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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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Nelson Mandela

GOGREEN summer 2013

GOGREEN SUMMER 2012

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e ask ourselves what

does green mean? Most would reply: recycling, conserving, planting, cultivation. One question,” what do you do in your daily lives to display green?” We are responsible for teaching our children and those around us to be green with displays of actions and a consciousness beyond our normal day of living.

Our recycle bins outside by our trash bins are one way we show it, the way we shop with recyclable bags, we walk more, bike more, and some have even changed their lifestyle and eat better. These are all great and wonderful tasks and habits to convert and show a demonstration of our new lifestyles to include actions and reactions of saving our planet. My dilemma is: What we do and what we say in the word green, does include our inner beings. I wonder quite often as a seasoned

mother of a young child of 9 years old,how can we save the planet, if we can’t save our own environment?

How can we feed the children in third world countries, if we can’t feed the child on our own streets?

How can we show kindness, if we can’t wish our neighbors “Good Morning?” How can we teach our children to be kind, if we go home and greet them with anger? How can we show our children to stop bullying, if we can’t stop bullying the driver next to us on the streets?

How can we show our children to be better students, if we don’t teach them at home? How can we teach our children to do the right things in life, if we show them what we do wrong? Crossing them in the middle of traffic, throwing out our trash, tossing our cigarettes out the window, putting them to bed late and unfed ,so they can’t keep their heads on straight and ready for learning and friends? How can we commend our teachers, if some continue to use shouting and

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belittling tactics on our children.

Educators you have the capability to uplift a life, you also have the capability of destruction by the words you say. They are listening with eager hearts, when you think they don’t hear you. They are storing your words in their hearts.

We should define the word “Green” it should include all the above, or maybe we should include the word “Mirror of Green”. Green is living and alive, reaping gardens from inside to display to our world that we are responsible adults, leading our new generation to become great stewards of a new world of peace and kindness with gardens producing ample supply of sustainability inside and out!

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Waste Management Recycling Charlene Alvarez

WasteManagement is the undisputed world leader in nearly all facets of waste treatment, including low-level nuclear, chemical, and asbestos cleanup; and daily garbage removal, waste reduction, and recycling. Waste Management has expanded its operations both technically and geographically, acquiring a host of sophisticated suppliers of trash-toenergy plants, pollution control equipment, and recycling services, while signing contracts with municipalities from Buenos Aires to Hong Kong. The company has frequently been attacked by governmental agencies and environmental groups for a variety of alleged failings, but its phenomenal growth and strenuous efforts in the recycling and pollution-control areas make it likely that in the future Waste Management will be perceived as a hero rather than villain by the world's increasingly polluted cities.

Waste Management, it seems, is well on the way to becoming the planet's garbage collector. It was an exceedingly good time to join the waste-treatment industry. Not only was the national economy at the peak of its postwar prosperity, the U.S. consumer was just then beginning to be inundated with a wave of new packaging and convenience items designed to be used once and thrown away. The nation's production of garbage was growing much faster even than its population, and

companies such as Ace Scavenger found themselves in great demand.

The company responded with characteristic energy. At each of its nine chemical dumps, WMI installed environmental-compliance officers with power to override the decisions of local plant managers.

These watchdog foremen reported to WMI's new environmentalmanagement head, Walter C. Barber, a former acting chief of the EPA. In addition, the Chemical Waste subsidiary in charge of most of the troubled sites was provided with a new president, Jerry E. Dempsey, former president of Borg-Warner Corporation. To smooth relations with Congress, WMI hired Frank B. Moore as its chief lobbyist. Moore had previously served as President Jimmy Carter's liaison officer with Congress. Finally, WMI adopted new advertising campaigns stressing the company's services on behalf of the environment and customers alike.

While such moves had not satisfied critics such as Greenpeace International, it appeared that WMI learned a lesson from its legal battles and took some pains to adopt more safety measures. As proof of its progress in these areas, WMI can point to the long-term contracts it won in the late 1980s to handle much of the waste from Portland,

Oregon; and Seattle, Washington; two cities known for their strong environmental commitment. In both cases, the municipalities found that WMI's experience and resources made it the best choice for waste problems of great magnitude. Recycling is processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production.

Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" waste hierarchy.

Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles, and electronics.

Although similar in effect, the composting or other reuse of biodegradable waste such as food or garden waste is not typically considered recycling.Materials to be recycled are either brought to a collection center or picked up from the curbside, then sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials bound for manufacturing.

DIY INSPIRATION fun at home

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Collect old and broken crayons from around the house. Melt in a pot and create new fun crayons from cookie cutter shapes.

Leaf crafts for children. Collect differnet shapes and sizes of leaves to create fun pictures and scenes.

Rock Bugs are so cute and the perfect project for little boys.

Use old cup shaped orange slices as bird feeders. Hang from twine or string outside filled with bird food.

Taking old plastic milk jugs, juice cartons use as fairy houses and cover with leaves,pebbles, jewels, or beads.

Have your child start with a magazine or newspaper clipping and let the child expand the picture!

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Not So Appetizing Processed Natural foods drained of their nutrients

By Layla Lindsey

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! he depth of processed foods in America have devastating impacts leading to an unsustainable cycle, which will ultimately result in the destruction of not only the earth but, the human race. Through the process we have created an irreversible pattern of altering foods from there natural state. They are depriving our health, are responsible for economic in fluctuations, and destroying the natural process of the environment to continue producing natural resources.

Processed foods are drained of their nutrients value from the time they grow in the soil, feeding off fertilizers and pesticides. Grocery stores, restaurants, fast food places, and most any location you could purchase food is processed to some degree. Many items such as canned foods, white breads, pastas, snack foods, chips, cheeses, frozen foods, boxed meal mixes, breakfast cereals, processed meats, and most all fast food meals etc. All these altered foods of nearly no nutritional value also

called empty calories, are made of trans fats, saturated fats, high levels of sodium, and excessive amounts of artificial sweeteners such high fructose corn syrups,artificial coloring, flavors, and aromas. The fast food industry has drastically changed America, creating a new generation of society with a reliance on convenient fast food, which is deceivingly satisfying yet incredibly hazardous to our health.

The modifications of our food system has serious long term health problems of obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart problems,high blood pressure,various illnesses and even certain types of cancer. The United States food consumption has grown considerably over the last 50 years, in 1960 the rate of obesity was at 13.3 percent. In 2004, it increased to 32.1 percent and is continuing to rise, therefore causing an epidemic obesity rate. Unhealthy weight gain due to a poor diet and lack of exercise, its responsible for over 300,000 deaths each year. The annual cost to society

for obesity is estimated at nearly $100 billion. Over weight children are much more likely to become overweight adults due to unhealthy eating habits and lack of exercise. In 2007, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health warned: “If not halted, the everincreasing obesity crisis will explode by 2015 to 24% of children and adolescents being overweight or obese, and 75% of adults being overweight with 41% being obese.

Currently over fifty percent of people with severe weight problems have diabetes alone. At this time, the CDC and NIH have estimated over 7% of our population has a form of diabetes for a total of over 21 million people but nearly a third are undiagnosed.�

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The economic impacts of processed foods is alarming, it all begins with the distribution of processed foods into the economy by distributers to super centers, fast food chains, and restaurants across America.

The economy is directly affected by benefiting the large corporations and establishments which produce in mass quantities instead of the quality of food.These establishments are directly responsible for gaining immense profits from exploiting natural resources and our health for money. Processed foods may seem cheaper and more filling yet, they are destroying our well being. Our bodies exposed to these toxins cause health related issues, studies have shown that obesity not only affects individuals; it also drains the economy.

According to WIN, overweight and obese conditions cost a total of $117 billion per year in medical expenses.

Obesity also affects productivity, and an estimated $3.9 billion a year is lost due to weight-caused illnesses.

Processed foods also have environmental related issues as well. Its an extensive cycle of how we grow food industrially and drain our natural resources to produce chemically engineered foods in order to distribute more, to meet the demands processed foods throughout America. Therefore causing the need to expand feed lots, and crops which depletes Earths resources. Food processes involve a very intricate origins from the biochemistry of the soils to the extent of what an animal living conditions are.

