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Rethinking Food Sources – Lessons from Swine Flu Outbreak

Rethinking Food Sources – Lessons from Swine Flu Outbreak

No, I’m not renaming it to “Lessons from H1N1 flu, Mexican Virus, North American influenza or novel flu virus”.  Changing the name removes us from responding to the issue properly.  It is clear that the flu outbreak was caused by conditions in hog CAFO (confined animal [...]

Celebrate Earthday Tip #8 Energy

Put all your electronics on surge protectors and shut off from there.  Many electronics have standby features that use electricity

Be sure to turn off lights when you leave a room.

Turn off machines when you leave a room (examples include TV’s, computers, radios, stereos, video games, VCR’s, and DVD players).

When you go away [...]

Earthday Tips Countdown – Day 9 Water

Water – the source of life

Never put water down the drain when there may be another use for it such as watering a plant or garden, or cleaning.
Repair dripping faucets by replacing washers. If your faucet is dripping at the rate of one drop per second, you can expect to waste 2,700 gallons [...]

Earthday Tips Countdown Day 10 –

Tip #10 Check your tires

Make sure your tires are properly inflated – Proper inflation can improve gas mileage by more than 3%. Since every gallon of gasoline saves money and keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, every increase in fuel efficiency makes a difference! Keep the tires on your car [...]

Countdown to Earthday

What are the top 10 things you can do to create a better world?

You can change small things and create big changes.  Join me for the next 10 days leading up to Earth Day April 22, 2009, in doing one thing different each day to make a world of difference for all.  Some of these [...]