Environmental
Alternatives
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Alternatives
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Transportation
Entertainment
Consumption
Solid waste
Community
Population
Education
Clothing
Money
Shelter
Energy
Water
Food
Air
In order to enable life to flourish
on this planet, it is vital for each of us to consider every aspect of
our human lives and their net impact on our fragile and interdependent
environment. Following is an examination of each essential element in our
lives. These categories are water, food, waste, shelter, heat and
power, transportation, education, entertainment, consumption and economics.
We must keep foremost in our minds the priorities we choose as our fundamental
criteria when we design each of these elements. From a global, long-term
perspective we can then create and utilize these physical methods and structures
that so intricately influence our spiritual, social, religious, political,
and ethical outcomes. The more details we attend to, the larger is
our scale of impact.
Interested
in more information on environmentally sensitive products you can use?
Want to learn more about how to adapt what you're currently doing to be
healthier, safer, and beneficial to society? Concerned about the
water you drink, the air you breathe and the food you eat? Interested
in being totally self-sufficient? Keep reading.
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The following topics discuss alternatives to
the common societal trends which, if not altered, are leading us to waste,
pollution and poor health.
These environmental alternatives are simple,
economical and essential for the preservation of a quality lifestyle globally.
Do your part. Consider encorporating one
or more of these aspects into your
own home.
Air
Water
:
Article:
Water
Article: "The
Globalization of Water"
Article:
"Interesting
Facts about Not Drinking Water"
Article:
"Aerosol
Pollution Could Drain Earth's Water Cycle"
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Solid Waste:reuse
refuse
recycle
repair
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS GARBAGE.
Check
yourself on the waste calculator.
WASTE CALCULATOR: http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/ecoconsumer/calculator.asp
I built my whole house out of
"garbage." (See Dean's
house.)
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Population:
Facts and statistics
Solutions
to population growth: things we can do now
The arcological
alternative
Building
Global Community
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Community
Transportation:
Articles Worth Reading
Exercise
Bicycling
Fuel Cells
Mass Transit
Electric
Vehicles
Travel Alternatives
Green Cars for
2001
Hazardous Waste
as Fuel
Convert Your
Car to Run on Water
Air Pollution
from Cars Affects Health
OIL
SaveABarrel
Interesting Statistics
U.S.
oil companies
Arctic Refuge
RV life (consider
self-sufficiency:
- RV-sized
composting toilet
- photoelectric roof panels
- small-scale
water filters
- roof-mounted
solar water heater
Mileage
Maxx increases gas mileage, reduces toxic emissions, and improves
performance: http://www.deansfuelsavings.com
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Education:
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Entertainment
Take time to play,
Yes, every day.
Sports with low/no environmental impact:
sailboarding, sailing, canoeing, kayaking, swimming,
cross-country skiing, snow-shoeing, mountain climbing
hang-gliding, parasailing, kite flying
archery, fencing, martial arts
bicycling, skate boarding, roller blading, jogging
new games, theater sports, board games
reading, writing, painting, dance, music, piano
Check out Dean's list of fun
classes and workshops
How to transfer
photos to any material.
Check out this clock.
You can play with it right now.
New York Creativity Workshops http://www.the-creativity-journey.com
Run down? Exercise.
"A moment's insight is sometimes
worth a life's experience."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Instead of expecting to be entertained by other people or by the media,
develop the ability to entertain yourself.
With
your own imagination, dreams, desires and creativity,
you have the power to change the world.
If
you are bored,
either you are
not paying enough attention to the details,
or you are doing things much too slowly.
-- Dean Petrich
You will never be bored if you are around
Deano
the Clown.
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Consumption:
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Paper(kenaf
paper, hemp, Domtar, inks, weeds)
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Growth
and consumerism
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Excess packaging ( paper
or plastic, garbage, advertising costs)
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Reduce
global warming: lower carbon dioxide consumption
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Development, habitat, forests
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Living lightly
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Storage units
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Impulse shopping
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Possession (ownership, access, barter, length of
time spent in use)
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Obesity
& weight control
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Consumption:
food, drugs, and more
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Money: If
you need money now, take a look at these
Business
Opportunities
Call: (877) 713-7858 to find
a home business that fits your needs.
