Environment

Okay Monkey Put Down The Fruit and Raise Your Arms
“I’ll get you, ya varmin”! Vermin - the scourge, tramps & vagabonds of the animal kingdom. This is the stereotypical view of vermin who are inconsequently considered a menace. In South Africa (SA) vermin paints a more disturbing picture. It is not overly ...
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Use Natural Cleaners to remove the Toxic Risk from your home
Maybe you live in a nice house smelling of alpine meadows with a sparkling bathroom, lovely clean and polished surfaces.

What if someone were to come into your lovely shining home and mix up a cocktail of unknown chemicals for you and your family t...
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Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Mudslides: Extreme Events - What do they Mean?
In lieu of recent, tumultuous occurrences, people are more compelled than ever to discover the mystery of these modern-day, earth-changing events.

One ...
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Maps of Time and Tide.

Maps, for centuries have been the business of cartographers with mariners traditionally being able to make their own, in uncharted waters. Yes, the expression is still used in various contexts. I suppose that given the nature of open seas, one had lit...
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Weather affects every aspect of the economy
c. 2004 Chris S. Orr CCM

Weather affects every aspect of our lives. It impacts our pocketbooks, our menus, our schedules and even our health.

We are aware of how cold weather drives up the price of natural gas and propane (just look at your...
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Environment 101




Understanding the environment is key to taking care of it. This short article hopes to present the basic issues and terminologies surrounding the environment in order to demystify the subject.
In sum, all of us have a responsibility to
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Do You Ken John Peel?
Do You Ken John Peel?



My daughter Abi turned thirteen recently and as head of the family she thinks it's about time her parents became vegetarians. She has been a convert, with occasional lapses, for around two years. I'm certainly not ...
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Efficiency Equals Reduction
Efficiency Equals Reduction
(400 words)

Imagine that if at the grocery store the person bagging your purchases left empty, unused spaces in each bag causing you to carry 10 instead of 5 bags out to your car then into your home. You would be inve...
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Tsunami the next big wave:the grandaddy of them all



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Nagging Doubts
There's always that nagging doubt isn't there? The nagging doubt that they just won't get it.

I went to the Post Office yesterday, the small local one round the corner, to draw a relatively large amount of money out of my account. Whilst in th...
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Finnish Cottage Tradition
Finnish Cottage Tradition

The origin of the log structure is uncertain. It is probable that it began in northern Europe sometime in the Bronze Age (c. 3,500 B.C.). By the time Europeans began to settle in America, there was a long tradition of usin...
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A SCADA System Assessment
A Pre-SCADA System Assessment

By Randy Dennison

Introduction
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a process control system that enables a site operator to monitor and control processes distributed among various remote sites...
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Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Tsunamis

Tsunami - a seismic sea wave - means in Japanese "harbor-wave". It is also misleadingly called "tidal wave". It is an ocean wave caused by an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on the Richter scale (or greater) that occurs less than 50 kilome...
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Computer e-waste recycling now fueled by lack of Australian legislation.
Motivated by the lack of Australian government legislation and limited options available concerning the disposal of computer e-waste, IT Recyclers has initiated a much needed computer recycling service aimed primarily at Sydney business who wish to play a...
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The Valuable Individual

The Valuable Individual
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How can we, as individuals, participate in waste management? Because some of us are so overwhelmed with Earth’s problems, we feel that our contributions have no real consequence in the end. For others, soc...
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A Simple Way To Offset the Environmental Effects of Driving Your Car
We all love our cars. They give us the freedom to come and
go as we please, to get to work, to visit family and
friends, to go shopping...on our own schedule. But
automobiles also effect the environment by polluting the air
we breathe and,...
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Saving Energy in the Kitchen
Saving Energy in the Kitchen
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The kitchen, with all its appliances, gadgets and heat, is a real hotspot for potential energy saving. As the oven uses the most energy and creates a vast amount of heat while cooking foods, it is a good ...
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Reuse in the Workshop
Reuse in the Workshop
(476 words)

The workshop is a great place for reusing items formally destined for the landfill. Even if you do not have a shop or craft area you can always donate the items mentioned in the following paragraphs to friends, ...
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Maguma has integrated support for the eBay Acellerator Toolkit for PHP (PHP-AT) in their PHP IDE Maguma Workbench

(Bolzano/Italy)
Maguma will publish at the beginning of April 2005 a new module, the PHP AT of eBay. This new module will be integrated in the modular PHP IDE, Maguma Workbench.
The Accelerator Tooolkit for PHP (PHP-AT) allows the integration of...
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Garbage in its Place
Garbage in its Place
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There is nothing worse than seeing garbage blowing down the street of your neighborhood, or finding broken shards of glass at the local swimming hole where children play. Wildlife is just as vulnerable to garbage...
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Collapsing
“Collapsing…”

Terry Dashner……………………..Faith Fellowship Church PO Box 1586 Broken Arrow, OK 74013

