Jan
09
Gita Saraydarian asked:


We cannot change the world for the better if we limit ourselves only to the tangible things that people do and do not do. Our emotions, thoughts, and choices that we make have a huge impact on the environment as a whole.

All of life is one. Our environment can be the biggest we can fathom to the smallest that we can put our arms around. So, let us consider what our thoughts, feelings, and spiritual striving have to do with our environment:

Every time we take action, we see an immediate or delayed impact on life around us. Every time we feel something, it has power and energy. It goes out of our emotional body and affects everyone and everything around us. Consider how you feel after being angry or irritated. Your body has changed chemically and others around have felt that anger and irritation. These emanations are even impressed on the objects that are around you. Consider how you feel if you wear a piece of clothing that someone gives you and you feel “icky” wearing it. Jewelery, clothing, furnishings all carry our emanations. So do our homes and gardens and even the foods we cook. They are all influenced by our feelings, thoughts, and spiritual striving!

Every time you think something, your thought currents have a powerful effect on your body and environment. Scientific experiments have shown how our thoughts influence our health and the condition of our bodies. Our thoughts also affect the very material environment around us and also affect all living organisms around us. Animals and plants feel our emotions and thoughts. The mineral kingdom is also impacted by our thoughts and our feelings. Furniture and homes and walls absorb our emanations. Consider why some homes or places you visit have a positive energy and feelings of well being, whereas other places make us uncomfortable and agitated.

Every time we strive spiritually to better ourselves, our outer life takes on a new meaning. What we are on the inside changes our life. Our relations change, our work changes, and our environment changes. In fact, a great thinker of the Wisdom Teachings wrote that our very thinking, feeling, and striving (or lack thereof) have a direct influence on the weather patterns and environmental disasters that humanity experiences. What we do in one part of the world will have an effect somewhere in the world. He states “These thoughts, emotions, and deeds are actually charges of energy which not only penetrate the great ocean of energy, but which also build cloudy formations around the globe. When such formations reach a certain point of density, power and radioactivity, they cause great destructive or constructive effects upon the kingdoms of the globe. The nature of their content, or their polarisation, determines whether the effect will be destructive or constructive. These cloudy formations either channel global energy or hinder its flow, for good or for destructive purposes.” (Earthquakes and Disasters by Torkom Saraydarian, p. 5)

My approach to environmental improvement includes this multi-leveled approach. When we are able to see this progressive and complex approach, we can easily see that wherever a person has a more holistic and multi-leveled approach to change, their actions are clear and simple. The environment will improve and we can avert disasters when we are able to change our consciousness.

Why do some people quickly see the dangers of their actions and some do not? I see people throwing garbage out of their cars without any feeling whatsoever; after all, it is not their living room, just a road. But someone has to pick up this garbage and it does pollute and create ugliness for others who travel that road. Yet there are others who think more holistically and they volunteer to pick up garbage from the roadside!

What about those who continuously exude filthy language in ways spoken and written, think hurtful and abusive thoughts, and feel ugly feelings and are seething with anger toward others? Those subtle emanations also go out of each person and fill up space. Great spiritual thinkers show us why we need to clean up our life from the inside out, and from the outside in.

When I see people who easily and automatically want to re-cycle, be environmentally sensitive, I see people who have an inner barometer for cleanliness and responsibility. I see the same traits of responsibility when I see someone who consciously chooses to clean up his or her emotions and thoughts and stop the flow of toxicity from their inner being. Whether the toxic waste is garbage thrown out of the car, or if it is garbage spewed out from the mouth or thoughts, these are just as polluting as the material garbage. When we see hateful and ugly thoughts coming from people, we don’t want to be around them. We can feel these subtle emanations.

Slowly we are developing instruments that measure the effect of our feelings and thoughts and actions, expressed or internal. Great spiritual teachers have always warned us about the ill effects of toxic emotions and thoughts. Now we are seeing the results of human toxicity. Our thoughts and feelings travel around space as fast as an email or Internet post does, maybe even faster. If written Blogs can have an effect on others and help change policy, what about the effects of our feelings and thoughts and practices? After all, these are just as real as written Blogs!

