Our Poisoned Water Let's usher in ecological economics
Why Polluting the Water is Child Abuse
Why Polluting the Water is Child Abuse
We
need to see pollution as child abuse.
When a woman drinks polluted water, the pollutants store and accumulate in her body fat, over the years.
Then when she has a baby, the body fat is tapped in making food to feed the unborn and then to feed the new born baby.
The baby is very very vulnerable to these chemicals. A wrong chemical signal can cause development to go awry. Pollutants can also cause diminished intelligence, hyperactivity and impulsivity.
Also, very important, pollutants are degrading the genes of the human race -- one of the most urgent issues facing mankind.
Polluting the water is not only a heinous act of child abuse -- it is an act of murder. In America, one in two men and one in three women are contracting cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.
Pollutants are often free radicals, which makes your cholesterol sticky so that it adheres to your blood vessel walls and plugs them. Free radicals can also cause arthritis and all kinds of diseases.
In spite of this, where I was living in Maryland, there were more than 1,000 pipes from businesses that were dumping toxins into the Potomac River or the tributaries that lead into the Potomac River -- the river where the tap water of millions of people is drawn.
I keep wondering why everything needs to be wrapped in plastic or bottled in plastic when scientists tell us that making plastic poisons the water? Capitalists need to pursue harmony with our scientists.
To illustrate this, when you go to the grocery store, look at all the chemicals and realize these all go down the drain into the tap water we feed the babies.
We need for mothers and fathers and all who care about babies to arise, with notebooks, studying what pollutes the water and how we might remake the way we make things.
Learn more about what pollutes the water in the books "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way We Make Things," by William McDonough and Michael Braungart and the book "The Riverkeepers" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and John Cronin.
But capitalists strictly will not allow talk about remaking the way we make things. They have many many ways of suppressing free speech, for their advertising dollars support the media, they own the broadcasting stations and the newspapers and the magazines, with a few exceptions and their grants support the non-profit organizations.
Have you ever seen a newspaper with a section on the environment?
We want our scientists to have a strong voice.
We do have a little bit of free speech, but will it be enough?
Please see the section entitled "Right Livelihood" on this website to learn about ecological economics.
The Amish are leading the way to sustainability, which you can read about in that section.
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Will fish go extinct?
Poisoned Waters -- The Alarming Rate of Fish Kills
Poisoned Waters -- The Alarming Rate of Fish Kills
In this video, you will see the urgent need to quickly phase out chemicals and industrial processes poisoning the environment.
We need cleansers, laundry detergents, shampoos, dishwashing liquids etc. made of plant-based materials rather than petroleum-based chemicals, which you can purchase at your natural food co-op or store, such as Whole Foods Market.
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Two great American heros
Envision Clean Rivers: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and John Cronin
Envision Clean Rivers: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and John Cronin
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Can the planet survive the abuse of the rivers?
To Live in Harmony With the River
To Live in Harmony With the River
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Dr. David Suzuki |
Dr. Vandana Shiva |
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To live light and traceless
To Make the Waters Run Clear
To Make the Waters Run Clear
Note: While composting of humanure is good, we don't want sewage sludge on farmland. Click here to read more.
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To live light and traceless
Flush Toilets, NO! Ecological Sanitation, YES!
Flush Toilets, NO! Ecological Sanitation, YES!
Ecological sanitation absolutely must be discussed for many reasons. If our sewage treatment system drys up the rivers, we will become a desert.
We should be getting our bathing water and water for household use from rain barrels.
Also, in many rivers, every male fish is feminized due to the artificial estrogens from birth control pills that are present in urine that makes its way from sewage treatment plants into the rivers.
Little boys are developing small penises and little girls are going into puberty too soon, which is thought to be caused by the ingestion of artificial estrogens from tap water. Also, these chemicals are linked to breast cancer.
Furthermore, every household chemical in use is making its way into the rivers from the sewage treatment system. Laundry soap, dishwashing liquid, shampoo, bath soap, floor cleaner etc. In the grocery store look at all the chemicals on the shelf and realize they all make their way to the river.