According to the US Department of Agriculture has “The nutritional quality of produce since the 1950s and has seen a steady decline. According to Brian Halwell, a researcher for WorldWatch, vitamin C has declines by 20%, iron by 15 percent riboflavin by 38 percent, and calcium by 16 percent. So we are now getting less nutrition per calorie in our foods. In essence, we have to eat more food to get the same vitamin and mineral continent.�

consume processed foods will benefit health immensely, while making a strong statement against the commercialized food industry lead by the corporate chains destroying the Earth and health of Americans. Consume a balanced diet of whole foods, whole grains, proteins, fruits and vegetables. In todays society we need to make a strong commitment to make a changes in the food industry in order to prevail and to create a sustainable society in relation to a natural regrowth of our food production that contains its true nutrients instead a cheap and convenient outlet of processed foods.

Beginning to recognize personal eating habits and diet changes to not

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An Affair Worth Ending: Fuel and Food Julie Hitchcock

Food. Lets face it, who doesn't love good food, we love to eat it, grill it, serve it and share it with love ones.

Every thing from the famed Thanksgiving meal where the table is sagging with the weight of hot delicious foods, to summer picnics with cold salads and sandwiches, food in many ways defines our lives. But its not as simple as we would like it to be, once just a story about land and a farmer, it is now an epic tale dripping all along the way with oil.

Not so long ago, food was grown just outside of town, often organically, picked by hand and delivered at the peak of freshness to small grocery stores. Today its a much different process for most of our foods. Did you know average food item travels well over 1,500 miles, and thats just the final leg of its fuel filled life. Lets take a closer look at our food footprint.

TILILING the turning over of the soil to prepare for planting as well as disrupting of any weeds that may have sprouted. This is most often done with a tractor.

PLANTING a huge machine goes up and down the rows dropping seeds, burning five gallons of fuel for every acre planted.

SPRAYING Pesticide or Herbicide both are applied multiple times in a growing season by the same machine.

HARVESTING Once again the HUGE machine makes its ways up and down the rows grabbing produce a week or so before its fully ripe.

PROCESSING This step involves every thing from sorting, washing and packaging produce, to converting it from a whole food to a food like substance as Michael Pollon would say. It is a highly material and energy intensive process on both the food and packaging side of the equation.

SHIPPING to three separate journeys mostly semi trucks but also planes, boats, or trains.

RETAIL Here along with its jet setting friends you food awaits you.

There is a better way. There are a few easy ways to cut down your food miles, and start living GREEN solutions.

An Affair Worth Ending: Fuel and Food

PLAN AHEAD Farmers markets are a great place to meet your farmer and learn about where you food comes from. More and more are popping up all the time across the country.

COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE (CSA), which are available in many cities, where you buy a share of the farms harvest in the spring and receive a weekly box over flowing with seasonal bounty.

SMALL FARMERS they tend to use more hand labor for planting, picking and weeding which keeps food footprint incredibly low, as well as employing more people.

MINIMIZE the amount of processed food is also cuts back on the fuel required.

AVOID packaging to the best of your ability, always check for items in the bulk isle before going to the packaged products.

Some foods cant be grown locally and thats okay, pomegranates to Wisconsin, pineapples to Oregon, and oranges to Maine. Its okay to ship those foods, if they are in the minority. If most of our food came from a local grower, and was seasonally appropriate, having those rare special treats shipped in to us isnt such a big deal.

Its just a matter of small steps to arrive at big solutions.

Clean Plates Healthy | Fit | Nutritious

Trying out recipes from different dietary styles can also help you understand what your body needs. In the new Clean Plates Cookbook, we included recipes to suit everyone from raw foodists to meat-and-potato lovers (plus quite a few of those recipes come from celeb chefs like Jamie Oliver and Iron Chef winner Marc Forgione), so you can mix and match according to your taste.

And remember the key tenet to bio-individuality: no matter how convinced someone is that their diet is right for you or how tempting an extreme diet may be, to feel your best, just be yourself.

