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"In other words, these older folks got to where they are by slowly but surely reducing their metabolic rate. This energy efficiency is exactly what your genetic autopilot wants when it sends out signals to reduce muscle mass as you age so you'll eat less. The lower your metabolic rate, the less food you need to eat. Because this means you're not a threat to the rest of the tribe, you get to stick around. Remember those hibernating ground squirrels, with their low metabolic rate, that live five times longer than nonhibernators?5 Still having trouble with this concept?" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Vetrano and Victoria BidWell are quick to point out here: On raw foods, which require far, far less energy to process than SAD foods, the energy efficiency is much, much higher. Probably around 70-90% is extracted for bodily use. (See "Live Food ?It's All about Energy!" on page 110.) We point out that raw foods in general require very little digestive energy. In fact T. C. Fry correctly promoted fruits as predigested, since all they need are chewing well and swallowing before absorption takes place. Vegetables and sprouts require more energy ?nuts and seeds more yet." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Increase energy efficiency: Run chemical reactions at ambient temperature and pressure whenever possible. 10. Design chemicals and products to degrade after use: Design chemical products to break down to innocuous substances after use so that they do not accumulate in the environment. 11. Analyze in real time to prevent pollution: Include in-process real-time monitoring and control during syntheses to rninimize or eliminate the formation of byproducts. 12." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Consumers need to consider a full range of aspects concerning insulation, including energy efficiency, the environmental impact of raw material acquisition, product performance, flammability, and recycled content. At the Women's and Children's Pavilion at Hackensack, we insulated the walls with 117,000 pairs of preconsumer recycled denim jeans. For information on safer insulation, contact Bonded Logic (www.bondedlogic.com). Rooftops and Ceilings. In the sweltering summer months, the temperature of conventional flat rooftops can rise up to 140 degrees Fahrenheit." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Energy is conserved because the body moves fiber-rich, peristalsis-stimulating, live foods through its digestive tract with a high energy efficiency when compared to the larger amount of energy required to so move cooked foods, which are fiber degraded and no longer peristalsis stimulating. • Energy is conserved because live foods are nutrient rich. They thus provide the body with the best digestible, assimilable, raw building blocks and with the best raw supplies needed for energy-efficient physiological activities. (See Chapter 10." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Four values are essential: anticipation; transparency and collaboration; long-term planning; and vision, as Anticipation mi— With radical gains in energy efficiency, cascading waves of better designs, new technologies like nano- and biotechnology, and faster, cheaper computers, delivering better products with less becomes easier every day. Businesses that embrace steady advances in efficiency will gain a gigantic competitive advantage, while those that don't will find themselves wasting money and increasingly struggling with regulations." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Imagine if we continued like that each year, Opposite: Increased energy efficiency, whether garnered through better technology or better practices (like insulating homes well) is the most effective way to meet our increasing energy needs. gradually investing more in making our homes greener, using better technologies as they became available, being more mindful of ways to cut useless power consumption— like the "vampire power" our televisions and cell-phone chargers keep sucking even when they're "off." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Start thinking now about energy efficiency as fundamental to what you buy or use. Items that waste energy (appliances that draw power even when they're "off," homes that leak heat through drafty windows) will be serious liabilities in the years to come. Key idea: Efficiency is a long-term win-win strategy. What do you do for a living? Is your job likely to see increasing or declining demand in a time of economic stress, population migration, and environmental woe? Is the company you work for apt to be seen as a cause of these problems (justifiably or not)?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Buildings are tightly sealed for energy efficiency and may trap chemical gasses and dust from a variety of sources. Cleaning agents left on floors and other surfaces dry and can eventually circulate on dust particles throughout the house or workplace and be inhaled with each breath. Fire retardants and other chemicals used in fabrics and foams in furniture, mattresses, and electrical insulation can be irritating to the airway. Mold can flourish wherever there is humidity—in basements, crawl spaces, bathrooms, air conditioners, and automobile air ducts." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"If you take in more calories than you need, your energy efficiency could be as low as 25 percent. That may cause you to feel more sluggish and less sharp, and to tend to gain weight. You'd be like an old gas-guzzling car chugging along. But, on the other hand, if you take in slightly fewer calories than you need—say that magic 100 calories per day (just a handful of potato chips or a half of a chocolate bar) or you simply walk a mile, your body will turn the energy efficiency up as high as 50 percent.22 Then your body would remodel itself along the lines of a new fuel-efficient car." - Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry (Get the book.)

