Progressive American Liberal: Obama Administration Reverses Bush's "No More Wilderness" Policy

Progressive American Liberal: Obama Administration Reverses Bush's "No More Wilderness" Policy:

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Sewer Overflows: Heavy Rain, Old Pipes, More People Make A 'Perfect Storm'

New York City is not alone. Older communities across the U.S. sit atop aging combined sewer and stormwater systems, and are subject to increasingly frequent extreme rain events that come with the changing climate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/rain-sewer-oveflows-dirty-water_n_920940.html

TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WATER



9 – The average American uses about 575 liters of water (151.9 gallons) per day, with about 60 percent of that being used out-of-doors (watering lawns, washing cars, etc.). The average European uses 250 liters of water (66 gallons) per day. 1.1 billion people lack adequate water access, using less than 19 liters (5 gallons) per day.



1 – One drop of oil can make up to 25 liters (6.6 gallons) of water undrinkable.



7 – 6,000 children die each day from preventable water-related diseases

GET AWARE ABOUT WATER. Then let's work together for solutions.

Peace.
Get up.
http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2009/world/infographic-ten-things-you-should-know-about-water/

Water Conversation, a comparison of water rates in 30 Cities



“That’s a frightening graph if you make money selling water,” Lewis said.
As a result, water conservation is not a big part of Milwaukee’s agenda. Milwaukee Water Works (MWW) rejected a suggestion from the state public service commission to institute a block tariff rate structure, which would have raised prices for high-volume users to encourage using less water. The city is actually looking to increase water use because of its spare infrastructure capacity and ample supply.

http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2010/world/the-price-of-water-a-comparison-of-water-rates-usage-in-30-u-s-cities/

Brine injected into meat??? Reading this will bring you more info and awareness

“Currently, raw meat and poultry products that contain added solutions such as water, teriyaki sauce, salt, or a mixture thereof may have the same name on their labels as products that do not contain added solutions,” according to a USDA statement released today. “For example, a single-ingredient chicken breast and a chicken breast with added solution both may be labeled as “chicken breast,” even though one package contains purely chicken breast and one may be comprised of 60 percent chicken breast and 40 percent solution. “

Brine Injected into Meat??? Reading it is important for knowing What Is.

Know what's in your food.
Where is it sourced from - what countries?

Peace. It's Who we are, not what we look for. Stand up. Somos Uno.

As a follow-up to the just posted article on Salmon, a friend of mine from the Northwest sent me her findings on it:


"Over 60% of the fish eaten in the United States is farm-raised. What are some of the things that you should know about man-raised salmon?

Farmed Salmon:
have seven times the levels of PCB’s as wild salmon

have 30 times the number of sea lice

are fed chemicals to give them color

are fed pellets of chicken feces, corn meal, soy, genetically modified canola oil
and other fish containing concentrations of toxins

are administered antibiotics at higher levels than any other livestock

have less omega 3’s due to lack of wild diet

are crowed into small areas inhibiting movement, and causing disease"
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These are my friend's thoughts, and she does her research. Do you have some thoughts on it? Please, share your wisdom and research with us here at Organic Grandmama's Cafe!

Farmed or wild: What’s the best salmon to buy? - Food on Shine

I still maintain that GM salmon is a disaster in the making on many levels, we all have to decide for ourselves. For my money, stick with wild, and the folks that are regulated. This is, at least, an article that gives you a bit of insight, and may I suggest that you do even more. Your health depends upon it - and not for just today, but long-term. As you look around at our population, we don't have all the health problems we do because of what we took into our bodies this past week.

Cheers. Stay aware - and then share your wisdom.

Farmed or wild: What’s the best salmon to buy? - Food on Shine

Think tainted Chinese Pork is Scary? Take a look in your supermarket

http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-18-think-chinese-pork-is-scary-check-out-the-nearest-supermarket-me

Snippets from article:

Something similar could never happen here, right? Well, the poultry industry quite legally laces its feed with arsenic -- for similar reasons. Traces of arsenic do end up in chicken meat, in the poisonous "inorganic" form. And the pork industry regularly doses pigs with ractopamine, a growth enhancer that the USDA allows even though its own research shows that it stresses pigs out. The European Union and, yes, China ban ractopamine, worrying that it harms people when ingested.

Then there's "non-therapeutic" use of antibiotics so popular among the four or five companies that dominate our meat industry. Eighty percent of antibiotics consumed in the United States go to factory animal farms, the FDA recently revealed. One of the main functions of this pharmaceutical barrage is to promote growth. The problem with routine antibiotic use on farms, of course, is that it gives rise to all manner of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, which then can break out of farms and infect the human population...

