SAVING OUR PLANET: Club stains away. To keep fresh stains from sinking deep into clothes, immediately apply a little carbonated water bubbles up the stain and the salts keep the color from sticking. Then wash as normal.
SAVING OUR PLANET: Bake off stains. for hard-to-beat, stubborn stains on our kitchen surfaces, let's dampen a sponge and apply baking powder, then wipe cleans as normal. The abrasive powder will get rid of most stains, but if the mark remains, let's try re-soaking the stain with a solution of baking powder instead.
SAVING OUR PLANET: Let's make our own polish. Most mass-produced polishes contain solvents that are harmful to the environment. Many of them come in aerosol sprays, which are wasteful and contain harmful gases.
SAVING OUR PLANET: Let's refresh naturally. Instead of chemical plug-in air refreshners, let's place a few slices of citrus fruit such as lemon or orange in a sauceapan, together with a few cloves. Simmer the mixture gently for an hour or so to refresh the smell of our house.
SAVING OUR PLANET: Don't dispose. Whenever we can, let's swap our throw-away, disposable items for reusable versions. We won't have to pay out over and over again plus we will avoid contributing to landfill.
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Monday, October 31, 2016
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
We reduce supplies of our natural wealth
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- It was Sir Francis Bacon who exhorted us to obey our nature if we wish to command it.
By obeying, it doesn’t mean we will not enjoy from its wealth.
By commanding, it doesn’t mean we will destroy it.
The laws of nature definitely are in consonance with our existence, thus there is no need to exploit and ravage nature for our whims and caprices.
There is no need to rape the environment for our own irrational selfishness and greed.
The following are some of the ways in which man has upset nature’s balance and reduced our supplies of natural wealth:
1. Destruction of vast forest areas. Enormous quantities of lumber were taken from our forests for buildings, furniture, fuel, and other useful purposes.
But because of the apparent abundance of forests, lumbering practices were very wasteful. Little heed was given to the replanting of trees to keep our forests producing for the future.
2. Destruction of wild life. When forests are cut away, the homes of countless animals are destroyed, and these animals die.
The balance of nature has been upset at a vital point, and entire species may vanish as a result.
Added to this is the effect of needless trapping and shooting of animals for sport.
Examples of species made extinct or nearly extinct by man most particularly in America are: American bison (buffalo), antelope, passenger pigeon.
FARM
3. Reckless use of farm lands. Nature’s orderly processes keep soils permanently fertile.
But when man’s sole interest is to extract the maximum crop from his farm each year, regardless of the consequences, the soil soon loses its essential minerals and cannot support plant life at all. The soil, moreover, loosened and laid bare by the planting and harvesting of a single crop, and the wind and the rain easily carry it away.
4. Overgrazing of pasture lands. Sheep- and cattle-raisers, through lack of planning and foresight, have pastured their animals on the same land year after year.
Here, too, the result has been to lay bare the soil, so that it falls victim to erosion.
5. Pollution of streams. The dumping of sewage and industrial wastes into streams and rivers makes these waters unhealthy for water life.
The result is the destruction of large numbers of fish, oysters, and other valuable organisms.
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- It was Sir Francis Bacon who exhorted us to obey our nature if we wish to command it.
By obeying, it doesn’t mean we will not enjoy from its wealth.
By commanding, it doesn’t mean we will destroy it.
The laws of nature definitely are in consonance with our existence, thus there is no need to exploit and ravage nature for our whims and caprices.
There is no need to rape the environment for our own irrational selfishness and greed.
The following are some of the ways in which man has upset nature’s balance and reduced our supplies of natural wealth:
1. Destruction of vast forest areas. Enormous quantities of lumber were taken from our forests for buildings, furniture, fuel, and other useful purposes.
But because of the apparent abundance of forests, lumbering practices were very wasteful. Little heed was given to the replanting of trees to keep our forests producing for the future.
2. Destruction of wild life. When forests are cut away, the homes of countless animals are destroyed, and these animals die.
The balance of nature has been upset at a vital point, and entire species may vanish as a result.
Added to this is the effect of needless trapping and shooting of animals for sport.
Examples of species made extinct or nearly extinct by man most particularly in America are: American bison (buffalo), antelope, passenger pigeon.
FARM
3. Reckless use of farm lands. Nature’s orderly processes keep soils permanently fertile.
But when man’s sole interest is to extract the maximum crop from his farm each year, regardless of the consequences, the soil soon loses its essential minerals and cannot support plant life at all. The soil, moreover, loosened and laid bare by the planting and harvesting of a single crop, and the wind and the rain easily carry it away.
4. Overgrazing of pasture lands. Sheep- and cattle-raisers, through lack of planning and foresight, have pastured their animals on the same land year after year.
Here, too, the result has been to lay bare the soil, so that it falls victim to erosion.
5. Pollution of streams. The dumping of sewage and industrial wastes into streams and rivers makes these waters unhealthy for water life.
The result is the destruction of large numbers of fish, oysters, and other valuable organisms.
Monday, December 29, 2014
We upset the balance of nature
“Look deep into
nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein
By
Alex P. Vidal
IT was Sir Francis Bacon who exhorted us to obey our
nature if we wish to command it.
By obeying, it doesn’t mean we will not enjoy from its
wealth.
By commanding, it doesn’t mean we will destroy it.
The laws of nature definitely are in consonance with
our existence, thus there is no need to exploit and ravage nature for our whims
and caprices.
There is no need to rape the environment for our own
irrational selfishness and greed.
The following are some of the ways in which man has
upset nature’s balance and reduced our supplies of natural wealth:
1. Destruction
of vast forest areas. Enormous quantities of lumber were taken from our
forests for buildings, furniture, fuel, and other useful purposes.
