the morality issue? Is it moral to attack a country for deceitful reasons and then proceed to massacre 50,000 innocent civilian Muslim men, women and children? Leaving Iraq now will help build a bridge between the Christian and Muslim people who all believe in the same God who handed the 10 commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai 3,200 years ago, including "Don't Murder!" Who gave the Republicans the American flag? The Democratic candidate needs to wrap himself up in the Star Spangled Banner, so tarnished across the globe by the Republican Party. The Republicans claim to be Pro Life. Aren't innocent Iraqi Muslim children lives?

Karl Rove has tapped into our basest instinct, our killer instinct, our blood lust, to the point where the President declared a Crusade against Islam and he is now carrying it out! What's next, another 300 year Inquisition against his own people? The Republicans are calling the Muslims Islamo - Fascists! They believe that Islam is Nazi Germany and the United States is France about to be taken over by Hitler in 1940. The Bush family and the Bin Laden family jointly own the Carlysle Group which makes the tanks, and Unocal the oil company, and Halliburton. The BushCo corruption and fear mongering and war mongering has made the Bush family enormously wealthy at the expense of the entire country. Exxon Executives are running the White House, the Republican Congress and the Supreme Court! It's Time for a Change! Lets bring in a tough as nails straight shooting Democrat who will say to all the countries of the world, "If you dare touch the United States of America in any way I will unleash the full nuclear, biological and chemical arsenal of the United States of America upon you and immediately wipe your country off the face of the earth forever! The United States of America has stopped fighting with its hands tied behind its backs. Jesus Christ said, "I have not come to bring you Peace but the Sword! It's Time for a Change!"

The Democratic Candidate must say to the people of the United States: "Being President is like being a parent. It is not a popularity contest. Sometimes it requires the parent to discipline the child to protect the child. Sometimes the people must be called upon to sacrifice, like Jesus on the cross. Karl Rove has branded Democrats as tax hikers and demonized the term. This snake oil salesman with his trillion dollar tax cut, his trillion dollar war in Iraq, has taken the Clinton Surplus and turned it into the Bush Bankruptcy of the United States of America, as he and his father and their oil and defense contractor friends have sat on the board of the House of Saud and filled their Swiss bank accounts with billions! Because our country is now teetering on the brink of bankruptcy all of our social programs including education, health, and social security are in danger. The Republicans got us all into this mess. Now they are abolishing estate taxes to cost us another trillion dollars. How many meals a day can Karl Rove eat? We must raise taxes now, get out of Iraq, and dramatically reduce spending before our treasury bills, your life's savings become junk bonds. The Republican Party has brought us right to the brink of another Great Depression! It's Time for a Change! We must save ourselves!"

"And finally let me say this. Stephen Hawking the greatest scientist alive recently warned that global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels and now the thawing of the permafrost threatens the existence of life on earth forever. The only people who disagree are the White House and Congress Exxon Executives. Big oil finances their campaigns and they have sold you and your children out. The US spews 25% of the world's pollution into the air. The Republicans have taken control of the networks, the newspapers, and are now poised to censor the internet, so that only their filthy lies and propaganda will hit your ears. When global warming melts the polar Ice Caps in the near future, and it is well underway, every coastal city on earth will be submerged under 50 feet of water as the melting Ice turns into water and raises the level of the earth's one ocean by 50 feet. The earth only has 40 years of oil left anyway. I will ban SUV's like your President drives, and only allow American car manufacturers to produce tiny fuel efficient hybrid cars. This should save General Motors and Ford from being wiped out by the foreign competition. I will invest heavily in solar energy, and wind energy and bicycles.

These are serious times. Every nuclear scientist on earth knows that Nuclear World War 3 our present heading and its aftermath nuclear winter then ultraviolet summer will have zero survivors. World Peace is our only chance to survive. The question is not did we evolve, but will we evolve into a peaceful species in order to survive. By definition if 200 ambassadors at the United Nations raise their hands for world peace, we can have world peace overnight. I personally will spend a great deal of my time at the United Nations educating the ambassadors to this fact, and I will make the Prince of Peace proud, or die trying. The Time has come for a Change! We must save ourselves!"

About the Author
Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com/

Democrats, Here is your Platform: "It's Time for a Change!"

2007-08-13T02:22:00.000-07:00

Traveling the Highway to a Renewable Energy Future: A Look At Innovation in Transportation

2007-08-13T02:20:00.001-07:00

Traveling the Highway to a Renewable Energy Future: A Look At Innovation in Transportation

RenewableEnergyStocks.com - ZAP, DynaMotive, Alchemy Enterprises, DaimlerChrysler and Honda Motor Look to the Emerging Alternative Energy Transportation Market
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As oil consumption patterns are targeted for change, the market turns towards innovators who are getting behind the wheel to produce new energy solutions. With the growing level of support of alternative transportation technology steadily gaining momentum from a corporate, government and consumer level, innovations such as cleaner fuel sources, and energy efficient automotive technology continue to result. Working to build on the emerging clean energy opportunities in the transportation market are technology providers such as ZAP (AMEX: ZP), DynaMotive Energy Systems Corporation (OTCBB: DYMTF), Alchemy Enterprises (OTCBB: ACHM), DaimlerChrysler (NYSE: DCX), and Honda Motor Co. Ltd (NYSE: HMC). Reducing our dependence on foreign oil has placed the use of alternative transportation models into the limelight. Clean Edge Inc., a San Francisco based research and consulting firm reporting on the clean technology industry, reports, "Since roughly two-thirds of the oil used in the U.S. is for transportation, energy security advocates are focusing on hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles to save gasoline, and on biofuels -- ethanol and biodiesel -- as key means to replace it. U.S.
biodiesel production tripled in 2005 to 75 million gallons, domestic ethanol output continued its steady growth to nearly 4 billion gallons, while U.S. hybrid car sales grew 144 percent to more than 205,000."

In light of the current market environment, Steven Schneider, Chief Executive Officer and Director of ZAP (Zero Air Pollution) (NYSE: ZP) explains, "Anyone that is producing an alternative energy vehicle at this moment in time is certainly in a sweet spot. The concern over fuel prices and oil, combined with environmental issues, global warming and all types of weather conditions and climate change, including the unrest in the Middle East, has put so much focus on companies who are coming up with another solution." ZAP is the only company who currently provides full performance electric vehicles for sale online and through licensed dealers. They also sell Smart Cars and the soon to be released Obvio Ethanol gas hybrid.

Alchemy Enterprises, Ltd (OTCBB: ACHM) is developing a magnesium based Electric Power Cell that will be able to provide power for vehicles using reusable, renewable materials. The company is targeting a prototype to be functioning in the first quarter of "07 in a full sized city bus, currently under construction in conjunction with Designline of New Zealand, an international producer of hybrid buses and vehicles.

The Electric Power Cell being developed by Alchemy uses magnesium - one of the most common minerals on earth - as its catalyst material. Given the further fact that the magnesium is "rechargeable" it is the perfect answer to the twofold problem with combustion engines, and petroleum in particular: pollution and non renewable source, fuel.

Alchemy's CEO Jonathan Read explains, "We expect that the very nature of our Electric Power Cell will provide a significant alternative to the potentially flawed hydrogen fuel concepts that are being tested at this stage. Our objective is a fuel system that is clean, renewable and reusable. Instead of highly pressurized and leak prone hydrogen systems, our system provides power on demand - hydrogen on demand - and is a model for sustainable affordable long-term power systems"

"Our first prototype is being developed for the public transportation sector as it is the easiest to control and monitor given their centralized nature. We hope to then expand to fleet applications, and will be entertaining automobile joint ventures," adds Read.

Alchemy is developing their Electric Fuel Cell in a full development contract with NASA and its Jet Propulsion Labs and Cal Tech in Pasadena, CA. It has announced that this contractual relationship may result in Cal Tech taking an 8% stake in the Company.

The Hybrid and Plug-In Route
Cost is all too often seen as a primary barrier, when it comes to presenting a hybrid alternative to the eternal combustion conundrum. According to CNW Marketing Research Inc., "One of the reasons hybrids cost more than non-hybrids is the manufacture, replacement and disposal of such items as batteries, electric motors (in addition to the conventional engine), lighter weight materials and complexity of the power package."

From another angle, Nick Cappa, Manager of Advanced Technology Communications for DaimlerChrysler (NYSE: DCX) says, "At this point there is no silver bullet for reducing our dependency on foreign oil. Hybrids will play a role but how significant a role depends on the customer. The premium for a hybrid must meet expectations."

At the moment he says, "hybrids make up less than .5% of the North American market. That percentage is expected to be around 4% by 2012. DaimlerChrysler will introduce its first hybrid to market in 2008 with the 2-Mode Full Hybrid Dodge Durango. We see hybrids as a growing market. Other technologies will also have an affect on fuel consumption. "

As far as plug-ins and the Company's own plans for innovating are concerned, Cappa says, "Although DaimlerChrysler is the only auto manufacturer building and testing plug-in hybrid technology, we have made no plans for mass production of plug-in technology. By combining diesel hybrids with lithium ion battery technology we stay on the cutting edge. The data collected will go towards future hybrid vehicle and system design."

Presenting the industry with electric alternative vehicles, ZAP is the only company who markets electric vehicles online. Schneider says, "interest is coming in on a global basis. As a company we're focusing on getting the vehicles to the North American region first and as we perfect the infrastructure here in North America, we'll be rapidly expanding to other parts of the world."
"I believe that plug-in vehicles have a rapidly growing niche in the market that most of us don't quite yet understand, but will very soon. Further to this, he says, "the bench tests are showing a longevity of 9,000 cycles- that's like 9,000 refills of your gasoline car, which is 10-15 years depending on how much you actually drive. This makes it very convenient for a consumer to make a choice between gasoline powered vehicles or plug-in vehicles because the time to plug in and the time to fill up is about the same," concludes Schneider.

Biofuel's Boost
In an attempt to help promote energy independence, U.S. automakers General Motors, Ford and Daimler Chrysler, recently expressed their public support of an energy plan from the Energy Future Coalition. The plan titled "25 by 25" entails that 25 percent of the energy supplies for the U.S. would come from a combination of ethanol and other renewables by the year 2025. E85, an alternative fuel consisting of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline, has become a key focus in the quest for cleaner domestic sources of fuel and through plans such as "25 by 25" and other clean energy proposals, steps can be taken to increase the availability and distribution of this fuel.

Alexander Muller, Assistant Director-General for the Sustainable Development Department of the FAO has instilled the overall impression that, "The gradual move away from oil has begun. Over the next 15 to 20 years, we may see biofuels providing a full 25 percent of the world's energy needs." With this in mind, more of a spotlight could be placed on biofuels, as it becomes more evident that this is a viable alternative for the mass market."

DynaMotive Energy Systems Corporation (OTCBB: DYMTF) has been developing advanced fuels made from cellulosic biomass for some time. Andrew Kingston President and CEO affirms that, "With the escalating cost of fossil fuels and the dependence on crude oil as the primary source of energy for automobiles, it has become increasingly important to develop sustainable fuels from local resources, thus diminishing the reliance on foreign energy."

Describing the dynamics of BioOil conversion to synthetic gas, Kingston says, "We've successfully converted BioOil to syngas, with the objective to establish that syngas can be further reformed to synthetic diesel." For future transport applications he says, "Synthetic diesel can be used as transport fuel in diesel engines without modification, including automobiles, trucks, and buses. When comparing the performance of engines operating on Syndiesel to engines operating on conventional diesel, the results are equal or better. Synthetic diesel, or Syndiesel, is a renewable greenhouse gas neutral fuel that can replace diesel produced from crude oil."

Kingston further stated, "There is also a promising approach to ethanol production from the reformation of BioOil to syngas utilizing a variance of Fisher Tropsch process, which DynaMotive is exploring." Currently, the Company's product BioOil is used as an industrial fuel and can be used in gas turbines, boilers, kilns and stationary diesel engines.

New Directions
Chris Martin, spokesman for Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (NYSE: HMC) says that the progress made in the hybrid market has been, "a slow evolution over time. It's really difficult to predict where the market is going to go." Martin says that in addition to hybrids, the Company's Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) technology, which shuts down the cylinders not being used during vehicle drive times, is also part of their line.

A Honda Civic GX, which runs on natural gas, also plays a key part in their line of alternative energy solutions. Martin says that for this car, "the infrastructure to refuel your natural gas vehicle is already in place, because many American homes are already supplied with natural gas." The Phill home refueling station, offered by Honda's partner Fuel Maker, offers at-home natural gas refueling for owners of the new Civic. A map showing where the Californian natural gas refueling stations are located is online at:

http://www.cngvc.org/ngv/cngvc.nsf/bytitle/cal.htm
As the nation continues to drive forward towards energy alternatives through government, business and legislative support, the transportation industry is experiencing an evolution towards greater efficiency, environmental preservation and an improved ability for domestic producers to help establish energy independence. Resulting from this push is a variety of innovative clean energy technologies that are helping to solve many of the needs felt by today's transportation channels, turning yesterday's challenges into today's market opportunities.
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Traveling the Highway to a Renewable Energy Future: A Look At Innovation in Transportation

2007-08-13T02:20:00.000-07:00

How to Cure Asthma

2007-08-13T02:19:00.000-07:00

How to Cure Asthma

What is the difference between God and a Doctor? God doesn't think that he is a doctor. How do you tell the difference between a Doctor and a banana? If the banana doesn't go rotten in 14 days then it isn't a doctor. According to your doctor asthma is incurable, or as your Doctor learned after 8 years in University envying the number of women chasing the quarterback, who your Doctor in a jealous and drunken rage referred to in his secret diary as a "hairy Neanderthal", asthma is a "chronic (permanent) inflammatory condition of the lungs." The medical schools and the big drug companies and the big corporate executives have pawned off this deadly myth for so long that now even they believe it.

