Going Green

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Going Green

I’ve been hearing this terminology for a while now, Going Green. It’s actually a pretty smart analogy used to link to the environment and being healthy.

Because it’s the first thing people will think about when they hear the terminology right? Going green, trees, grass, organic! I don’t know about you, but it says those things to me!

What is Going Green really, what does it mean?

Going green is what you do in an effort to save our planet. It’s not just recycling anymore. It’s conserving energy, the type of food you eat, less use of plastic where possible – although some type of plastics have been used to make things more environmentally friendly, anything that you can do at home or work and in your daily life that will help to make our planet better.

I’ve been doing little things, and trying to encourage my children and hubby to do likewise. For one, I’m buying differently, albeit a little at a time, because those organic food are not cheap! For example, buying more whole grain products – bread, spaghetti, etc. That’s better for our health and helps to support those manufacturers and farmers who are being more environmentally friendly.

I remind my family not to run the water when they are brushing their teeth or when they are soaping up in the shower. Turn off electricity that is not being used and unplug those cell phone chargers and other items that don’t need to be plugged in when not in use.

We’ve been opening our windows more, especially now that the weather is cooler, and turn off the air conditioner.

Maximizing our trips so that we don’t make unnecessary trips by car and this also saves on our gas consumption.

These may not be really big things, but every little bit will help.

Eviana Hartman wrote an article for the Washington Post online last year entitled “Going, Going Green” Link.

In it she wrote about the use of Plastic, Sustainable Energy, Composting Toilets, Bio-degradable fuel, Green Burials – [you have to read the link to learn more] and Clothing Swap – yes, clothing swap!

I also found this really cool Going Green Website that will give you more information and helpful hints on things you can do. Link

According to the Website, there are some good reasons as to why we should be going green:

(A) Each year, 1 million sea birds, 100,000 marine mammals, and 50,000 fur seals are killed as the result of eating or being strangled in plastic.

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Americans throw away 25 billion Styrofoam coffee cups every year, and 2.5 million plastic beverage bottles every hour.

(C) Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill the 1,350-foot twin towers of New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.

(D) Americans throw away about 40 billion soft drink cans and bottles every year. Placed end to end, they would reach to the moon and back nearly 20 times.

(E) Eighty-four percent of a typical household's waste--including food scraps, yard waste, paper, cardboard, cans, and bottles--can be recycled.

(F) Using recycled paper for one print run of the Sunday edition of the New York Times would save 75,000 trees.

(G) A 1/32" leak in a faucet can waste up to 6,000 gallons of water a month, or 72,000 gallons a year.

(H) America's refrigerators use about 7 percent of the nation's total electricity consumption--the output of about 25 large power plants.

If we were to begin making changes this is what could happen:

(A) If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25 million trees a year.

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It takes only one-twentieth as much raw materials to grow grains, fruits, and vegetables as it does to raise animals for meat.

(C) By turning the heat down, Americans could save more than 500,000 barrels of oil each day--that's over 21,000,000 gallons.

(D) If all the cars on U.S. roads had properly inflated tires, it would save nearly 2 billion gallons of gasoline a year.

David Lurey also has a great website, Find Balance where he features his Green Yoga concept. Link.

He also has some wonderful suggestions that will help you begin the journey to living healthier and becoming one with the environment!

So don’t forget Re-use, Re-duce and Re-cycle!

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I just can't help but think of Penn & Teller's show on Showtime when I see stuff like this. Anybody else see that episode where environmentalists signed the petition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide?

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No balanced power has attacked us, and when was the last time a formal power attacked us?

7 December 1941 Japan attacked us, it was the last time any nation state was stupid enough to declare war on America.

1949 thru 1989 the Soviet Union attacked us through surrogate states and groups. They were the ones to fund terrorist groups until they lost control of them in the late 80’s and were attacked by the groups they formed and funded. They tried to get out of the terrorism business. According to the head of the KGB at the time it was the only way to attack America and not have to suffer the consequences. They also funded the attack on our financial system in the 1980’s that caused a minor recession, had they better understood the capitalist system they would have done far more damage but the end result was the end of the USSR rather then the end of the USA.

Various Arab states picked up where the Soviet Union left off. With their oil money they funded attacks on Americans abroad up until 2000 when they lost control and were attacked by the groups they funded. In 2001 President Bush then changed our policy to include any state that supported or harbored terrorists to be treated as terrorist states. We went into Afghanistan and Iraq using that justification and the bad guys went black until they can find a new way to attack America.

Various terrorist groups that set up their own funding no longer needing nation states to support them and have gone wild ever since. The war is still going on since the 1970’s it is just in slow motion so you fail to see what they are doing but they are doing it and they are still trying to destroy America.

That is just a quick down and dirty list off the top of my head with out any research.

I just can't help but think of Penn & Teller's show on Showtime when I see stuff like this. Anybody else see that episode where environmentalists signed the petition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide?

Yeah, I saw that and it took all of 8 seconds for me to realize the goal was to ban water the one thing we all need to survive all to save the planed and ourselves. Yes, those idiots gladly signed on to eliminate every living thing on the surface of the earth because their hearts are in the right place their brains just have not caught up yet.

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