environment

Alarming...

Quoted: Discovery: A new study indicates that we may have already crossed several tipping points that are pushing nature into a state of instability.

Raar. I'm reminded again that I need to take the trouble to go to PCC over Whole Foods even though the Whole Foods cheese dept. tempts me far too often.

Come on WF. WTF?

quoted: Whole Foods does not care about the members of its communities who need true healthcare reform. It comes as a shock that John Mackey, Co-Founder and CEO of Whole Foods has an OpEd in todays Wall Street Journal titled: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare

http://online.wsj.com/...

He offers talking points straight out of the GOP and Health Insurance lobby play book such as:

the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment.

Quoted: Ships with giant funnels which travel the world's seas creating more clouds to deflect the sun's rays could help cut global warming, say scientists.

Interesting idea. I wonder if it really involves less processing than just recycling the bottles.

Quoted: We sell brand new liquid soap packaged in old plastic soda bottles, plastic water bottles and glass beer bottles to help clean up our environment.
Each bottle is cleaned, sanitized and processed for reuse as packaging for your favorite brand of liquid soap. Big companies aren’t going to do this on their own. So, we’ll do it for them. We buy name brand liquid soap by the barrel and package it in old bottles here in America.

In order to understand what you as an individual or as a member of an environmental organization can do to help preserve our natural resources, you first need to know some basic terms.

Finally! We have been waiting for free computer recycling.

Quoted: Free Electronics Recycling Begins January 1, 2009 There are many electronics recyclers in Washington that provide environmentally sound recycling services. However, these recyclers may charge a fee at this time to accept items for recycling.

ooh! this is good. I have wanted to get a enviro friendly dry cleaner for a while.

Quoted: Only about 35 dry cleaners in the U.S. use toxin-free carbon dioxide to clean clothes, and Seattle's Blue Sky Cleaners, which launched in September, is one of them.

I have read two different references to this product but nothing that says that anyone has tried it and if it works ... you spray it on the car, it gathers the dirt and you wipe it off with a cloth.

Quoted: A typical car wash uses between 20 to 45 gallons of water per car. A home wash can use between 80 and 140 gallons.

There are approximately 240 million vehicles in the U.S. If even half of those cars used Green Earth Waterless Carwash, once a month for one year, we would save 28 billion gallons of water. This is the equivalent of 40,000 Olympic size pools or 560 million baths.

my question in "ask Umbra" :-)