20 million Americans suffer from asthma. Does this mean that we should lay the blame for asthma on our creator? Did God not know how to create a functioning lung? Are we just prototypes in God's vast laboratory? Perhaps without inhalers all of the asthmatics would die off and then the human gene pool would be freed from this genetic defect and then future generations would evolve into a species with perfectly functioning bronchial tubes. In the interest of future generations perhaps you should throw out your puffer and just choke to death sacrificing your life for the common good. This may get you into heaven in case you forgot to put your $5 into the collection plate last Sunday. Did Jesus have asthma? Did Jesus ever cure an asthmatic? Did Jesus know that asthma was incurable? Did Jesus go to medical school? Did Jesus play football? Was Mary Magdalene a cheerleader for the Jerusalem University Keepahs?
The reasons that the environmental organizations are going nowhere are myriad. One of them is that the word environmental is a combination of the words enviro and mental. No one knows what the word enviro means which leaves us with the word mental. People just think that these people are mental. George Bush's father referred to them as "the spotted owl crowd". His son George proclaimed that there is no evidence that global warming exists. Jesus referred to the leaders of his day as snakes, blind guides, leading us all into the fire. The United States which likes to think of itself as the role model for a world which thinks of the U.S. as the black sheep of the family is the highest per capita polluter in the world. The reason that pollution groups are going nowhere is because people don't understand the meaning of the word pollution. The world is like a giant Jonestown filled with people believing that poison cannot kill them because some Bible writers, scribes, and who Jesus referred to as snakes spewing their deadly poisonous lies into your Bibles (Matthew 23) wrote this baloney in your Bible 2,000 years ago beside "The Earth does not move and it never will" three times. If God wrote your Bible then not only can he not create a functioning lung but he is also very poor at astronomy. Your Bible has 2,000 pages of God's Word and no cure for asthma? Perhaps if the George Bushes had paid a little less attention to their Holy Bibles and checked out the Greenpeace website a couple of times, Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic would not now be melting into the world's 1 ocean which will shortly cause the sea level to rise 50 feet leaving nothing left of the United States except the peaks of Vail, which will be prime beachfront property.

In the Holy Bible God commands the cutting away of the foreskin, not the foresight. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure especially when there is no cure for asthma. The pollution, the particles of poison in the air which we breathe into our lungs, like deadly airborne cyanide, hemlock and snake venom gets into your lungs when you breathe the air, it inflames your lungs and you have asthma. If you want to get away with poisoning children's lungs with deadly poison chemicals so that they cannot breathe then give your poison a name that no one understands, like a "carcinogen", a cancer causing chemical coming out of the exhaust pipe of your car like a bullet which hits its target and then explodes 10 years later in your own lungs and then slowly eats you alive in an excruciating prolonged death. It was announced yesterday that in Beijing, the site of the next Olympics, where the smog is so bad that more car accidents are caused by low visibility than msg, over 100,000 Chinese people died last year from the indoor air pollution in their skyscrapers from the chemicals gassing off from their carpets, furniture, and poor ventilation. Who would want to open a window in Beijing even if the office buildings did have windows? The air in Beijing is so filled with poison gas that the 100 yard dash at the 2008 Olympics has been shortened to 10 yards. What is the big deal searching for a cure for Aids in Africa? If everyone remained a virgin and then only had sex with their spouse there would be no sexually transmitted diseases. Is this a secret being deliberately held from the African people? You cannot break the laws of nature but if you do it will break your back.

Mold is a fungus, a tiny airborne animal that can only be seen when magnified through the lens of a microscope. Some molds exist in nature and we breathe it in all the time in small amounts and our bodies can handle it. However in larger amounts, or in people with immune systems weakened by all of the poison we breathe in every day, these molds which we breathe in, that multiply in our lungs and digestive tracts, these molds cause allergic reactions, aka tightening of the airways, aka chronic asthma, chronic bronchitis and chronic emphysema leading to death. The end of chapter 14 of the Book of Leviticus recommends that in some cases when these molds get into the wooden walls and stones of your house, you must tear down your house and rebuild it.

Doctors, i.e. allopathic doctors will treat the symptoms of your asthma and not the causes. Allergists will diagnose you with mold allergies and inject you with mold for 5 years of useless and painful treatment. Respiratory specialists will give you cortisone inhalers which cause thrush, candida, yeast, mold, fungus in your throat which your bloodstream then carries to every organ in your body including your lungs thereby aggravating the problem and making the doctors and the drug companies rich. Jesus commanded that everyone sell all of their possessions and then give all of their money to the poor. Are there any Christian doctors? Are there any Christians?

Here is the good news. Go to your naturopathic doctor, your doctor of naturopathy. Take the best from what both traditional and naturopathic doctors have to offer. Actually naturopathic doctors should be called traditional doctors since they are the doctors who are using herbal remedies which have been used and are tried and true since before biblical times, which are recommended in the Bible. In the numerous cases of asthma which are caused by breathing in airborne mold, there is a herbal remedy which can cure it. Oil of oregano has been clinically proven to kill bacterial infections which penicillin cannot kill, viruses which "nothing" can kill, molds, yeast and fungus. Many drugs are synthetic preparations of herbal remedies, plant medicine put on earth by God to save your life. Oil of oregano with sage and cumin taken in capsules will kill off the mold, and remove the root cause of the asthma, tiny animals eating their way through your lungs like they eat through wood and stone no matter how much you clean the surface. Your bloodstream will take the Oregacyn capsules (oil of oregano, sage and cumin - search "oregacyn") which you can buy over the internet or in your health food store to every part of your body including your lungs and kill the mold and cure the asthma. It is also good to take non dairy acidophilus, the healthy bacteria in our bodies which beats back the mold, and NutriBiotic grapefruit seed extract tablets which also kill the fungus. Years ago Doctors accused the naturopaths of practicing voodoo medicine and the Government threatened to ban herbal remedies as being unsafe. (Some are unsafe. Check with your naturopath and your doctor and your health food stores to see which ones.) Today many drug stores look more like health food stores than drugstores. In the fight for power, control and money in medicine and in religion, it is always the patient who ends up the big loser. If the 200 countries on Earth decided to make World Peace they could do it overnight at the United Nations. Unfortunately your Holy Bibles and your religious leaders forbid it. Also, the weapons manufacturers own and are pulling the strings of the politicians, and they will never allow World Peace, until nuclear world war III causes the extinction of all life on earth forever in the near future, which will also put an end to asthma once and for all. Think of it as radiology theology coming to your rescue.

About the Author
Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com The World Peace Religion

The End Times Are Now

2007-08-13T02:17:00.000-07:00

The End Times Are Now

Jewish control of Jerusalem is one of the most important signs of the End Times, because of Jesus' statement in Luke 21:24. The disciples had asked Him, "When are you going to return and what will be the sign ?" Jesus replied, "Jerusalem shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." What was the Savior saying? Simply that the Jews would be scattered throughout the world and the city of Jerusalem controlled by Gentile powers until the time of His return. All the various Gentile groups--the Romans, the Persians, the Crusaders, the Egyptians, and others controlled Jerusalem from A.D. 70 until May 1967. Then, in June 1967 the Jews took control of Jerusalem for the first time in more than nineteen hundred years.
The disciples also asked jesus, not only what the signs would be that signal the countdown to his return, but also what the signs of the actual end times would be. There are many signs we are told that we will see in the last days just before jesus returns, they include:
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Earthquakes - Famines - Pestilences - Signs in space (sun, moons, stars, planets)
Luke 21:11 (King James Version) - "And great earthquakes shall be in divers (various, several) places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven."
Famines: Since 1975 to present, there has never been a year, that there wasn't a famine some place on the earth.
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Earthquakes: Earthquakes are happening more frequently and are getting stronger. From 1920 - 1990 a period of 70 years, there was 10 Major Quakes. From 1990 - 2005 a period of 15 years, there was 15 Major Quakes. And this is only the major quakes, in the year 2000 there were 22,256 total earthquakes detected. In 2004 there was 31,199. of course most were not even hardly noticed or occurred in unpopulated areas, but there numbers are growing rapidly every year, as well as the major quakes.
The United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction Just reported that between 1950 to 1959 there was 20 Major calamities costing $38 Million (1989 Dollar Value), in 1990 to 1999 there was 82 Major calamities costing $535 Billion.
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Pestilences: Since the 1980's to present the number of new diseases that have formed is incredible. We now have SARS - AIDS - Herpes - West Nile - New Drug resistant TB - Mad Cow - New monkey pox virus with human-to-human transmission - and now the H5N1 (avian bird flu). Data shows that both the incidence and severity of outbreaks of multi-drug-resistant pathogens have experienced a sharp upturn within the past 10 years. For example, Salmonella infections have gone up 25-fold in some countries in Europe since 1998. Similar increases are reported for haemorrhagic E. coli 0157 food poisoning: between 2002 and 2005, the frequency of infection increased 10 - fold in England and Wales, and 100 - fold in Scotland.
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Signs in the sun and space: The sun has been going wild, every 11 years or so we were told that the sun goes through cycles where it produces numerous solar flares or storms. This past cycle has been the strongest and strangest ever recorded since scientists and others have been studying solar activity, because even though the time for this solar phase should have passed. the sun is still producing massive flares and outbursts, and it's getting worse. In fact the sun is getting brighter and hotter each recent year. This increase in warmth from the sun is warming the entire planet, and global warming is not longer just speculative, it's a fact. The 14 hottest years ever recorded occurred after 1980.
The U.S. Geological Survey says Antarica is warmer now then it has been anytime in the past 4000 years. Half the glacier ice in the European Alps has disapeared in this century.
The following news reports were just released: 'Warmest September Globally Since Beginning Of Reliable Instruments: The United States experienced its fourth warmest September on record, while global land surface temperatures were the warmest on record for the month, according to scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.' and it's not just the U.S. but reports are coming in from around the globe, here's one from Australia: 'Australia headed for hottest year on record - SYDNEY (AFP) Nov 14, 2005 - Australia is having its hottest year on record and experts blame global warming for the trend, the government weather bureau reported Monday.
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Signs in society - peoples thinking and actions:
2 Timothy 3:1-4 (King James Version) - "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God."
These things are occurring every day and it seems everyplace, listen to peoples conversations, read the newspapers, watch tv shows, etc.... morals and putting others before ones-self are thinking that is almost gone. Sinful thoughts, and sexual perversion is becoming a common way of life.
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Preachers will not preach the biblical truth, and many will seek false and evil religions:
1 Timothy 4:1 - "The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons."
Churches and sermons have become watered-down to please church members. Many Pastors don't preach sermons anymore on the horrors of hell and the effects of sin. They have begun preaching about an all loving god, that loves everyone. This is true he does, but he is also a holy god, that cannot tolerate sin. And if someone lives a life of sin, they will be cast into hell. If you accept Jesus Christ as lord and saviour, the bible says you must also repent, a dictionary explanation for 'repent' says: 'To feel such regret for past conduct as to change one's mind regarding it', so you cannot just ask for salvation, then live your old life, the bible clearly tells us that, read this carefuly, it's right from the bible: 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
Some Pastors are now even saying that Jesus Christ is not the only way to Heaven. We have removed the biblical truth and facts and have replaced it with what people want to hear, so they can continue their ways of living a life of sin.
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Wars and rumors of wars:
The 20th century has been known as the century of warfare. We have had the big ones of course like World War 1, and World War 2, and the cold war (the ultimate era of 'rumors of war'), we also had the vietnam war, korean war, and literally hundreds of other battles, including the gulf wars and other middle east conflicts to the present day rumors of possible war with Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs.
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
Ethnic unrest and tribal warfare has killed millions in this generation alone, and it's getting worse.
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Massive Hurricanes and freak storms:
Does the bible mention Hurricanes when it tells of signs of the Lords return ? It sure does, Jesus tells the disciples in Luke 21:25: "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring." See them last 6 words: 'the sea and the waves roaring', the exact effects of hurricanes. 2004 was said to have been the costliest hurricane season on record, that was true until the 2005 hurricance season. At the end of Oct 2005, Beta, the 26th named storm of a record Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall near La Barra, Nicaragua. And now on Fri, Dec 30 2005 we have this NEWS - Tropical Storm Zeta drifts across the Atlantic. The 27th named storm of a record-breaking hurricane season, Zeta had top sustained winds near 50 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Forecasters said Zeta was not expected to become a hurricane or threaten land. This Atlantic hurricane season has seen more named tropical storms and hurricanes than at any point since record-keeping began in 1851.
Here in Northeast Pennsylvania, from November 6-12, we were struck with multiple severe thunderstorms and a tornado watch. This wouldn't be anything abnormal if it was summer, but this is November and we had not only multiple severe thunderstorms but a tornado watch and then a warning. According to local tv weathermen, we have never had as many severe thunderstorms and a tornado warning in this area so late in the year since record keeping began.
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I could go on and on, but this article would be to large for what I wanted. The facts are plain and simple folks, according to what jesus and the bible says, the signs of the end times are happening right now. There are some folks that say 'oh it says in the bible that the city of Damacus in Syria will be destroyed' and this hasn't happened yet, or something else hasn't happened yet. yes, that is very true but the signs that have happened or are occurring are the ones that the bible says will signal the return of Jesus, the other signs may occur during the great tribulation after his return.
So what does it all mean, 'The time of Jesus Christ's return is here !', I believe the countdown began in 1967 when the Jews took control of Jerusalem. .
Jesus told his disciples that the Generation that sees these things, 'The creation of israel as a nation, and most importantly 'Jerusalem under jewish control (1967) "This generation will not pass away (die)", before he (Jesus) Returns.
So how long is a generation in the bible ? bible scholars used to say a generation is 40 years. So if the countdown to the 'end times' began in 1967 when the Jews re-took control of Jersualem, Christ may return (rapture of believers) before Dec 31, 2007. Now some other bible experts like 'Jack Van Impe' are saying that a biblical generation is 52 years. This is pretty amazing, because it falls in line with some other amazing date predictions. If the end time countdown began in 1967 when the Jews re-took control of Jersuale, and if you add 52 years to that date, that gives you the year 2019. Now if we subtract 7 years from 2019 (7 years being the time of the tribulation period), that gives us the date 2012. Strangely, both the Mayan and Aztec calendars end on the year 2012, predicting some major event that changes the whole earth in that year. Is this event the rapture, the return of Christ ? When it comes to exact dates nobody on the earth really knows when Jesus will return. Jesus himself says no man knows the day or the hour when he will return. In Mark 13:32 (KJV) -- "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." But Jesus doesn't say we cannot know or figure out the year that he may come.
I say, don't wait for the year 2012, I believe the time may be much shorter, the best thing to do is to be ready, give your heart and life to Jesus today, except his free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ before it's too late. You never know if you will have a tomorrow, a car wreck, heart attack, stroke, murder, or the return of the lord may happen this very hour, and then it's too late. All you have to do is believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins, and ask him to forgive you of your sins, say the 'sinners prayer below' then repent, change your lifestyle and thinking by not living in sin, and if possible start going to a bible believing Church whenever you can, and be baptised if possible. The gift of eternal life is a free gift from the lord Jesus, all you have to do is want it, and ask for it. Here is a simple sinners prayer, it's all you need to say, just believe it: "God I know and confess that I am a sinner in need of your forgiveness, I believe that your son Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins. I now accept and receive Jesus's pardon for my sins, I want Jesus into my heart and life as my personal saviour, forgive me lord and save me, Amen'. If you have just prayed that simple prayer and believed, you are now granted the gift of eternal life, Praise the Lord.
As I finish this article, the year 2005 has now ended, and 2006 has just begun, I sit here wondering what terrible things will happen in the world, and in our own country this year, but as the Bible says. "Don't let you heart be troubled, all these things (end time signs) must occur, but look up for your redemption draws near."
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Cities, States and Others Step up Action on Climate, Despite Federal Reluctance