---author --JARED KOCH

THE PERFECT FAMILY GARDEN For most of the 20th century, gardens were a formal place . Borders were immaculate, and lawns were doused with chemicals to keep them free from the merest hint of a daisy. As for children, they were tolerated but not encouraged. Just as you got told off if you made a mess in the living room, you weren't supposed to dig for worms, pick flowers or swing from branches.

Fast forward to the 21st century and it's all rather different. The generation that was first exposed to the idea of the garden as an 'outdoor room' in the 1970s now has children and grandchildren of its own.

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Design- So how do you go about planning a family garden? In large gardens, different areas can be carved out to accommodate everyone's needs, but in smaller gardens the layout needs to be more creative. There are a few key elements to bear in mind before you tackle your design. Play equipment – is there room for a permanent slide or swing? If not, use equipment that can be cleared away.

Colour – a family garden needs plenty of bright primary colours. You can introduce colour by painting walls, trelliswork and furniture, and through imaginative planting. Planting – is it easy to maintain and resilient enough to withstand footballs, pets and swordfights? Wildlife features – children will adore messing about by a pond and spotting insects. Birdfeeders will also be a big success. Easy-care seating – furniture that can be left uncovered is best. That doesn't necessarily mean plastic: synthetic rattan, wood and lightweight metal are all good, durable options.

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Games- A play area near the house is ideal for small children, but older children will want something well away from the eagle eye of parents. The garden is the ideal place to allow children to take some risks – a familiar yet everchanging environment where they can get muddy and explore the natural world.

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Plants - Plants have to be robust enough to withstand rough treatment from children and pets, so avoid fragile blooms. With young children around, you should steer clear of plants with thorns.

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THE SWEET POTATO your tasty treat ...

Sweet potato is a staple that is grown in Jamaica as well as several other countries in the world. It was one of those root crops grown by the Arawak Indians who inhabited the Island at the time when Christopher Columbus first set foot on the island. There are several varieties of the staple presently grown here. The three most commonly grown ones are white, yellow or deep orange when cooked.

Sweet potatoes are extremely versatile; as such they are consumed in many ways. The potato can be eaten by simply peeling away the skin and boiling with a pinch of salt. It can be diced, boiled and used to make a sweet potato salad or it can be added to soup to help enhance the flavour, in the meantime adding body to the soup.

Another very popular way to use the sweet potato is to make a candied dish. In fact this is a holiday delight for most families. The sweet potato could also be blanched, that is after peeling and putting the slices in a pot of boiling water for about 5 minutes, they are quickly removed and paced in some cold water. These blanched pieces of sweet potato having been properly drained can be fried lightly.

Sweet potatoes can be baked as a whole.

Usually, a really large size potato is ideal for baking. After peeling the baked potato, it could be eaten as is.

To be used as a snack the sweet potato could be peeled, sliced thinly and baked. Sweet potato chips are delectable and are always a welcome treat included in family gatherings, business meetings and any other social event.

Like most things there are several variations of the sweet potato pudding. Among these are, sweet potato with yellow yam and cornmeal, sweet potato with cornmeal and flour, or sweet potato with coco. The real delight about the pudding is the combination of creamy coconut milk, cinnamon, and vanilla with the grated sweet potato. The actual baking is no less delightful as the aroma which fills the air surely triggers all the excitement needed to get the taste buds! www.mouthwatering-recipes.com

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CARRIED BY WATER

Copyright Kathie Strmota, LoveLight Co-Creative HealthCare

As a fetus, we started out with a body consisting of 99% water. At birth, our bodies contained 90% water.

The average human body through life is 70% water.

In old age, we are about 50% water.

In other words, throughout our lives we exist mostly as water.

Every structure, and biochemical process, within our bodies is touched and influenced by it.

The molecular structure of water, H2O, and its unique physical (and metaphysical) properties, give it the quality of being an incredibly adaptable carrier of information. This applies to dissolvable physical substances as well as vibrational, or resonance, patterns. This ‘informationcarrying’ ability of water has been recognized for nearly 100 years, by those producing and using vibrational essences for the purpose of healing emotional and physical imbalances, (although I have no doubt this understanding was common knowledge in ancient medicinal and cultural practices as well).