Capitol Reader Political Book Summaries writes, “In Collapse, Jared Diamond argues that present global resource consumption trends are not susta...
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SOBERING DISCIPLINARY WARNING
The transition from 2004 to 2005 has been electrifying. The international ramifications of the deaths of so many people, and the wrecked livelihoods of multitudes of survivors, has brought about an international outpouring of concern and aid in the wake o...
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Efficiency in the Office
Efficiency in the Office
(435 words)

Nearly every office, be it commercial or home-based, may have areas of inefficiency that can be improved upon. We are not talking sales figures or profit margins or budgets, but inefficient waste and resource...
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Straw as real estate building material
In the famous kid’s fairy tale ‘The Three Little Pigs’ one of the pigs built a house of straw that made him almost pay with his life. The pig was blamed in the tale for choosing the wrong building material. But his material was definitely the right one. ...
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Mega firmament in real estate
Most of the cities in the world prefer developing high-rise construction. Almost all the big cities consist of various multi-storied edifices. This very feature of employing areas is believed to be reasonable as it saves a lot of space for parks and recr...
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Affordable Renewable Energy for Everyone
Have you ever wanted to power your home or office with renewable energy, but thought it was too expensive? Or you didn't want to deal with installing and maintaining equipment?

Now there is a way that everyone can use solar, wind, and other renewa...
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Water Conservation at the Kitchen Sink
Water Conservation at the Kitchen Sink
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It can sometimes be difficult to visualize the importance and direct effect that simple conservation efforts can have when we are bombarded with negative information regularly. Lets take a look...
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Will Soy Candles be the Leader to Light the Future?
Ahhhh, the scent and sight of a burning paraffin wax candle and the appealing ambiance that it floats throughout a room! One may think that this scenario is innocence in its purest sense. There is, after all, that cozy feeling which makes one give thought...
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Real estate construction revolution – Epilogue
Despite numerous advantages of eco-houses along with vast research experience and positive attitude of physicians and ecologists, they can hardly take their firm place in our life. The reason for it may be in the fact that the value of the natural materi...
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How to get started with deep beds

The use of deep beds as a method of growing crops has become very popular with organic gardeners for several reasons, including:

• once set up, the amount of work you have to do every year (digging and so on) is much reduced
  
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  Energy Aware and Waste Wise
  Energy Aware and Waste Wise
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  Constantly bombarded with negative information about the environment, finances and natural resources? Feeling overwhelmed? Each and every one of us can do something to help our world - starting right where...
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  Clean Vacationing
  Clean Vacationing
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  Admit it. When the sun is out and you are at your favorite campsite or cottage on the lake the last thing you want to do is spend a lot of time cooking a meal. Often, when vacationing, the lure to purchase instant f...
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  NLR: CONNECTICUT’S ONLY DEP PERMITTED MERCURY LAMP RECYCLER
  About NLR
  As the leading provider of comprehensive universal waste management services, Northeast Lamp Recycling (NLR) serves commercial, industrial and residential customers throughout New England, New York, New Jersey and the United States. Headquart...
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  Can bamboo flooring really help save the worlds’ environment?
  
  Probably not on its own, but its an excellent example of how consumers can vote with their buying dollars to sway market demand to bring more environmentally friendly products into the marketplace.
  
  Bamboo flooring is a rising trend in home floo...
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  Pruning and Training Trees and Shrubs
  PRUNING AND TRAINING GARDEN SHRUBS
  
  "The Art and Science of Pruning"
  
  By Alan Jolliffe
  
  Pruning is the art of training plants. Pruning is not an end in itself. Pruning is a stimulus for desirable plant growth.
  
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  A Dream for a Future with Alternative Energy
  
  

  
  

  
  "America has become a vassal state to OPEC. Our military men and women are offered as a serf army to the OPEC nations. We use billions of US tax dollars and the blood of our...
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  Wind Farms and Corruption
  There is only one reason that wind turbines will be built in the West Country.
  
  Our Press has failed to tell its readers of the corruption which stares us in the face, but is not seen as such. For example; The target to be met is to produce 10% of ...
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  Join in and Celebrate the 39th annual Pitch In Canada Week
  
  
  Pitch In Canada is celebrating their 39th annual event between Monday, April 18th and Sunday, April 24th this year. This non-profit organization has been working hard since 1967 to bring awareness to consumers through their "It’s up to you" camp...
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  Global Dumbing?
  I am beginning to wonder if scientists have been getting it all round. All this time, people have been worried about the Ozone, a giant asteroid, or some breakout of a bio-hazardous agent by a terrorist organization being the doom of mankind. We have spen...
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  Ancient Organic Revival
  We excitedly received a few packaged products from Essential Living Foods, anxious to try them out on our American palates. These were powdered forms of what is referred to as the "Lost Crops of the Incas"--a purple corn extract, Aji Amarillo Powder, a...
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