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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

There is a set of erroneous popular notions to the effect that renewable energy systems such as solar power, wind power, and the like are available as freestanding replacements for our fossil-fuel-based system, that they are pollution-free and problem free —that renewables represent something akin to perpetual motion, a gift from the sun. The operation of a solar electric system, like the one I run on an Adirondack lake, does not itself produce pollution, but the manufacturing of the components certainly does.

Empower yourself in 3 minutes a day: An introduction to indy media, NewsTarget.com and the online information revolution Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We believe that monumental changes will soon emerge in areas like health and medicine, renewable energy, global finance and politics. The things most people accept as "normal" today -- direct-to-consumer drug advertising, the drugging of our children with psychiatric drugs, the widespread fluoridation of public water supplies, and so on -- will someday be viewed as nothing less than insane. Future historians will be stunned at the ignorance and arrogance of today's world, much as we find it hard to believe today that the world's brightest scientists once insisted the Earth was flat.

NewsTarget emerges as top truly independent natural health news site Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I realize that we're a relatively small operation, and there are many deserving products we should be covering but just haven't had the resources to cover yet, but we're working to grow our operations so that we can bring you more news, more health solutions and more information on relevant topics like global warming, renewable energy and green living. We will do it all, of course, with the same standard we apply to covering nutritional products: no payola. It's a simple ethical standard, really. And I consider it fundamental to the issue of credibility.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Another myth has to do with "intermit-tency," the idea that renewable energy sources cannot provide power reliably. It's true that photovoltaics are ineffective at night, and wind turbines are nonproductive in still air, but when used together, alternative energy sources can deliver a steady flow of power. No one source of renewable, clean power is going to single-handedly replace our current energy infrastructure. Instead, we're going to see a mix of technologies, policies, and systems.

InFiveSteps.com leverages wisdom of progressive community to offer practical, life-enhancing solutions on health, environment and more Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We welcome Five Step Solutions on gardening, green living, renewable energy, health care reform, saving the environment, animal rights, tax reform, personal finances and just about any subject that helps readers find solutions for a better life. The solutions must be well written, of course (we review and approve or reject each post), and they must offer real solutions without being overtly commercial.

Empower yourself in 3 minutes a day: An introduction to indy media, NewsTarget.com and the online information revolution Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's about telling the truth on topics that matter like health and wellness, renewable energy, drug companies and the continued pollution of our air, water and oceans by irresponsible corporations. It's about sharing information that people can put to use in their own lives to improve their lives.

Gunpoint medicine: Why conventional medicine must use intimidation to control patients (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And if you think it does then, well, you'll feel right at home with all the other doctors whose egos are so inflated with hot air that we should probably start studying them as a source of renewable energy.

FDA accused of suppressing drug safety information (commentary) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Let's see, you'd have a renewable energy source, you'd have a crop that's good for the environment, a crop that doesn't need to be grown with pesticides or herbicides. Wouldn't that be terrible? To re-invigorate the whole farming industry in this country? Gotta outlaw hemp, but keep those drugs pumping. Keep that drug economy pumping! Keep that drug industry legal. Keep on poisoning the hearts, minds, bodies and nervous systems of all the people in this country. You've got to keep them on drugs. Why? Well, drugs are profitable. We're all invested in the drug companies.

The awakening of the public and the coming overthrow of evil Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

For my part, I'm forming important alliances with other positive influencers and leaders in complementary fields like environmental protection, sustainable farming, animal welfare, self improvement and renewable energy. Together, we can help bring genuine solutions to the forefront and challenge the outmoded thinking of the current global power brokers, replacing it with community-minded, holistic solutions that recognize the interdependency of all living beings and systems on this planet. All this isn't new-age hippie talk (not that there's anything wrong with that!

Empower yourself in 3 minutes a day: An introduction to indy media, NewsTarget.com and the online information revolution Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This includes areas like renewable energy, medical technology, life sciences and even vibrational medicine. To expand our reach so that we may help millions more prevent birth defects, get their children off harmful psychiatric drugs, avoid deadly diseases like cancer and heart disease, and so on. (See articles on disease prevention.) To expose and help end the corruption and criminal behavior in conventional medicine, where drug companies and the FDA routinely trade public safety for corporate profits. (See articles on conventional medicine.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

Little has been allocated to clean and renewable energy. Why must we stand by helplessly and watch this selfish lobbying take over our lives? Couldn't we expand our choices? What has happened to our democracy of one person, one vote? We must be aware that the political and social obstacles to change are far greater than the perceived technological and economic obstacles. From Economic Elitism to Ecological Realism Not only are politicians being bought out, but the inequality in wealth among the world's people keeps growing and the U.S. once again leads the way.

