Archive for December, 2006
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
It’s Sunday so I’m preaching. If we read the bible and are befuddled by the meaning, know this, some words like “light” always mean the same thing. Light means knowledge, knowledge of the Word. Well, the word on the street is about global warming evidently. That knowledge or light is turning on everywhere, literally.
People are buying CFL lights like hotcakes. My husband ran to Home Depot yesterday. As usual it was a madhouse. I forgot to tell him to pick up some more CFL lights. He said they were all picked over. Everyone was buying them. One guy had a basket full. Another was wondering about them. My husband en”light”ened him about all the varieties out there now and told him everyone he works with changed their houses out with the new bulbs. My friends are changing out.
Lowe’s has a good selection too. They have smaller CFL’s, different shapes, 3 way, flood lights, etc. We have to hand it to light bulb manufacturers. They saw the opportunity change brings and jumped on the bandwagon. Three years ago I bought 2 CFL full spectrum lights for my bird for the winter. They cost $20 each! Now I can buy a 4 pack for half. The old bulbs used to flicker and take way too long to actually go on. That’s been fixed. People demanded variety and the bulb manufacturers not only produced, but passed the reduced cost onto us with lower prices.
To finish up my preaching, I hope the wave of light keeps moving and rubs off on big energy. Had they invested in the infrastructure for alternatives like ethanol years ago, (remember the ethanol pumps in the 70’s), we wouldn’t have polluted the earth anywhere near as much. Big energy would still be richer than Roosevelt with the new endeavor, and maybe we would be up to par by now. By that I mean I am grossly disappointed that we are not the Jetsons yet. I so looked forward to that back in the 70’s. I figured we’d be in hovercraft. We could board a mass transit tube of some sort and be shot home. But noooo, we still roll around on rubber, burn fossil fuel, and depend on ourselves to actually steer, accelerate, and brake while the distractions we engage in while driving grow, (cell phones, booming music, On Star). Tell me it’s not so. This cannot be the 21st century.
So this, the eve of another 21st century year, can we please push the big guys to move to the future. Can we shake off the dust of the 1900’s. It will be 2008 by time we have American hybrids that run on hydrogen, ethanol, or electric. We’ll still be rolling around on rubber, driving cars that go way too fast for the speed limits, (what’s the sense?), and that we can’t legitimately drive anyway if we stop for a few beers. I’m for skipping the whole morphing process. It’s too slow, we’re already behind for my taste, and quite frankly if I could crawl into a tube after drinking too much and be shot home safely, great. Now that would be one heck of a ride.
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Other things, any other thing it seems draws our attention too easily away from global warming. Last night and this morning we will hear the details of Saddam Hussein’s death. He was hung for crimes against humanity. Is anyone enlightened by these facts? No, it’s really old news. We’ve witnessed his history over and over. His death is not a big revelation. Yet the entire day will be dedicated to him in the news. Oh wait, I’m watching Tom and Katie’s wedding again on CNN, and Pam and Kid Rock’s divorce. Now that’s important old news.
“Be Worried, Be Very Worried.” The April 3, 2006 issue of Time Magazine had this on its cover along with a picture of a polar bear standing on a small piece of floating ice. How many people read Time magazine or U.S. News and World Report? We have a great time on You Tube and My Space. We snatch up copies of Star and The Enquirer for entertainment. These are not the actions of people that should be very worried. It’s been 8 months since that cover on Time. Organizations are now feeding the polar bears who have lost acres of icy hunting ground into open pools of arctic water. The bears are skinny. But then again, we are used to watching people grow skinny without aid, without help, as long as it’s not us.
What should be news today is a 3000 year old shelf of ice in Canada that broke off last night and fell into the sea. The ice mass was equivalent to 11,000 football fields. It was 41 sq miles of ice attached to land. The vibration from this “chipping” off was that of an earthquake. The movement was picked up by earthquake monitors 150 miles away. Global warming is to blame. Scientists say global warming is accelerating faster and faster. Entire ecosystems and some of earth’s most exotic creatures are threatened. It doesn’t even make the headlines of the day.
Shouldn’t we hang someone for crimes against the earth? Or does that mean we would have to take a hard look at ourselves? We’re not worried, very worried, not nearly enough for me. Our number isn’t up yet, but it definitely looks like it’s on its way. Will God help us or is this the turning point where any good Father like a parent lets His children flounder in their mistakes as a lesson? We are like a spoiled and apathetic child that is not prepared for this lesson.