So, I would like to see this day dedicated to cleaning up the environment from the subtle side of our lives as well as the material parts of life. I feel strongly that the issues facing humanity today cannot be approached only from the material end alone. A multi-leveled approach is needed. We can each do something right now to clean up our actions, emotions, and thoughts. We can become aware of the kinds of emotions and thoughts we are continuously sending out of our life every minute. My feeling is that we put out much more “subtle garbage” on a daily basis than we do material garbage. And, the inner source of garbage is what influences the way we behave outwardly. It is that inner source or inner condition that we have that makes us choose to pollute or to live responsibly toward all of life. Without a real change in human consciousness, how can the end result of that consciousness, in the life choices that people make, ever change?

We are not isolated bodies in the larger body of humanity. We are not isolated nations or countries in the life of the Planet. We are not simple physical beings in the complex life of the planet. We need to approach this issue of what defines environment from the complexity of human life and even take into account the life of subtle beings all around us.

I am happy to see that humanity considers environmental issues an important part of our dialogue. I especially congratulate The Nobel Peace Prize Committee and Al Gore for their recognition of the importance of our environment. Now, let us take this a step further and deeper, and start to consider the inner workings of human beings and how much toxicity and pollution comes out of our inner life, or, alternatively, how much beauty and goodness and healing can flow out of each human being toward others and toward all of life.

Thank you.

Gita

References on the inner life and possibilities for our future lives by Torkom Saraydarian:

Entering the New Millennium

Olympus World Report, the Year 3000

Earthquakes and Disasters, Video clips of Torkom’s live lectures are available on U tube.



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Jan
09
Filed Under (Environment) by Go Green Advisor
James John asked:


As Techsavy become increasingly more environment conscious, PC manufacturers are tending to stay in step with a conscientious approach towards the issue of global warming which encouraged them to come up with a new generation of computers – Green PC.

Aiming at reducing the e-waste in the environment, these eco-machines enjoy a number of advantages that make them superior over conventional PCs. Green PCs or “Eco Friendly Computers” as they are commonly known as, use a fraction of the electricity of a normal PC–energy efficient 45W, contrary to usual 200W.

Green Computers do not contain the hazardous materials like brominated flame retardants, PVCs, and eliminate the dangers of heavy metals as lead, cadmium, and mercury, which are generally used in computer manufacturing. The parts used in eco friendly computers are designed out of recycled steel, aluminum, and plastic. Their screen can also be even made out of wood. This certainly underlines the component of fashion in sustainable living!

One of the biggest factors making computers an environmental menace is its dumping. According to the data showcased by recent surveys, around two million PCs are dumped in UK landfills every year. This causes soil infertility as most chemicals end up in the soil. The situation is worst in Asia, where much of the West’s useless equipment ends up.

As opposed to traditional computer equipment, green computers save energy and are easier to upgrade and recycle, thereby making your investment worth the money. Green PCs are no doubt a significant step taken towards the monumental objective of tackling changes in climate.

Using environment-friendly products in an efficient system, green computing solutions attempt to address the factors making a negative impact on environment.

Green computing solutions focus on increasing economic viability of the product, maximizing its energy efficiency, and biodegradability of a futile product. Many IT companies including the prominent names like Wipro have already gone green whereas a few others are in process to come up with their eco-friendly computers.

The introduction of Green PCs is likely to push environmental versions of all consumer products soon. They are more similar to a small piece of a large jigsaw puzzle.



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Jan
08
Matthew Hick asked:


Car manufacturers tout their efficiency. Consumer advocates dispute claims of 60-plus miles per gallon gas efficiency. Amidst the controversy, environmentalists still claim, in the absence of anything better - that hybrid vehicles are still better for the environment than their traditional gas-guzzling counterparts.

Hybrids, known for the way they combine both gas and electric power to offer a cleaner ride, have come under fire in recent months for their inability to reach gas mileage milestones set by the manufacturers. Critics say that most fail to live up to claims of getting more than 60 miles to a single gallon of gas. Advocates argue that recent studies confirm the same is true for efficiency ratings set on traditional engines, still making hybrids the better deal environmentally.

