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EPA attachs Lawnmowers

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:16:19 GMT

clipped by: mklosinski
clipper's remarks: These folks are out of control. When will this madness stop. How many MPG is my lawnmower required to get?

Clip Source: www.cnsnews.com

Washington - Gasoline-powered lawnmowers blamed for summertime air pollution will have to be cleaner under new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The regulation issued Thursday requires a 35 percent reduction in emissions from new lawn and garden equipment powered by engines under 25 horsepower. It takes effect in 2011 and is expected to save approximately 190 million gallons of gasoline each year.

Environmentalists welcome the regulation. It had been delayed for years by opposition from small engine manufacturers and their congressional supporters.

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Boatloads of Trouble: How We Are Importing Our Way to Destruction

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:16:43 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie
clipper's remarks: Think about it before buying any more rubbish from China. Make your own, look after what you've got. It's the new cool. Consumption and more stuff is so vulgar.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Economists, bureaucrats and investors rejoiced late last month when the Commerce Department announced that U.S. exports in June were up sharply, $28.8 billion higher than in June 2007. The department made less noise about the rising tide of imports, which were up $26.4 billion.

the nation's seaports are now handling 1.4 billion tons of goods annually and that waterborne container traffic will double by 2020.

Oceangoing ships burn the lowest of low-quality diesel oil, and the fuel used by locomotives isn't much better. Trucks burn a greater quantity of fuel per ton hauled, with correspondingly high emissions.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

imagine 7,300 football fields paved and enclosed (or have a look at these images.) Similarly vast acreages

are paved as well.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Halting that growth or even making deep cuts in imports would not only help clear the air, it would make it easier to clean up the toxic water pollution that accumulates in sea lanes and ports;

Tags: economy, transport, i-consequences, i-increase, environment, i-pollution, i-climate change, i-crisis

Replexion Anti Wrinkle Cream

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:21:39 GMT

clipped by: replexionanti
clipper's remarks: Replexion, the powerful triple-peptide anti wrinkle cream, is the latest and many are saying the best anti-aging skin care product to hit the market in years. Replexion can help you get rid of wrinkles and a lot more.

Clip Source: www.dermboutique.com

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Pollution and free radicals
Ultraviolet exposure
Loss of collagen

Tags: replexion, wrinkles, anti wrinkle cream, facial wrinkle treatment, crow’s feet

Sources of Land Pollution

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:55:44 GMT

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Clip Source: library.thinkquest.org

accumulation of animal manures
excessive input of chemical fertilizers
illicit dumping of tainted crops on land

using of explosives to blow up mines
using of machineries which emits toxic byproducts and leaks to the ground

improper sanitation system causes sludge to leak at surrounding soil

improper method of dredging at fertile land causes soil infertility, leaving the soil more prone to external pollution

improper waste disposal system causes waste accumulation
improper sanitation system

non biodegradable rubbles or debris which are not cleared settled in the soil undergo chemical reactions and increase soil toxicity

poisonous/toxic emissions of gases which are not filtered or neutralized

Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home - Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home Easily

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:46:00 GMT

clipped by: MickThompson
clipper's remarks: "The Ultimate Crash Course To Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home Quickly and Easily... from home!"

Clip Source: howtomakeyourownbiodieselathome.blogspot.com

Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home

"Save At Least 33% Of All The Hard-Earned Income By Spending Less Money On Filling Car Diesel And At The Same Time, Keep Mother Nature Clean From Air Pollution!"

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Enjoy a new hobby that saves you money and the environment!

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Tags: make your own biodiesel at home, how to make your own biodiesel at home, make your own biodiesel, how to make your own biodiesel

How To Make Your Own Biodiesel - Complete How To Make Your Own Biodiesel Guide

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:43:24 GMT

clipped by: MickThompson
clipper's remarks: How To Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home?
Would you like to know How To Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home?
Do you know that you can earn and save money when you Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home?
This is a complete guide on making Your Own Biodiesel at Home.

Clip Source: www.zimbio.com

How To Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home

These days using Biodiesel is so popular because of it's benefits to the environment. But sadly buying Biodiesel is expensive. But what if you could Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home?
This wikizine is dedicated on guiding you and giving you a complete step by step guide on How To Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home.

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How To Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home?

The usage of biodiesel is increasing and the people who can afford such luxury are switching their fuel to biodiesel. Why do people choose biodiesel over the ordinary petrol and diesel?

"Once You Start Making And Creating
Your Own Bio-Diesel, You Will..."

#Reduce the amount of pollution you generate, including carbon dioxide, which is contributes to global warming!

1. You don't need a PH degree in chemistry to make biodiesel! The process is very simple and easy to follow. This E-book will guide you in a concise and diligent manner to ensure you create your homemade biodiesel, CORRECTLY and SUCCESSFULLY!

Tags: your own biodiesel at home, how to make your own biodiesel at home.make your o, how to make your own biodiesel

Make Your Own Biodiesel - Complete info on how to Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home.