Posted in Alternative Energy Sources, Animals and Extinction, Conservation, Environmental Spin, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Global Warming Reports, Marine Life, Morality, Nature, Ocean Pollution, Polar Ice Melt, Pollution, Public Lands, Science, Soaring Temperatures, Stress, Wildlife | 3 Comments »
Friday, December 29th, 2006
Eminent Domain is a well-known issue in Monroe County. Signs “No Eminent Domain” sprouted across lawns in Erie against the railroad. Michigan is one of nine states with ballot issues in the recent election that resulted in restricting eminent domain. We know the problem well. Eminent domain is a landowner’s worst nightmare next to Mother Nature. It strips a citizen of property rights in a blink much like a tornado that is seen and gone.
Frank Eathorne, a 3rd generation rancher in Wyoming voted for Bush-Cheney and didn’t mind the big oil and gas boom that brought jobs and
royalties to the state. He figured it couldn’t be all that bad, until it hit home. Frank thought he owned 32,000 acres. Turns out he only owns the grass on top. The federal government owns most of what is beneath. Washington has no ethics where oil is concerned. Frank built a new home in a far corner of his property to get away from the noise of 40 oil wells, 80 miles of pipeline, and 3 railroad tracks.
Why should we care? Frank voted for the environmental grinches. The federal government is doing this everywhere though. In a year-end push, the Republican Congress is going to hit the floor in support of anything big energy. Our national parks and forests are up for grabs. “The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Forest Service have been selling long term leases of wild, pristine public lands to oil and gas companies determined to lock them up for development for decades,” Earthjustice Newsletter Dec. 2006. The federal government wants to poke around our public lands without review of consequences for the environment. Some examples:
- The BLM tried to lease the remaining 389,000 acres of previously protected land in Alaska. The entire Arctic coast in Alaska outside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would belong to oil and gas developers.
- Clinton’s Roadless Area Conservation Rule was tossed. It protected 50 million acres of wild national forests and grasslands from building roads, logging, and development. It was a powerful tool against developers. A federal court judge has only recently reinstated it.
- The Bush Administration has habitually tried to permit drilling in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming
- The BLM is trying to open 90% of New Mexico’s Chihuahua Desert to drilling. It is a biologically diverse desert ecosystem and an energy developer’s land grab.
- In 2005, the Forest Service opened up 52,075 acres to new drilling in forests.
Closer to home, the AuSable River’s South Branch area is being threatened by Savoy Energy. Michigan’s Dept. of Environmental Quality approved a permit to drill near the secluded spot. The state owned 5,300 acres of wilderness surrounds miles of the AuSable’s South Branch. It is the Mason Tract and one of the greatest trout fishing areas in the lower 48. George W. Mason, an auto industrialist donated the land to preserve the experience of the river and the wild. The state owns the top land. The federal government own the subsurface mineral rights. This area is in trouble. A road was started, destroying the old forest area of the south branch. Earthjustice has halted the progress for now.
How do the feds get around drilling in areas that are protected? It’s called slant drilling. If they can’t legitimately let big energy drill somewhere, they lease the surrounding land to set up slant drills. They drill at an angle into the ground beneath the protected land. Los Padres National Forest has 20 such drills around one end of its perimeter. Some of the drills are positioned near sensitive habitats. One is near Lake Piru already listed as impaired by the EPA. It’s not just about a couple of drills. As Frank found, there are also deep wells and miles of pipeline. Expanded oil drilling in Los Padres will also emit 12,179 more pounds of air pollutants per day.
This is an awful lot of activity on behalf of fossil fuels by the federal government. Aren’t we repositioning ourselves for new sources of renewable energy? It looks like we’re hearing the old “fork tongue” again. We need to voice our concerns to congress and push for alternatives. We need incentives for companies that think green. We need to stop the demand for fossil fuels that gives the wrong people power. Our land has been high-jacked. The song says “This land is your land, this land is my land.” And I want it back!
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
I got a kick out of the controversy over cloned food that made the news this morning. The FDA is ready to make a new ruling. They say meat and milk from cloned animals is as safe as any other meat. More than likely, our other meat is pumped with hormones. Our other meat is fed food that is filled with additives and fertilized with the hormonal animal manure, blood, and bacteria. Our other meat is doused with pesticides while breathing the fumes from the cesspools below them. Our other meat is sickly and then pumped with drugs to keep alive. Where is the Center for Food Safety for these conditions? They are voicing their concern over cloned meat.