2007-08-13T02:15:00.000-07:00

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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Elizabeth Autumn, MBA, is a freelance reporter. She covers environment and corporate governance issues. Completing her Masters in Environmental Management at Harvard University, Elizabeth also writes for Crane's Magazine, Create Magazine, and Publishers Weekly. Prior to this she was a freelance producer for Fox News, in addition she worked for CBS News on the Emmy-Award winning CBS Documentary "9-11", The Early Show, and 60 Minutes.

Save Energy, Save Money, Save the Earth

2007-08-13T02:14:00.000-07:00

Save Energy, Save Money, Save the Earth

It was only a few decades ago that people have started to really understand how important it is for us all and for the future of the planet to save energy and control our overall energy consumption.

All the sudden awareness on this topic is many times a direct result of the intensive campaigns that environment organizations have put together. Apart from organizing workshops and conferences, these organizations published a large series of brochures and manuals that have turned out to be really helpful for the household users.

As a general rule, people have understood the importance of understanding and putting into practice the information they find in these manuals and many times they use them to guide themselves when it comes to purchasing a new appliance or to upgrade their heating system.
What the environmental institutions are trying to constantly underline is the fact that every small decision, such as a simple replacement of the light bulb, does in one way or another affect the environment. It is very important for people to understand that apart from the urban smog, acid rain, global warming etc, even the small decisions each and every one of us take every day, do influence, even if only in a small percentage, the evolution of the environment.

As a consequence, people need to mind small details such as turning off the light when they leave the room, turning down the heating system when they are not at home, purchasing only energy-efficient home appliances etc., because all these decision ad up and end up in producing great results for everybody, both because the bill amount for the everyday utilities is constantly going down and for environmental issues, as well.

As a final idea, keep in mind that reliable books and manuals on this subject, as well as brochures and other documentation materials are available in various places, including libraries and book stores.

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The Simple Truth

2007-08-13T02:10:00.002-07:00

The Simple Truth

What fills your car? Petrol. What fills your fax machine? Paper. Who fills the third planet from the sun? We do, meaning us!Your probably wondering what im going on about aren't you? I've got a question I want to ask you. What would you do to protect something that looks after you? If you were lying in a hospital bed, and a machine was keeping you alive, you'd want to look after it, wouldn't you? Cause it keeps you alive. What would you say about this planet? It is keeping you alive, so why aren't you trying to protect it?There are simple ways to do it. Fair enough, using public transport, or recycling paper. But is your business doing it enough. Does every bit of paper that is used and thrown away recycled? There are lots of Charities, trying to make a difference to our world. They want to see oceans cleaner, plants greener, and animals happier.

Scientists come up with mathematical equations stating, we need to stop pollution otherwise our atmosphere will be destroyed.Think about it, take a large water bomb, filled with water, stick needles into it, draw out the water, its mass will diminish. Then when it's all gone it will be useless. This will be the same as earth. What's worse, having more pollution blasted out from machines, our atmosphere will become weaker. Our o-zone layer shields us from the hot radiation that waits to vaporise earth. Once the o-zone layer is broken, it's almost impossible to re-pair, once those rays penetrate our world, things will get worse. Water will vaporise, leaving us with no water, plants will die and animals, then us!What is going through your mind right now? Do you feel enough urgency to start having a new look on life or are you just going to sit back and forget. It took one women/man to sail around the world, so millions of people taking notice of there environment can stop horrible changes from happening.Start using energy saving light bulbs. Switch energy suppliers. There are companies that use natural power, such as wind to power houses across the UK, such as Ecotricity. Be sensible on how you use your car, conserve water.Everyone has read articles on protecting the environment, one thing which we have to think about is our natural resources. One day we'll zap all our oil from the planet and oil is formulated into petrol. One day you may have an accident in your home, you call the ambulance, you're injured that you need someone to come get you. Wait, what would happen then?, because the ambulance would need petrol, therefore can't come get you, you may die! You might say we could use solar power, then what happened if you had it in the night, you might say use a battery that gets charged and saves power. But as your thinking of this, aren't you wondering why you're thinking this way? Well it's because you know that it would come to the point where we would have to use solar power to power our vehicles.If we keep on drilling and sucking out the minerals from the earth, we'll have nothing left to survive on, if we pollute the air, the o-zone will crack and disappear and we will slowly die. It takes simple steps in our everyday life that can start making an impact on helping this planet to stay alive. We need blood in our bodies to stay alive, if we loose a lot of blood we die. It's the same with our planet, I keep saying our planet, cause it's not my planet or your planet, its everyone's planet, and everyone's responsibility. So if the planet looses all of its minerals and oils it will die.Enquiring at local charities like friends of the earth or Greenpeace, ask them what you can do, ask for leaflets on how you can change your electricity bill. Enquire about energy tips and how to make a difference in your own home, all of which is free. Spend some time, showing your children what they can do, get them into routine the same as you. This problem of global warming wont get into peoples minds until it happens to them. But its happening already. Ice-caps will be melting causing flooding, destroying homes and livelihood. Killing people along the way. One day it could be on your doorstep and by not doing anything it could happen to you. Imagine the radiation from the sun, if the ozone layer disappeared. Increases in skin cancer. You could get it, and then you'd be thinking that I should have done something to help.There is going to be a point where were not going back at all, it will get to the stage that the o-zone layer will break and disappear and we wont be able to fix it. It's a horrible thought but we need to get of our backsides and do something. "A tree a day - creates more our way".Listen to the words of the wise. If you were planning on a holiday in 3 months. And you wanted a really great holiday, you'd start saving now! So the more you save now, the more of a great holiday you'll have. But if you left it to the last minute to save money you'd have a very bad holiday, not being able to do anything at all.

The same with this planet. Starting now, we'll have more of a chance at saving the planet, than just forgetting about it.Some have the ideal that they live each day as is comes, fair enough, but the planet doesn't. Its trying to look after itself. Its alive, it grows trees, provides water and minerals for all of us to live. We know the words "Don't bite the hand that feeds us" so why are we taking big chunks out of the hand? A planet that so eagerly gave us life, is being killed by its creations. So if volcanoes erupt and destroy towns, or water fills homes, or carbon dioxide bleaches the air, we cant blame the planet, because we've done it and made it happen.Show some respect and don't drop litter. Bins are made, so you can put rubbish in them, right? How would you like someone to come just drop all there rubbish in your bedroom? It would be smelly and messy. Believe when I say, you can make a difference. Yeah yeah you say. To climb a wall, you have to start from the bottom. Our technologies are ever growing, but we've got to be careful, one day all what I have said, will happen, then what will you as a single person do? You on your own cannot fix the world in one day, it's a combined effort. I know I'm trying, so must you!!
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Dear our beloved crying planet...

2007-08-13T02:10:00.001-07:00

Dear our beloved crying planet...

Dear our beloved crying planet…I read an article last week in "The Gazette", a local English paper here in Montreal Canada. It was titled "Time is running out" and was written by Peter G. Brown. He is a professor in the school of the Environment at McGill University. Professor Brown emphasized on the fact that "Our survival requires that we fix global warming now and is arguing that the very stability of our civilization is at stake if we don't address the problem of substantial climate change". We thank you Professor Brown for enlightening us of the facts of our time. That is all very well to say, but who really cares enough to listen? I believe no one! According to Professor Brown "it might take between 500 to 1000 years for a very substantial rise in sea-level to occur, perhaps by 10 meters within that time". That is not too much time in terms of geological years, but in the human life span, well, it seems like an eternity! I do feel the majority of us do not care because we think we will not be alive to suffer the consequences. That is a response from many 'So-Called' responsible human beings like you and I, and if governments do not seem to care, what can we do as individuals? Not a great deal if we place our priority upon having a six pack of beer and watching the hockey or a football game. Tomorrow is just another day and we are counting the days until we die and become another mere statistic which proves the fact that we have passed through this plane again!!! It is about time that we as a human race waken up and start to see things in the light of reality!We are too preoccupied with what is going on in the world watching the nuclear arsenal growth in Iraq. However, we do not realize or even care to acknowledge the fact that we are simply waiting to suffocate from a lack of Oxygen in the atmosphere due to the fact that we are already polluting this planet and cutting down trees just to see a bag full of publicity every week on our doorstep, telling us what is on special in the stores this week. That is acceptable for many of us and it doesn't seem to be the priority of any government who seem to just sit back and accept all the pollution inflicted upon us by Major Corporations, and so on from other different factors. Well, in such cases we can give a closed eye on a few things when it comes to many politicians. Why not after getting so many donations and lobbying being poured upon them, just for them to be re-elected? We are all going to die anyway, so why not throw a nuclear war? We won't feel a thing! It is easier and less painful than having an ocean flooding upon us and suffocating us under all the water. With these facts in mind, isn't it about time that we waken up and start looking at life from a new perspective and with a new attitude?When we look at our politicians many of them are usually old, and really, why would they care about our environment? They will be dead within few years and they won't be the subject of pain and suffering when the environment becomes totally unstable, so much that it's unable to sustain itself and our lives here. If you believe this then think again. You are seriously misled! In reality, whether you believe this or not, it does not matter. In the universal scale of things, our real purpose on this earth plane is to grow and evolve at a soul level, and yes, we are ALL souls and we are all subjected to the law of Karma. We come here to this plane lifetime after lifetime in order to gain worldly experiences that provide us with our growth. Every single politician, corporate head, and any other decision maker that has contributed towards the destruction of this planet at any point in time, will all be back here to live during that moment of destruction. This will be the cause of their own actions in their previous lifetimes. This will be the case, regardless if it was 20 years, 500 years and even 1000 years later. This might sound severe, and why is this so? Well, it is just not for the fun of it, or for punishment, it is the experience that is required by their soul in order for it to evolve beyond the awful deeds in its past experiences. Karma deals with the law of cause and effect. Everything that happens to us (effect) has had a previous cause. The evolution of karmic law means that we can be the master of our own destiny. Your karmic lessons in life reflect the qualities that you either lack, or are weak in and are those hindering your success. They indicate experiences or obligations that you have avoided, or were not even aware of, from which you managed to escape in some past life. They now crop up in your present life as obstacles to your success, unless you make a conscious effort to conquer them. Every karmic debt you accumulate in this lifetime will be carried over to the next lifetime in order for the soul to master its own evolution. Perhaps you don't believe in Karma but considering the sorry state of the human race, isn't it about time you investigated some other alternatives to the truth of our existence here?What happened to all those summits where those politicians who stood posing for their famous pictures where they are photographed all together and smiling at the end of the summits? Did anything change after those meetings? Very little changes happened and any which did occur were probably for those things which bear less importance and do not have any effect on any Corporations.Polluting our planet and someone building a nuclear bomb is practically the same thing. In both ends we are going to die. One is in slow motion and the other is faster. Which one do you choose? Make up your mind, are you choosing death number 1 or death number 2. Well death number 2 is faster and easier than the first one. Don't you agree?The one thing that really bothers me in our planet is where are all of these so called religions? How come we don't hear anything from them? What are their inputs when it comes to the devastating problems that are affecting of our planet? The biggest religions are more preoccupied with against fighting each other in the name of God and claim to be the 'chosen ones'. Under such circumstances, big governments will make sure they keep fighting each other and in some cases they even support such acts of war as it provides the means for them to do what they are pleased to do. This keeps us all divided and it is easier for them to claim control and power over us when there is no unified voice of the people to speak. Does that seem right to you?It is in the name of GOD, if you all believe in His or Her existence, that you insist upon fighting each other and have done so for so many years. To achieve what may I ask? In the end, you all have the same GOD but believe in a different messenger. That's the only difference!! Think about it! Isn't it GOD who created this planet that we call earth? If you are fighting each other in the name of that GOD then instead of fighting, why don't you use that energy and effort toward protecting His or Her creation? Isn't it that more rewarding for our GOD than fighting?Please take a moment to have some inner reflection if I do not make any sense to you with what I am saying. You all pray to the same creator so why don't you then sit down and figure out how to save his creation and start making some pressure instead of fighting? I believe the leaders of all religions should really begin taking responsibility in making some changes. It is time to begin educating their people about truth of the situation. In the event of war, nothing, and I mean nothing will ever be solved. War only succeeds in creating more anger, hate, suffering and children growing up feeling lost, confused and bitter towards life. The only way we will understand this is when GOD shakes us up. Perhaps he might do so by giving us a few earthquakes or why not the odd hurricane or volcano all over the planet, in order us to 'shake' us up into seeing sense? Human beings need humiliation to make them stand up on their feet and begin bringing more loving energies and compassion to themselves and their fellow 'soul mates'. How many of you know the name of your neighbors? Or, in fact, better than that, how many of us greet our neighbors when we pass them and give them a smile? Not many I'll bet, but you'll see, when disaster strikes and if there is a tragic event that hits the whole neighborhood we will not hesitate to ask for help and assistance when we are shaking with fear and suddenly beginning to appreciate life and other people. Only under such circumstances will we ever be thankful enough to realize what we have in our hands. We will greet each other, hug each other and wish each other well for our safety, why not do these things before a disaster strikes? We probably need major disasters to hit every country before we will change our selfish ways. Maybe then we will wake up and face the reality of our existence. Things really should not have to be made to go to that extreme. It is about time to waken up. We are in a world where our priorities have been tempered with power, greed, money and control. We have witnessed throughout history anything that goes up must come down. It is a cycle of life and no one can tamper with that! Why? A big part of those processes cause humans to become saturated with their greed, ego and pride. That's a fact of life!Your voice does matter just get up from sitting in your corner and start caring by taking responsibility for your existence as a part of the human race. You are not just a statistic and you must allow yourself to be heard! This planet is becoming increasingly sicker everyday and it needs your help! Think about it! Life should be enjoyed regardless of all the hurdles that you passed through in your previous life experiences and lessons. Just use these experiences and lessons to your advantage, regardless of how bad they were. In reality your worst experiences are your best assets as they bring more growth. By using your own knowledge to help other people to get over their hurdles is a blessing because you know you have grown to become a better human being.I am not trying to preach you here for you to join any group, belong to a religion or even convert to spirituality. There are already enough of those groups out there! I do personally believe in what we refer to as GOD. However, GOD to me exists as an illuminated, creative source of energy that brings us love and compassion in order for us to be happy. So I will refer to GOD as the "Great Energy Source". What I am trying to show you is the awareness and the understanding that we are all human beings here! Perhaps it is hard to believe you are a human being, regardless if you are rich, poor, black, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or which ever religion you belong to. We are all Souls manifesting in today's world in the shape that makes us who we are as a unique being in regard to our universal consciousness' growth. However, as a human being, in reality we are not different from anyone else. You are here for your growth, in order for us as Souls to reach, touch and be surrounded with that "Great Energy Source". That source is not far from us, but it is a part of us because it exists within us, as us and at all times. Acknowledge the presence of that "Great Energy Source" inside of us and not outside of us and that way, you will be able to allow the love and compassion to surface into your being for you to see that we are all from the same source and will return to the same source after our life having (hopefully) further progressed in our own evolution as individuals, but under the larger consciousness that is available in the universe that we are all a part of.Please take a moment to reflect upon and realize your priority in this lifetime. You do have a purpose which should manifest itself in a way by coming back here again to make a change and the difference that is required of you and never doubt that responsibility. This planet needs help and needs you to waken up and realize just what is really going on in the world around you. It is time to make your life worth living! Joseph Ghabi The Free Spirit Centre http://www.freespiritcentre.info