But because of the apparent abundance of forests,
lumbering practices were very wasteful. Little heed was given to the replanting
of trees to keep our forests producing for the future.
2. Destruction
of wild life. When forests are cut away, the homes of countless animals are
destroyed, and these animals die.
The balance of nature has been upset at a vital
point, and entire species may vanish as a result.
Added to this is the effect of needless trapping and
shooting of animals for sport.
Examples of species made extinct or nearly extinct
by man most particularly in America are: American bison (buffalo), antelope,
passenger pigeon.
FARM
3. Reckless use of farm lands. Nature’s orderly
processes keep soils permanently fertile.
But when man’s sole interest is to extract the
maximum crop from his farm each year, regardless of the consequences, the soil
soon loses its essential minerals and cannot support plant life at all. The
soil, moreover, loosened and laid bare by the planting and harvesting of a
single crop, and the wind and the rain easily carry it away.
4. Overgrazing
of pasture lands. Sheep- and cattle-raisers, through lack of planning and
foresight, have pastured their animals on the same land year after year.
Here, too, the result has been to lay bare the soil,
so that it falls victim to erosion.
5. Pollution
of streams. The dumping of sewage and industrial wastes into streams and
rivers makes these waters unhealthy for water life.
The result is the destruction of large numbers of
fish, oysters, and other valuable organisms.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Degradation of environment is tantamount to economic suicide
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment." MARGARET MEAD
By Alex P. Vidal
WE are destroying our planet at an unprecedented rate and over-exploiting 2/3 of the ecological systems on which human life depends, discovered a study by 1,300 experts in 95 countries.
Thirty one million of hectares of rain forests are approximately destroyed all over the world each year, according to Leonarda Camacho of the Unesco Commission on Science and Technology who called the degradation of the environment as "economic suicide."
Of the 15 million hectares classified as forest lands in the Philippines, 6.5 million hectares are still forested, with less than a million hectares of virgin forests. Some 8.5 hectares are denuded, said Camacho.
There are reportedly 28 bodies of water still polluted by mining operations and 22 abmine sitesinesites and an executive order that state "remediation and rehabilitation of abandoned mines shall be accorded top priority to address the negative impacts of past mining sites."
DEPLETED
Fishing is a battle between fisherfolk and industrial fishermen, and our fishing grounds were being rapidly depleted, mostly by foreign poachers, added Camacho. She feared that the industrial fishing fleet was rapidly outstripping our supply of fish.
It was learned that local subsistence fisherfolk were the worst-affected. They could not compete with destructive fishing methods such as dynamite, cyanide, purse-seine, "zipper" (blocks of cement dropped on corals). The Pacific Ocean and the China Sea are reportedly exploited by the industrial fishermen and coastal fishing communities are the hardest hit by this battle of fish.
"These activities are what humans call economic development or growth," Camacho explained. "Economics is a subject taught in school without any consideration of its most fundamental component--the environment, which is the system of nature on which all economic life must ultimately depend."
MEASURE
For example, she cited that economists measure the value of produce coming from a farm but does not subtract the amount of topsoil eroded in the process, the effect of toxic run-off from chemical fertilizers and insecticides, the health costs to the farmers.
"Economists do not regard deforestation soil degradation, air and water pollution as costs of economic activity," she pointed out. "If monetized, the cost of environment degradation and public health could run to billions of pesos. Some economists consider environment concerns as obstacles to growth. Which is stupid. Actually, economic growth and sustainable development are very compatible. They can and should be harmonized. Environmental protection makes economic sense."
By Alex P. Vidal
WE are destroying our planet at an unprecedented rate and over-exploiting 2/3 of the ecological systems on which human life depends, discovered a study by 1,300 experts in 95 countries.
Thirty one million of hectares of rain forests are approximately destroyed all over the world each year, according to Leonarda Camacho of the Unesco Commission on Science and Technology who called the degradation of the environment as "economic suicide."
Of the 15 million hectares classified as forest lands in the Philippines, 6.5 million hectares are still forested, with less than a million hectares of virgin forests. Some 8.5 hectares are denuded, said Camacho.
There are reportedly 28 bodies of water still polluted by mining operations and 22 abmine sitesinesites and an executive order that state "remediation and rehabilitation of abandoned mines shall be accorded top priority to address the negative impacts of past mining sites."
DEPLETED
Fishing is a battle between fisherfolk and industrial fishermen, and our fishing grounds were being rapidly depleted, mostly by foreign poachers, added Camacho. She feared that the industrial fishing fleet was rapidly outstripping our supply of fish.
It was learned that local subsistence fisherfolk were the worst-affected. They could not compete with destructive fishing methods such as dynamite, cyanide, purse-seine, "zipper" (blocks of cement dropped on corals). The Pacific Ocean and the China Sea are reportedly exploited by the industrial fishermen and coastal fishing communities are the hardest hit by this battle of fish.
"These activities are what humans call economic development or growth," Camacho explained. "Economics is a subject taught in school without any consideration of its most fundamental component--the environment, which is the system of nature on which all economic life must ultimately depend."
MEASURE
For example, she cited that economists measure the value of produce coming from a farm but does not subtract the amount of topsoil eroded in the process, the effect of toxic run-off from chemical fertilizers and insecticides, the health costs to the farmers.
"Economists do not regard deforestation soil degradation, air and water pollution as costs of economic activity," she pointed out. "If monetized, the cost of environment degradation and public health could run to billions of pesos. Some economists consider environment concerns as obstacles to growth. Which is stupid. Actually, economic growth and sustainable development are very compatible. They can and should be harmonized. Environmental protection makes economic sense."
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