The ability of water to receive and store the vibration of different flowers, and to carry that information into the physical body, was re-discovered by a British surgeon and homeopath, Dr Edward Bach, in the early 20th century.

Since then, many different vibrational essences have been created, as the healing properties of different natural substances, as well as spiritual energies, become better understood. Many varieties of plant and flower essences have been created, as well as gem essences (gem elixirs), shell essences, essences of angelic and ascended master energies, and so on.

Water can read and store the vibrational pattern of anything,

whether it be a physical object, an emotion or thought, or a spiritual being. That means that we can influence water with the information we give it, and water can influence us with the information it carries. Since such a large proportion of our bodies consist of water, it’s no surprise that a specific frequency carried within the water, or the energy, that we take into our bodies will quickly spread through the body and aura.

This understanding can serve to give us pause when we consider what kind of ‘information’ we do allow into our bodies. Is it negative, even harmful? Or is it positive and hopeful and healing?

It is also empowering to learn that you can influence the vibration of your physical body, in positive ways, using this incredible quality of water.

This way of thinking about water has, until recently, been considered the fantasy of ‘quacks’, as has much of the vibrational information that energy healers use, (but which quantum physics is now starting to verify). I can remember, as a student, a discussion we had about the regulation of herbal medicines by government bodies. My teacher noted that the ‘powers-that-be’ totally ignored the flower essences because, when tested in a chemistry lab, they were found to contain only brandy and water – neither of which are considered to be ‘medicinal’ under law. As my teacher pointed out, had they measured the vibrational qualities of the essences in a physics lab, as she did, they would have found a very different picture.

Each essence would have shown them a distinct and individual vibrational signature.

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In old age, we are about 50% water.

In other words, throughout our lives we exist mostly as water.

often unable to create any crystals at all. It is as if the life vitality of the water is influenced by the energy it receives.

Emoto has photographed a multitude of crystals over the years, and you can learn more from his own books, but I’d like to share just a few examples here to help you understand the importance of what you ‘take into your body’ both physically and energetically.

When looking at the comparison photographs, I can easily see, without having to make any intellectual analysis at all, which kind of crystals I’d like the water in my body to be producing!

It was found that water from different locations and different levels of processing produces different kinds of crystals. Tap water, in most cities, was found to be energetically poor in comparison with natural water (water that has sprung up from, and been filtered by, the earth, after rainfall).

This was Emoto’s observation… “Tap water didn't form crystals at all, while natural, untreated water did. The beauty of these water crystals was intriguing. The tentacles were stretching outward freely and easily from the hexagonal base.

On the other hand, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the pictures of frozen tap water. Quite honestly, I viewed their grotesque forms with loathing. Far from crystal formation, the ice often showed horrible shapes.”

Water exposed to different kinds of music, also showed

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vastly different results.

Classical, soothing, uplifting, and joyful music produced beautiful crystals, while water exposed to heavy metal, aggressive, and sad music was deformed. Similar responses to music have been found in many experiments done with growing plants, by different researchers. They often found that plants grew towards the speakers when played pleasant music and grew away from the speakers when played aggressive heavy metal music.

The same results were found with words. Sometimes, specific words were spoken regularly to the water and, at other times, they were written down on a label and taped to the bottle of water, with the words facing inwards to the water. Can water read? Apparently so!

Again, the beautiful, encouraging and uplifting words created the most complete, symmetrical crystals, while aggressive, disrespectful and derogatory words failed to form crystals, or created deformed crystals.

The examples show that the vibration of good words has positive effect while the vibration of negative words has the power to destroy.

In his books, Emoto describes an experiment by a family who put cooked rice in two jars. Every day for a month, both parents and children, at different times, said ‘thank you’ to one jar and ‘you fool’ to the other jar, and they tracked how the rice changed over the period. After a month the rice that was told ‘thank you’ started to ferment with a pleasant

energy of gratitude is a much stronger healing energy than even love, and has a greater influence.