About the Author
Joseph Ghabi's early career began rather 'technically' with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Computer Science. Always intrigued by spiritual phenomena, Joseph's spiritual life began rather early in life. At the age of eight he discovered his clairvoyance. Joseph is natural medium presently teaching meditation, numerology and healing. Since the development of his healing gift.

How electric scooters contribute to the greener tomorrow.

2007-08-13T02:01:00.000-07:00

How electric scooters contribute to the greener tomorrow.

Smoke is a by-product of incomplete combustion which oozes from the tail pipe of the vehicle. This incomplete combustion increases the quantity of certain toxic chemicals discharged through smoke by vehicles into the air. These chemicals can be harmful to the eyes, nose, throat and lungs. This has resulted in to the increase in the number of hospital admissions for respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Smog is also a kind of air pollution which is caused by automobile exhaust emissions.

The solution to reduce the air pollution has now been found in the form of electric scoters. The electric scooter is the fun way to save the environment. It's clean, green and economical vehicle. Unlike fuel run scooters, the electric scooters have no emissions so no fumes and smoke and you stay clean and so does the air around. In a way you would be contributing to reduce smog and global warming. They do not require gas, as they run on battery which makes them cheaper to operate and environmentally friendly. And the batteries that make the scooter run are 100% recyclable. They often last several years. The only cost you need to incur is on charging the battery. We all would like to breath clean and fresh air and also we would love to give our next generation a clean and green environment, so why not opt for such a vehicle? In fact electric scooters are fast becoming the transportation of choice by many people, especially those wanting to reduce pollution. And it is likely to become more accessible and affordable in the years to come.

You can find gas powered scooters, but electric motor scooters have outnumbered the gas and petrol scooters as they are more convenient and economical compared to other scooters. This is because these scooters neither require gas nor petrol. All you need to do is plug the electric motor scooter into an electrical outlet and wait a couple of hours for it recharge fully. After which, you can start enjoying quick errands and short trips to the grocery store. Unlike gas/petrol operated scooters, electric scooters are so compact that you can access with them on public transports like planes, buses and trains. There are lots of electric scooter models in the market today. The electric scooters are designed for the convenience of handicapped or aged people who have difficulty in moving around. Also the others including young girls and boys under 15 can ride the electric scooters as these scooters do not require a licence or registration. If you want something that requires a little less effort to get around on and also help you save planet earth, then look no further than this little beauty.

There may be a scooter store close to you. Bernsonev E.V. is a renowned dealer of all popular brands of electric scooters which sells electric vehicles including electric scooters online through internet. You can visit their website: www.bernsonev.com, and check out what's available in this most comprehensive online electric scooter store to get yours. Any query related to the electric scooters would be gladly honoured by the expert sales staff of Bernsonev. Once you visit their online store, you would definitely not stop yourself buying one electric scooter remaining at your home. You can even pay online and get the delivery at your doorstep.

About the Author
Economical, Quiet, Clean, Green and No Gasoline. Electric Bikes And Scooters at Bernson EV
Bernson EV (Electric Vehicles) has been in the business of selling and repairing Electric Bikes and Electric Scooters since 2001.

Oh, you're just spoiled rotten!

2007-08-13T02:00:00.000-07:00

Oh, you're just spoiled rotten!

If you've ever called your own child spoiled rotten, you should be ashamed of yourself. Call someone else's kid that, no problem, but not your own. Why? Because all we can see of someone else's child is a result, and it may be disturbing. Whereas in your own case, the child is the 'spoilee' and you are the 'spoiler'. OK, perhaps your spouse, but you both have some responsibility in it.

Your child is like a dry sponge, with thousands of little cavities waiting to be filled up. And around the child is a world bursting with candy, toys, activities, snacks, TV and computer games all eager to pounce. And who is in the middle? You, the gatekeeper. The key master. The valve.
Now, if you think about it, a sponge works so so when it is bone dry. It actually works a little better when slightly damp, but if the valve is broken, the sponge will fill to capacity quickly and become useless.

Granted, you can point a finger at your mate. He or she is the one who gives Bobby everything he wants. You've even argued about it from time to time, and the same thing is said every time. "Come on, it's just until 11:00", or "think of how happy it will make him", or "I never got one of these when I was a kid", or "OK, but just this once". Sound familiar?

Almost everyone is guilty of this lack of will power to some degree. Unfortunately, if a parent lacks will power, the child will lack even more. This will develop to the point that the child will have no reason to deny him or herself anything. The notion was never passed down from the previous generation. Exercise a little restraint, can't ya?

OK, why should anyone deprive themselves of anything? Seems like a reasonable question. Well, for starters, if, in the extreme case, you got everything you asked for, you would never get to the point of truly wanting for something. However, without wanting something you can't have, at least right away, you don't set goals. And without goals you don't get anywhere. You are simply a full, soggy, sponge.

In addition, the spoiled rotten trait delivers a one-two punch. The spoiled individual may have little concept of the value of something. And worse still, the idea of having to save up for it and buy it on their own can seem ridiculous. Then there is the issue of generosity. How often is a spoiled individual truly generous? These and more negative characteristics can be attributed to someone who is spoiled rotten.

So my point is that as the guardian of all that is innocent and pure, being your child, you have the responsibility to think about such things and teach yourself how to control that which, if left unchecked, might put your child's life out of balance. If discussions with your spouse are called for and may cause some short term distress, better that than passing a bad apple down to your children to make them spoiled rotten.

I heard a remarkable phrase recently that I'd like to relate here. It had to do with ecology, global warming etc. "We did not inherit the earth from our parents, we are borrowing it from our children". And, in a way, I see this fitting in that we are the keepers of (their) childhood so that we can give it back healthy and strong.

About the Author
A father, coach and writer, I take a special interest in the well-being of children and attempt to show parents how to guide their kids in meaningful, productive endeavours. I am keenly aware of what might get a youth's attention and how to hold it. For more information you can visit my web-site at http://www.short-stories-help-children.com

Plant Spirit Shamanism: What's Up With The Weather?

2007-08-13T01:57:00.000-07:00

Plant Spirit Shamanism: What's Up With The Weather?

Plant spirit shamans - natural healers who work with herbs, ritual, and the elements - have long known that the world is not made up of discrete and separate parts, but that we are all one: that the 'butterfly effect' of a single extra drop of water released from a cloud into a Gloucestershire river could eventually lead to flooding in the distant streets of London.

Through Gaia Theory and a more informed understanding in recent years of how the natural world, the environment, and the climate really works, some scientists are also coming round to the shaman's age-old view of the connections between all things.

How might these scientists and the shamans counter some of the current scepticism about 'carbon footprints' and climate change, and what might they say about the 'freak weather conditions' many of us have been experiencing lately? What are the objections of the sceptics, what are the facts, and what are scientists and modern-day shamans saying?

DOES CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING? The sceptics say there is no "proof" of this. But proof is not the job of science, which deals, in fact, with the art of probabilities. Scientists, that is, make hypotheses ('best guesses') which are there not to be proved, but to be disproved - if possible.

The current best guess - that CO2 does create a Greenhouse Effect by trapping solar radiation in the atmosphere and causing temperatures rises on Earth - has been around since 1829, when Joseph Fourier first put forward this hypothesis - and no-one's proved him wrong yet.
Indeed, a recent survey of almost 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific articles could not find one which disagreed that climate change is a man-made phenomenon and that our output of CO2 plays a large part in this.

Even those with a vested interest in proving the scientists wrong - like oil companies Exxon-Mobil, Shell, and BP - have all issued statements recently agreeing with the evidence: that climate change is taking place, that is happening as a result of our activities, and that CO2 is a factor.

One place you can work out your own carbon footprint is http://www.direct.gov.uk/ActOnCO2 (www dot direct dot gov dot uk/ActOnCO2). You might be surprised at just how much you contribute.

If you'd then like the chance to something positive and practical to reduce it, another site to check is http://www.thefourgates.com/villagefundraisers.html#earth (www dot thefourgates dot com - then follow the link from The Village page to the fundraisers page and click on the Earth C.O.S.T. link: Carbon Offset to Save Trees).

WHAT ABOUT SOLAR RADIATION? DOESN'T THAT CAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE? The current counter-theory to CO2 as the cause of global warming and climate change is one which seeks to lay the blame on solar radiation. It seems at best, however, to be a no-theory. It has been known for many years, that is - and commonsense should tell us in any case! - that solar radiation plays a part in keeping the planet warm, because when the Sun shines we all get a tan!
The science, however, shows that the Sun plays a much smaller role than greenhouse gasses in the situation now facing us.

WHAT ABOUT OTHER 'NATURAL CAUSES' - LIKE ANIMALS AND WATER VAPOUR? Water vapour is a known part of the Greenhouse Effect - but it reacts to changes in climate rather than causing climate change. Evaporation and precipitation is a cycle and any water in the atmosphere doesn't stay there for more than a few weeks.

Nature itself, in its widest to its narrowest forms, is also cyclical: the cycle of life and death. Animals and plants live, die, and become food for others, and the CO2 they create gets used up elsewhere as a result of this natural cycle.

Humans meanwhile, pump six gigatonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year and take little if any out. Nor do we put any fresh air back. We could do through activities like tree planting, since every tree naturally offsets 650 kg of CO2, transforming pollution, offsetting carbon, and giving us back fresh air. The problem is that few people are planting trees and, in fact, deforestation - the reverse of what we should be doing - is a major issue.