Touted as the gas-saver of the future when introduced in 1999, hybrids are known to use a fraction of the gas due to their ability to “share the burden”, with their electric motors. Full hybrid vehicles allow the electric motor to work independently of the more traditional internal combustion engine, while driving at low speeds. This in turn saves gas, and stops harmful emissions from entering the atmosphere. During an idle stop, a full hybrid actually shuts itself off, letting the electric motor take over to eliminate unnecessary idling and emissions.

Consumers should be aware, however, that the mild hybrids focus remains on traditional gas consumption, with the electric motor only assisting the gas engine at high speeds when more power is needed, thus making the mild hybrid much less environmental friendly than its full hybrid counterpart.

Great for in town drivers, the full hybrid allows slow speeding drivers to virtually use only the electric motor, thus saving even more gas, and eliminating harmful emissions into the environment.

Despite any controversy surrounding today’s hybrid vehicles, consumers seem eager to do what they can to decrease the harmful effects of emissions on the environment and save a few bucks at the pumps. Production of hybrid vehicles has tripled in the last four years, with production expected to double in 2007. The Yano Research Institute Ltd. estimates that by 2015, nearly 5.37 million hybrid vehicles will be on the global road, compared to less than one million last year.

Manufacturers have jumped on the bandwagon, with Honda, Toyota, Ford, Lexus and Chevrolet, all offering their own hybrid varieties. Newer models sport higher-powered and faster models, even making hybrid SUV’s and trucks available to the consumer. Of course, the heavier the vehicle, and the faster it rides, the more gas it is bound to use, despite the use and size of the internal electric motor.

Still, hybrids remain the most gas efficient and environmental friendly vehicles in mass production today.



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Jan
08
Filed Under (Environment) by Go Green Advisor
Noel Hines asked:


How can technology help improve the environment? Are we promoting a more singular existence, where individualism is the force that is driving us along? We are now living in a world that is in an accelerated mode of change and innovation. Is this rate of change detrimental to our existence? Think about this for a moment. On the one hand we have improvements in all areas of our lives some are greater than others. On the other hand we are looking at the effects of the harmful destruction of our planet earth.

The first computers started to emerge around the 1940’s, now we have computer processors in a lot of the electronic equipment we use every day. We even have computers that can fit in your hand that have more power than the first computers.The first Television and television transmission appeared in 1925 and now we are watching gigantic flat screens, some as big as buildings and others screens as small as wrist watches. In the past 80 years the medical field has also grown in leaps and bounds in the areas of IVF, genetic research, cloning, stem cell research, along with the progress in the prevention, cure and management of various diseases. Other fields such as astronomy, environmental science, weapons/warfare and engineering have also had their fair share of extraordinary development achievements.

Looking at the issues of Global warming and human environment interaction we are currently facing within our natural environment. Should we really be in a race to ruin the land where we live? We cannot keep up with the current technology, just look at all the equipment you have taken to the recycle tip in just the last 12-24 months. Consider how many Televisions, Videos, DVD players, Computers, Laptops, Hi-fi’s and Home entertainment systems you have changed or bought recently, the list is endless. When an improvement is made to a product it can sometimes make the original product obsolete. Satellite Navigation equipment a new and easily available product for everyone. Even if you only use it once a year it is believed to be a must have product. Mobile phones is another product every man and his dog has one these days. How often do you change your mobile phone for the latest model? Can you ever imagine being without a mobile phone? How did we ever cope without them? The raw materials used to make a phone cannot be recycled easily.

I believe as we get to understand one part(s) of our lives we seem to lose sight of others parts that are equally as important. What can be done to slow down the rate of change or how do we as a nation become more aware of the effects of the rate of change has on our environment.

If we could not have a new television or other new product until the old one had been recycled properly we would help the environment tremendously. Today if we implemented this many products or versions of products would be missed because of the speed at which technology changes. Like the latest flat screen with super clear picture quality. It seem that every other week we get the next new and improved product. Just look at washing power or washing up liquid advertisements.