Emoto describes love as the active, out-flowing, aspect and gratitude as the receptive aspect, and he equates the combination of love and gratitude to a water molecule. The water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms to one oxygen, and he suggests the appropriate proportion for a beautiful life is to express (and receive) one part love to two parts gratitude.

In all his samples and experiments, Emoto found that the most powerful effect, and the most beautiful and perfect crystal, was formed by the phrase ‘love and gratitude’. He

found that it was better than both the crystal formed by using only the word ‘love’, and that formed by only ‘gratitude’. The ‘love and gratitude’ crystal is similar in appearance to the ‘gratitude’ crystal, suggesting that the

Society, in general, doesn’t really acknowledge this. We make a big deal out of love but don’t really have much to say about gratitude.

Emoto says… “What the world needs now is gratitude. We must begin by learning what it means to have enough. We need to feel gratitude for having been born on a planet so rich in nature, and gratitude for the water that makes our life possible. Do we really know how wonderful it is to be able to breathe a big breath of clean air? If you open your eyes, you will see that the world is full of so much that deserves your gratitude. When you have become the embodiment of gratitude, think about how pure the water that fills your body will be. When this happens, you yourself will be a beautiful shining crystal of light.”

In his experiments, Emoto also found that the ‘love and gratitude’ vibration in water can provide immunity from harmful vibrations, and it is my opinion that reinforcing this vibration within our own bodies can have a strengthening effect upon our own immune systems.

He exposed water to the electromagnetic energies from TV, microwave, mobile phone, etc., and found that crystals

Many everyday items found around the home can be recycled.

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Recycled Materials With curbside recycling being offered in more and more communities each year, at home recycling is commonplace in 2012. Many everyday items found around the home can be recycled, keeping our landfills from becoming over-crowded and our earth cleaner. Plastics do not break down in landfills so that products such as water bottles, grocery bags and food containers are an important part of home

recycling, according to Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Plastics are broken down by number for recycling. These numbers are generally imprinted on the bottom of plastic items. Items such as water bottles, are widely accepted for recycling. Grocery bags are generally No.4 and can be placed in large recycling bins at most grocery retailers. Products stamped with No.5, No. 6 or No.7, such as yogurt containers, are not generally recyclable and should be purchased on a limited basis, according to EarthEasy.

LIVESTRONG

When we look at the environment today and see the changes that have taken place over just the last decade, we can see clearly that the environment is being threaten in all aspects of nature and is in an extreme emergency. We can drawl conclusions from many contributors that are threatening our main sources of sustainability, but as individuals it is imperative that we all recognize that every part each of us do has an important affect to our survival. Nature has a perfect balance structure that works in harmony with every living thing. When the structure of this balance is threaten, we will find disastrous occurrences that will eventually start a chain reaction; such as in the current situation of a phenomenon with our honey bees, fish, birds, weather, people. Our world is changing and growing constantly, but when our natural order is out of balance all eventually will suffer economically, community, and individually, this will include a type of unity we do not need. These

changes are and will continue to affect the universe, but most importantly every child's future generation. Below are examples of the most important changes that are occurring continually around the world.

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Be an Example of Peace ItBy Mark Begins With You Hogan

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Peace as a parent and person begins with you. John Fetzer (former owner of the Detroit Tigers) writes: Love is the core energy that rules everything. It is the force field out of the electronic energy of creation. Love is the one ingredient that holds us all together."

The daily “grind� can bring us down as adults and parents of our future leaders and citizens of tomorrow.

Your attitude, energy and habits are being constantly picked up by your child displayed through your actions. We need to come to a balance and realization people are all trying to juggle life struggles, jobs, children, finances, relationships, and personal issues. We each need to value the importance we have on the teaching our children family values. Balancing time to spend with your child is key creating a peaceful environment.

Creating a time and scheduled activity will become a positive outlet teaching your child discipline, practice, time management, social skills,patience, morals, values and an enjoyable experiences. The time you will gain will balance your inner peace, relationship with your child and productive time spend getting back to the roots of childhood and parenting.