...Meanwhile, people in the United States are dying from MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant staph that has been shown to be present on hog farms. Moreover, a growing body of evidence links resistant bacterial strains on farms with those actively sickening people. Now that the U.S. regulatory establishment has demonstrated that a) it knows routine antibiotic use is a public-health menace, and b) it has no intention of reining it in anytime soon, I wonder if it's opening the federal government to lawsuits from people who get sick or lose loved ones to antibiotic-resistant pathogens.

********** There's more. Get aware, folks. know what's in your food - what they're putting into it... how the words are spun (no 'added' for instance - know what it means?) Stand up for real food safety and not what the congressional corporate whores of the Corporate AgriBiggies want you to believe. Remember: Profit trumps your Life every time for these entities.

2010 National Environmental Scorecard

Check it out and see how your officials did...

2010 National Environmental Scorecard

Phosphorus and Plastic Pollute the World's Oceans

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 17, 2011 (ENS) - Enormous amounts of the fertilizer phosphorus are discharged into oceans due to inefficiencies in farming and a failure to recycle wastewater, the United Nations Environment Programme warns in its 2011 Year Book released today.

An emerging concern over plastics pollution of the oceans is identified in the Year Book as "persistent, bio-accumulating and toxic substances" associated with plastic marine waste.

Research indicates that tiny pieces of plastic are adsorbing and concentrating from the seawater and sediments chemicals from polychlorinated biphenols, PCBs, to the pesticide DDT.

The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?

Never again will I buy at Whole Foods. They are no better than Monsanto and care nothing NOTHING for the consumer
who wants to eat REAL whole foods, organic as much as possible, and certainly not GM.

WHOLE FOODS and their ilk are just one more group of corporate whores - and We the People are the ones who will pay for it.

The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?

YouTube - CHRIS HEDGES: "HOPE" SPEECH (UNEDITED)

Please, please, watch and LISTEN to this speech. It is simply stated, Truth spoken, and powerful.

We are all One.

Stand up.

Together.

And let's rock - Todos Somos Uno.

YouTube - CHRIS HEDGES: "HOPE" SPEECH (UNEDITED)

Non-Hybrid

Are you thinking of getting ready to plant? This is an excellent site, gifted me by a Facebook Friend

Check it out! Peace and a New Year chock-filled with Blessings enough to share!

Non-Hybrid

FOOD: Growing Community Food Systems

An excerpt from the Post-Carbon Reader - check it out!

FOOD: Growing Community Food Systems

USDA Recommends "Coexistence" with Monsanto: We Say Hell No! by Ronnie Cummins

"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." - Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994

"Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job." - Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications, quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1998

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Never doubt that this murderous, monstrous, monolith, the non-person entity called Monsanto - and it's allied entities - care one white whether We the People live or die...

As long as they can make their Profit-at-any-cost whilst you're dying.

USDA Recommends "Coexistence" with Monsanto: We Say Hell No! by Ronnie Cummins

Remember: If you had a product - a technology - a way to cure World Hunger - wouldn't you be flying flags and banners from rooftops? Blitzing TV with ads and promos? Putting your executives, attorneys, and Talking Heads on every Talk Show you could get on?

and

INSISTING that the food that We the People buy is LABELED with the name of the Corporation who is responsible???

Guess what? Nope. Not allowed. Lobbyists ensure that the corporate congressional whores of the 666 Greed Group do their bidding.

Yep. Believe Monsanto or their lackies? Get outta here!!!!

Take Action with the Grassroots Netroots Alliance

Make no mistake: It is a deliberate and sustained drive to eradicate all organic and non-gmo crops, whatever it takes.

Remember, from Monsanto's own memo: We cannot afford to lose even one penny of profit!

And remember Anniston, Alabama (pcbs); Agent Orange; Aspartame; bovine growth hormones.

Monsanto and their related entities (corporations are NOT people, no matter who on the not-Supreme Court act as

their lackies) do NOT care if you drop dead or become diseased...as long as they have their Profit-at-any-cost and

Power Over.

Peace. Get Aware. Stay aware. And Stand up-together.

We are all One. Todos Somos Uno.

Take Action with the Grassroots Netroots Alliance

Beyond Oil in 20 years - January/February 2011 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club

Great discussion piece with lots of information - including the responses (refreshing to see

most responses are not the typical epithet-laced, non-issue related, inane attack comments

a la 2Minute Hate Fox not-news type.

Peace.

Awareness

Stand up. Together We the People are all One.

Todos somos uno.

Beyond Oil in 20 years - January/February 2011 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club