Just some food for thought more to come soon.



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Jan
07
Filed Under (Environment) by Go Green Advisor
Ariel Vanderhorst asked:


That depends on the stove you have in your mind’s eye. The old-fashioned, pot-belly stoves that appear in most Western movies didn’t do the atmosphere any favors. But today’s wood burning stoves, engineered with fuel economy in mind, are a different story.

Back in the days of cowboys and general stores, wood stoves could have been mistaken for indoor smokestacks–and that wouldn’t have been too far from the truth. But modern stoves are actually one of the “greenest” sources of radiant heat available to home owners today. Here are some of the big reasons why.

Let’s start with a little history. In the early 20th century, even the most efficient wood burning stoves left a lot to be desired and it wasn’t hard to tell. The smoky haze these stoves produced was a telltale sign that an unknowing home owner was literally giving the torch to his heating budget. Fortunately, there has been a revolution in stove design since those days.

Around 1990, there was a growing interest in alternative heating sources, caused by the rising awareness of the impact of fossil fuels (oil, coal) on the environment. In addition, the goal of energy self-sufficiency caused home owners to reevaluate wood stoves as a heating method. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) got involved, instituting demanding emissions standards to make sure that new stoves would be kind to the environment.

As new stoves were produced, engineers incorporated the EPA standards, and the “modern” wood stove came into being. Since 1990, every new wood stove is approved by the EPA, and produces a mere trickle of smoke (2-5 grams per hour) and very little ash. This amounts to a 33 percent increase in fuel efficiency over the old potbelly stoves, and a 90 percent decrease in emissions. In plain English, this means that advanced wood burning stoves burn a lot less wood and are simultaneously kinder to the planet.

At this point, a natural question would be, “Don’t wood stoves put pollutants into the atmosphere just like other heating sources–gas, oil, or coal?” The answer is nuanced. When fossil fuels are extracted from the earth and consumed, they release carbon dioxide into the environment at unhealthy levels. And after the monumental costs of extracting and producing these fuels, once they’re burned, they’re gone for good.

As a fuel source, wood is different on several counts.

Trees, like all other green plants, take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and convert it to fiber in order to grow. When trees die, and wood decomposes, this CO2 is released back into the air. But in this case, it is a natural cycle, since all trees eventually die. The same thing is true when wood is burned. Making the wood-burning cycle sustainable is the fact that wood is a renewable source of fuel.

We started this article asking the question, “Are wood stoves good for the environment?” The answer, when you compare stoves to other heating methods, is yes. Today’s stoves are fuel efficient: they produce more heat with less wood, keeping emissions to a minimum by meeting strict EPA standards. Best of all, perhaps, they don’t deprive the earth of non-renewable fossil fuels.

So, call to mind that rusty, black iron stove you saw in a Western movie, a vacation lodge, or at your grandparents. Then prepare yourself for an updated picture as you explore the world of modern wood stoves. Environmentally speaking, today’s stoves are very green.



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Jan
07
Clarence Clark asked:


A White Husky is often a popular choice of a pet given the magnificent look of these dogs as well as their gentle and lively nature. These huge dogs are also popular amongst dog owners precisely because of their size, given the preference of some people towards larger dogs. As with all other pets, keeping your White Husky in the best environment is necessary for the healthy growth and development of your pet in the long run. We offer you some important tips on keeping your White Husky in the best environment.

The first would be to provide your White Husky with a balanced diet to meet its nutritional needs. In general, White Huskies require an abundance of good quality food to meet their nutritional needs each day. This would include sufficient amounts of protein and fats. Ideally, fresh food is preferred with white meat and fish being the best choice of food. In addition, White Huskies also require sufficient amounts of fish oil in order to develop a healthy coat and nails. A cheap and good source of this would be canned sardines which are often rich in Omega 3.