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:35:07 GMT

clipped by: MickThompson
clipper's remarks: learn how to Make your own biodiesel at home, you can surely earn and save a lot of money when you Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home.

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Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home

How would you like to make your own biodiesel?

"Save At Least 33% Of All The Hard-Earned Income By Spending Less Money On Filling Car Diesel And At The Same Time, Keep Mother Nature Clean From Air Pollution!"

Make Your Own Biodiesel!

Learning how to make biodiesel is possibly easy. So much so that the good thing is, you don't have to spend money on classes just to learn how to make your own biodiesel. In fact, a couple of books and information from here and there is enough to teach you.

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Tags: make your own biodiesel at home, how to make your own biodiesel at home, how to make your own biodiesel, make your own biodiesel

Oil Bubbles Point to Eco Disaster in Paradise

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:17:39 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Collapse danger

"What is frightening is that the Hoyo appears to be leaking from an area where oil was stored," Jeffery told New Scientist.

Nor is the Hoyo Maru the only ship to be leaking oil – although for now, it is the only tanker which has been seen to leak.

Jeffery and his colleagues are now seeking Japanese historians and shipping experts who could remotely assess the contents of the Hoyo's oil storage tanks. If the ship is found to contain large amounts of diesel, this will need to be pumped out in order to avoid severe damage to the local biodiversity and economy.

The situation is likely to repeat itself around the Pacific over coming years. "A lot of these wrecks are in areas where the communities just don't have the resources to deal with oil pollution," warns Jeffery.

In 2003, the US government pumped 10 million litres of fuel from the sunken hull of the USS Mississinewa, a US tanker that was destroyed by the Japanese in 1944 in the Western Pacific.

Clip Source: environment.newscientist.com

A sunken oil tanker, one of dozens on the bottom of Micronesia's Chuuk Lagoon, is releasing streams of purple diesel bubbles. On 31 July, the resulting oil slick was 5 kilometres long.

Corrosion experts say the 52 wrecks in Chuuk Lagoon could collapse in a few years, yet no-one knows how much fuel was inside the vessels when they sank. The problem could take on astonishing proportions: more than 380 other tankers lie at the bottom of the Pacific.

The wrecks are overgrown with coral, house a huge diversity of tropical fish, and attract tourists, who provide welcome income to the local population.

The teams were told from the start that the wrecks occasionally leaked fuel, which at times washed up on local islands, polluting mangroves. It was originally thought that the leaks were of aviation fuel – some of the sunken ships carried thin drums of fuel to supply Japanese fighter planes in the region.

Tags: world war ii, sunken diesel tankers, supply japanese fighter planes, pacific ocean, micronesia

106 mpg 'air car' creates buzz, questions

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:32:34 GMT

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Clip Source: edition.cnn.com

(CNN) -- You've heard of hybrids, electric cars and vehicles that can run on vegetable oil. But of all the contenders in the quest to produce the ultimate fuel-efficient car, this could be the first one to let you say, "fill it up with air."

That's the idea behind the compressed air car, which backers say could achieve a fuel economy of 106 miles per gallon.

The technology has been the focus of MDI, a European company founded in 1991 by a French inventor and former race car engineer.

New York-based Zero Pollution Motors is the first firm to obtain a license from MDI to produce the cars in the United States, pledging to deliver the first models in 2010 at a price tag of less than $18,000.

The concept is similar to how a locomotive works, except compressed air -- not steam -- moves the engine's pistons, said Shiva Vencat, vice president of MDI and CEO of Zero Pollution Motors.

Tags: car, compressed, air

Origins of Global Warming

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:55:58 GMT

clipped by: yamdablam
clipper's remarks: This site contains the true origins of the global phenomenon of the environmental movement.

When you read the sources you will understand why it invades every topic of our daily lives.

Clip Source: www.green-agenda.com

It doesn't matter what is true,
it only matters what people believe is true."
- Paul Watson,

co-founder of Greenpeace

We are on the verge of a global transformation.
All we need is the right major crisis..."
- David Rockefeller,
Club of Rome executive member

"Unless we announce disasters no one will listen."
- Sir John Houghton,

first chairman of IPCC

In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill."
- Club of Rome,

The First Global Revolution

Tags: green, global, environment, energy

Environmental Art

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:12:23 GMT

clipped by: Kelika

Clip Source: www.ecosalon.com

The Litmus Garden designed by T. Allen Comp. With the help of over a hundred volunteers over an April weekend in 2001, a toxic river of coal mining waste was transformed into a series of cascading pools that eventually filter and clean the water before it flows into Blacklick Creek in Vintondale, PA. Different trees have been planted at the edge of each pool which reflect the different colors of the water as it purifies.

by Daniel Dancer. Circles of stone placed on logging and mining roads on public lands, these installations are meant to raise awareness of private profits made from mining, logging and grazing on public lands.

by Jean Paul Ganem. The artist turns fields of human waste and pollution into colorful landscapes made up of compositions of different kinds and colors of plants. Beautiful views from the air.