So to say cloned animals are as safe as any other meat is not saying much at all. I wonder if some of the medical conditions we suffer are from eating meat like this? Kids suffer Attention Deficit Disorder. Adults suffer ADD also. There are conditions out there that go undiagnosed after years of tests. Autism is growing. Girls reach puberty earlier. Boys go bald sooner.
We need to pay attention to our food industry. We’ve had a preview of tainted food already. Not a terrorist to blame but ourselves. We’ve allowed industrialized farming and they are terrorists of a different sort according to the small farmers they’ve put out of business. And we’re worried about cloned animals? I suggest if we take up the fight against cloned animal meat do it also to discontinue industrialized farming. Read my “Pig Poo” blog. The future of our food and freshwater depend on our petitioning our representatives to stop monopolies like Smithfield Foods and other industrialized farmers.
45% of Americans polled thought cloning animals is morally wrong. Industrialized farming is the most immoral act I’ve read about yet. The pollution from them is overwhelming. The animals live a life of hell. They are literally traumatized from birth to slaughter. And this is on the heels of science that declares pigs have a high degree of intelligence. Oh how I loved pork. I don’t eat it anymore. Red meat is an occasional treat.
You might say animals have always been foodstuff. The act of slaughter is not pretty. But I like to think we at least allowed the animal to have a life first, grazing, and procreating. It’s called kosher. A decree by God for his animals. They are to be treated with care and decency. The slaughter should be clean and swift. Our idea of morality and the animal kingdom is like the fickle finger of fate that points and misses more than not. We’re concerned about cloned animals while the suffering of those given us by God goes ignored.
The next time you receive “junk mail” that is from Farm Sanctuary, or a Farm Animal charity, read it. They exist for a purpose. We not only need to watch how much we eat for our health, but what that food went through to get on our plate.
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
My Christmas message was about God’s emphasis on the earth. The word “earth” is in the bible almost 700 times. It is IMPORTANT!
I woke up this morning to news of more horrible weather again. Christmas meant disaster for many people. The message is clear to me that the earth, our environment, is in distress. The distress isn’t some cosmic happening out of our control. We cause the earth’s strain by pollution we’ve failed to control.
We watched as Colorado was hit by the worst storm they’ve had in years. 4000 people were stranded. The fifth busiest airport in the country shut down for 2 days, compliments of El Nino. El Nino’s are more frequent because of global warming.
This morning there was news that 6 tornadoes ripped through Florida. People lost their homes on Christmas due to nature, an El Nino season. No one was injured. There were plenty of warninings. The tornadoes themselves are warnings, don’t you think?
On the other side of the world Taiwan was hit with a 7.2 earthquake that generated a small tsunami. So many more earthquakes are happening, volcanoes too. Volcanoes have recently been associated with global warming. It’s evident that warming air that affects the top layers of water to produce more El Ninos also affects landmasses in adverse ways. Land is affected where it is most vulnerable along fault lines, and volcanic areas. And we already know big events like earthquakes, trigger other horrible events elsewhere. The tsunami from Taiwan’s earthquake is supposed to hit the Philippines soon.
The weather patterns are getting worse, and closer together. These patterns are not a normal course, as some would suggest. Weather patterns are spiking in the extreme. I wanted to see for myself. A couple of years ago, I researched a World Climate Center website for data. I looked for extreme weather events only. I printed out ¼ of a page for 1990. I printed 2 1/2 pages solid by 2001.
We’ve been lucky in Michigan so far. But luck is a gamble and gambling has its place. I don’t think we should gamble our clean air, water, and earth, especially our water. If we lose, we’ll be oh so sorry after the fact. Think green as much as possible. Our current administration is coming around to recognize global warming and are offering incentives for thinking green at tax return time.
Beginning this year, if you improve your home to be more energy efficient, such as installing new windows, insulation, new energy star appliances, solar panels, etc., you can deduct as much as $500 from your tax bill.
THE BIGGEST DEDUCTION IS FOR BUYING A HYBRID CAR. Depending on the car, as much as $2600 can be deducted from your tax bill.
Hopefully, 2007 will be a year of increased awareness for the environment by Michigan residents. We’ve been spared bad weather so far. We should give thanks by doing our best to keep it that way.