The environment in which your White Husky is raised should be safe. Being lively animals, Huskies can be relatively jumpy and like to run great distances. Always keep the gate closed. If you have a garden, make sure that this is fenced sufficiently high in order to prevent your White Husky from jumping over and running away from home. Inside the house, never place unstable objects such as flower vases on near the edged of the table as this can cause injury to your White Husky when tipped over. Safety should be the prime concern of your White Husky. Even with discipline training, this should never be compromised.

White Huskies are sociable pets and as such, should be given sufficient opportunities at socialization when possible. Take your White Husky for walks around the neighborhood. Let it interact freely with your neighbor as well as other pets. At home, make sure your family and yourself spend sufficient time each day playing with your Husky. You may even want to consider getting another pet or another Husky given the fact that Huskies are dogs that are used to living in packs. Lonely Huskies often resort to mischief such as digging potholes in your garden. For the best results, arrangements for companionship should be made at a tender age in order to facilitate interaction between your pets for optimal results. In any case, White Huskies are known to get along well with other animals.

Keeping your White Husky in the best environment requires much effort and commitment. Such measures would allow your White Husky to grow healthily, allowing you to enjoy many years of fun and laughter with it. This is perhaps the most rewarding part of raising a White Husky as you see it mature from a puppy into a full-grown dog as it develops much affection, feelings and loyalty towards you over the years.



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Jan
06
Filed Under (Environment) by Go Green Advisor
Chuck Arnone asked:


nce, what are the dietary ramifications for an individual who has high self-efficacy for increasing fruit intake, but who lives and works in a neighborhood with no access to fresh fruit? The ability to have access to good nutritional foods is of the utmost importance to the growing bodies of young children and maintenance of older generations also!

A multidisciplinary team is examining how federal, state, and local policies influence the built environment, which in turn influences residents’ accessibility to places to be active and to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables. The built environment includes man made physical structures and transportation systems and features such as land use and development, urban design, and visual surroundings. By promoting fruit trees, such as mango, avocado and citrus, and bamboo, experience shows that in time communities start to protect their trees because of the attractive revenue they generate. The grafting program helps to boost Haiti’s mango export industry and extend the avocado season. The objectives of this study were to determine how various diets, combined with exposure to volatiles containing ±-copaene, affect the ability of male Mediterranean fruit flies (from a wild and two unisexual strains) to withstand starvation. Accordingly, we maintained males on one of eight regimes combining a diet of sugar and protein, a protein pulse or apricot, with or without the aroma of the sexual stimulant ±-copaene.

Heart disease and cancers are the main cause of death in man today. These conditions are also more prevalent in our dog population. We extend our poor eating habits to our pets & children, then we wonder why our younger people are becoming obese!

Further, the toxic chemicals in sunscreen are now found in most Australians (including mother’s ****** milk) with unknown consequences for our future health. FANTA works to heighten the focus on women’s and adolescent’s nutrition and increase implementation of programming that targets women’s health through its technical assistance to USAID missions and PVO partners around the world. FANTA is improving advocacy for women’s nutrition through the development of evidence-based models that highlight the consequences of malnutrition for policymakers and other audiences.

Though your parents’ medical history may give you some idea of what your medical future will be, your medical future will not be exactly the same as your parents. A fact that exists is that many battery driven products have AC current in their circuits? Most liquid crystal digital wrist watches use alternating current to drive the display: you are strapping a portable AC stress generator to your wrist (one of the most sensitive parts of your body with regard to subtle fields) and carrying it around all day.

Cooper (Chef Ann) suggests that parents look for meal plans without trans-fat and high fructose corn sugar and that include little to no refined sugars and flours. Cooper also says to look for meal plans that focus on whole foods and include lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. Crop rotation is of the utmost importance in the continued health of the soil itself, therefore contributing to a sustainable environment and the overall health of the world. But before you chew on your veggies or bite into that fruit, you might want to consider this: Plants and food crops contain negative chemicals that affect the food you take in.

Until recently in our nation’s history, meat was a delicacy seen only on the most special of occasions rather than a staple food seen daily. Indeed, the majority of people on earth meet their protein requirements from non-animal sources such as beans, legumes, and grains.