Edible Estates

Haeg has created numerous regional prototype gardens of edible landscapes

Tags: environment, art

The dark night

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:12:52 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: I am sure that batman wouldn't mind

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Helping the Stars Take Back the Night

ASTRONOMERS and others interested in a night sky unencumbered by the glare from artificial light love to tell this story: When the Northridge earthquake knocked out power in Los Angeles in 1994, numerous calls came into emergency centers and even the Griffith Observatory from people who had poured into the streets in the predawn hours. They had looked into the dark sky to see what some anxiously described as a “giant silvery cloud” over the shaken city.

Not to worry, they were assured. It was merely the Milky Way, the vast galaxy that humans once knew so well — until the glare from electric light effectively erased most traces of it from urban and near-urban skies.

Tucson passed laws restricting light pollution and emerged as the center of the so-called dark-sky movement. It’s the home of the International Dark-Sky Association, which works to raise awareness about light pollution and to promote the design and marketing of outdoor lighting

Tags: ecology, energy, night, light

Electronic Waste- Highly Toxic

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:29:14 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: Most of Europe's and Americas e-waste is send off to far away first nations already under extreme strain, and as a result poison those who live and work around our phones and TV's etc. No mandatory recycling demanded by our western leaders. Take responsibility with all you buy and consume. Change politicians,get mad,act consequent.

Clip Source: www.greenpeace.org

Poisoning the poor – Electronic Waste in Ghana

Ghana — The latest place where we have discovered high tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution is in Ghana. Our analysis of samples taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards in Ghana has revealed severe contamination with hazardous chemicals.

The ever-growing demand for the latest fashionable mobile phone, flat screen TV or super-fast computer creates ever larger amounts of obsolete electronics that are often laden with toxic chemicals like lead, mercury and brominated flame retardants. Rather than being safely recycled, much of this e-waste gets dumped in developing countries. Previously, we have exposed pollution from e-waste scrap yards in China and India. Nigeria has also been identified as a dumping ground for old electronics.

e-waste is being exported, often illegally, to Ghana from Europe and the US

unprotected workers, many of them children, dismantle computers and TVs

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Great Barrier Reef Saved- No Shale Oil Exploration

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:19:51 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: Australians said no to more oil exploitation and future pollution. What a wise people with strong grass roots engagement. Engage people, engage.

Clip Source: www.greenpeace.org

Great Barrier Reef saved from shale oil exploitation

Australia — It's a victory for the Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef, with a 20-year moratorium on all new shale oil projects in the region. Led by the Save Our Foreshore group, the success shows just how powerful local, grassroots campaigns can be.

The ban has been welcomed by just about everyone but the Queenland Resource Council, whose proposal was set to mine millions of tonnes of shale rock each year on a site just 10 km from the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. The shale oil mine threatened to drain precious water supplies, and to risk toxic leaching and air pollution from waste rock. Shale oil production is extremely greenhouse gas intensive – emissions from this project, combined with the company's other planned operations, would have raised Australia's current total emissions by 30 percent within 20 years.

Aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef off the Whitsunday Islands.

Oceans of Plastic

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:12:37 GMT

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Clip Source: liberationvideo.blogspot.com

[Video]

The plastic pollution of earth's oceans is an unrecognised environmental catastrophe. Captain Charles Moore, founder of Algalita Marine Research Foundation, talks about the plastic wasteland that converges in the North Pacific Central Gyre. He describes an ocean he had never known, "there were shampoo caps and soap bottles and plastic bags and fishing floats as far as I could see. Here I was in the middle of the ocean, and there was nowhere I could go to avoid the plastic." The immense amounts of plastic, that are a part of our daily lives, washes into the seas from far inland. This plastic does not degrade, but breaks down into tiny particles that are infesting the ocean food chain. Presented by Surfriders, surfers dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our world’s oceans, waves and beaches. 30 min. Download.

Clipmarks | Pollution Clips

EPA attachs Lawnmowers

Boatloads of Trouble: How We Are Importing Our Way to Destruction

Replexion Anti Wrinkle Cream

Wrinkle Creams

Replexion

Replexion Product Information

Replexion Description

Sources of Land Pollution

Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home - Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home Easily

Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home

Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home

How To Make Your Own Biodiesel - Complete How To Make Your Own Biodiesel Guide

How To Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home

How To Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home?

Make Your Own Biodiesel - Complete info on how to Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home.

Make Your Own Biodiesel at Home

How would you like to make your own biodiesel?

Oil Bubbles Point to Eco Disaster in Paradise

106 mpg 'air car' creates buzz, questions

Origins of Global Warming

Environmental Art

The dark night

Helping the Stars Take Back the Night

Electronic Waste- Highly Toxic

Poisoning the poor – Electronic Waste in Ghana

Great Barrier Reef Saved- No Shale Oil Exploration

Great Barrier Reef saved from shale oil exploitation

Oceans of Plastic