The need is to be willing and accepting of your child's interest intertwining with your knowledge, wisdom and direction . Great starting points include growing a garden, volunteering at a local soup kitchen, learn to play a musical instrument together, but most of all be an example of peace, happiness and green parenting at all times.

We Can Improve Our Current Ecological Crisis By Living Green BY: MARCUS WILSON Our world continues to deteriorate as natural cataclysms, nuclear power plant issues and general apathy evokes havoc. This earth will soon be gone unless its citizens make an effort to do something about it. There is a climbing population, there is corruption, and there is big time pollution. The best thing for people today is to turn to green living.

Many people do not actually understand what living green is all about. Anything that you do that produces a beneficial effect on the environment is green living. These are things that we must do so that the younger generation will have a healthy earth to live. The ultimate goal for green living is to have the Earth in ecological balance. Not only that, but green living cleanses the surroundings by flushing toxins out of the environment. When we decide to live green, our earth will be a better place for everyone and we can maintain it for a very long time.

Nature itself is fighting to keep its balance as it is being attacked from all sides. There are numerous places in the world where water is decreasing. Nowadays we live in a concrete

jungle, with the elimination of numerous forests and trees, that there are hardly any trees or plants around. There is a great deal of pollution, and the air is so awful, that when commuting from one place to another, it is tough to travel the distance without being grimy on arrival.

Our children or grandchildren will live in a world where oil or trees don't exist anymore and the earth would fall apart. Each day, our world is slowly being obliterated but no one appears to be paying attention. Our society is being assailed by the many disturbances in the world. Our planet is struggling to deal with the ecological crisis, global recession and fiscal crisis. Each day money is being spent on frivolous things while crucial issues are being neglected. Very little money is being used on improving the health of our planet or promoting green living.

What steps do we need to take so that we are in the habit of being green. Can work together and conserve water, use less power and plant new trees. Are we making an attempt to clean up the environment for later generations? Is everyone on the planet doing their best to reduce pollution? Is the number of men and women who love green enough to protect our succeeding generations?

There is not a lot of time that remains so we need to work right away to live green.

Vegan Diets Are Making You Healthier & Stronger Have you tried different diet or weight loss programs but never achieved your desired result?

You have slimmed down your figure but never quite enjoyed a healthy lifestyle? Now, remember that a diet program must not only able to give you slimmer but a healthier body and mind. In that case, the diet program that you must undergo with should consist with foods that are good for your overall needs. Vegan diets can be trusted when it comes to powering up your mind and body while at the same time giving you a slim figure.

Thats just like hitting two birds with one stone. And who wouldn't want that?

But you have to figure out first if vegan diet is for you. You have to take into consideration that this type of weight loss or diet program involves only plant and no animal foods. If you think you are not ready to dish out those poultry goods and other animal foods, it is not cut out for you.

First, being a vegan dieter means you are doing good to the world out there. When you become a vegan, you instantly become one against the inhumane treatment that animals from farms have grown to. If you are an advocate to animal rights, vegan diets are perfect choice.

Going Vegan isn’t as hard for you to think...

Second, when undergoing a vegan diet, it isn't as hard for you to think or sustain food products. It doesn't take to raise livestock, go through the difficulty of the process, and consume or waste big amount of natural resources such as energy and water.

And third, it is the most logical diet for human bodies. Vegan diets give natural, complete nutrients, which not only make your heart healthy but your body slimmer too. It is a perfect weight loss program for human body as it cleanses and detoxifies it with unnecessary substances.

Check out www.healthyfoodrawdiet.com. You will find all information about healthy food, organic cacao, raw diet, vegan diet food and so on.

Recycling & it’s History

By A. Kantaris Pre-Industrial wastes consisted of bones, ash and vegetable matter, easily recycled into compost. Disposal sites were used to get rid of broken pottery and broken tools. With localized small populations, many materials were recycled and re-used, rather than simply being disposed of. It wasn't until the Industrial revolution that centralization of industry allowed for more formal recycling methods to be developed.