In 1600, for example, over 12% of Ireland was covered by broadleaf forests. By 1800, the figure was down to 2%. Since then, the country has been working to restore its forests but, by 2000, only 7% of woodlands had been returned. And, in the urgency to put trees back, the bulk of planting has been non-native trees. Many of these - like the iroko, from West Africa - are being logged in such an unsustainable way that if the present rate of depletion continues the forests there will be gone in five years. The outcome is stalemate (at best).

It is for these reasons that The Village has introduced the Earth C.O.S.T. Programme to plant a new forest of indigenous trees at its Centre for environmental and personal healing.

As it is, the Earth absorbs about half of our current CO2 but the rest hangs around as a greenhouse gas. Cutting back on energy usage and planting more trees would help. We know this because levels of CO2 have been stable for thousands of years until the Industrial Revolution began 150 years ago and deforestation also became rife.

ISN'T CLIMATE CHANGE JUST PART OF A NATURAL CYCLE? It is true that every 100,000 years or so the Earth is subject to climate changes due to its orbit around the Sun. This is known as Milankovitch Cycle and its effects as well as its timeline are all fairly predictable.
In the 1970s, for example, scientists were already warning of a coming Ice Age as a result of this Cycle, so nothing's changed there - except the timing. We should be able to predict about 50,000 years of natural warming as a result of the Milankovitch Cycle, that is; the problem, however, is that current warming is off the scale by a factor of - well, a lot! - if only the Milankovitch Cycle was the cause.

Climate change and global warming is speeding the process up.

WE CAN'T PREDICT THE WEATHER EVEN A FEW DAYS AHEAD SO HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT THE CLIMATE OF THE FUTURE HOLDS? Firstly, weather isn't climate. Weather refers to individual instances of sun or rain in specific geographical areas; climate is the average of all these instances over a bigger area and a longer period of time. Weather changes rapidly (which is why it can be so hard to predict) but climate is relatively stable.

An analogy, if you're a gambling man, is the form of a particular horse. Of course you can't predict (i.e. know) if he'll win the race you've just bet the house on, but if you look back over his form, his performance on certain fields, and his fitness levels now, then average out his wins against losses, you can get an idea of his potential in this coming race - enough to make an informed decision, at least, on where to place your bet.

Which brings us back to our first point, since this is also how science works: through educated best guesses. And the current best guess, after studying past form and looking at the health of the planet now, is that man-made CO2 is leading to raised temperatures and to climate change.
WHAT DO THE SHAMANS SAY? The Sioux medicine man Black Elk spoke early last century of the "sacred hoop of life", that all things are "one" and that everything is part of a "great circle of existence". Visionaries like Black Elk, and plant spirit shamans today, know that life on our planet amounts to far more than the discrete boxes, capable of control and intervention, that we have taken it to be until now.

James Lovelock - a visionary scientist rather than a shaman - has also shown, in our century, through his Gaia Hypothesis, that the world is alive, aware, and intelligent; a self-regulating organism that seeks balance, like our own bodies.

The job of human beings, says Lovelock, is "through our intelligence and communication [to act as] the nervous system of the planet. Through us, Gaia has seen herself from space and begins to know her place in the universe. We should be the heart and mind of the Earth, not its malady".

A humble plea that we might start taking our rightful place by simply planting a few more trees.
Ross Heaven is a therapist, workshop leader, and the author of several books on shamanism and healing, including Darkness Visible, the best-selling Plant Spirit Shamanism, The Way of The Lover, The Journey to You, and Love's Simple Truths. His website is http://www.thefourgates.com where you can also read more about The Village and how to join his sacred journeys to the plant spirit shamans and healers of the Amazon.

About the Author
Ross Heaven is a therapist, workshop leader, and the author of several books on shamanism and healing, including Darkness Visible, the best-selling Plant Spirit Shamanism, The Way of The Lover, The Journey to You, and Love's Simple Truths. His website is http://www.thefourgates.com where you can also read more about The Village and how to join his sacred journeys to the plant spirit shamans and healers of the Amazon.

Global Warming - Impact on Coastal Commu

2007-08-13T01:55:00.000-07:00

Global Warming - Impact on Coastal Commu

Global warming is highly controversial. There are several studies and reports being generated to support both sides of the argument. One argument states that global warming is not the massive global issue it is purported to be. While the other argument clearly shows evidence that global warming is occurring and it is a large problem. In order to understand the reports on global warming it is important to establish what the global warming theory really is. Global warming is the increase in average temperature both in surface air and oceans. Another section of global warming is considered the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect shows that the increase in temperature is leading to a lower atmosphere. The greenhouse effect supports the thought that the ozone is being affected by the rise in carbon dioxide and methane. The above are generalizations about both theories in order to simplify it and answer further questions. The rise in temperature is affecting coastal communities. It is important to understand how coastal communities and residential and commercial real estate values in low-lying areas will be affected, when, how, and prevention methods.

The Environmental Protection Agency, Consad Research Corporation, NRCM, and IPCC are just a few of the environmental research companies studying global warming. In a recent study completed by the IPCC the prediction that global warming will have a significant impact on coastal communities was found. Global warming is melting the ice on the Earth's surface. Places such as Antarctica, Greenland, Alaska, Alps, Andes, and the Rockies are seeing an increase in their receding glaciers. Glaciers around the world are receding around one foot to one mile per year. The melting water is flowing into our water systems increasing the elevation of seawater. The IPCC found that seawater levels have increased 4-5 inches since 1900. They are also predicting that sea levels will rise at least 2.5 feet by 2100.

The first part of global warming is the climate change. With the climate change we will be experiencing an increase in temperature around 1 degree Celsius to 5.5 degrees Celsius by 2100. Other effects of climate change include having varying weather patterns. Hurricanes, snowstorms, and rainfall have been increasing in certain areas around the world. Each time an increase in the amount of rainfall or snowfall occurs we are gaining more water. While it is true that evaporation will take care of some of this extra rainfall and plants will help take in the water we will still see an increase of water levels. The other side of this is creating warmer drier areas. Places like the desert will become drier from the higher temperatures. It is also true in some areas that coral reefs are becoming visible on the surface because of evaporation.

There are several proposed plans for preventing an increase in temperatures and water levels. The Supreme Court in California has proposed stricter regulations on car emissions. CO2 emissions from cars are just part of the pollution problem creating the greenhouse effect. The burning of fossil fuels and land use are creating changes in the carbon dioxide levels. Studies have shown that carbon dioxide has increased by 31%. Cutting down the rainforests have created more carbon dioxide to be in the Earth's atmosphere due to a lack of plants to soak up the available carbon dioxide. With the burning of fossil fuels, car emissions, and lack of plant life in some areas the carbon dioxide will keep increasing. To prevent this increase we are trying to create environmentally friendly cars, establishing stricter regulations on current automobiles, replanting forests, and changing to natural gases to avoid burning fossil fuel. The question will this be enough, is difficult to answer. While we may reduce carbon dioxide production, once we start a chain of events it is difficult to ascertain if we can stop it.

As individuals we can stop driving our cars for the littlest things. In other words we can become more economic in the uses of our resources. We can use less energy or at least create energy efficiency in our personal lives, we can also recycle goods. Natural product use is another idea in order to eliminate more carbon dioxide production.

The coastal communities that will be affected are those in low altitude areas. The Caribbean, North Carolina's Outer Banks, Japan, and other Asian countries will be affected. The best protection for these coastal communities will be stopping the increase of sea level. In other cases, sea walls or retaining walls can be built to help keep the water from reaching the homes, storefronts, and our lives. Dredging to reduce sea level and increase landmass will need to be done in every country that will be affected. The last option is moving. People may have to abandon their homes to save their lives from rising levels and storms.

Cutting down carbon dioxide emissions, bringing awareness to individuals regarding global warming, and monitoring the Earth's changes will help save the coastal communities. Part of the affect will be in the land values and investments in coastal communities. While the land values are not decreasing at the moment there is every possibility that in fifty years there will be a decrease in land values due to an increase in insurance rates. Insurance companies are not going to want to insure homes for a reasonable cost when the sea level increases to a higher danger; therefore people will not want to purchase land in a danger zone.

About the Author

Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop of Maverick Real Estate Investments, Inc. work with builders, developers and other players in the commercial real estate industry to acquire and develop properties. They use progressive investment strategies that have proved extremely profitable. In addition to their own deals, they teach both seasoned and inexperienced investors how to be big players in the game. Visit the website for more info.

Green Computing: How You Can Make a Difference

2007-08-13T01:54:00.000-07:00

Green Computing: How You Can Make a Difference

What is Green Computing?

Global warming and environmental change have become big issues with governments, corporations and your average Joe alike all seeking out new ways to green up their daily activities. Computers certainly make up a large part of many peoples lives and traditionally are extremely damaging to the environment, which begs the question: What is Green Computing?
Green Computing is the study and practice of minimising the environmental impact of computers through efficient: manufacturing, use, and disposal.

Problems of Electronic Waste

Electronic waste is an increasing problem globally due to the quick obsolescence of electronics, which make up a staggering 70% of all hazardous waste. Computer waste is high in many toxic materials such as heavy metals and flame-retardant plastics, which easily leach into ground water and bio-accumulate. In addition, chip manufacturing uses some of the deadliest gases and chemicals known to man and requires huge amounts of resources.

In an average year 24 million computers in the United States become obsolete. Only about 14% (or 3.3 million) of these will be recycled or donated. The rest -- more than 20 million computers in the U.S. -- will be dumped, incinerated, shipped as waste exports or put into temporary storage to be dealt with later. We never stop to consider what happens when our laptop dies and we toss it. The reality is that it either rots in a landfill or children in developing countries end up wrestling its components apart by hand, melting toxic bits to recover traces of valuable metals like gold.

Wasting Electricity
The manufacturing of a computer consumes 1818 kw/h of electricity before it even gets turned on and when running, a typical computer uses 120 watts. Research shows that most PCs are left idle all day, and many of them are left on continuously. Every time we leave computers on we waste electricity without considering where that electricity comes from. The majority of the world's electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels which emit pollutants such as sulphur, and carbon dioxide into the air. These emissions can cause respiratory disease, smog, acid rain and global climate change.

The Future of Green Computing
A Canadian company, Userful Inc. (http://www.userful.com) have come up with a solution that turns 1 computer into 10 - DiscoverStation. Quickly becoming the standard for green computing worldwide, DiscoverStation leverages the unused computing power of modern PC's to create an environmentally efficient alternative to traditional desktop computing. Multiple users can work on a single computer by simply attaching up to 10 monitors, mice and keyboards. This makes it possible to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 15 tons per year per system and reduce electronic waste by up to 80%. Userful has recently stated that in the last year their software has saved over 13,250* tons of CO2 emissions, the equivalent of taking 2,300 cars off the road. (More info at: http://userful.com/greenpc)

The European Union
The European Union is tackling the problem twofold. Companies are now required to produce computers free of the worst toxic materials and are responsible for taking back their old products. Faced with disassembling parts and cycling them back into the fabrication process, companies are making more careful decisions about how those parts are assembled in the first place. In 2002 NEC came out with the first computer to use lead-free solder, a fully recyclable plastic case, and which contained no toxic flame-retardants. Since then many computer companies worldwide have started selling lead-free PCs and it is becoming common practice for companies to offer their customers free recycling of their old computers.

Go Green
Here are some suggestions that will help you reduce your computer energy: - Don't use screen savers. They waste energy, not save it. - Buy computers & monitors labelled "energy star" which can be programmed to automatically "power-down" or "sleep" when not in use. - If you are using more than 1 PC, Userful's 10 to 1 advantage can save electricity and your wallet. - Turn your computer and peripherals off when not in use. This will not harm the equipment. - Use flat panel monitors, which use about half of the electricity of a cathode-ray tube (CRT) display. - Buy ink jet printers, not laser printers. Ink jet printers use 80 to 90 percent less energy than laser printers and print quality can be excellent.

If all of us did this every day, we could make a small difference. We only have one earth; let's treat it right.

About the Author
Cathie Walker has been working online since early 1995. Named "Queen of the Internet" by the New York Times, her strengths lie in understanding the user experience and in creating site stickiness. Cathie is a web site designer/producer, writer, teacher, marketer, consultant, editor, interior designer and dog owner who is looking for the next shiny object to catch her attention. Portfolio: http://www.cathiewalker.com

Lindsay Lohan Suffers from Americanitis

2007-08-13T01:53:00.000-07:00

Lindsay Lohan Suffers from Americanitis

Lindsay Lohan today is retching her guts out and cleaning toilets at the Cirque Lodge Rehabilitation Center in Orem, Utah. Having chased and caught the American Dream of fame, fortune, movie and music stardom Lindsay was left with a painful empty feeling which she chose to eliminate with the cheap thrills of booze and cocaine.

91 percent of the world's poppy plants are grown in Afghanistan. These poppy plants are turrned into heroin and wind up on the streets of America, leading to violent crime and incarceration and their toll personally and financially on all Americans. The United States of America conquered Afghanistan 4 years ago and the poppy production has increased since then. These poppy plants are used to finance Al Qaeda. Why hasn't President Bush given the order to root out every poppy plant in Afghanistan? What's in it for the administration to keep America's poor minorities hooked on smack and locked behind bars? What did Lindsay Lohan's poppy Michael Lohan do to cause his daughter Lindsay to tumble into the abyss? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Americanitis is the inflamation of the American. The American mind today is burning in a self made Hell. Feel your brain cells exploding like a suicide bomber playing "Blow me up for Virgins." The Old Testament, revered as Holy Scripture by Christianity, Islam and Judaism tells many stories. Every year on the Day of Atonement, the highest of all holidays, Yom Kippur, the High How are You Jewish Priest took a goat into the desert. The High Priest laid his hands upon the head of the goat and transferred all of the sins of the Jewish people into the goat. This is the origin of Jewish guilt and neuroses, the theme of every Woody Allen movie. The guilty goat was then sent to carry the sins of the Jewish people away into the sands of the desert, thereby cleansing the Jewish people of their sins. The Jesus died for your sins theorem is an extrapalotion of the scape goat mishegus.

