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"This includes replacing business travel with video conferencing where possible, and a campaign to encourage and reward employee behavior that uses public transportation. In Brussels, 60 percent of employees use public transportation or nonpolluting methods of transportation. www.dexia.com ShoreBank Since its inception in 1973, ShoreBank has been committed to making a difference." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Get off public transportation a stop or two early and walk the rest of your way (plan ahead so you leave enough time!). Walk, run, and play actively with your children or grandchildren. Walk over to talk to a colleague instead of e-mailing. Take a walking break instead of a coffee break. Use part of your lunch hour to walk for 10—20 minutes. Unless you are on an upper floor in a high-rise building, take the stairs instead of the elevator—if this is hard at first, take the elevator part way and climb the remaining flights of stairs until you build up your stamina." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Carpool Whenever possible, organize carpools to take your kids to school and other activities. Take public transportation whenever you can, or carpool with colleagues to work. Carpooling helps reduce your family's carbon footprint, and it also builds community, saves time, and lowers stress. Taking the high occupancy vehicle lane will bypass traffic and shorten your commute. Green the Cleaning at Your Children's Schools Teachers and administrators have your children's best interests at heart and will be responsive to your concerns." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"I use public transportation, go 371 to concerts without hesitation, and live an easier and more peaceful life. NARLENE I used to have menstrual cramps that were so painful that I was prescribed high doses of Motrin. Taking it made some of the pain go away. Since I started Gary's protocols, I have had no menstrual pain and a cyst in my breast is shrinking. I have firmer breasts, more energy, have lost weight, and now I am working on ridding myself of negative thought patterns. JEAN My husband and I began to notice our bodies were not in good condition." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Here many people are dependent on unreliable public transportation, making the corner liquor store or mini-mart— where nourishment options range from Coke to Fritos—the only realistic food-shopping venue. Even for people who can shop in large supermarkets, access to genuinely healthy food remains limited. Most chains don't sell a wide variety of natural whole grains, and their "fresh" fruits or vegetables are often sterile, tasteless, pesticide-soaked, and nutritionally challenged." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Many of the proposed scenarios for creating a green future focus expressly on urban America: they overlook the fact that pedestrian-friendly downtowns and public transportation aren't feasible in communities with low population densities. It will take very different scenarios to preserve small-town rural life while addressing its larger sustainability issues." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "To boot, BedZED residents aren't automobile dependent, thanks to easy access to public transportation, local schools, and shops —all of which are within walking distance—and to a car-share program that counts at least half the complex's residents as members. BedZED opened for sales in 2000, several years ahead of the curve of sustainable building's popularity. By 2003, all its units had been sold, not so much because the market for green homes had grown, but because the market for good homes was still strong." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Once your community has about twelve homes per acre (the density of many traditional single-family neighborhoods), public transportation becomes cost-effective, stores can find enough customers to justify locating nearby, and people start walking or biking. Once you reach forty homes per acre (imagine a street of brownstones), not only do the sidewalks come alive, but everything gets cheaper and easier to provide: heating, electricity, sewage lines, and other basic services. And when more people share these services, they all have far less of an impact on the planet." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Recent history has shown that severe price spikes do convince some people to carpool or take public transportation. What if the vehicle's other direct costs—insurance and registration fees —were also charged by the mile? Several states are considering "pay at the pump" car insurance strategies, wherein a surcharge would be added to the price of a gallon of gas to pay for a car's insurance. Besides eliminating the problem of uninsured drivers, this approach would make visible the full, actual cost of that solo commute or that extra trip to the mall." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"In Brussels, 60 percent of employees use public transportation or nonpolluting methods of transportation. www.dexia.com ShoreBank Since its inception in 1973, ShoreBank has been committed to making a difference. In fact, it was created to serve communities that were essentially being deliberately redlined by established financial institutions, and to demonstrate that a regulated bank could be instrumental in revitalizing these underrepresented communities. For several decades, ShoreBank has been successful in these efforts." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"If you live and work in a city, use public transportation, are exposed to smoke and fumes, exercise heavily where you might be exposed to fumes, or expose your skin to the sun, you definitely need more carotenoids. As Table 8.1 shows, you can get 15 milligrams of carotenoids daily with little effort. It's as easy as following these daily rules: • Eat a serving of red or orange vegetables every day; two servings is better and cooked is better than raw. • Eat two green leafy vegetables every day. • Eat a piece of fruit with colored flesh every day. • When in doubt, supplement." - James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Schools would close. public transportation would grind to a halt. Store shelves would be empty and not be restocked for weeks. Martial law could be needed to control rioting and looting. Local police would not have adequate manpower to maintain law and order. Troops might be used to enforce quarantines and curfews. Wall-to-wall cases would swamp hospital emergency rooms. To prevent overcrowding, triage hotlines may be used to sort the most serious cases from the merely sick and disabled." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "Avoid flu hot spots: Avoid places where the flu is most likely to spread, such as airports, schools, public transportation systems, and shopping malls. Stay clear of gatherings in closed public buildings with central air and heating systems, through which virus-contaminated air can spread from one part of the building to another. Travel by airplane is particularly important to avoid during a pandemic. If you have to fly or go to public places, you can wear a mask. Don't travel to pandemic flu hot spots." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"There is adequate and affordable housing for all. New public transportation systems eliminate much of the need for autos. The air is clean and breathable. Special communities are created to give the previously homeless a sense of belonging and productivity, to treat their needs and provide services so they are valued members of society. Tiiis allows many previously homeless to be integrated back into general society. Crime is minimal and prisons almost empty. Sexual predators are rare and treated and cured. There are enough police and fire fighters to handle all emergencies in minutes." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.) "Companies found ways of neutralizing their waste, using less fuel and employing alternative energy sources. public transportation and new clean fuel sources curbed the demand and need for burning fossil fuels. People learned how to make do with a little less in order to preserve energy and natural resources. Polar ice packs and glaciers around the world are solid once again, or are becoming so." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.) "With better public transportation people can live further from their jobs, easing the crunch in the city. In fact, whole new mixed-use retail/residential centers are springing up wherever transit stations are located. Still many people are opting for a simpler, quieter life, and so they are leaving the cities and the suburbs to find peaceful contentment in the country. Senior assisted care and communal residences are available around the world in much greater numbers, many of which are funded with government resources." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"The city can't run efficiently without electricity—hospitals are in danger, computers shut down, there's no public transportation, and you can't cook. So the prime order of business is to fix the emergency. At first, city officials aren't thinking about the effect of that influx of workers on the rest of the city's business; they just want to get the immediate problem fixed. Yet all those workers are going to have a major impact: the roads will be overcrowded, pollution will increase, crime may go up, and there will be additional demands for housing and food." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Many urban community dwellers would love to have better eating habits, but if there's no grocery store nearby, you're talking about getting on public transportation with a grocery cart."67 We discuss this issue of being poor in Chapter 9, but several facts are clear. Access to healthy foods is limited in impoverished areas. One can argue demand—that food establishments provide what people want (fast foods, snack foods, and soft drinks) and that poor people want these foods. Studies suggest otherwise. When healthy food is made available to poor populations, diet improves." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "The funding can be used for multiple purposes, but almost all goes for roads, bridges, and, to some extent, public transportation. Only a few programs anywhere in the country are funded by this bill to deal with walking or cycling. The Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) estimates that the amount spent on highways and bridges is $72 per person, compared to 55 cents per person for pedestrian projects." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

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