● Earth Day

You Can Live
Without Producing Trash

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Happy Earth Day! 🌏
Celebrate and support environmental protection.
A woman lives without producing any trash. She thinks you could too! Find out how at TestTube http://testtube.com/sustainability ◘ exploring all aspects of sustainability.
Lauren Singer lives a Zero Waste life.
Visit: The Simply Co. http://thesimplyco.com ✿
Trash Is For Tossers http://trashisfortossers.com ✿
Life Without Plastic http://lifewithoutplastic.com ✿
Grow NYC http://grownyc.org/compost ✿ 
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Sustainable houses by Michael Reynolds:
Earthships http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xks8w6iB1rI
Garbage Warrior http://vimeo.com/21053594
Funding Options: kickstarter http://kickstarter.com/...
How to Build an Earthship: Step-by-Step Slideshow (Video) http://treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/how-to-build-an-earthship-step-by-step-slideshow-video.html learning how to build http://earthship.com/academy
Normandy Earthship http://youtube.com/watch?v=t4MrUvjVbZw
Bed-and-Breakfast Takoma Park, MD http://vrbo.com/585014
Earthships: self-sustaining homes... http://youtu.be/efI77fzBgvg
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Accelerating Sustainability
An Affordable Electric Car in 2017 http://teslamotors.com/model3 Tesla claims their Model 3 will attain the highest safety ratings in every category. It combines safety, performance, spaciousness, and real world range into a premium sedan. It is their most affordable car, achieves 215 miles of range per charge, and starts at $35,000 before incentives.
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Earth Day: April 22nd
( Spring in the Northern Hemisphere

/ Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere ),

a day of awareness, appreciation, and activism for the Earth's environment. Earth day was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970, and is now recognized in many countries around the world.

March Equinox ( Spring Equinox Northern Hemisphere )
The United Nations celebrates an Earth Day each year on the March Equinox (often March 20th), a tradition which was founded by peace activist John McConnell in 1969.

Earth Day transcends all national borders to celebrate our home, our planet, and life itself, to reflect on our health and ability to live in harmony with our environment, ourselves, and to rethink our approach to how we can move forward in achieving a less destructive, more harmonious future.


EARTH DAY NETWORK ● earthday.net

United States Environmental Protection AgencyEPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment upon which life depends.
http://epa.gov/earthday
http://youtube.com/user/usEPAgov

http://earthdaytv.net
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● Fossil Fuel : A Double Irony
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Fracking = Climate Chaos
Human beings have hit the Earth like an asteroid.
Frack No: Fracking = Climate Chaos = Droughts ☠ 
Frack No: Fracking = Climate Chaos = Droughts  http://youtube.com/watch?v=fjENDdBqMWA

☞ With over 400,000 people flooding the streets of New York City, around Columbus Circle at West 59th Street and Central Park West, this was the largest climate march ever. The public is awake, while privilege and power are delirious with greed. There is a bit of irony, in that the industry, which is largely responsible for the contamination of the Earth's atmosphere and ultimately the destruction of life as we know it, is called the fossil fuel industry. The rate of species extinction today is the same as it was 65 million years ago, when an asteroid hit the Earth, causing the dinosaurs to become extinct, leaving behind little more than their fossils. But, as Noam Chomsky put it, "now, we are the asteroid." ❀ There is a choice. Either, we go the way of the dinosaur, or fossil fuel goes the way of the dinosaur. Sustainable living is not only possible, but it's absolutely necessary for survival.

"The question in brief is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided. In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival."
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Definitely keep giving and keep encouraging others to give, but insist that it's not used in the form of debt. Because, unfortunately, (as documented in Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine) the US has a history of using disasters to push through tyrannical policies, both here and abroad.

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● In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.
....-Michael Pollan
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● The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Author Michael Pollan advises, “Don’t Buy Any Food You’ve Ever Seen Advertised.”

