How the Environment Affects Our Aging Process
It?s true that the environment we live in plays an important part in the aging process. One of the disadvantages of modern life is that our cities are filled with pollution - which we have to breathe. This pollution is a toxic mix of smoke and chemicals so it?s no wonder that it poses a health risk as we have seen in the rising incidence of allergies and asthma.
The Visible and Hidden Dangers of Flood Water
You have seen the television footage -- flood victims wading through water, children jumping into flood water to chill off, and floating debris speeding downstream. Flood water contains visible and hidden dangers. What are they?
Should A National Holiday Outshine An Ecological Disaster
The July 4th weekend just ended offered millions of Americans the opportunity to relax , forget their cares and worries and enjoy warmer summer weather. The many professionals contending with an almost unstoppable oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico also treated themselves to a long and relaxing weekend. A number of technical solutions and alternatives arrived too late before the weekend began and the required military and civilian experts crucial to evaluating and assessing the effectiveness of these solutions had already returned home. To many concerned individuals this bureaucratic hamstringing situation represented a source of frustration rather than hope.
Green Living - Finding Renewable Energy
Everyone seems to want to play a part in reducing energy consumption within the home and business. Some choose to take it a step further and switch their residential and commercial properties to renewable energy systems. Finding renewable energy just requires a bit of online research and some cash.
CRUDE Filmmakers Subpoenaed by Chevron
As a film I have supported on this blog by promoting it, to find out this news about CHEVRON going after this filmmaker is very unnerving to say the least. The oil industry is general is on shaky grounds with the BP oil spill, something I have yet to write about on this blog. Please read the following correspondence about how you can support this film against CHEVRON, the 3rd largest corporation in the US.
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End Paper Receipts
Software Advice is hosting a poll to end paper receipts. Remarkably, 9,600,000 trees are cut down each year just to produce paper receipts. To top that, the amount of CO2 emitted by producing one ton of receipt paper - just one - is equivalent to the amount of exhaust a car emits while driving for an entire year.
Eliminate and Decrease Styrofoam
An email sent to The Environmental Blog to help promote the elimination of styrofoam:
I am a third year biology major at SFU and am currently taking a Conservation Biology Class. We have been assigned a project to make an impact on the environment by invoking a conservation action. I have created an ongoing online petition as my project which is promoting the decrease or elimination of the use of Styrofoam. The process of making Styrofoam is the 5th largest contributor to hazardous waste and it poses serious threats (respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections, headache, depression) to the makers of the product. Styrofoam is not biodegradable, and a styrofoam cup lasts for 500 years in a landfill before it is completely broken down. As the product is slowly broken down, it releases a harmful monomer called styrene which combines with nitrous oxides to increase greenhouse gases. The petition will be sent to major electronic companies to increase their awareness on the issue and hopefully get them to reduce their use of Styrofoam. I would appreciate your support in this cause with a link to the petition on your website to raise more awareness. Thanks very much for your time, the petition can be found at Help Eliminate Styrofoam Effects on the Environment.
Thanks very much, lets reduce greenhouse gases!
-Kendall Chan
Urban Rooftop Wind Turbines
 The Indigo Building or 12 West building recently installed Portland's first wind turbines on the top of a high rise. The wind energy generated from the four small-scale turbines (45 feet tall compared to the massive 400-foot turbines in the Columbia River Gorge) will only produce about one percent of the building’s total energy usage, but serves as a beacon for Oregon's recognition of sustainability.
Crude The Real Price of Oil | Playing in Portland
 New Environmental Documentary CRUDE comes to Cinema 21 ONE WEEK ONLY! 11/13-11/19 Cinema 21 :: 616 NW 21st Ave, Portland, Oregon 97209 :: (503) 223-4515 *Filmmaker Joe Berlinger in person 11/13 at the 7pm show!*
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