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"Buying domestically manufactured toys has several benefits: it supports jobs and local economies, and it also reduces the fossil fuels needed to ship items. Environmental standards are also often higher here than in countries such as China. Wyatt's Favorite Toys Wyatt always loved Waldorf dolls—and yes, boys should play with dolls, too. I believe playing with dolls sets a solid foundation of caretaking that will prepare Wyatt for fatherhood. Now that he's nine years old, he has a very nurturing attitude toward all the kids with cancer who come to the ranch in New Mexico." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Renewable feedstocks are often made from agricultural products or are the wastes of other processes; depleting feedstocks are made from fossil fuels (petroleum, natural gas, or coal) or are mined. 5. Use catalysts, not stoichiometric reagents: Minimize waste by using catalytic reactions. Catalysts are used in small amounts and can carry out a single reaction many times. They are preferable to stoichiometric reagents, which are used in excess and work only once. 6. Avoid chemical derivatives: Avoid using blocking or protecting groups or any temporary modifications if possible." - 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.)

"Can we significantly reduce our use of fossil fuels, or are we too attached to our current technologies and to the comforts they bring? Can we stop acid rain? Or is the momentum of industrialization too great? Will we stop destroying the ozone layer? Or will a total ban on the offending chemicals be judged too "impractical," or come too late? What will it take for us to change the way we farm the land, to put as much in as we take out? Do the short-term economic and practical effects of such change make it nearly impossible?" - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Cancer cells need to ferment glucose, which is a very inefficient and wasteful method of producing cellular energy, similar to the burning of fossil fuels on this planet. Their healthier neighboring cells, however, begin to waste away gradually in the process, and eventually an entire organ becomes dysfunctional due to exhaustion, malnutrition, or wasting. Cancerous tumors always look for more energy to divide and multiply cells. Sugar is one of their favorite energy-supplying foods." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil. In the 1990s, manufacturers in Quincy Washington, intentionally sold toxic industrial waste to farmers as fertilizer, causing an eruption of cancers, brain tumors and pulmonary disease. Farmers in India recently started spraying their cotton and chili fields with Coca-Cola. They say it kills pests just as well as chemicals but costs less." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Many of them placed the blame for the record heat at the feet of humanity and its insatiable demand for fossil fuels. Like "El Nino," "global warming" is now a household phrase. The 1980s were the warmest decade since accurate records began in the mid-nineteenth century. The 1990s have been unusually warm as well. Nine of the ten warmest years since the 1850s have occurred during the past fifteen years. The year 1997 was the most torrid on record, and 1998 continues the trend." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Have our depletion of the ozone layers and intensive use of fossil fuels started a process of humanly generated global warming, taking the world into strange climatic seas? No one knows for sure. Every meteorologist agrees that the NAO is a primary factor in orchestrating hemispheric-scale climatic fluctuations over the North Atlantic Ocean and adjacent lands." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Perhaps another Little Ice Age is less likely now than it would have been had not the burning of fossil fuels increased so dramatically during the twentieth century. But we would be foolish to assume that another Little Ice Age is an impossibility. Five centuries of cold caused subsistence crises in Europe. Today the same landscape produces large food surpluses on an industrial scale. But elsewhere people still starve. Now Africa suffers from hunger, caused by drought, social disorder, war, and massive cultural changes." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The plastic bags we carry fruit home in are also made from polyethylene. fossil fuels are used to power tractors and mechanized farming devices, to manufacture the petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides that help fruit grow and to transport fruits from warehouses to supermarkets. Accordingly, our produce departments look like new-car lots full of enormous, perfect fruits gleaming with wax. The spectrum of colors is heightened by megawatts of directional lighting accentuating the beads of mist dripping from the temperature-controlled display cases." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Lipotropic supplements are usually a combination vitamin and herbal formulation and sometimes an animal liver extract designed to support the liver's function in removing fat, detoxifying the body's wastes, detoxifying external harmful substances (pesticides, fossil fuels, etc.), and metabolizing and excreting estrogens. These lipotropic products vary in their formulations depending on the manufacturer, but they are all similar and have the same uses in mind." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In the wake of Liebig's identification of the big three macronutrients that plants need to grow—nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK)—and Fritz Haber's invention of a method for synthesizing nitrogen fertilizer from fossil fuels, agricultural soils began receiving large doses of the big three but little else." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Two hundred years of burning fossil fuels and cutting down large tracts of forest has increased the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content from about 280 parts per million to over 350 parts per million. The influx of gases from human activity is paralleled by the growing influx of gases from nature, which is now largely triggered by human activity. In Siberia, an area of permafrost spanning a million square kilometers, the size of France and Germany combined, has started to melt for the first time since it formed at the end of the last ice age 11,000 years ago." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"They more consciously make efforts to avoid polluting it, frequently taking up gardening, which reduces the need to consume scarce fossil fuels used in transporting foods long distances. 9. Free Time No longer will you have to scrub the pots and pans of all that sticky, cooked food! You will no longer scrub endlessly at the greasy stains on the stove, oven and sink. Washing dishes and utensils used in raw food meals is simply a matter of rinsing. Sink drains will not clog up with grease." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Finally, another advantage of eating foods in season is sparing the planet from more air pollution and oil usage due to the vast amounts of fossil fuels burned up in shipping food hundreds, or even thousands, of miles to the market. This issue is growing in political significance, as many believe we have reached, or are on the verge of reaching, "peak oil," after which oil prices will skyrocket. Supplements and Super Foods No one disputes the fact that most of our farm soil is minerally deficient." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Another, increasingly vociferous, school of thought argued that humanity's promiscuous use of fossil fuels and other pollutants was triggering unprecedented global warming. Could the Ice Age end precipitously within a few centuries with the wholesale melting of arctic and antarctic ice sheets, dramatic rises in world sea levels, and widespread desertification of now fertile lands—at a time when the world's population would be several times larger than today?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The term is used figuratively to refer to a person with very old-fashioned or outmoded viewpoints: "That old fossil of a radio announcer still thinks that the Beatles are a new group!" fossil fuels Coal, petroleum, and natural gas. fa All of these fuels were formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. fa All fossil fuels produce carbon dioxide when burned. (See greenhouse effect.) fa Burning fossil fuels is a main cause of air pollution." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"When people develop personal relationships with their local farmers, it results in stronger communities, a healthier local population, a healthier ecosystem, and decreased dependence on fossil fuels. Despite the ongoing eight-year battle with the USDA, our family's commitment to organic, sustainable agriculture is stronger than ever. We still sell products from local farmers at Schoolhouse Market. Rootswork now has a community radio station (WMRW), and Walt Krukowski continues to grow sustainable cut flowers." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Nations seek nuclear power as a hedge against fossil fuels, and nuclear weapons proliferate. These skirmishes place increasing stress upon the world, with less-resilient developing nations reacting most acutely, since their economic systems haven't the capacity to absorb change. Each of these local disasters could be handled, but the cumulative effect on the global community could plunge the United States into an environmental abyss fueled by declining resources, including oil. According to the Pentagon report, here's what to expect: First Decade ?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"If food production uses more energy than it produces, it is only a matter of time before resources, namely fossil fuels, run dry. And aside from the possibility of a shortage of fossil fuel, its conversion to energy creates pollution. This study, however, is based on standard agriculture, which includes the raising of animals for food—making this type of agriculture up to 30 percent less efficient than plant-based crop production. The latter is still a strain on resources, but a considerably smaller one. Each time a plant-based so that there is not always net energy gain." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"Not only did the Arklow Bank windmill farm save Ireland, which is 90 percent dependent on fossil fuel imports, some 15,000 tons of fossil fuels annually, it also brought Ireland closer to being a carbon-neutral nation, by preventing release of 68,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. That was like taking 16,000 cars off the road. Public officials now say that by expanding the Arklow windmill farm, it could supply 10 percent of all of Ireland's electricity needs.33 But that's nothing new to GE, at least." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "These selfsame chemicals are also clearly causing long-term, multigenerational damaging effects on our reproductive health—this unbridled dependency on fossil fuels almost exclusively places a great nation in a vulnerable position. Our addiction to oil from unfriendly governments has distorted our foreign policy, and the same chemicals are now thought to be feminizing the population with small nanodoses of estrogenlike chemicals." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The term is used figuratively to refer to a person with very old-fashioned or outmoded viewpoints: "That old fossil of a disc jockey still thinks that the Beatles are a new group!" fossil fuels Coal, petroleum, and natural gas. fa All of these fuels were formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. fa All fossil fuels produce carbon dioxide when burned. (See greenhouse effect.) fa Burning fossil fuels is a main cause of air pollution." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"Preventing a substantial decline in food production once we exhaust fossil fuels will require radically restructuring agriculture to sustain soil fertility, or developing massive new sources of cheap energy if we continue to rely on chemical fertilizers. But the future is clear if we conrinue to erode the soil itself. Estimating how many people Earth can support involves assumptions about trade-offs between population size, quality of life, and environmental qualities such as biodiversity." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"As one of the first customers, the company paid about 50 percent more for takeout containers made from the bioplastic instead of fossil fuels.22 Nonetheless, Wild Oats found that its customers liked the new corntainers, and the natural food retailer credits the corntainers with increasing deli sales by 12 percent. Today, the company has switched to corn-based plastic in eighty of its Wild Oats Natural Marketplace stores.23 (Earth Fare is another chain along the Eastern seaboard that is using them.) Another reward was the bottom line." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"In principle, intensive organic methods could even replace fertilizer-intensive agriculture once cheap fossil fuels are history. Here is the ctux of Wes Jackson's argument that tilling the soil has been an ecological catastrophe. A genetics professor before he resigned to become president of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, Jackson says he is not advocating a return to the bow and arrow." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The burning of fossil fuels, either gasoline in automobiles or coal and oil in power plants, predominantly produces these oxides of nitrogen. As energy demands increase we can expect NOx emissions to increase, and consequently more ozone and smog will be created. Particulate Matter The term particulate matter refers to any type of solid material in the air in the form of dust, smoke, or vapor, which can remain suspended for a long time. Breathing in these microscopic particles is one of the major causes of lung damage and respiratory disease." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"The move toward greener energy from tides and sun and wind will eventually turn the Middle East conflict into a relic of the days when the world depended on liquid fossil fuels that may become irrelevant in my grandchildren's lifetimes. Arnold Schwarzenegger played the Terminator, Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer, characters wired to end much of the world. In his latest reinvention, the wealthy, unsalaried governor of California appears as the great green giant, campaigning for a just and clean world, featured on the cover of Newsweek holding up the entire globe with one finger." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Given the current shortage of fossil fuels on the planet, meat production may soon become unaffordable. • The world's livestock now produces at least 10 percent of all the greenhouse gases. In other words, emissions from livestock have become a significant source of atmospheric methane. As of 1990, domestic animals currently account for about 15 percent of the annual anthropogenic methane emissions, and the number has been steadily increasing ever since. • Eighty-five percent of the topsoil lost in the USA each year is directly associated with the raising of livestock." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"The vehicles we drive burn fossil fuels, which give off carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide. Our driving habits contribute to global warming, which is cooking the planet; acid rain, which is killing our forests and polluting the water supply; and dramatic increases in cases of asthma and allergies among all segments of the population. Our children and our elders are especially susceptible to the effects of driving cars and trucks that run on petroleum products. As stated earlier in the food addiction section, the very food we eat has been poisoned for years in the name of profit." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Emissions from wood and biomass fuels are major sources of air pollution in the home and are the number one source of air pollution outside the home (even eclipsing fossil fuels). Studies have shown that cooks inhale more smoke and pollutants than the inhabitants of the dirtiest cities. Overcoming Disease "Treat disease through diet, by preference, refraining from the use of drugs; and if you find what is required in a single herb, do not resort to a compound medicament." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

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