Eco-People

Saturday, November 11, 2006

News Alert:

1. According to planetsave.com in ten years sharks will be extinct, because people are killing on average between 38-70 million sharks a year! for their fins. These people that do this catch the shark cut off their fins and throw them back into the water to slowly die!

2.17,000 pacific grey whales have gone missing! either they have changed their migrating patterns or something else has happened.

3.14 pilot whales killed in japan.

4. Zanzibar islands ban plastic bags.

5. fish gone within 40+ years.

6. 1 billion trees planted by 2007 campaign.

7. Sweden's glaciers melting.

8. ocean dead zones increasing at alarming rate.

9. fisherman facing declining stocks turn to sharks.

10. brazil proposes a fund to protect the amazon.

11. overfishing in the gulf of mexico is destroying blue-fin tuna populations.

12.spotted owl population falls to 16.

13. bering waters see shift in ecosystem.

14. insect growth accelerated by global warming.

15. global warming is a threat to Archaeological sites.

16. global warming bad for health.

update

Fivelimes.com is very interesting i have been posting products on their site for some time now. If anyone would like to see what i have posted go there and search for my screen name cafegurl17. I also have the links from everything i have posted there here on this blog. Hope that make everything easier! Ive posted items from clothing to knitting, kitchen to garden etc.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

From: plantsave.com Campaign to plant 1 billion trees

Campaign launched to plant 1 billion trees in 2007 PDF Print E-mail
Written by ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY
Wednesday, 08 November 2006
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) _ A Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner called on people around the world to plant 1 billion trees in the next year, saying Wednesday the effort is a way ordinary citizens can fight global warming.

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Wangari Maathai, who in 2004 became the first black African woman to win a Nobel in any category, urged participants to ensure the trees thrive long after they are planted.

``It's one thing to plant a tree, it's another to make is survive,'' said Maathai, who founded Kenya's Green Party in 1987 and focused on planting trees to address the wood fuel crisis here.

Maathai said the campaign is meant to inspire ordinary citizens to help the environment.

``This something that anybody can do,'' Maathai said Wednesday at the U.N. conference on climate change, which has drawn delegates from more than 100 countries to Kenya.

Scientists blame the past century's 1-degree rise in average global temperatures at least in part on the accumulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere _ byproducts of power plants, automobiles and other fossil fuel burners.

Africa is the continent expected to suffer most from shifting climate zones and droughts, like the one now in its fourth year in East Africa.

Destroying trees through burning contributes to global warming, releasing about 370 million tons of greenhouse gases every year _ about 5 percent of the world total _ scientists say. Planting trees can offset climate change in part because they absorb carbon dioxide.

The tree-planting project, organized by the United Nations Environment Program, shows that ``action does not need to be confined to the corridors of the negotiation halls,'' said Achem Steiner, UNEP's executive director.

The project calls on participants _ including individuals, schools and governments _ to sign up on UNEP's Web site and register the trees they planted.

Also Wednesday, some climate conference participants said the results of Tuesday's midterm elections in the United States were a good sign for environmental issues. The U.S. _ the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases _ has rejected mandatory emissions cuts, saying they could hamstring the economy and because poorer countries are exempt.

On Tuesday, Americans swept Democrats into power in the House of Representatives for the first time in a dozen years and largely dismantled the GOP Senate majority.

``President Bush still has two more years in office so it's very unlikely that the U.S. negotiating posture will change,'' said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

But, he said, the fact that Democrats, many of whom support emissions caps, took control of the House means climate and energy issues will be prominent in the 2008 presidential campaign.

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On the Net:

http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign

http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/

info on how to plant a tree: http://www.tree-planting.com/tree-planting-4.htm

To pledge your trees: http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/pledges/

Quotes

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. Albert Einstein

The man who goes alone today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. Edmund Burke

I hear and i forget, I see and i believe, I do and i understand. Confucius

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by people worse than themselves. Plato

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress no matter how slow. Plato

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reward of a think well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain

The more clearly we can focus out attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for its destruction. Rachel Carson

There is no shame in knowing; Shame lies in not finding out. Russian Proverb

There is enough on earth for everybody's need, but not for everybody's greed. Mahatma Gandhi

There is a difference between saying that change is hard to achieve and saying that the average person will never do anything.One is a challenge , and the other a cause for despair. Unknown

All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. Abraham Lincoln

If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. Chinese Proverb

If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that i am wrong in thought or deed, i will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm. Marcus Aurelius

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Sir Winston Churchill

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells

If the future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more that the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it. Lyndon B. Johnson.

Monday, November 06, 2006

New

1.cacao chocolate bars by hershey's are the best chocolate i have ever found organic chocolate tastes great and im pretty sure it has less sugar. It comes in many varieties including hazelnut, 35% cacao, 75% etc. Perfect for someone who like alot or a little chocolate. After eating this i cannot stand to eat regular candy! it taste like junk with tons of sugar. So take my advice go try the cacao and never return to non-organic chocolate.

2.Did you know by 2050 we will have depleted our fish supply in the oceans?

3.By 2050 one quarter of all animal species will be extinct.

4.if the permafrost melts around the world the oceans will raise 265 feet! and it's already slowly starting to melt.

5.If the permafrost does melt it will let loose all the co2 it has been storing and will cause a disasterous global warming chain reaction.

6. 10 - 50 percent of all known species "plant and animal" could go instinct by 2050.

Getting away from nasty candy is only one way to slow this down i think it's already to late to completely stop it.
So start walking and bike riding instead of driving.
Recycle instead of throwing it all away.
Start a garden,
plant trees.
Reduce the ammount of meat you eat a week.
go solar.
Maybe even go vegan.
buy energy saving light bulbs.
start making things "what better way to learn something you always wanted to than by going out there and learning it".
buy food from you local farmers market. localharvest.org
and more.

all these ways and more help slow down the process and even if you only do one if everyone in the world did that one thing tons of co2 a year could be stopped.