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet Jeremy P. Tarcher See book keywords and concepts

Grameen's sister-shoots are companies involved in weaving, renewable energy, marketing, communications, software development—even a mobile-phone company that makes telephoning possible for the first time in many villages. Grameen has also created a kind of health insurance for its members, and it even offers educational scholarships. Many of these ideas are offshoots of others, building and growing as a hyacinth grows.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

While conventional renewable energy options are basically clean and sustainable, they are often susceptible to high capital costs, diffusiveness and intermittence. They can also appreciably alter the landscape with unsightly dams, turbines, windmills and solar farms. Our choices among the renewables will require a careful look at each option and its environmental impact. Meanwhile, government subsidies and market manipulation have kept the fossil fuel industry in power, and the 18 per cent we use for renewables globally is not increasing. Only with a public awakening can these numbers change.

Health product companies recommended by the Health Ranger Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Green living company that uses some renewable energy. Grows the most pure spirulina in the world using deep ocean seawater. Living Fuel - Phenomenal superfood formulas and food bars. Full product line, uses quality ingredients and no junk. Lots of chia and quality plant proteins. SGN Nutrition - Makers of Emerald Balance and the delicious XBalance chocolate superfood powder (makes great smoothies). Very tasty, easy to feed to kids. Amazon Herbs - Great ethics, outstanding products, green corporate culture. Headed by Amazon "John" Easterling, a pioneer in Earth-friendly corporate stewardship.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

If successful, these efforts could trump every unrenewable and renewable energy option which has been scrutinized, advocated and developed. All other energy technologies would look crude by comparison and could be abandoned once and for all. This discovery would then become as historically significant as the invention of the steam engine, internal combustion engine, electric light, alternating current, solar photovoltaics, transistors, lasers, computers, jet engines, and fuel cells.

Five must-see videos for health-aware consumers, parents and thought leaders Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Yes, coffee (see the trailer below). You won't find this information in the bread-and-circuses mainstream media, either! Here are five must-see videos that every solution-oriented person needs to watch: Who Killed the Electric Car? This jaw-dropping documentary tells the true story of how auto manufacturers conspired with lawmakers to destroy the concept of clean electric vehicles in order to ensure continued profits from combustion-engine cars. You'll be amazed to see how auto makers actually confiscated electric cars and had them shredded in order to get them off the roads!

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

By this definition conventional renewable energy is not new energy. Included under new energy are cold fusion technology, plasma or gas cells, charge clusters, underwater arcing, magnetic motors, solid state devices, electrostatic devices, hydrosonic devices and many others (see Appendix I for details about the state of the art). Each of these approaches appears to produce much more energy than can be accounted for by traditional physics, although a number of viable theories are being published in the peer-reviewed literature.

Chapter 4). It is ironic that the greatest seat of the problem is also the greatest seat of the solution: America. We shall need to find ways to reconcile these polar opposites residing in the very same land so that we can surmount the problems and arrive at the solutions. If they cannot be reconciled here in the U.S., those of us who are solution-oriented may need to expatriate ourselves from a leadership based on destructive and unnatural principles.

Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise Debra Lynn Dadd See book keywords and concepts

Get an instant water heater (see renewable energy) for your kitchen sink so you don't have to let water run while it heats up. Insulating hot-water pipes will also help hot water come up faster. In the Laundry • Run only full loads in the washer. • Try running a full load with the water selector set to "medium load." If your clothes get just as clean, you've saved a few gallons. • If you'te in the matket fot a new clothes-washer (see Appliances), choose one that conserves water and has a "suds saver" that reuses the tinse watet in the next wash cycle.

Earth Right H. Patricia Hynes See book keywords and concepts

Actions to promote renewable energy sources 2.8 Subtotal 17^6 (percent) 5.6 3.9 0.4 3.5 5.3 3.5 0.6 4.0 26.8 Forestry Federal conservation reserve forestry program 1.4 Actions to increase timber growth on nonindustrial private forest lands 1.5 Improved management of national forests 0.4 Urban tree planting 1.2 Subtotal 4.5 TOTAL 22.1 1.4 1.5 0.4 1.2 4.5 31.3 SOURCE: Cooling the Greenhouse: Vital First Steps to Combat Global Warming (New York: Natural Resources Defense Council, 1989).