"Long-term studies show that organic farming increases both energy efficiency and economic returns. Increasingly, the question appears not to be whether we can afford to go organic. Over the long run, we simply can't afford not to, despite what agribusiness interests will argue. We can greatly improve conventional farming practices from both environmental and economic perspectives by adopting elements of organic technologies. Oddly, our government subsidizes conventional farming practices, whereas the market places a premium on organic produce." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Emerging inrerest in supporting an agrarian land ethic is embodied in the slow food and ear-local movements that try to shorten the distance between crop production and consumption. Yet energy efficiency in the delivery of food to the table is not some radical new idea. Romans shipped grain around the Mediterranean because the wind provided the energy needed to transport food long distances. That's why Notth Africa, Egypt, and Syria fed Rome—it was too inefficient (and difficult) to drag western European produce over the mountains into central Italy." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Pouring investment into quadrupling the numbers of gas-fuelled power stations to achieve a wedge would be unwise if gas supplies are close to peaking. energy efficiency measures have fewer drawbacks - but improving efficiency in cars and buildings can have the surprising effect of increasing power consumption overall by making energy cheaper than it would otherwise be. Wind turbines are visually intrusive, and onshore wind farms tend to be sited in highland areas which are visible for great distances." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Each of Vest-frost's ConServ refrigerators not only offer super energy efficiency but are also built with all recyclable parts (and this is information you won't obtain at the Energy Star Web site). Vestfrost is the first in the industry to document compliance with all EU energy and environmental criteria.54 Visit www.vestfrost.com. When we recently purchased our new washer and dryer, I learned that to qualify for Energy Star status, a washing machine must clean clothes using 50 percent less energy than a standard washer." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The building is encased in a structural skin of aluminum, steel, and glass, which blurs the boundaries between roof and wall and increases energy efficiency by eliminating wasted space. A unique diagonal structure allows interior spaces to be open, and interrupted only by support columns. Separating the offices are open social spaces, placed in different locations on each floor such that they spiral up the building." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"ART - DAN BERGER - CONCEPT • MIKE ADAMS Boost your energy efficiency and flow with Tai Chi, Qi-Gong and acupuncture. Chinese medicine is invaluable in boosting energy flow. If you have a desk job, get up every 30 minutes and move your body. Engage in acts of expression: Artistic expression, dance, music, martial arts, sports, games or whatever makes you happy. Creativity is, indeed, related to health. Engage in social interaction: It moves your Qi and boosts your health." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"On the demand side you have energy efficiency and conservation?how to reduce your consumption of power . . . lighting . . . more efficient boilers, chillers, and HVAC [heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning] systems; these can all significantly reduce power consumption. On the supply side, there is also the need for power, the production of power rhat typically happens at the utility, but there are now more and more solutions on-site for an institution to generate or cogenerate its own power or at least to reduce the power required to operate." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Environmentally preferable attributes include reduced toxicity, the use of recycled materials, and increased energy efficiency. The federal government is required by Executive Order to purchase recycled paper products. The U.S. General Services Administration made the decision to go one step further and purchase and sell only postconsumer recycled-content copier paper to federal agencies. Copier paper accounts for over 28 percent of all the paper purchased by the federal government, with approximately 10 million sheets being used every work hour." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"A lot, yes, but no more than the world currently spends on arms in just one year! All that we lack is the will. Are we prepared to reconsider our priorities? Can we stop destroying the rainforests, now, before it is too late? And who is responsible? Is it the timber-hungry industries, or the hamburger manufacturers who encourage farmers to cut down the forest and use it as pasture for a few years? The governments that allow this to happen? The banks, which demand interest on their loans? Or all of us who in one way or another support the present system?" - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Environmental advocates demand the removal of toxins or ask for greater energy efficiency; industry and government claim that it is unrealistic, that we must become accustomed to trade-offs in order to enjoy our modern conveniences. Europe is calling that bluff by demonstrating that these are false trade-offs. What Americans have been told is impossible is happening. From cosmetics to appliances, industrial chemicals to toys, the Europeans are demonstrating that there are alternatives by creating legal and financial incentives for industry to create them." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "The Swedes have a joint renewable-energy program to increase energy efficiency. . . . Other than removing the restrictions on trade in nuclear technology, there is very little that the U.S. government has brought to the table." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "Otherwise, the United States' primary pledge for advancing greater energy efficiency comes not in China, but at the Asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate, a regional alliance the United States and Australia created as an alternative to Kyoto. At the group's inaugural summit in Australia in January 2006, Bodman promised $52 million to "promote clean energy technologies" in the Asia-Pacific region. One year later that money had still not been appropriated by Congress." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "He has a mandate similar to that of Donkers' in the United States —though of course with a far more daunting set of environmental challenges—including air and water pollution, energy efficiency, and protection from hazardous chemicals. About REACH, Gislev commented, "We are looking down the supply chain. A lot of our downstream users do business with the Chinese." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"The reality is that only a combination of serious energy efficiency and a wide variety of new technologies offer any hope of a way out of the crisis. This essential truth was illustrated very usefully a couple of years ago by Robert Socolow and Steve Pacala of Princeton University in New Jersey, USA. Their idea was to consider each technology a potential 'wedge' - one of a number of wedges which together would make the difference between an upwards emissions trend or a stabilising one." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"But, on the other hand, if you take in slightly fewer calories than you need—say that magic 100 calories per day (just a handful of potato chips or a half of a chocolate bar) or you simply walk a mile, your body will turn the energy efficiency up as high as 50 percent.22 Then your body would remodel itself along the lines of a new fuel-efficient car. You'd not only get yourself a sleeker chassis out of the Figure 2." - Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry (Get the book.)

"The latest generation of turbines can operate at up to 90 percent energy efficiency. We've been using hydroelectric power in the United States since the first generating station on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, opened in 1882. Ten percent of electricity in the United States today comes from hydropower, compared to 40 percent in 1940. Hydro is well understood and fairly dependable. It can be done at scales from a one-household microgenerator on a creek to Hoover Dam, which lights up whole cities." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "It was not a robust engineering effort in terms of energy efficiency. Yet I was able to keep the whole building comfortably warm on a winter day by firing up a small woodstove in the morning. It wasn't necessary to refire the stove until evening time. The heating bill was remarkably low. Running the house required very little work—seven minutes a day to cut kindling and another five to light fires in the stove. You might even figure in the one afternoon a year I had to spend stacking firewood delivered in a heap by dump truck." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Moreover, the excess heat—the thermogenic response—indicates that the body's energy efficiency is being turned down, which unfortunately may lead to a shorter life.19 Studies of the long-term effects of high-protein diets on rodents showed that the higher their protein intake, the higher their risk for coronary heart disease, cancer, and prostate and kidney disease." - Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry (Get the book.) "Are you out to push your energy efficiency to its limits, to gain the maximal benefits of caloric restriction? Or do you simply want to drop ten pounds of fat? Different motivations and goals mean different levels of diligence, commitment, and end points, so you need to be realistic. Carry your list of reasons for healthy weight with you for a day or so and think about it throughout the day." - Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D., The Okinawa Diet Plan : Get Leaner, Live Longer, and Never Feel Hungry (Get the book.)

"Profligate Westerners still fail to understand the importance of Japanese energy efficiency in the whole matrix of Japanese industrial success. COTTON Cotton and the American South In 1784, a year after the Treaty of Versailles had legitimized the independent United States, the first American cotton arrived in the port of Liverpool. It comprised a single bale. Under the Navigation Acts, raw materials were only permitted entry into Britain in Brirish ships or in vessels belonging to the nation which had exported those goods." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

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