Through partnership with these countries and our international network of people, we address local needs worldwide. Our activities encompass scientific publishing, research and communication, and our aim is to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and its application to real life. The social’ecological model is based on the premise that changes in individual behavior will come about through a combination of societal, community, organizational, interpersonal, and individual efforts. Basic-implementation states have begun to develop new and sustainable interventions, evaluate existing interventions and support additional state and local efforts to prevent obesity and other chronic diseases, or all of these.

We examined the effectiveness of a training program for physician-delivered nutrition counseling, alone and in combination with a structured office practice environment for nutrition management, on physicians’ counseling practices. Forty-five primary care internists and 1,278 of their patients in the top quarter of the cholesterol distribution at a central Massachusetts health maintenance organization (the Fallon Clinic) were enrolled into a randomized controlled trial. Analysis of overall phenotypic variation based on all eight characters revealed three significantly different groups: plains bison; the subpopulation from Pine Lake; the other subpopulations from Wood Buffalo National Park. Results indicate that panmixia has not occurred since the 1925-1928 introductions of plains bison to the Park and that the characters studied are genetically based. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, it covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.

Biotechnology has the potential to reduce and/or eliminate the use of pesticides, improve the nutritional content of foods; and when introduced in staple crops, like plantains or rice, it will improve the quality of life of many developing nations. Seed production is based on selecting and improving local seed material and maintaining international varieties adapted to local conditions. The program is also working on multiplying corn and beans that have improved nutritional value.

NP 06-1 (a combination of two botanical extracts; Philodendron amurense bark and Citrus sinensis peel) or matching placebo was given in a dose of two capsules (370 mg each) twice daily. The outcome measures reported are lipid levels, weight, BMI, blood pressure and fasting glucose. My favorite way of accessing TOXLINE is through TOXNET, the incredibly comprehensive toxicology search tool provided free of charge by the National Library of Medicine. The website address for TOXNET is: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov.

This includes the International Journal of Sport Nutrition, for which you can access tables of contents from 1995 on, links and a newsletter. Spirulina contains the most potent nutrient combination of any food researched to date, and is well worth a try on your quest for total body wellbeing. Furthermore, it was a long-overdue boon to our cause to have an unflinching vegan governmental leader in the national spotlight.

That would free up huge areas of land to grow food for hungry nations. Nutritional strategies can lessen, but not abolish, toxic effects ; moreover, they require dissemination and compliance, which are unlikely to be fully effective. These issues demonstrate the need to develop a public health paradigm for the role of nutritional interventions in environmental health. I am convinced that this statement is a pure creation of the imagination.

Be aware of what is around you & your children that can harm you actively or passively!

The pollution in the air & water is another reason to make sure you take steps to balance your nutrition. Liquid vitamin nutrition is a necessary component of staying healthy, looking and feeling youthful.



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Jan
04
Roger Munns asked:


Ski resorts world-wide have been actively participating in recycling and composting projects since as early as 2001.

Most resorts are now using 100 percent recyclable materials throughout day-to-day operations. Resort restaurants are using environment friendly utensils and carry-out containers and composting food scraps with wood shavings to use in landscaping throughout the resort.

Some resorts are passing their recycling and composting knowledge to their guests. Several also take a one dollar donation from guests to donate to organizations dedicated to helping the environment.

Bob Candler, snowboard rider and inventor, has gone further in his attempts to help the environment. Candler has spent the last 15 years designing the world’s first fully recyclable snowboard: the Makboard.

‘Taking care of our planet is something that should be important to all riders,’ Candler said. ‘I created a board that, instead of ending up in a landfill, could be melted down and reshaped into another snowboard when its life is over.’

‘Ultimately, what we’re trying to do is keep these things from ending up as pollution,’ Candler said. ‘As snowboarders, we’ve got to be on the front lines doing all we can to protect what we all love: the mountains, the environment and everything that makes snowboarding so much fun.’

With the combined efforts of ski resorts and skiers like Mr. Candler, our resorts and mountains will be much nicer places to spend free time.