(But be careful. My neighbor began threwing her cleaning chemicals outside instead of down the drain and it killed a big tree. Instead, you should use chemicals made of plant ingredients rather than petro chemicals, which are available at the natural food store.)
I don't even use laundry detergent. Nonetheless, my under garments smell perfectly fresh and clean.
I find that I don't need dishwashing liquid unless the pan is greasy. Then I use Ecover, which is made of plant ingredients rather than petro chemicals.
You should know that the shadow government behind the scenes running things (neglecting things) are intensely intensely resistant to any discussion of ecological sanitation. I've never seen anything like it, the opposition.
I'll tell you a funny story. The first time I decided not to put my urine down the drain, I was pouring into a container and I swear to you my landlord came banging violently on my door and yelling that I could not do that. Now how did he know what I was doing in the privacy of my home? I had most definately told no one and I was alone.
So I decided that I would not put my urine in the yard where I live, but would put it around the flowers on the street since urine is a perfect nutrient.
I swear to you the police would be sitting there waiting to make sure I didn't do it.
But we must discuss this issue.
What crazy person, anyway, came up with the idea of peeing into the water bodies we drink from? Five million people pee into the Potomac River or tributaries leading into the Potomac.
So is there such opposition to discussing the issue. It could be they are afraid that a little bit of fecal matter in someone's water pipe, without a lot of bath and wash water to keep them well flushed could lead to disease germs growing in the moist pipes.
Perhaps we need the government to distribute literature about the need for ecological sanitation. A family could obtain a rain barrel from the government, alsong with a permit to come out of the sewage system after the government has come to their home to shut off their pipes leading to the river.
Every block could have an outdoor water spickot that people could use to obtain water from the river in emergencies, such as when the rain barrels have not collected enough water.
The government should also advise the people about proper disposal of waste.
Urine should not be put in an area over where there are water pipe because the pipes often leak.
Fecal matter can be gathered separately in a bucket, a layer of soil (perhaps from the garden shop), then a layer of humanure, a layer of soil then a layer of humanure. It can be placed in a flower bed or around a tree.
When it rains, the water just sinks in. You might need to put a little more dirt to cover the humanure after the rain.
The humanure should not be placed around the vegetables growing in a garden until it is well composted.
We don't want humanure just threwn out and children stepping in it. It can have disease germs in it.
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Understand the cause of much cancer and aging.
The Polluted Water of Our Industrial Society
The Polluted Water of Our Industrial Society
Where I was living in Maryland, there
were more than 1,000 pipes from businesses that were dumping liquids into the Potomac
River or the tributaries that lead into the Potomac River where the tap water was drawn.
Furthermore, the next time you are in the grocery store, look at the vast array of household chemicals that will make their way in to the water bodies we use: Comet, Ajax, Mr. Clean, laundry soap, shampoo, bowl cleaner etc.
Many of these are made with toxic petroleum-based chemicals.
I wash my clothes and dishes with cleansers derrived largely from from plant-based materials.
Consider the Fossil fuel pollutants and motor oil on the roads that wash into the culverts on the side of the roads, then from there into our waterways. These fossil fuels contain radioactive substances, such as uranium and thorium; as well as carbon monoxide; toulene, xylene and benzene, which are highly carcinogenic; heavy metals; PAHs, which can cause breast cancer; nitrous oxides, which cause ozone depletion; sulfur dioxide, which makes the water so acidic that many fish are killed; and more.
Benzene, which can pass into your body though your skin when you bath, can cause leukemia, bone marrow damage, blood disorder, anemia, infertility, bleeding, weakened immune system, convulsions, vomiting, irritated respiratory track, skin irritations, genetic degradation and more.
Fossil fuel exhaust is so toxic that it often sterilizes our streams. The United States has many thousands of streams that are dead where nothing can live.
The sewage treatment
plants are not designed to remove chemicals. They remove fecal matter.
Chemicals also make their way to the rivers we drink from in the urine we discharge to the sewage treatment plants. The urine contains all medicines we take by mouth: heart medications, blood pressure medications etc. If I understand correctly, the chemicals of most concern are the artificial estrogens from birth control pills, which are very very potent.
