Posts Tagged ‘sustainability in environment’
Are You Really Green?
8 Ways To Be Greener. So easy you can start NOW!
Earth Day was started over 40 years ago to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s natural environment.
Most of the world did not know, at that time, how important this cause truly was. Many treated it like a pleasant social event; something to enjoy for a day and then easily forgot. Some people thought it was just for tree huggers. Now, almost everyone recognizes how vital this cause is and consider themselves green conscious to some degree. Read the rest of this entry »
Do You Want to Help the Environment?
UN researchers reveal: One quick solution to lower our effect on the environment.
Do you know the United Nations calculated the combined climate change emissions of animals bred for their meat and found it was more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together? Read the rest of this entry »
Nice Cow – Baaad Cow Effects
It's hard to believe. I would have thought it was just an exaggerated interpretation within the heath food industry if it hadn't been published in Scientific American. What their February issue reveals is the tremendous environmental costs of meat production.
I was reminded of this because I have just returned from a health convention in Los Angeles. The convention was great but to get around you have to drive on a seemingly endless horizon of freeways and concrete – one freeway merging into the next – sometimes stacking two or three levels. When you think of all those vehicles – constantly pounding the earth and belching exhaust into the atmosphere throughout the world – its easy to see how this could be ruining our environment and contributing to global warming. Oddly enough though, all the scientific evidence to date shows that the hamburger in your kitchen right now (the beef industry) is actually having a greater impact.
How is this possible? Hint – it's NOT because of their farts – as has been joked at in the media! This great effect is possible mostly because cattle displace useful plants. Trees, grasses and other year round plants are what absorb C02 and capture carbon on this planet but they are displaced for specific crops to house and feed cattle. Read the rest of this entry »
A Revolutionary Simple Approach To Healthy Eating