ESSAYS on Money:
Bartering
Earning
Attitude & Style
Networking Future essay topics:
saving, investing, how to become and stay debt-free, money vs. time,
ownership as access Access
is ownership.
"Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth:
the only way to help yourself is to help others."
-- Elbert Hubbard
Examine thoughtfully the following options for making money from home:
- Travel Travel at discount rates, use timeshares without the hassles and expense, and get paid to enjoy life.
- Fuel Savings Lower vehicle maintenance, increase performance, reduce fuel consumption, and make money.
- Cash Comfort Zone Here is the most powerful and simple system ever developed for generating cash quickly.
- The Greatest Home Business
At last, here is a stable source of income in spite of the economy.
- Voice
Broadcasting Smart marketers never chase customers; instead, they get customers to chase them!
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Parents
United: create a legacy, achieve balance, meet your income needs
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Water Filters:
Join
the booming water filter industry with the top-of-the-line point-of-use
systems.
- Nefful
Unique fabric: fire-retardant, insulating, absorbant, comfortable
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Fund-Raising
for Non-Profits Help your favorite non-profit organization
to fundraise long-term
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Top-Rate
Businesses Ten
excellent business web sites. Choose the site that most closely fits your
needs.
- Why
Wellness? Health
and wellness is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Here is a
complete program that is natural, safe, effective and
inexpensive.
- Net Extractor Never pay for leads again. Here is an unlimited supply of potential prospects.
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Deal with Debt
Deal
with debt. Debt is money that is being exported out of the local
economy. Debt ties your money and your time to the monetary system.
The monetary system is built to make it hard for us to get to each
other and to deal directly with the source of things. The primary goal
of the monetary system is to get us into debt and to keep us there; the
deeper into debt we get, the more the monetary system profits and
grows. Get out of debt as quickly as possible.
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Energy:
Choose green energy.
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Energy Sources & Production
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Energy Storage
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DAMS OF THE WORLD: Large dams
are destroying rivers and the communities that depend on them. Dams
Around the World offers easy-to-use "clickable" maps and descriptions
to illustrate the scope, geographic distribution and issues surrounding
50 of these controversial projects.
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Consumption & Conservation
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Pollution
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Air
quality
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Concerns: aesthetics, noise pollution, solid waste,
water fouling, soil contamination
If you want to be prepared
for any emergency, click here:
EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS
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Food:
- FOOD
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Health
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Agriculture (seed preservation, sustainable agriculture,
winter gardens, edible landscaping, organic farming) http://www.utyx.com/agriculture/
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Fertilizer
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Preparation
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Storage
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Consumption
(balance, frugality & waste, global perspective, fast foods, habit
)
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Diet (vegetables, vegan, soy)
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Food
supplements
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Spices
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Recipes
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Nine
natural energizers
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Recycling food and food wastes
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See March-April 1999 issue of Audubon special
report: "The Organic Revolution"
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Would you like to feed a starving person somewhere
in the world? check out this site on my site link page: www.thehungersite.org.
If you click on this site, someone will be fed for free.
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Community Supported Agriculture http://www.csacenter.org
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"Foods for Long Life and Well-Being": Foods
and nutrition
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Pre-natals,
vitamins for prenant mothers, iron pills
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Obesity
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Weight Control
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Lose
weight, get in shape, work out with support, and eat smart.
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Shelter:
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Alternative building
materials (locally available, recycled, non-toxic, simple)
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http://www.cobworks.com/
(light clay, cob, rammed earth, straw bale)
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Earth Tunnel
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Arcosanti
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Dean's
house
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Twin
Oaks
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Federation
of Egalitarian Communities
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Marketing green homes and community housing projects:
http://www.greenworksrealty.com
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Shelter keeps us warm and dry. So does clothing.
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Design, architecture, shapes, orientation, patterns,
flow, function and form
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Co-housing, individual living, permanent/temporary,
communes, living lightly
Article: "Green
Living Space Improves Mental Health"
Article: Build
old, not new. Rethink moving out to the country to get away from everything
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