Male fish are being feminized and I wonder if they will go extinct.
Fish contain hundreds of chemicals in their tissues, so don't eat them too often. The smaller fish have far less chemicals.
Young women who are child bearing age need to be careful about the chemicals they consume from water and from fish. The chemicals store in their body fat and other places. This body fat is tapped when her body makes breast milk.
Chemicals are also passed
to the young infant in the maternal cord blood.
The unborn and newly born are very very vulnerable to chemical injury.
Consuming bad chemicals means they can be born with learning disabilities, hearing impairment, inability to concentrate, hyperactivity. Indeed, abusing our streams and rivers we drink from is a form of child abuse.
Let us pray that households and businesses will have the courage and compassion to do what is right.
In my thinking, we can reduce the chemicals in our water by making some things by hand rather than using large equipment that pollutes our water. This will also help with unemployment.
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To live light and traceless
City Composting of Peelings, Scraps, Humanure and Animal Waste
City Composting of Peelings, Scraps, Humanure and Animal Waste
The BBC video clip below shows a city composting program.
In my thinking, we should compost not only our peelings, scraps, yard clippings and garden waste, but also our humanure and pet manure.
You gather the urine separately from the humanure and pour it outside. (Not in the front yard where water pipes are. There could be a leak in the pipe.) You have a bucket for fecal matter in which you put a layer of soil (from the garden shop) then a layer of humanure, a layer of soil, then a layer of humanure.
Every week, the city can threw the bucket of humanure into the dump truck and take it to the anaerobic digester.
The anerobic digester makes rich black humus to put on farmland to rebuild the erroded and poisoned soils. The anerobic digester also makes methane that can be made into electricity or used to fuel buses etc.
The Chinese collected humanure from homes for thousands of years to maintain the soil on their farmland.
CLICK HERE to see a BBC clip about a city composting program.
Note! There is a problem with the video that should be addressed. Plastic bags should not be put in the anaerobic digester because that would put hormone disrupting chemicals in the compost, which could be taken up by the food grown with the compost.
Plastic bags made of cornstarch could be used.
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The danger of exhaust from roads and pesticides from yards
Poisoned Waters -- Stormwater Runoff
Poisoned Waters -- Stormwater Runoff
The pollutants in storm water that wash off roads into our water bodies is hazardous waste.
Fossil fuel pollutants and motor oil from the roads contain radioactive substances, such as uranium and thorium; as well as carbon monoxide; toulene, xylene and benzene, which are highly carcinogenic; heavy metals; PAHs, which can cause breast cancer; nitrous oxides, which cause ozone depletion; sulfur dioxide, which makes the water so acidic that many fish are killed; and more.
Benzene, which can pass into your body though your skin when you bath, can cause leukemia, bone marrow damage, blood disorder, anemia, infertility, bleeding, weakened immune system, convulsions, vomiting, irritated respiratory track, skin irritations, genetic degradation and more.
Having subways can take hundreds of thousands of polluting automobiles off the roads, making water much cleaner, improving health of humans and aquatic biota.
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We must change the way we live.
Poisoned Waters -- The Imperiled Chesapeake Bay
Poisoned Waters -- The Imperiled Chesapeake Bay
Watch the full episode.
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The party you vote for matters.
Poisoned Waters -- Reagan Deregulates Cleanup of the Bay
Poisoned Waters -- Reagan Deregulates Cleanup of the Bay
Watch the full episode.
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The most vulnerable to chemicals in pollution are the babies.
House Republicans Most Anti-Environmental in History
House Republicans Most Anti-Environmental in History
We need democrats in office.
Michele Bachman's Radical Views On Environmental Protection
Michele Bachman's Radical Views On Environmental Protection
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The party we vote for matters.
Environmental Attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tells Corruption of Bush Admin.
Environmental Attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tells Corruption of Bush Admin.
Read more about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his work as an environmental attorney.
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We must protect the babies from mercury poison.
Mercury Poisoning and Horror in Minimata, Japan
Mercury Poisoning and Horror in Minimata, Japan
This documentary reveals the human tragedy unleashed when a company producing fertilizer poisoned the water with mercury in Minimata, Japan.