Many ski shops also recycle ski and snowboard equipment by taking in trades and selling used equipment for a fraction of the cost of new equipment. Recycling older ski or snowboard equipment offers someone else the opportunity to learn to ski or snowboard at discounted prices.

The number of snowboarders in North America is starting to catch the number of skiers. Many of the world’s leading ski resorts welcome higher numbers of snowboarders year after year. Resorts that offer ski lessons are starting to include snowboard lessons for beginners and intermediate snowboarders as well. Snowboard rentals are readily available in the ski rental area of most resorts.

Associations like the United States of America Snowboard Association and the United States Ski and Snowboard Association promote snowboarding competitions throughout the ski season.

Competitions include events like Rail Jam, Boardercross, Slalom and Giant Slalom. Competitors are divided into age categories and range in age from under 7 years to 22 years.

In the years to come, skiers, snowboarders and other winter sports enthusiasts will benefit from the recycling efforts put forth by resorts and fellow skiers alike.

Skiing families will learn more about recycling and protecting the environment. They will take that knowledge with them throughout other aspects of life.

Their children will teach other children how to recycle and reuse items they may normally throw away.

Small efforts by a lot of people can help make a difference in our national forests and mountains. Helping in the recycling efforts will ultimately lead to cleaner, safer environments for families to enjoy.



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Jan
03
deepak kulkarni asked:


You see, we should be very thankful that we are born in this modern generation due to the existence of the Internet. With the Internet, all information (whether about blogging and educational environment or any other such as sidekick ii, private blog, free blog for website or even the pink is the new blog) can be found with ease on the Internet, with great articles like this.

If only the millions of people currently web logging could understand that they do not need high traffic to make money, it would make a huge difference. However, first and foremost, it is important to understand that you will need to completely change your approach. The whole idea is that there is stuff that is best suited only to high traffic sites, just like there are things that work best with low traffic sites only. There are also certain things that work well with both low traffic and high traffic sites. The tricky part is getting to recognize them.

If you like to write, and are searching for a new place to display your work, web logging may be the answer you have been searching for. There are a few webs logging tips that you should keep in mind before starting. First off, there are many webs logging sites that will allow you to have your own web page for free. This free web logging sites can be found through a simple Internet search. Of course, if you want to get more serious about your blog you can register your own domain name and compile your blog there. Another tip to keep in mind is that if you do not want to write about your personal life, web logging for business may still be right for you. There are thousands of businesses that also run blogs as a way for their customers, and prospective customers, to stay notified. Web logging for business has taken off in the small business sector over the past year, and it is surely going to reach a wider audience as word gets around.

A RSS subscription option is crucial. You should not be afraid of it. Don’t run from it. If you want people to read your blog regularly then you have to make it easy for them to do so. Having an “enter your email here” box is a nice start. However, if I have 25 blogs I read, I am not going to want 25 different emails coming to me each time someone updates.

If as related to blogging and educational environment as this article is, and it still doesn’t answer all your needs, then don’t forget that you can conduct more search on any of the major search engines like Google to get more helpful blogging and educational environment information.

Setting up your blog to target a niche market is one of the best things you can do with your blog, provided you know the craft and have the requisite skills to run it successfully to start generating instant traffic (through syndication or RSS) and possibly start earning as well.

This really is a general overview of web logging for money, which is a big picture. However, do be reassured of its relative ease. The most important thing is just to make a start. Identify what you wish to write the blog about, register a free web logging account at BlogSpot or Word press, and then start posting! After that, you will surely pick up hints and tips about monetization and driving traffic along the way. Many internet marketers will confirm that blog optimization is a lifelong learning process, so do not feel you have to get it right first time. Web logging for money should be fun, so ensure you enjoy the process.

There is certainly nothing new about the idea of web logging, and yet many business owners and Internet entrepreneurs don’t seem to grasp the power of this simple strategy. This is evidenced by the fact that many business websites do not include a blog.

It might interest you to know that lots of folks searching for blogging and educational environment also got information related to another blog site list , bureaucracy, and even free blog system here with ease.