The collection of waste and it's recycling was heavily driven by industry during the 19th century. The collection of ash from coal fires in Cities throughout the UK was commonplace, with the material being used in the production of bricks. At the end of the 19th century, waste paper and board collections were implemented, allowing for the mass production of more competitively priced newspapers. Daily collections of waste from households became a commonplace event throughout the UK during the latter part of the 19th century, allowing for sorting, recovery and resale of many different materials.

However, the recycling of textiles and leather, which was commonplace pre-industrial revolution, virtually disappeared during the late 20th century, where the introduction of intensive farming, globalization and mass production resulted in new goods costing less than the labour associated with recycling them. In addition, Landfill, a concept first introduced by the ancient Greeks became a cost effective alternative to recycling for our growing populations during the 20th Century, where mass production resulted in extremely low cost goods entering the market. This was further hampered by the development of containerized shipping, labour costing less in developing countries than the Western World and the cost of raw materials no longer being a significant factor to industry.

Changes to the UK's waste management industry did not start until the second half of the 20th century. These changes did not reflect recycling methods, but rather aimed to target waste itself and became a driving factor in the use of and construction of Landfill sites. Such legislation resulted in what we currently see to be weekly bin

collections or waste collections, which are sent direct to landfill. The rag and bone man, who traditionally collected many types of waste to recycle it was in effect cut out of the loop.

Having been a factor in the original waste problem during the latter half of the 20th century, the UK's government set about reducing waste and improving recycling. Landfill tax levies, combined with easier licensing laws aimed to divert waste away from landfill and develop localized small recycling companies, which could deal with specific forms of waste, turning it back into a raw resource.

Many types of recycling companies now exist, from paper shredding and recycling companies to car dismantling companies and IT disposal companies. However, none of these businesses would be viable if it wasn't for the industry that needs these recycled materials. From Aluminum to Gold, Steel and copper, small recycling companies extract these raw products from the wastes, with the aim to selling them back onto industry. Many of these small businesses are extremely labour intensive, such as the IT disposal companies, which have to extract virtually every component in order to recover costs.

Similarly, car disposal companies need to recover costs associated with transportation and overheads through the removal and recovery of platinum bearing catalytic convertors, lead/acid batteries and cast aluminum gearboxes.

As the recycling industry continues, once again to grow, so do the methods used by larger companies in the recovery of materials. From the point of disposal, where larger consumer goods are separated, to shredding, shearing and floatation tanks, the aim is to recover as many valuable materials as possible. Again, the IT disposal industry highlights the novel techniques used in recovery from wastes. Many larger companies are using smelting followed by electroplating techniques to remove the various metals from circuit boards. This is made viable by commodity prices, which have remained at such high prices as to allow for significant financial investment. However, by contrast is the concern in the investment made on the back of high commodity prices.

Dr. Lisa Barrangou RealSmart Baby Food™.

Lisa Barrangou, Ph.D. is the creator and author of RealSmart Baby Food™. Lisa is an experienced mother, food professional, food enthusiast, and advocate for healthy living. She previously created and founded The Green Baby Chef™, a homemade baby food company offering personal chef services for infants, as well as private cooking instruction and baby food making workshops. She holds a B.S. in Nutrition, Food and Agriculture from Cornell University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Food Science from North Carolina State University.

As a food scientist who previously worked for three different Fortune 500 food companies, she knows first hand what processed food truly is. When she had her first child, she knew that homemade baby food, made from whole, real foods, with no additives or fillers, would be her baby’s primary food source. She has been

making homemade baby food since 2005, for each of her 3 children, her friends’ children, and for clients.

Through her homemade baby food service company, Lisa developed an efficient system to create 3 months worth of baby food within 3 hours, all safely made in her clients’ kitchen, conveniently packaged and compactly stored in their freezer, taking up no more space than a small basket. After realizing how many parents wanted to learn how to use this efficient system for themselves, she integrated the system into a comprehensive baby food plan and resource that became the book, RealSmart Baby Food™.

www.realsmartbabyfood.com

GO GREEN KIDS “Wideness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse, and the resulting artifacts are very diverse. These differences in the end product are known as cultures.

The rich diversity of the world’s cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.”

-Aldo Leopold

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