It is a stern warning that coal burning power plants and other activities blanketing the environment with mercury, which poisons the waterways and the fish being consumed by wildlife and humans, must be phased out.
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Understand the need for localization rather than globalization.
The Chinese Choke on Poisoned Air and Water As They Manufacture Products for the Globe
The Chinese Choke on Poisoned Air and Water As They Manufacture Products for the Globe
I was so shocked.
As my friend from China's six-year-old son was catching lightening bugs, she told me they no longer have lightening bugs in China due to the chronic pollution from their manufacturing processes.
If lightening bugs are dying, it will be no time before butterflies, bees and hundreds of other pollinators also die. Will China become a desert, unable to support life?
Already, for whatever combination of reasons, between one quarter and one-third of China is desert -- and the desert is spreading every year.
Will humans wake up in time and change the way we make things?
We need small-scale production using appropriate, nonpolluting technologies.
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Understand the value of clean water.
Cuba's Water: The Envy of the World
Cuba's Water: The Envy of the World
In the video below on Cuba, see how organic agriculture can have real impacts on the environment since pesticides are not washing into the river.
There are other factors involved, such as the fact that many Cubans use outdoor toilets rather than flush toilets.
The clean water is also be due to a drastic reduction in fossil fuel exhaust from automobile washing off roads and from the air into the streams and rivers. The acid rain from exhausts and coal burning power plants sterilize water bodies. We have many thousands of dead streams in the United States where nothing can live.
Won't it be wonderful when instead of automobiles we have light rail powered by solar panels? (Solar panels are made of silicon, which is made of sand. So why aren't they cheap as dirt?)
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Our dying earth
Say Goodbye to Whales
Say Goodbye to Whales
Degrading our genes and health
How Prevalent Are Toxic Chemicals?
How Prevalent Are Toxic Chemicals?
"of all the chemciasl products and processes currently in use, only 10 percent are benign and nontoxic; the other 90 percent have hazardous consequences," says John Warner who is the director of the world's first green chemistry PhD program at the University of Massachusetts -- Lowell.
There are safe alternatives to 25 percent of the toxic chemicals in use, said Warner in a book he co-authored, called "Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice."
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Life on earth may very well go extinct
Amazing Speech by the Great Filmmaker & Scientist Dr. David Suzuki
Amazing Speech by the Great Filmmaker & Scientist Dr. David Suzuki
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To live in harmony with the earth
Making Natural Dyes
Making Natural Dyes
Dying fabrics is often done with synthetic chemicals that produce extremely hazardous wastewater that is released into our waterways we drink from. But in the video below, the women discuss making dyes from natural plant materials.
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A Time Magazine "hero of the planet"
William McDonough: Re-Designing the World
William McDonough: Re-Designing the World
A Time Magazine "hero of the planet"
Trailer to McDonough and Braungart's Film "The Next Industrial Revolution"
Trailer to McDonough and Braungart's Film "The Next Industrial Revolution"
In this video, shot in Europe and the United States, architect William McDonough and his partner, chemist Michael Braungart explore how businesses are remaking the way they make things in order to live in harmony with the earth.
What happened to small family farms?
Poisoned Waters -- Large-Scale Animal Feeding Operations
Poisoned Waters -- Large-Scale Animal Feeding Operations
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We need many ways of creating electricity.
Using a Biodigester to Make Electricity and Fertilizer from Hog Manure
Using a Biodigester to Make Electricity and Fertilizer from Hog Manure
Electricity can not only be made of hog and cow manure, but humanure.
To collect humanure, you collect the urine separate from the humanure in buckets. The bucket collecting humanure has a compostable bag in it to line it. The bucket holds a layer of humanure and table scraps, then a layer of soil, a layer of humanure and table scraps, then a layer of soil etc. When the bucket is full, the bag is tied and might be set out on the curb on a certain day to be picked up by the government to make composted fertilizer and electricity from the methane. Or cars might be powered by the methane that is generated.
The fertilizer should be given free of charge to our small farmers so that the topsoil of our farms is ever enriched -- which means it can last 2,000 years and beyond.
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