Michael Pollan, one of the nation’s leading thinkers and writers on food. The author of several books about food, including The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, warns of the processed food industry’s co-option of “sustainability” and its vast spending on marketing, Pollan advises to be wary of any food that’s advertised.

On Democracy Now May 14, 2009
http://democracynow.org/2009/5/14...

"The CDC, Centers for Disease Control, estimates that of the $2 trillion we’re spending on healthcare in this country, $1.5 trillion is for the treatment of preventable chronic disease. Now, that’s not all food, because you have smoking in there, too, and alcoholism. But the bulk of it is food." -Michael Pollan

"The most salient point is simply, [we] are not going to be able to tackle either the healthcare crisis or climate change unless [we] look at our food system. In the case of climate change, food is responsible for about a third of greenhouse gases, the way we’re growing food, the way we’re processing it and the way we’re eating. And the healthcare crisis... ...we are not going to be able to reform healthcare, which depends on getting the cost of healthcare down, without addressing... ...the catastrophe of the American diet. So we need to address it. It’s really the shadow issue over these other two issues." -Michael Pollan

omni·vore |ˈämnəˌvôr|
noun
an animal or person that eats food (or foodstuff)
of both plant and animal origin.

ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from French, from Latin omnivorus ‘omnivorous.’
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food·stuff |foōd·stəf|
noun
A substance with some foodlike qualities that can be used or prepared for use as food, but generally lacks the health benefits of real food.
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On Democracy Now February 13, 2008

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Author, Journalist Michael Pollan on Nutrition, Food Science and the American Diet. Acclaimed author and journalist Michael Pollan argues that what most Americans are

consuming today is not food but “edible food-like substances.” His previous book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. His latest book, just published, is called In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.

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You say potātō,
I say genetically modified foodstuff.
I agree with Michael Pollan, in that what most Americans are consuming today is not food but “edible food-like substances.” I've often said that we shouldn't even have to have the term "health food", since food by definition should already be healthy. Unfortunately, the categorizes have been reversed, where pancakes, potatochips, and cheeseburgers are considered to be real food, while carrots and celery are considered to be rabbit food, hence not real food.

I also agree that thinking about food in terms of Nutrition defined by "the experts" can be misleading. Although, I think if we redefine nutrition to mean whole organic foods (usually plants) then it does serve a purpose. Most people that I've talked to don't really care that much about nutrition, maybe for the reasons discussed by Michael Pollan. Maybe people intuitively know there's a problem with nutritional science, so they ignore the whole idea of whether or not, what they're consuming is "good or bad" for them. Or, they just don't care because culture and tradition trump nutrition almost every time. Every time, that is, until they merge, which they increasingly are. But right now "nutrition" is the dysfunctional way, in which we make these health decisions about our eating habits, if we make these decisions at all.

My opinion varies from Michael Pollan a little on a small point, where he claims that people are eating or shopping in an effort to advance their health. This is true to a degree, but from my experience, people still eat according to how and where they were raised. It's just that, culture has been taken over by capital. It is the influence of big business on culture and nutritional science that is the problem. Michael Pollan recognizes this point. The difference in my opinion from his is simply that he sees this as a turning away from culture and pleasure, where I see it as a cultural shift, and manufactured wants replacing genuine pleasure.

Most people still do eat according to their culture, but the dominant cultures in the U.S. are increasingly influenced and determined by unregulated market forces. Yet, another example of what deregulated markets should not determine. Maybe the health of our bodies is in direct proportion to the health of our economic system. With regulations that only protect capital and not consumers, seeds that don't reproduce, and genetic modification, now not even our fruits and vegetables are safe. Fortunately, there's a growing resistance to this trend and the only question is whether or not we will be informed and act in time.

Also see:
● Campaign against Genetically Modified Organisms
● Monsanto: Planting Local Seeds, Sprouting Global Effects

✿ > ☠ foodstuff ... YOU SAY TOMĀTŌ, I SAY RĒSIST ! ...or genetically modified edible food-like substance.

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