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the Blue Man Group
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Interested in learning how to make purchasing and investment choices that promote social justice and environmental sustainability?Tired of corporate irresponsibility?
Want to help promote green and fair trade businesses?
Then check out Co-op America - Economic Action for a Just Planet Co-op America's Green Business Program provides the networks, resources, and technical assistance needed for socially and environmentally responsible businesses to emerge and thrive in communities across the US. This is a great website!
Check out Worldgoods - A Fair Trade Global Marketplace for fair trade, earth-friendly, organic, and multicultural products. To learn more about Miranda Paul and her company read her Worldgoods Fair Trade Blog
Green Day + NRDC: Moving America Beyond Oil
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WARNING: THIS VIDEO DOES CONTAIN GRAPHIC MATERIAL SUCH AS BLOOD AND BRAIN TISSUE. DO NOT WATCH IF YOU GET SICK AT THE SITE OF BLOOD AS THIS SHOWS PICTURES OF SURGERY.
Dawn's Africa Adventure
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This slideshow/video is of my trip to Nairobi, Kenya for a neurosurgical mission and to Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania for a safari. Hospitals that I worked at while there where: Kenyatta National Hospital, Aga Khan Hospital, and M P Shah Hospital. We were there for two weeks. Some of our case load consisted of patients with cerebral tuberculomas, occipital encephaloceles, myelomeningocele spina bifida, nasal encephalocele, cerebral mucocele, and hydrocephalus. All of these conditions were preventable birth defects with the exception of the cerebral tuberculomas and the cerebral mucocele. The mothers did not get enough folic acid in their diets prior to and during their pregnancies. Because of this their children were born with neural tube defects. In most countries the food we eat is already fortified with vitamins and minerals including folic acid. Women are also given prenatal vitamins to take during their pregnancies. In these countries where women get proper nutrition and health care the incidence of neural tube defects is rare. But in Africa where nutrition and health care is a problem these defects are not only common but in most cases very severe. That is why it is important that Africa gets the aid that is needed to put a stop to NTD's as well as HIV, Aids, TB, and Malaria. Want to know what you can do to help? Contact Feed The Children and/or
Africa Aid
and/or UNICEF
Why Folic Acid is So Important
Folic acid is a B vitamin. It is used in our bodies to make new cells. If a woman has enough folic acid in her body before she is pregnant, it can help prevent major birth defects of her baby’s brain and spinal cord. These birth defects are called neural tube defects or NTDs. Women need to take folic acid every day starting before they are pregnant to help prevent NTDs.
For more information on preventing neural tube defects contact
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Super Size Me is an Academy Award-nominated 2004 documentary film, directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. It follows a 30-day time period (February 2003) during which Spurlock subsists exclusively on McDonald's fast food and stops exercising. The film documents this lifestyle's drastic effects on Spurlock's physical and psychological well-being and explores the fast food industry's corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit. During the filming, Spurlock dined at McDonald's restaurants three times per day, sampling every item on the chain's menu at least once. He consumed an average of 5,000 calories (the equivalent of 9.26 Big Macs) per day during the experiment. The following is the trailer for the documentary Super Size Me. I highly recommend this documentary.
Check out this experiment from the documentary Super Size Me.
One way to reduce carbon emissions is to can your own vegetables, fruits, jams, jellies, preserves, sauces and chutney's. As a child I helped my mother and grandmother
can food for our family. Back then it was a necessity because we didn't have a lot of money and it was a cheaper way to obtain food for our family. Now I believe it is still a necessity but for different reasons. When you can instead of buying commercially canned and pre-packaged foods you are not only providing healthier foods for your family but you are also reducing the carbon emissions in several ways. First if you buy from a farmers market you are buying locally which means that the food did not have to travel far to get to the market. Second if you buy in bulk ( which you usually do for canning) it reduces the amount of packaging. It is also cheaper than buying commercially canned foods. Plus there is nothing prettier than canned vegetables, sauces, chutney's jams and jelly's lined up on a shelf!
Freezing is another option for preserving fresh foods. There are jars available now that can be frozen as well as plastic containers. Both are reusable.
There are "how to" books available online and at books stores. Follow this link to Amazon.com
There are also many websites devoted to the art of preserving foods. For more information just click on the links:
USDA Canning Guide
National Center for Home Food Preservation
Canning Basics
Pick Your Own
Fresh Preserving
Canning Recipes for Preserving Food
Home Canning and Freezing
If this video disturbs you as much as it did me and you are interested in a meat free, vegetarian lifestyle then follow this link for a free PETA vegetarian starter kit . There's lots of information about animal rights out there. Do your research and then decide the direction that is right for you.
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5 EASY WAYS TO SAVE THE PLANET
Movies:
"The 11th Hour" by Leonardo DiCaprio
Books:
"The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries." -David Wann
"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites." -William Ruckelshaus
“I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirtyâ€
- George Burns
We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live. -Jim Clyburn
If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases. -David Suzuki
"The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves." -Ayn Rand
"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans." -Jacques Cousteau
"And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess." ~Art Buchwald, 1970
"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."
~George Carlin
"How can we look our children and grandchildren in the eye, and say that when we were kids we loved the pandas, lions and whales, but then as grownups we destroyed them? How can we tell other nations to protect their resources while we destroy our own? How can we spend billions of dollars searching for life in outer space while we spend billions of dollars destroying irreplaceable species of life on earth?" -Melissa Mathis of Greenspan
"Nobody did worse than he who did nothing for fear he could only do a little." - Edmund Burke
"In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops." Paul Brooks
"It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing."
Scott Westerfeld
"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." -EB White
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
Dalai Lama
Heroes:
We are all custodians of this earth, our only home. The planet is where we find shelter and food. It is only right that we take care of it, value it, and cherish our freedom to do so. To abandon Mother Earth would be to surrender our freedoms and abandon our morality! I share with you, the people, my belief in our power to do the right thing! May we be successful in this non-political race which we must win; and in doing so, find for us all something more precious than anything that can be measure: OUR FUTURE. -- Erin Brockovich, Environmental activist/educator
"There have been 5 mass extinctions in the Earth's past, and 7 out of 10 biologists now believe that we are experiencing another mass extinction of living things. Unlike prior extinctions, this "sixth extinction" is the first to be human-induced, and the fastest in the 4.5 billion year history of Earth."
"70% of scientists believe that over the next 30 years as many as one-fifth of all species will become extinct, and 30% of scientists think that as many as half of all species will perish in that time." - Melissa Mathis of Greenspan
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
~ Albert Einstein
Trailer from the movie CALL OF LIFE: FACING THE MASS EXTINCTION This movie is coming soon.