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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Happy holidays. For many it’s a season of faith for their God. And the faithful attend services. The main theme of which is peace on earth. Do we really mean what we pray, or is it just a recital? Christians say heaven on earth amen, and world without end amen. The bible begins with the creation of earth. The word “earth” is in there almost 700 times, and the word “world” over 200 times. Yet, I don’t see the faithful embrace environmental issues with the same fervor as other moral issues. The disconnect is evident. Our lifestyle does not include a conscience for the environment. “Earth” has become a monotonous repetition at the end of prayer. And like so many things we are closest to, we neglect.
So in this our most earnest time of year, when we reflect on the events behind us and look to those ahead, be more aware that while the Lord sustains our spirit, the earth sustains our life. As the faithful, adopt a moral conscience for the earth above all. It is our first gift from our Maker. It is our inheritance and the origin of man.
The Lord named Adam. It is Hebrew for “adamah” or “the earth.” Islam and Judaism both share the prayer “ha’ adamah.” It is a blessing for the food from the “earth.” Our Maker makes it clear. Peace everyone.
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
Last minute shopping for Christmas? If you have someone concerned about the environment or their energy bills, or bills in general here are some stocking stuffers to give:
- Five CFL light bulbs, (the twisted looking kind), and offer to change them out from regular bulbs.
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- If every household in America switched just 5 light bulbs to CFL’s it would be the same as taking 100,000 CO2 emitting cars off the road for a year!
- A Pur or Brita water filter for the tap and offer to install it.
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- Think of sparing the trash dump all those plastic water bottles.
- A set of solar lights for outside and offer to change them out.
- A programmable thermostat and offer to install it.
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- Dialing down just 2 degrees will spare us 9% of overall CO2 emissions.
- A gift card to Lowe’s or a hardware store.
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- Urge the recipient to use the card to purchase new furnace filters.
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- A hot water blanket can spare our air 4-½ % of overall CO2 emissions.
- Finally, only buy Energy Star appliances if you’re in the market.
These stocking stuffers not only save the environment extra abuse, they also save the homeowner money. The solar outdoor lights operate for free. CFL bulbs will lower your electric bill. They come in 3-way. I even bought a CFL outdoor floodlight to shine on my wreath for the holidays.
The money we spend on bottled water is ridiculous and a waste. I’m talking experience here. I quit drinking tap water over 25 years ago, so I’m ahead of everyone with this clean water thing. I’ve never purchased 8 packs ever. I would buy 2 ½ gallon containers of water with their own spigot. Those jugs were much easier to take to a recycling center. When Pur and Brita came out with a tap filter, I ran to buy one. I’ve used them ever since. The obsession with bottled water is an ironic act. We’re afraid our tap water isn’t safe to drink because of pollution, so we buy non-recyclable bottled water and pollute the ground with plastic instead.
Dialing down the thermostat is a no brainer for savings as are furnace filters. The hot water blanket acts like a cozy cover. It takes less energy to keep that water hot. And if the power goes out, the water stays hot much longer.
Notice I didn’t suggest we simply buy the products but also offer to install them. Many of us know older people or someone who can’t change their light bulbs can’t install a tap filter, or a programmable thermostat. Giving someone a gift is not always a good measure of love or kindness. Buying is easy. We’re a nation of shoppers. Investing time and patience to do something for someone is a better measure of our true feelings. Time is something we never have enough of. To share it is a real act of giving.
Posted in Alternative Energy Sources, CFL lights, Climate, Conservation, Earth, Energy Costs, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Green Products, Green Retailers, Holidays, Methods for Lowering Energy Costs, Michigan Environmental News, Monroe Environmental News, Solar Energy, Water Filters | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
I just saw some great pictures of the year on MSNBC. Views from the space shuttle are fantastic. The space pictures of a hurricane, and volcano plume show nature as the giant force it is. We need to have a little more reverence for the environment. We don’t want to unleash power like that too often unless we can harness it. Enjoy. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16094279/.
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
I just read the most disgusting article about pollution I’ve read in a long time. And I read a lot of pollution articles. The article, “Boss Hog” by Jeff Tietz in Rolling Stone magazine took me on a tour of the pork meat packing business that got me thinking of hell, torture, something out of Revelations in the bible, to disgust, outrage, mistrust of the EPA, USDA and other governmental organizations. A lot of thoughts for one little article about Smithfield Foods.
Joseph Luter III owns Smithfield Foods. It is the largest meat packing business in the world. Smithfield killed 27 million hogs last year. Hogs weigh 50% more than people so it was the equivalent of processing, (a decent term), the entire human populations of 33 of America’s largest cities. Hogs also produce 3 times the poo we do.
