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POPSAnother reason to buy USA or Organic Food! Those grapes look so plump and juicy during the months when you can't get California grapes. I have always known that we import food that is grown with chemicals that are banned in the USA. The program in question, would be voluntary, and would use inspections to watch out for infestations of these mites. While this is a step in the right direction, I think that it should be mandatory and widespread. This article reiterates to me that we should be buying food local and in season to our region.
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POPS9 Environmental Boundaries We Don't Want to Cross
Records of global transitions between geological ages, and of regional changes between environmental stages, suggest that planet-wide change could happen relatively quickly. It might not take thousands or millions of years for Earth’s environment to be altered. It could happen in centuries, perhaps even decades. Exactly what Earth would look like is difficult to predict in detail, but it could be radically different from the mild environment that has prevailed for the last 10,000 years. It was temperate stability that nurtured the rise of civilization, and it should continue for thousands of years to come, unless humanity keeps pushing the limits. “The Earth of the last 10,000 years has been more recognizable than the Earth we may have 100 years from now. It won’t be Mars, but it won’t be the Earth that you and I know,” said Foley. “This is the single most defining problem of our time. Will we have the wisdom to be stewards of a world we’ve come to dominate?” Th
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POPSHouseplants Make Air Healthier Plant positives Here are some other reasons to keep indoor shrubbery around: * Plant-filled rooms contain up to 60 percent fewer airborne molds and bacteria than rooms without plants, studies show. * People who work in offices with windows and plants are happier than others, according to a study of 450 office workers in Texas and the Midwest. In fact, 82 percent of the participants who worked with plants and windows around said they felt "content" or "very happy," compared with 58 percent in windowless plant-less offices who said the same. * Plants seem to make people more contemplative and self-reflective, according to one ethnologist. Decotau's study was detailed in a recent issue of the journal Hort Technology.
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POPSBella Vita Cleansing Retreat with Danny Vierra BellaVita’s beautiful country setting is very soothing, healing, and rejuvenating. Unwind and relax in the ozone-generated spa or aromatic cedar sauna. Sun and swim in the colloidal silver-treated pool or meditate by the beautiful and majestic Mokulemne River. Purge your mind of negative attitudes and emotions while walking on the magnificent nature trail. Prayer is emphasized and encouraged. Many diseases have their origin in the mind and too often this area is neglected in other healing programs.
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POPSwhy we should...(shouldn't) go to space it started: the creation of a cosmic diaspora is just one argument for putting humans in space- a bad one. But, now, as human-made climate change has thrust us into the role of stewards of the global biosphere, new reasons, good ones, have emerged. Indeed, keeping our space ambitions relatively local--within our own solar system- can help us find solutions for the climate crisis.
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POPSFix Ozone Layer, Break Planet The Canadian Press and Live Science cover the story well, the latter noting its support of similar findings published in April. The Impact of Stratospheric Ozone Recovery on the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Jet
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POPSOur tax dollars at work...lol Measuring Cow Burps in Fight Against Climate Change...... this almost as bad as those $500 a piece fountain pens we pay for. Whats next a study on how many times a sparrow farts
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POPSNature's problem-solving services endangered Economic growth beyond what contributes to human well being is wasteful of biodiversity, as well as resources. From a sustainable scale perspective, the rate at which new species evolve, relative to the current rate of extinction, determines whether the level of biodiversity is sustainable. After each of the previous mass extinctions, it took 5-10 million years for biodiversity to return to its previous level. A mass extinction caused by humans will have irreversible repercussions that will extend 2-3 times the period that humans have been on the earth.
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