Because these costs are hidden and not reflected in energy costs, and because government support for renewables has nearly vanished, renewable energy sources have not been given a fair chance to replace more polluting energy sources. In 1985, renewable sources, including windpower, small-scale hydro, geothermal, biomass, and solar energy, accounted for almost 5 percent of total U.S. energy consumption. Since 1976, the price of photovoltaic cells, which convert sunlight directly to electricity, has dropped by a factor of 10. The world market for photo-voltaics has grown fifty fold.

In the 1970s, the oil embargo and the meteoric rise in oil prices created a crisis in fossil fuel-generated energy, a crisis that sparked public interest in energy conservation and renewable energy sources. This broad-based enthusiasm for saving finite nonrenewable fossil fuels coincided with a more idealistic alternative energy movement to "design with nature." A graduate student in engineering at the height of this movement, I was inspired to develop a JL S S prototype solar sunspace for my thesis topic.

The full costs of nuclear power, including decommissioning and waste disposal, keep rising while the costs of renewable energy are decreasing. In a comparative analysis of nuclear power and energy conservation through energy efficiency, the Rocky Mountain Institute found that "electrical efficiency is nearly seven times more effective in abating C02 (per dollar invested in the United States) than nuclear power." Nuclear energy does not meet the criteria of a good global insurance plan against global warming.

Global warming has revived government and industry hopes for nuclear power. Like renewable energy sources, it does not generate C02 nor contribute to global warming; so its advocates now portray it as almost ecological. I have heard supporters of nuclear power argue that radioactive waste disposal is no different a problem than naturally occurring radioactivity. Since we live with one, they ask, why can't we live with the other?

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

An impossible job? Yes and no. Our focus now is to consume ever more resources and to make our money grow faster and faster. We must therefore outlaw our destruction of Gaia at all significant levels and reallocate those resources to restoration. We must preserve what's left and invest in what will clearly become our most precious resource: the awesome bounty and diversity of Earth. Our mantra ought to be, preserve, restore and sustain. As a species, we will need to create a moral shift in attitude so we can organize and get on with the job. This will be the focus of the next chapter.

The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World's Most Extraordinary Plant Rowan Robinson See book keywords and concepts

This new appreciation for the sublime beauty and intelligence of the natural world gave birth to numerous cultural forms, including interest in natural health, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy sources, organic dwelling concepts, antinuclear protest, and ultimately comprehensive environmentalism.

Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise Debra Lynn Dadd See book keywords and concepts

I've listed here general alternative-energy catalogs that have a wide range of products that can help you convert to alternative energy either partially or entirely, or experiment with single appliances such as solar fans that can be powered by renewable energy. Most alternative-energy systems use some kind of natural power to charge and recharge batteries that are then used as the power source.

The best heat, of course, comes from renewable energy. Use add-on greenhouses, window-box solar room heaters, and super-efficient wood stoves. Tune up your furnace. Gas furnaces should be tuned every two years and oil furnaces each year. Test your furnace for combustion efficiency and pollutants, clean it, and adjust it. A heating technician will do this fot you for about fotty to sixty dollars. With a fotced-air system, change yout filters (or bettet, clean reusable ones) once a month to save enetgy and minimize dust.

The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living Linda Mason Hunter See book keywords and concepts

Solar Relying more on energy conservation and renewable energy and less on the planet's limited supply of fossil fuels is the most socially responsible way to heat your house. Even though our government is no longer supporting solar energy with tax credits, as it did in the late 1970s and early 1980s, solar heating is still a viable alternative economically. The starting point for a passive solar house or sun-room is good southern exposure. Next, bear in mind that the best passive designs strike a subtle balance between insulation, thermal mass, and the amount of south glazing used.

He rejects fossil fuels—gas, oil, kerosene, wood, coal—because they are not renewable energy sources and they pollute the air inside houses with deadly gases. But most of us don't have the luxury of switching to the healthiest heating fuels available. We must live with what we've got, possibly updating and maintaining it so it's as healthy and inexpensive to operate as possible. Here's a rundown of the various types of heating fuels and what you can expect from them in a healthy home. Oil In December 1976, heating oil was selling for 43 cents a gallon. Four years later, we were paying $1.

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