The reason that people need scape goats is because it's too painful to admit your own sins. Jesus Christ hammered home over and over the importance of obeying the 10 commandments. The self proclaimed Holy American Christian Right led the charge into Iraq. This is the majority of the American people. Despite the 10 commandments, the American people idolize Lindsay Lohan, drive on the Sabbath, do not honor their fathers, have murdered 1 million innocent Iraqi men, women and children even though they had zero to do with 9/11, commit adultery, are trying to steal the Iraqis' oil, have repeatedly beared false witness against the Iraqi people and coveted the oil of the Iraqi people and the fame and fortune of Linday Lohan. God of Mount Sinai, worshipped by every Christian, Muslim and Jew carved in stone Himself that if people broke his 10 commandments He would punish them, their children, their grandchildren and their great grandchildren. Rather than admit their own crimes against humanity the American people are scape goating and blaming the Muslims, the terrorists, Al Qaeda, Hamas, the Axis of Evil, Syria, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, the Republicans, the Democrats and anyone else they can think of for their own sins.

It is important to get to the root of our problems and then weed them out permanently. The root cause of the Iraq War, leading to the Iran War and then to nuclear world war 3, the Apocalypse, the extinction of life on Earth forever in the aftermath of nuclear world war 3, nuclear winter then ultraviolet summer is the human brain. If not for the existence of human beings the Earth would be a real live paradise for the next few billion years, with crystal clear streams, lush forests and fresh sparkling air. Where did we go wrong? What invention of the human brain triggered the transformation of our beautiful planet into the wasteland of Mars, which used to have its own beautiful oceans? Now all Mars is good for is to resurface the courts at Roland Garros, Roger Federer's Waterloo.

The invention of the human brain which is causing the Iraq War, global warming and Lindsay Lohan's impending incarceration is the car. For 5 million years human beings got along beautifully without cars. Now we are all car junkies. We are like coke junkies standing outside of a drug store Jonesing with excruciating withdrawal symptoms until we can no longer stand the pain and we break into the drug store. Iraq is the drug store, the gasoline station we Americans have broken into. If the people of Earth do not stop driving cars immediately then we human beings will soon cause the extinction of life on earth forever with another of our brilliant inventions, weapons of mass destruction. We are like the big guy in "Of Mice and Men" who didn't realize his own stength and power and accidentaly killed his pet mouse. Obviously if one person stops driving, it will not save the world. However, if everyone on Earth stops driving, and disposes of the weapons of mass destruction, it will save life on Earth. All it would take would be 200 people representing 200 countries to stand up tomorrow at the United Nations and announcing that effective immediately each country will be banning cars and disarming. It's that simple.

About the Author

Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com

How to find your calling after forty - Step Up for a great New Year!

2007-07-29T21:21:00.000-07:00

How to find your calling after forty - Step Up for a great New Year!

December,2006 By Craig Nathanson - The Vocational Coach™ What is my calling?

That's the first question I usually get. The second question is "how do I find it"?

I say, "Well, first you have to go looking for it!"

Most of us are afraid to take that little peak inside to see what we really want. After forty, it's time to listen to one's heart, not one's mom or boss or spouse or what we think the rest of the world wants.

Evaluate and envision your journey

Evaluate where you have been in your life and ask yourself, "Is this enough?" Do you get out of bed in the morning and decide you would rather pull the covers back over your head? Do you still yearn to write that first novel, open up your first deli, or simply stop working for other people? Can you envision what it would be like if you could only do what you love--now?

Fire your boss and your job

No one over forty deserves to be working in JUST a job or for JUST a boss. This is our time to work for ourselves, crafting and selling the natural gifts we have to offer the world...if we could just figure out what they are!

What aisle do you drift to?

Walk into your favorite bookstore; which aisle do you gravitate towards? If you had a day to yourself, what would you do and why? Who inspires you? What movies inspire you?

Start with some research

Google search is probably the greatest single technology ever invented. Take your passion and start with a simple search. Find someone else who is doing what you want to do. Insect collecting, wine tasting, making films--it doesn't matter what it is.

Don't judge the book by its cover

At this stage of your search, don't share what you are doing with anyone just yet--not even with those who love you. They will confuse your passion with their view around the practical aspects of making money. Money comes in just a moment.

Make a list of all the possibilities for your passions. Let's pretend your passion is making films. What might be possible? What films might be possible? What films do you want to make and why? What would be the best features of your films? Who would benefit from your films? Who would be the ideal niche audience for your films?

Find a filmmaker who makes the kind of films you would like to make. Interview him or her and find out what small steps you might take to get started.

Time over money

If you quit your unfulfilling job today, how long could you go without making an income? Would your answer be one month, six months, one year? How could you expand your time? The more time the better. Different answers will drive different strategies. If you can go a year without making an income, then you can afford to take a few more risks then the person who must make an income within three months.

Could you lengthen your time?

Could you cash in your retirement fund?

Scary, but why not?

You won't need it if you are doing what you love! Once you start making an income, how much, exactly, do you need to make? Expect to make around 50% less money in the first four years than you made in your traditional job if you go into business for yourself.

Expect to make about 25% less if you follow your passion and work for someone else.
In my research, I have noticed that after about four years, people who have pursued their passion start to make to close to what they made in their old unfulfilling jobs--sometimes even more.

Nothing is off limits

When it comes to following your passion, you'll need a lighter backpack for this part of the journey. Sounds difficult, but if this part was easy, everybody would be answering their calling!

Create multiple streams of income

Starting out, you might find yourself working Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for someone else, and Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays for yourself. The current model of work for those over forty is outdated and well past its prime. The corporate world, as an entity, can be helpful to those just starting out as they seek to build ego and self in the world. This stage is critical to one's development. After forty, however, the corporate world can ruin one's soul and sense of self.

Be a rebel with a cause

Twenty thousand people die each day from starvation. We waste billions of dollars on needless wars and even more justifying them. Follow the global warming trends, and earth itself might not be here in one hundred years. This won't affect you but it will affect your grandchildren.
So while large corporations compete for the most dollars without regard for our future, you can be different. You must be different. There are too many people working in faceless jobs for faceless bosses for faceless firms. Can't help cure starvation? Can't help reduce wars or save the planet? Start with your own happiness. It will spread like wildfire to all those you encounter.

Make an impact in your second half

This is one set of New Year's resolutions that won't go unnoticed by your soul. Stand up!
Shout it out loud! You are through with an empty life devoid of energy, passion and meaning!
Stand up for what you believe in. Be the change now that you want to see in the world.

It all starts with your calling--what calls you now?

Take your first steps; in some small ways this earth we all share will be just a little better because of you.

I'll be cheering you on each small step of the way.

About the Author
Craig Nathanson is the author of P Is For Perfect: Your Perfect Vocational Day and a coaching expert who works with people over forty. Craig's new E-book, Discover and live your passion 365 days a year is a workshop in a box designed to help busy adults go insane with their work. Craig's systematic approach, the trademark "Ten P" process,'' helps people break free and move toward the work they love. Visit Craig's online community at w

Plant Spirit Shamanism: What's Up With The Weather?

2007-07-29T21:18:00.000-07:00

Plant Spirit Shamanism: What's Up With The Weather?

Plant spirit shamans - natural healers who work with herbs, ritual, and the elements - have long known that the world is not made up of discrete and separate parts, but that we are all one: that the 'butterfly effect' of a single extra drop of water released from a cloud into a Gloucestershire river could eventually lead to flooding in the distant streets of London.

Through Gaia Theory and a more informed understanding in recent years of how the natural world, the environment, and the climate really works, some scientists are also coming round to the shaman's age-old view of the connections between all things.

How might these scientists and the shamans counter some of the current scepticism about 'carbon footprints' and climate change, and what might they say about the 'freak weather conditions' many of us have been experiencing lately? What are the objections of the sceptics, what are the facts, and what are scientists and modern-day shamans saying?

DOES CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING? The sceptics say there is no "proof" of this. But proof is not the job of science, which deals, in fact, with the art of probabilities. Scientists, that is, make hypotheses ('best guesses') which are there not to be proved, but to be disproved - if possible.

The current best guess - that CO2 does create a Greenhouse Effect by trapping solar radiation in the atmosphere and causing temperatures rises on Earth - has been around since 1829, when Joseph Fourier first put forward this hypothesis - and no-one's proved him wrong yet.

Indeed, a recent survey of almost 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific articles could not find one which disagreed that climate change is a man-made phenomenon and that our output of CO2 plays a large part in this.

Even those with a vested interest in proving the scientists wrong - like oil companies Exxon-Mobil, Shell, and BP - have all issued statements recently agreeing with the evidence: that climate change is taking place, that is happening as a result of our activities, and that CO2 is a factor.

One place you can work out your own carbon footprint is http://www.direct.gov.uk/ActOnCO2 (www dot direct dot gov dot uk/ActOnCO2). You might be surprised at just how much you contribute.

If you'd then like the chance to something positive and practical to reduce it, another site to check is http://www.thefourgates.com/villagefundraisers.html#earth (www dot thefourgates dot com - then follow the link from The Village page to the fundraisers page and click on the Earth C.O.S.T. link: Carbon Offset to Save Trees).

WHAT ABOUT SOLAR RADIATION? DOESN'T THAT CAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE? The current counter-theory to CO2 as the cause of global warming and climate change is one which seeks to lay the blame on solar radiation. It seems at best, however, to be a no-theory. It has been known for many years, that is - and commonsense should tell us in any case! - that solar radiation plays a part in keeping the planet warm, because when the Sun shines we all get a tan!
The science, however, shows that the Sun plays a much smaller role than greenhouse gasses in the situation now facing us.

WHAT ABOUT OTHER 'NATURAL CAUSES' - LIKE ANIMALS AND WATER VAPOUR? Water vapour is a known part of the Greenhouse Effect - but it reacts to changes in climate rather than causing climate change. Evaporation and precipitation is a cycle and any water in the atmosphere doesn't stay there for more than a few weeks.

Nature itself, in its widest to its narrowest forms, is also cyclical: the cycle of life and death. Animals and plants live, die, and become food for others, and the CO2 they create gets used up elsewhere as a result of this natural cycle.

Humans meanwhile, pump six gigatonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year and take little if any out. Nor do we put any fresh air back. We could do through activities like tree planting, since every tree naturally offsets 650 kg of CO2, transforming pollution, offsetting carbon, and giving us back fresh air. The problem is that few people are planting trees and, in fact, deforestation - the reverse of what we should be doing - is a major issue.

In 1600, for example, over 12% of Ireland was covered by broadleaf forests. By 1800, the figure was down to 2%. Since then, the country has been working to restore its forests but, by 2000, only 7% of woodlands had been returned. And, in the urgency to put trees back, the bulk of planting has been non-native trees. Many of these - like the iroko, from West Africa - are being logged in such an unsustainable way that if the present rate of depletion continues the forests there will be gone in five years. The outcome is stalemate (at best).

It is for these reasons that The Village has introduced the Earth C.O.S.T. Programme to plant a new forest of indigenous trees at its Centre for environmental and personal healing.

As it is, the Earth absorbs about half of our current CO2 but the rest hangs around as a greenhouse gas. Cutting back on energy usage and planting more trees would help. We know this because levels of CO2 have been stable for thousands of years until the Industrial Revolution began 150 years ago and deforestation also became rife.

ISN'T CLIMATE CHANGE JUST PART OF A NATURAL CYCLE? It is true that every 100,000 years or so the Earth is subject to climate changes due to its orbit around the Sun. This is known as Milankovitch Cycle and its effects as well as its timeline are all fairly predictable.
In the 1970s, for example, scientists were already warning of a coming Ice Age as a result of this Cycle, so nothing's changed there - except the timing. We should be able to predict about 50,000 years of natural warming as a result of the Milankovitch Cycle, that is; the problem, however, is that current warming is off the scale by a factor of - well, a lot! - if only the

Milankovitch Cycle was the cause.

Climate change and global warming is speeding the process up.
WE CAN'T PREDICT THE WEATHER EVEN A FEW DAYS AHEAD SO HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT THE CLIMATE OF THE FUTURE HOLDS? Firstly, weather isn't climate. Weather refers to individual instances of sun or rain in specific geographical areas; climate is the average of all these instances over a bigger area and a longer period of time. Weather changes rapidly (which is why it can be so hard to predict) but climate is relatively stable.

An analogy, if you're a gambling man, is the form of a particular horse. Of course you can't predict (i.e. know) if he'll win the race you've just bet the house on, but if you look back over his form, his performance on certain fields, and his fitness levels now, then average out his wins against losses, you can get an idea of his potential in this coming race - enough to make an informed decision, at least, on where to place your bet.

Which brings us back to our first point, since this is also how science works: through educated best guesses. And the current best guess, after studying past form and looking at the health of the planet now, is that man-made CO2 is leading to raised temperatures and to climate change.
WHAT DO THE SHAMANS SAY? The Sioux medicine man Black Elk spoke early last century of the "sacred hoop of life", that all things are "one" and that everything is part of a "great circle of existence". Visionaries like Black Elk, and plant spirit shamans today, know that life on our planet amounts to far more than the discrete boxes, capable of control and intervention, that we have taken it to be until now.

James Lovelock - a visionary scientist rather than a shaman - has also shown, in our century, through his Gaia Hypothesis, that the world is alive, aware, and intelligent; a self-regulating organism that seeks balance, like our own bodies.