The hogs are compartmentalized in cubicles from birth to slaughter in large buildings. The slats in the floor allow droppings, stillborn piglets, small piglets, and afterbirth to fall through to open air pits that flow into lagoons around the massive buildings. Large ventilation fans attempt to take the stench out but the animals breath bacteria and methane gases. Coupled with the trauma from living in hell, the pigs immune systems weaken. They have to be shot up with drugs and antibiotics continuously. They are also doused with pesticide. Much of it falls into the pits and out to the open air lagoons.
Lagoons are lined, but liners can break. Lagoons can cover an area as large as 120,000 sq. ft. and be 30 ft. deep. One slaughterhouse can have as many as 100 open air lagoons. The stench is described as putrid and fetid. The lagoons are the color of Pepto Bismal from blood. Dead pigs are piled up in areas of the premises. It’s a sewage horror story and I haven’t stated the worst yet.
When the lagoons get too high, workers suck the stuff up and blow it into the air to land on the ground that grows the feed for the hogs. Pig poo hangs from the surrounding trees and covers everything. Industry people call this over-saturation and act as if this stuff is a nutrient. At this point, picture grease in a pan of cold water, the slimy crust floating on top a mix of blood, pig parts, afterbirth, chemicals, drugs, fertilizer, bacteria, and poo. Pour something like that on the ground. That slime is going to lay on top and draw more bacteria, and flies, before it seeps in. Raise a flag to the recent outbreak of bacteria tainted veggies? Smithfield has operations in 20 states.
The lagoons overflow into subsidiaries when it rains too much. When hurricane Floyd hit N.C., and one of the largest hog farms, entire counties became cesspools. Fish died within minutes of touching lagoon water. There were dead fish along the ocean shore at the mouths of the subsidiaries that swelled with lagoon overspill. People who come in contact don’t fair too well either. The stench cannot be inhaled for long or a person blacks out. A worker repairing a lagoon in Michigan inhaled too much, blacked out, fell in, and immediately died.
That’s right. Smithfield is in Michigan. All of our lakes, streams, and rivers run into our Great Lakes, the world’s largest freshwater supply. If a Smithfield farm was dead center in our state, I wouldn’t rest easy. I don’t think this is the wave of the future at all. It is unnecessarily inhumane. Many states are fighting it as a monopoly because Smithfield sucks up all the small farms. Dead pigs piled up is nothing but waste and overkill. The pollution is uncontrollable, affecting our groundwater and soil, and eventually our other food and water supplies. The pigs are sickly. Many are pumped with drugs and kept alive long enough to kill and serve as our food.
While organizations are forming to keep Smithfield out of their state, and to stop industrialized farming, Smithfield Foods made the Fortune list, was honored by a leading meat packing industry magazine, and the EPA honored them for following ISO 14000 standards. These standards are a joke. The 14000 program is a pilot that only encourages active environmental management. None of the standards hold force so a company is not required to improve its quality control. Most significantly, the standards do not require sufficient public disclosure of a firm’s environmental impacts. What’s wrong with this picture? The EPA, not long ago, handed Smithfield the largest fine in history.
Pollution is a political issue. Luter is a major contributor to politicians and part of the growing problem with lobbyists. Lobbyists like Smithfield Foods get the government to look the other way and dump their pollution on us when we don’t fight back. We don’t fight back when we don’t know about it. We don’t know about it because of flimsy, voluntary standards s like the EPA’s 14000 ISO’s.
Smithfield Foods is not only killing off America, they are in Canada and have spread like a virus to Poland and Romania. Search the article under Boss Hog by Jeff Tietz. One of the first urls brings up the entire article. E mail Senators Levin http://levin.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm, Stabenow http://stabenow.senate.gov/email.htm, and Representative Dingell http://www.house.gov/writerep/ to stop Smithfield Foods and industrialized farming. Global warming isn’t the only threat to our environment.
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Friday, December 15th, 2006
I had to jump in here and be a wise guy. Of course no one is interested in a smoking ban. Monroe has a nuclear power plant, a coal burner, and trash dump. Why worry the small potatoes? We’re being killed off in small increments by more insidious forms of pollution. No one seems to care as long as our car starts, our house is warm, our tv works, and we eat.
Blowing smoke on someone is a smaller version of blowing our CO2 on everyone else in the world. If second had smoke is irritating, imagine what the rest of the world feels about our CO2? We have a bad attitude. It probably won’t change until the lakes dry up or as some would believe, pigs fly.
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