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Jan
02
Filed Under (Environment) by Go Green Advisor
Steve Evans asked:


g environment is one where the pollution of the past is remediated and cleaned with time to remove existing historic risk to the environment and public health. A cleaning environment implies a return of the natural endemic local ecology, and is an ideal to strive for.

We need to create a cleaning environment if our marvels of science and technology are going to be matched, and not outweighed, by many current tragedies, including human starvation in some parts of the world and extinction of other life forms. Global warming is taking place and is an increase in the Earth\’s average temperature. This, in turn, causes climate changes. Global warming also could cause droughts and disrupt agriculture.

A cleaning environment means not despoiling the remaining parts of the world which are still undeveloped. Globally, indigenous people inhabit areas with some of the highest remaining biodiversity on the planet and are actively being engaged as partners in biodiversity conservation. Issues of sustainable development, resource management and ecological restoration all include native stakeholders. Global harmony is possible, yet confrontations take place more often than meaningful dialogues for peace. Our science and technology has done much good, but if we are not careful its unimagined polluting effects will be matched, if not outweighed, by the many, including depletion of resources which is destroying the possibility for people to bring up children in a clean environment.

In some parts of the world extinction of other life-forms is growing apace. It is ironic that exploration of outer space will now only take place at the same time the earth\’s own oceans, seas, and freshwater areas while they grow increasingly polluted and their life-forms are still largely unknown and where known are probably misunderstood.

However, it is not impossible to return to a green and clean environment. Obama will soon take over the Presidency and clearly intends to take very positive action. .The world became weary that would ever Bush rein in the polluters and close the so-called grandfather loophole as the air in Texas becomes ever smoggier. Never forget though that Bush may have had his arm twisted, but he did concede that humans are causing climate change. It may have taken many a sleepless night in Bali, but his representatives did agree to draw up a post-Kyoto treaty by 2009.

In the US the general public are beginning to take on-board their profligate use of energy. Just look at recent statistics in the US for big car sales. SUV sales are down by 50%, car sales are down 50%, but small, fuel efficient cars, hybrid cars, diesel cars are up 40%.

So here we can start to shift our thinking. The US may soon start to take her place among the nations seeking a clean, or if not clean, then cleaning environment

Greenhouse emissions do not poison people, or lakes or woods, in the direct or obvious way that noxious chemicals do. But at least in the medium term, they clearly alter the earth in ways that harm the welfare of all and the poor more than the affluent.

One relatively clean energy technology cited as a possible stop-gap while renewable energy sources can be fully developed is nuclear power. It is the rich industrialized countries like France, Sweden, Japan (and many others) who are the biggest users of nuclear energy. Although new nuclear technologies reduce the problem of nuclear waste-management, and make it much more manageable, many in the west prefer to force oil-based energy use in oil-poor countries like India.

A method of cleaning technology is carbon sequestering of CO2. Carbon sequestering is obtained by chemically binding the CO2 in a material that will not dissolve in water or release CO2 with time. This eliminates the need to sequester pure CO2. IF the power generators sequester their CO2 they won’t need to buy carbon credits. Carbon credits have been called the modern day Papal indulgences for rich people. We don\’t accept hypocrisy from our preachers, they say, so I don\’t give eco-preachers an easy ride on this hypocrisy. Carbon credit administration is so bureaucratic and expensive that it is hard to justify perpetuating, on that basis alone, but in reality it will not bring us the cleaning environment we need and seek.

We talked about Nuclear energy as a part of cleaning the environment. Is it really so bad? It brings economic benefits from new jobs created to run new plants. It is like adding $500 million a year to the economy for each new plant brought on line. Nuclear currently accounts for about 20% of electricity generation in the UK. When all nuclear plants except Sizewell B in Suffolk are closed by 2020, the nuclear contribution will fall to some 4%. Many say that to burn coal would mean replacing this capacity would be a backward move and far from moving to a cleaning environment be the opposite.

Science doesn\’t reveal the best course of human actions. It gives us information that is factored into decision making. Now the decision making needs to be that of guiding the scientists away from any technologies that are not sustainable and do not promote a cleaning environment.

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