The job of human beings, says Lovelock, is "through our intelligence and communication [to act as] the nervous system of the planet. Through us, Gaia has seen herself from space and begins to know her place in the universe. We should be the heart and mind of the Earth, not its malady".

A humble plea that we might start taking our rightful place by simply planting a few more trees.
Ross Heaven is a therapist, workshop leader, and the author of several books on shamanism and healing, including Darkness Visible, the best-selling Plant Spirit Shamanism, The Way of The Lover, The Journey to You, and Love's Simple Truths. His website is http://www.thefourgates.com where you can also read more about The Village and how to join his sacred journeys to the plant spirit shamans and healers of the Amazon.

About the Author
Ross Heaven is a therapist, workshop leader, and the author of several books on shamanism and healing, including Darkness Visible, the best-selling Plant Spirit Shamanism, The Way of The Lover, The Journey to You, and Love's Simple Truths. His website is http://www.thefourgates.com where you can also read more about The Village and how to join his sacred journeys to the plant spirit shamans and healers of the Amazon.

Oh, you're just spoiled rotten!

2007-07-25T21:21:00.000-07:00

Oh, you're just spoiled rotten!

If you've ever called your own child spoiled rotten, you should be ashamed of yourself. Call someone else's kid that, no problem, but not your own. Why? Because all we can see of someone else's child is a result, and it may be disturbing. Whereas in your own case, the child is the 'spoilee' and you are the 'spoiler'. OK, perhaps your spouse, but you both have some responsibility in it.
Your child is like a dry sponge, with thousands of little cavities waiting to be filled up. And around the child is a world bursting with candy, toys, activities, snacks, TV and computer games all eager to pounce. And who is in the middle? You, the gatekeeper. The key master. The valve.

Now, if you think about it, a sponge works so so when it is bone dry. It actually works a little better when slightly damp, but if the valve is broken, the sponge will fill to capacity quickly and become useless.

Granted, you can point a finger at your mate. He or she is the one who gives Bobby everything he wants. You've even argued about it from time to time, and the same thing is said every time. "Come on, it's just until 11:00", or "think of how happy it will make him", or "I never got one of these when I was a kid", or "OK, but just this once". Sound familiar?

Almost everyone is guilty of this lack of will power to some degree. Unfortunately, if a parent lacks will power, the child will lack even more. This will develop to the point that the child will have no reason to deny him or herself anything. The notion was never passed down from the previous generation. Exercise a little restraint, can't ya?

OK, why should anyone deprive themselves of anything? Seems like a reasonable question. Well, for starters, if, in the extreme case, you got everything you asked for, you would never get to the point of truly wanting for something. However, without wanting something you can't have, at least right away, you don't set goals. And without goals you don't get anywhere. You are simply a full, soggy, sponge.

In addition, the spoiled rotten trait delivers a one-two punch. The spoiled individual may have little concept of the value of something. And worse still, the idea of having to save up for it and buy it on their own can seem ridiculous. Then there is the issue of generosity. How often is a spoiled individual truly generous? These and more negative characteristics can be attributed to someone who is spoiled rotten.

So my point is that as the guardian of all that is innocent and pure, being your child, you have the responsibility to think about such things and teach yourself how to control that which, if left unchecked, might put your child's life out of balance. If discussions with your spouse are called for and may cause some short term distress, better that than passing a bad apple down to your children to make them spoiled rotten.

I heard a remarkable phrase recently that I'd like to relate here. It had to do with ecology, global warming etc. "We did not inherit the earth from our parents, we are borrowing it from our children". And, in a way, I see this fitting in that we are the keepers of (their) childhood so that we can give it back healthy and strong.

About the Author
A father, coach and writer, I take a special interest in the well-being of children and attempt to show parents how to guide their kids in meaningful, productive endeavours. I am keenly aware of what might get a youth's attention and how to hold it. For more information you can visit my web-site at http://www.short-stories-help-children.com

Water Pollution: Everything You Need to Know and How You can Help by Nathalie Fiset

2007-07-18T21:34:00.000-07:00

Water Pollution: Everything You Need to Know and How You can Help by Nathalie Fiset

What do the human body and the planet earth have in common?

Water. If the human body has about two-thirds water, our planet has about 70% of it, which establishes the fact that water constitutes a major portion in both body masses. And that is what's alarming. If 70% of the earth's surface is made up of water, then humankind should have been very wary of anything that would pollute this major portion of the planet. Alas, the human race has done otherwise. Water pollution is now a global problem.

Today, water pollution is rampant and the chief source of water pollution is the human race. We are the very ones that need water most and, yet, we have polluted it, even to the brink of extinction.

There are many types of water pollutants but these can be segregated into four classifications: natural, agricultural, municipal and industrial pollutants. Natural water pollutants could include all the natural phenomena that happen from time to time such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes that cause major upheavals in the ocean floor and storms that cause flashfloods. Even global warming could be qualified as a cause of water pollution.

Agricultural pollution consists mainly of poultry and other agricultural animal wastes that are carelessly thrown off to bodies of water near farms. It could also be the fertilizers or pesticides that are used to make better crops, which erode into lakes, rivers or streams. Municipal wastes are those that come from residential areas. This is the liquid waste that households throw into bodies of water. Industrial pollution consists of all the wastes that major industrial firms chuck into the waters. This last classification is the most severe and most rampant among the three - and it is also the one that has caused the most damage. Industrial waste could include contaminants that are hard to take off from the waters once they spread - petroleum from oil spills or nuclear wastes.

The bodies of water in the world are in catastrophic danger, what with all the industries in the world today, plus our individual wastes all put together! No wonder mankind now drinks from bottles instead of just scooping water from running streams. The effects of water pollution to humanity is staggering. But we should also consider all the other life forms that suffer - the fishes and other animals such as birds, and plants. And what happens when humans eat the very fishes that live in polluted waters? Do you still want that answered?

But where there is life, there is hope. There is something that we can do - you can do - to save the only planet that we have. You could be an advocate, in your own simple way, of retrieving the lost beauty of oceans, lakes, rivers and streams. Here is a list that might get you to consider in fighting water pollution:

1. Primarily, you should prevent water pollution. Just like an illness, it is much simpler to prevent its occurrence rather than to cure. Begin at your own home. Make sure that you conserve water. You can never imagine the water shortages that happen all over the globe. So if you have a constant supply of water at home, use it wisely.

2. Plant trees (if circumstance would allow you). Having more trees or plants in your yard would prevent pollutants from flowing freely into nearby bodies of water. Since they keep the soil from eroding, water pollution or, at least, the quality of the water is improved.

3. Do not throw any form of garbage into any body of water. Sign up for any organization that aims in cleaning up beaches (or lakes, or streams). Be an active member of such organizations.

4. Never throw water pollutants down your sink or toilet bowl. Make sure to dispose wastewater properly. Think of the many septic tanks that contribute to water pollution. Now, 'get the picture?

Luckily, for all of us, there were concerned lawmakers out there that have made legislations on water pollution. The U.S. alone has several anti-water pollution laws such as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, which was amended in 1988. These laws prevent further damage to U.S. waters.

Although water pollution is an extensive problem, bridling it is still possible. And everything begins with each and every individual in each and every home. And yes, that population includes YOU.

About the Author
For more information now go to: http://www.solutionstoearthdestruction.com http://www.stopearthdestruction.com/Facts-About-Water-Pollution.html

Pope Benedict XVI Calls for Permanent World Wide Car Boycott by Karen Fish

2007-07-18T21:32:00.000-07:00

Pope Benedict XVI Calls for Permanent World Wide Car Boycott by Karen Fish

In a stunning display of unity the world's religious leaders have come together led by Pope Benedict XVI to call for a permanent world wide Car boycott. At yesterday's Vatican Conference on Climate Change Pope Benedict XVI addressed world religious leaders, politicians and scientists. Here is the text of Pope Benedict XVI's remarks:

Pope Benedict XVI: "Imagine that you are a lawyer. A new client walks in the door and wants to sue Mr. X. Mr. X is your client. It is your obligation to tell the new client that you cannot act for him because you have a conflict of interest."

Pope Benedict XVI continued: "Many world governments have adopted a separation of Church and State. This means that the Government must be secular, separate from religion."

"Imagine that the air is gray and filled with poison caused by cars burning oil, gasoline. Now imagine that your political leaders are oil executives. Is this not like putting the fox in charge of the hen house? Is this not the ultimate conflict of interest? The oil executive political leaders lured by the allmighty dollar are putting their own finacial interests above the right of every person on earth to breathe air free from deadly poison."

"A cancer chemical shot out of a car's exhaust pipe hits a man, woman or child and then explodes inside of that person 10 years later in the form of a deadly cancer which eats the person alive from the inside until they die a prolonged and agonizing death. The time has come to stop wasting our money treating the symptoms of the cancer. The time has come to weed out the Root Cause of the cancer, the car. This is why we, the religious leaders of the world have come together today to demand an immediate permanent world wide car boycott."

Pope Benedict XVI continued: "Soon I will be traveling to New York City to address the United Nations. The United States of America is using an obscene 22 million barrels of oil per day, 12 million barrels of which are imported from Saudi Arabia. Four years ago the United States invaded Iraq to capture the Middle East's oil. No other country uses even 2 million barrels of oil per day. It is the burning of these fossil fuels which is causing the global warming catastrophe now upon us. It is this addiction to gasoline which is the root cause of the Iraq War now spreading to Iran and Nuclear World War 3. Every scientist here today knows that Nuclear World War 3 and its aftermath nuclear winter then ultraviolet summer will leave no survivors and will soon cause the extinction of life on earth forever at our human hands."

"God helps those who help themselves. God gave us all brains and it is time for us to use them. A dilemma is when a person has two choices, one bad and one worse. The lesson of the cross is personal sacrifice. Replacing cars with bicycles and bicycle paths will be painful in the beginning but this is how we will save the world ourselves. Humans lived for 5 million years without cars until 100 years ago. This proves that we can all live without cars again."

Pope Benedict XVI continued: "Disregard for the environment, the earth, water and air of which we are made will soon end our existence as a species and the rest of life on earth, God's planet, forever. The mastery of man over life on earth, God's creation has become despotic and senseless. We must safeguard life on earth, God's creation. We must preserve the rainforests. Trees and plants are our only source of oxygen. Humans and other animals will not be able to survive drinking man made deadly poison acid rain water."

"Our God carved in stone, "Do Not Murder". Poisoning the earth's air, water and earth is the ultimate world wide murder suicide of life on earth forever and in order to weed out the Root Cause of the problem we, the religious leaders of the world have come together today to call for an immediate permanent world wide car boycott. Stop buying cars immediately."

"This personal sacrifice by all of us now will save life on earth. Your continued purchase of cars will soon end life on earth forever because cars are the Root Cause of our biggest problems. Loving yourself and loving your neighbor does not include poisoning yourself and your neighbor to death and extinction with your car. When the earth returns to its original pristine pure clean condition your children and grandchildren will thank God that you stopped buying cars today."
Claire Foster, the environmental policy adviser to the Church of England said at the Vatican Conference on Climate Change yesterday, "The environment and religion is a no brainer but we are all only now realising it. The Church of England is 100% behind Pope Benedict XVI. It's only common sense. You cannot break the laws of nature but if you do it will break your back." The Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Sikh and all of the other religious leaders at the Vatican Conference on Climate Change yesterday unanimously backed the call for the immediate and permanent world wide car boycott.

About the Author
Karen Fish is a writer currently living in Los Angeles California. The Temple of Love http://www.thetempleoflove.com The International Society for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture http://www.religionandnature.com

Global Warming by Sue C.

2007-07-18T21:29:00.000-07:00

Global Warming by Sue C.
Global Warming

Global warming has become such a great concern. Many scientists and some authorities in some countries are trying to take measures to prevent it or slow it down. Some people have even suggested banning the light bulb because it contributes to global warming.

What should one think about global warming? Is there any truth to all that is being said, or is it all scare tactics? Does the Bible say anything about global warming?

Although it is not known for sure what the weather was like before the flood of Noah's day, there apparently was no severe hot or cold weather. It is often suggested that a greenhouse effect kept the earth at pleasant temperatures all the time.

However, after the flood, God made this promise to Noah, "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22) In Psalm 74:17, the Bible says this about God, "Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter."

There is no doubt that there will one day be drastic changes in the earth, and the weather patterns will greatly change. Can man do anything to stop these changes? What does the Bible say?

One day the sun will become extremely hot. God will give power to angels to send plagues upon the earth. Men will be scorched by the heat of the sun. Revelation 16:8,9 says, "And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory."

God will also cause changes in the earth's water supply. In Revelation 8:10,11, the Bible says, "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter." Revelation 16:3 says, "And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea."

God promises that the weather will be affected, and there will be a great earthquake, worse than any other earthquake that has ever occurred on the earth before it. Revelation 16:18 says, "And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great." The face of the earth will be changed completely because of this earthquake. "And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great." (Revelation 18:20,21)

One day God will come down in great wrath to finish his judgment upon mankind. Revelation 6:12-17 says, "And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"

Do these words frighten you? They should if you do not know Jesus as your Saviour. One day the Lord is coming back to earth to receive His own. He will take all those who believe in Him to Heaven to live with Him for all eternity. (See I Thessalonians 4:16,17) Will you be going?
If you do not know Jesus as your Saviour you will be left behind. And if you have heard the gospel and rejected it, you will believe a lie. II Thessalonians 2:11,12 says, "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

Also, you will worship the beast and receive his mark in your hand or in your forehead. Revelation 13:11,12 says that the other beast that comes up out of the earth will cause those who dwell upon the earth to worship the beast. And verses 16 and 17 say, "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."

And in the end you will suffer the wrath of Almighty God because you worshipped the beast and rejected God. Because you did not trust in Jesus, "the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world," (John 1:29) you will suffer in the lake of fire for ever and ever. God's word says, "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." (Revelation 20:8)

How can you escape the terrible plagues that are coming? How can you escape the scorching sun and the bitter waters and the earthquakes and great hail? Repent of your sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Do not wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow may be too late. "Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." (Isaiah 55:6,7)

Turn to God from your sin. Realize that your sin separates you from God. You cannot remove your own sin. You cannot get yourself to Heaven. Jesus has already done everything for you. It is finished. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." (Acts 16:31) "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)

Yes, the globe will warm up. The weather patterns will be changed. But this does not need to concern you if you are saved, if you have trusted Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
God has told us what will happen to the earth and to outer space in the end of time. He said, "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." (II Peter 3:10)

Where will you be when these things happen? Where will you spend eternity? Will you spend your life here on earth trying to battle global warming, trying to keep the earth from warming up? Or will you make preparations for eternity? Will you be content with a temporary home here on earth and eternity in the lake of fire? Or will you seek a heavenly city, one not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, a place where you may live in eternal joy and constant fellowship with God and the Lord Jesus Christ? Believe in Jesus today. He is ready to receive you.

All Scripture verses quoted from KJV
by Sue C.

About the Author

Through God's mercy and grace, I was saved at an early age. My parents were missionaries to Papua New Guinea and trained me up on the word of God. It is my desire to share the gospel with others and to encourage other Christians in the Lord.

Seven Reasons For Not Buying A Hybrid Car by Erik Leipoldt

2007-07-18T21:28:00.000-07:00

Seven Reasons For Not Buying A Hybrid Car by Erik Leipoldt

Looking to buy a hybrid car? Are you scouring the web for which are the best hybrid cars, what are the facts about hybrid cars, and perhaps even what are hybrid cars for sale on eBay?

Just hold on a moment and slow down. Of course, a hybrid car is a popular choice right now. And you're thinking that getting a hybrid vehicle is all about doing your bit about global warming and save money on fuel. It's a feel-good, win-win situation isn't it?

But is this true and is that all there is to it? Well, let's just say that there are at least seven good reasons why you should not buy a hybrid car.

Do you need a hybrid car? Have you thought about your purpose of using a car at all? Who, and how many passengers will be using the car? Driving in the city or in the country? Perhaps public transport, a bicycle or an electric scooter could fit your needs just as well.

Just because we're all used to the comfort of our air-conditioned boxes on wheels does not necessarily mean we need to continue the habit, does it? You don't really need a car, hybrid or other? Then the best thing you can do for the environment, and for your pocket, is not to buy one.

Would your hybrid hold its value? OK, so you know that hybrid car prices are above average but are inevitably coming down with a rapidly increasing demand. You also know that any tax incentives that may apply now may not continue forever. What does that mean? It means that you will not be able to sell your car at a premium price later, even though resale value is good now. So if you buy a hybrid because you think it will hold its value, don't count on that being true in five year's time.

Getting your money back by saving on fuel? This depends on your mileage and the model hybrid. Even in the best scenarios you will need five years before you recoup your purchase price. Don't buy a hybrid for economic reasons only.

What are your alternatives? Hybrid car technology is only one means of saving the environment and your money. Cars that drive on liquid petroleum gas (LPG) or natural liquid gas (NLG) do this too. Modern diesel vehicles run much cleaner than older models and biodiesel fuel is emerging rapidly as an alternative, not to mention ethanol blends.

So, if you cannot justify buying a hybrid car compared to what's locally available to you in alternative fuels, don't buy one.

Mechanical assistance? Many mechanics are not yet trained in maintaining a hybrid vehicle. Could you get yours repaired and maintained locally?

Hybrids ain't hybrids The hybrid car range includes SUVs. How many people really need one? Buying a hybrid to roll over the off-road environment seems a little incongruous. Don't buy one unless you absolutely cannot do without it for good reasons.

Saving the environment? You are probably like most people who buy a hybrid car because they want to do their bit about global warming. Right? Good for you. Hybrid cars are part of the future. But...

You cannot buy a sustainable world. Selling cars, whatever fuel they use, involves vast quantities of energy and emissions in mining metals, transportation, production and distribution. Whereas it is better to drive a hybrid car than a gasoline-driven one, don't expect to save the planet from global warming just by doing that.

It's a change in thinking that's needed, from seeing ourselves as independent consumers, to interdependent people who live in relationship to others and our environments. Once you and I know that we'll act more wisely in choosing Earth-friendly technologies that we really need.

Cannot afford to buy a hybrid? So what? Reach out to someone else who needs you today or volunteer in your local environment protection group. That's really putting your foot down in making a difference!

About the Author

Dr Erik Leipoldt has long been concerned about the effects of global warming. He uses his experience of severe disability in practical approaches towards alternate energy sources to survive and thrive with climate change. See http://www.alternate-energy-sources.com/

Global Warming and Y2K by George Lunt

2007-07-18T21:26:00.000-07:00

Global Warming and Y2K by George Lunt

To earn a living, scientists or engineers must obtain funding for their projects. To get this funding, they are forced to become marketers and try to sell their ideas to their potential benefactors.

One good excuse for obtaining funding is to claim that at some future time a tragedy will befall the human race if something isn't done about it now. As long as there is enough data being created to signal impending doom, the influx of funds will continue to the ones performing the research.

Impending doom is good for the media too. Reporters have a lot to talk about; the more they scare the public, the more attention the public gives the media networks, and the more advertising dollars they get.

Politicians have to get involved too. The more laws they pass to save the world, the more the media-conditioned masses applaud their efforts and insure their reelection.

Let's look at what the media said would be a major tragedy, and how tens of billions of dollars were spent to avert it. The disaster never happened and lot of the money spent was wasted. This event should still be fresh in all but the youngest memories. It was labeled "Y2K" and ended just over seven years ago.

It came about because early mainframe computers were programmed using two digits to store the year instead of four. Thus "98" meant 1998 and "95" meant 1995. The older software would not know how to interpret "00"; it could mean 1900 or 2000. It was believed that some financial systems could crash if this problem was not corrected by the time the clock hit midnight bringing in the year 2000.

Many banks and financial institutions were aware of the problem and had it fixed or upgraded their software long before the end of the century.

With the help of the news media, "Y2K" turned into a serious business during the last decade of the twentieth century. Experts were often seen appearing on TV warning about the horrible things that would happen if every computerized device was not made "Y2K" compatible.
"Y2K" even made it to the movies. In the popular movie "Office Space" the main character, Peter Gibbons, was a "Y2K" engineer. "Y2K: The Movie" was a made-for-television movie released in late 1999 that depicted all the possible horrors that could occur because of "Y2K."
In 1999, I was working for the Chicago branch of a Technical College as a systems administrator. This college had over eighty branches throughout the U.S. and each branch got its policy from corporate headquarters. I was in charge of maintaining over 300 computers, the majority of which were used as student laboratory computers.

It was early in 1999, when the corporate directive came. All computers in school had to be made "Y2K" compatible. I tried to explain to the school director that it makes no sense to upgrade student lab computers, since they are not used in production and most of the PC software that the students run already recognized the year 2000. The experts have told them that the ROMs (Read Only Memories) had to be upgraded.

On the newer computers I was able to download a ROM update and flash the ROMs. On older computers the ROM chips had to be physically changed. We had to get "Y2K" engineers to come and change the chips. This service cost thousands of dollars. What really irritated me, was that requests for things the students or instructors really needed were always denied, instead the corporate idiots spent their money on useless upgrades. Undoubtedly, they must have made all their eighty schools "Y2K" compatible.

As 1999 drew to a close, rumors of impending doom became more prevalent. The media kept emphasizing the possibility of riots. People were buying bottled water, wood stoves, and other survival gear, expecting the worse.

Then the new century rolled in, and nothing happened. It is estimated that 300 billion dollars were spent trying to make everything "Y2K" compatible. I would guess that only a small fraction of the total expenditure was really necessary.

I also have a consulting business, and none of computers I own were made "Y2K" compatible nor did I recommend that my clients make any "Y2K" upgrades. I have never seen a "Y2K" problem, nor has any client reported one.

Now let's look at the present. In 2006 the former vice president and ex presidential candidate Al Gore released a documentary called "The Inconvenient Truth." This documentary discusses a phenomenon called global warming. According to the film scientists are saying that the earth's temperature is rising because of man's carbon dioxide emissions. This rise in temperature can have cataclysmic effects on our world.

The film received an Academy Award for best documentary. This revived Gore's career as a politician.

Experts are popping up throughout the world saying something must be done to avert disaster. The media has already assumed that most scientists agree that global warming is a reality and that we can expect dire consequences if we do not act.

Thus the new "Y2K" is born. This one can last more than ten years as long as the experts keep feeding the frenzy. Global Warming has now become a big business. As long as favorable data keeps being generated, the research keeps being funded and the media happily passes it on to the public.

The politicians are there to pass all the laws needed, no matter how ridiculous, to save the planet from impending doom. They can expect more votes from masses who have been thoroughly indoctrinated about the horrors of global warming from media propaganda.
Some scientists do not agree with the findings of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the United Nations group pushing global warming. They concur that currently the earth's surface temperature is warming. However, they contend that solar activity data correlates much closer to the increase of the earth's surface temperature than man's carbon dioxide emissions. They also say that the computer models used to predict future disasters are based on incomplete data and can't accurately foretell upcoming events.

I've seen the movie "The Inconvenient Truth." Gore tries to illustrate his point by using a standard IPCC hockey stick curve, that many critics dispute. The majority of the movie gives examples of the bad things that are happening supposedly because of global warming. But if the major premise is wrong, then his examples of extreme weather are just events based on the unpredictability of climate change. The film feels like it's more emotional than factual. It's seems entertaining enough as a documentary to deserve the academy award.

The opposition has several films out. The best one can be seen on Google video. It is called The Great Global Warming Swindle (1hr 14min). This film is much more informative than Gore's documentary, since it gives a thorough and very convincing explanation of why global warming opponent scientists believe that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels do not influence climate change.

Global warming is being marketed pretty much like "Y2K" was in the late nineties. Even Hollywood is capitalizing on it. The opening lines of the movie "AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001)" predict the melting of polar ice caps due to greenhouse gases and the flooding of cities like New York. More recently, "The Day After Tomorrow (2004)" predicted massive climate change because of unabated global warming.

I think that the scientists who oppose global warming present a much better case than the ones for it. But because global warming is "politically correct" these days, the opposition is largely ignored or accused of being paid by oil companies in order to sabotage the "inconvenient truth."

About the Author

George Lunt is someone who feels the world is getting too corporate. His writings relate the individual's struggle with big government and big corporations. His website is http://www.corporate-aliens.com.
This article is © George Lunt. All usage of this article must include a citation to the author and a link to corporate-aliens.com.

Global Warming: What's all the hype? by Lisa Barnard

2007-07-18T21:25:00.000-07:00

Global Warming: What's all the hype? by Lisa Barnard

We're in a countdown to extinction, and melting icebergs, climbing temperatures, and escalating panic about vanishing animal populations have inspired a buzz-worthy global warming frenzy -- rife with warnings, stories and suggestions to help us save the world. Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," brought the climate crisis and its immediate impact into focus for many an unsuspecting moviegoer, and, as the telltale signs of global warming begin to appear before our eyes, news organizations and advocacy groups across the country are jumping aboard the conservation express.

Call the fight against global warming what you will - a political strategy, a fool's errand, a liberal agenda - but there's no denying that global warming is real and is happening now. It's our fault, and we're the ones who have to stop it if we want to survive.

You've heard the same speeches from the same advocates over and over again, and you've got the buzzwords entrenched in your brain - emission reduction, greenhouse gases, fossil fuels. The climate crisis saturates the news, as we learn that the polar bears are dying off, Greenland's melting away, and hotter temperatures are causing natural disasters that are destroying our land and our loved ones. But buzz is one thing, and action's something else. What can we do, both on a national and individual level, to help stop global warming?

This week, California took a first step in reducing carbon dioxide emissions by passing a bill requiring all gasoline sold in California to contain 10 percent ethanol, a gas made from corn that requires less petroleum than fossil fuels.

Why not make the switch nationally, and require all refineries to meet new, cleaner, earth-friendly standards? Some Senate lawmakers propose that we need a shift in our national goals. Instead of focusing on increased oil production, we need to try to stop global warming on a national level. Let's pass bills that channel oil subsidy money into renewable energy instead.
But it's not just lawmakers who can take steps to reduce global warming. You have the power to help save the world too. Lead by example, and encourage your friends and family to go green and stop global warming. Here are a few things you can do:

1. Use power strips at home, and switch off the power to your appliances when you're not using them. Anything that's plugged in uses energy even if it's turned off. Flip the switch. 2. Put a water bottle full of pennies in the tank of your toilet to save gallons of water per flush. 3. If you have to drive instead of taking public transportation, check the air in your tires. When your car's tuned up, it gets better gas mileage. 4. Recycle, recycle, recycle. How many times do you have to hear it? Recycling isn't that difficult to do, and recycling a single soda can saves enough energy to watch six hours of TV.

There are countless other things you can do to help save the environment. Don't leave it all up to the lawmakers and politicians, since they need public support if they want to get anything done. Global warming is real, and it's happening now. So be a superhero. Save the world. Someone's got to.

To read more about global warming and how to go green, visit GreenerFAQs, or http://www.greenerfaqs.com.

About the Author

Lisa Barnard is a technophile, blogger and web surfer who cares about the environment and wants to stop global warming. Find more information at http://www.greenerfaqs.com.