Archive for July, 2010

The cost of living has seen a rapid growth in recent times, with the ongoing credit crunch affecting everything from the food we eat to the cars we run.

For some, energy saving devices can be a godsend when it comes to the utility bills. There are now devices to help us all around the house – from adaptors that will time out and stop current if appliances have been left for a long time and even kettles that will boil exact amounts of water.

With consumers looking to technology to help save on the cost of their utilities, many are now turning to equipment such as energy monitors – which record data based on your meter reading and will give statistics about your energy use, letting you know if you’re using to much.

Lightbulbs that use less voltage have been developed and can help households to reduce their carbon footprint and save money on their electricity bills.

And it’s not just confined to inside the house; many are now turning to wind turbines that can be mounted on property and in gardens in order to generate extra energy for everyday living – with some choosing to sell back the excess back to the energy companies.

Even simple devices such as laundry balls can help in reducing energy costs, even simple steps such as ensuring you turn off the lights when you leave the room can make a difference.

The development of motion sensor lighting has allowed such technology become more easily available to homeowners, thus providing an opportunity to save money by changing a simple part of their existing system.

Gas and electricity prices have skyrocketed as of late, so investing in some energy saving devices can make a real difference to your bills.

Many handy devices, such as energy-saving extension plugs are now available for an affordable price, which could in turn lead to big savings on utility bills in future.

Green home remodeling doesn’t just apply to the finished product or the materials used. If you are hiring a remodeling contractor, you should consider how to make the renovation process itself “green.” Here are some steps a green home remodel must include:

Control Potentially Harmful Dust

Dust is an inevitable side effect of remodeling, but it can contain asbestos, lead paint, or other particles you don’t want to inhale. During a remodeling project, remodeling companies must use barriers, such as plastic covering doorways, to contain dust to the renovation area. In addition, they should cover work areas with plastic tarps and wet down surfaces before sanding or scraping. If your house was built before 1978, assume that it contains lead paint and ensure you work with a properly trained contractor.

Provide Proper Ventilation

A green home remodel shouldn’t expel pollutants into your home. Responsible remodelers use exhaust ventilation, such as a fan, that pulls air out of the work area and vents it to the outside. This helps expel dust and other pollutants, and it creates a pressure barrier that prevents pollutants from spreading to other parts of the house. Activities such as installing flooring and carpeting or painting can emit pollutants. Remodelers should provide ventilation during these activities and for at least 72 hours afterward.

Control Radon

Another element of green home remodels involves controlling radon. Radon-resistant new construction (RRNC) is designed to draw radon from the soil and vent it through a pipe to the roof, preventing it from entering the house. The technology is routine and should not add much to a house’s cost. If you are building an addition with a basement, you should ask to include RRNC features.

Use Recycled Materials

Choose recycled glass for beautiful and unique countertops, tiles, and even flooring. Doors and lighting fixtures in a green home remodel are often repurposed flea market finds. Many homeowners like the look of reclaimed weathered wood from old barns and farmhouses for floors or ceiling beams.

Pick Sustainable Materials

A lot of wood used in construction comes from slow-growth forests where it takes a long time to replenish the trees that are cut down. Consider quick-growing bamboo for floor or cabinets in your home’s green remodel. Cork and Eucalyptus are other sustainable flooring materials. You can also choose wood from sustainably managed forests that are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Ensure Indoor Air Quality

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) can trigger asthma and contribute to other health problems. Carpeting, paint, or wood finishing products are often sources of VOCs. Even if you ventilate during and after installation, emissions can linger. Look for products that have low or no VOCs. Mold can trigger asthma and allergies, so take excessive moisture into account when you plan a green home remodeling project.

It is true that paper, metal, wood or plastic are definitely the first items that come to one’s mind when talking about recycling, but there are other items, just as numerous that could be re-used in the most profitable and environment-friendly of ways. One clear case here refers to the ways we can recycle fabrics. Have you been wondering about what to do with those old t-shirts or blouses you no longer use? Well there are a few tips about how to recycle fabrics and thus contribute to the international effort of finally cleaning the waste on this planet. If they cannot be sold in charity shops there are other ways to reuse and recycle fabrics.

T-shirts could make excellent material for the creation of funny bags; there are even cases when people have used such apparel items to create bathmats or even flares. Another unique way to recycle fabrics of the kind is by cutting them into strips and weaving or knitting them in very trendy rugs to be used in certain house corners. Furthermore, you can even find tips about how to make memory quilts out of old t-shirts you purchased at special occasions. Creativity is definitely one of the strong points required in the effort to recycle fabrics.

Let’s take another relevant example of how you can recycle fabrics from drapes or curtains. At a certain point you will definitely want to change the house decorations and will find yourself in the situation of having too much unused material. There are plenty of ways to recycle fabrics from drapes or curtains: depending on how thick the texture really is, you could actually re-use them for upholstery items. If you cannot recycle the material on your own, you can turn to people who actually do it for a living, as part of small home-businesses.

Exquisite pillow casings can be made out of the recycle fabrics you have got around the house; all you need to do is show a little dexterity. Or you may choose to have someone else help you with the project; keep in mind the fact that reusing such material has become so popular that even fashion designers have taken up the practice. There are even companies that collect used clothes: all you have to do is clean and bag your recycle fabrics and drop them at a special collecting agency. Such actions are supported by local governments who allocate funds so that the recycling be carried on in the most adequate of conditions.

United States burns 20.4 million barrels of oil per day. We are damaging our environment beyond repair by burning copious amounts of hydrocarbons into our atmosphere. According to Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth”, global warming is melting the ice shelf and global sea levels could rise by over 20 feet. Looking at the global temperature data and it’s correlation to greenhouse gas emissions, I believe there is indisputable evidence that burning hydrocarbons is responsible for most of the global warming that is wreaking havoc on our weather systems.

Aside from the frightening global warming issue, I am also deeply concerned about our attitude with regard to consumption. Up until just last year, the US was the worlds largest consumer of natural resources. According to David Suzuki’s “Sacred Balance” (I absolutely LOVED this book – everyone should read it), since 1940, Americans alone have used up as large a share of the Earth’s mineral resources as all previous generations put together.

The real scary thing is, as of last year, consumption in China eclipsed that of the United States in all the worlds resources but oil, and China’s 1.3 billion person economy is growing at a frightening 8% annually

Why is this concerning? There are around 6 billion people living on this rock today. Estimating future population growth at only 1% per year, the numbers are staggering. By 2015, experts estimate there will be 7 billion people on the planet. By 2050, there may be as many as 10 billion people living on Earth. Can mother Earth support this extended family? When will we reach the limit of our resources?

We live in a culture where incentives exist to encourage doing more with more – not doing more with less. Doing more with less is called “efficiency”, doing more with more is called “Gluttony”. Bigger, faster, more powerful vehicles that consume more fuel at faster rates, larger meals wrapped in complex, land-fill bound packaging, disposable products filling store shelves – you get the picture. Take the new wave of hybrid cars for example. Hybrid technology that was intended to produce spectacular fuel economy, was flipped around by car makers to instead, produce more horsepower for their new hybrid SUV’s! Less green, more mean.

Human Powered vehicles are all about trying to do more with less. How to go faster or farther with less energy. Technologies Incorporated into human powered vehicles like aerodynamics, wheel rolling resistance, mechanical efficiencies and size and weight optimization are directly applicable to the cars and boats and other vehicles that we rely upon in these modern times. Most importantly though, Interest in human power represents an essential shift in basic philosophy from one of ‘feasting on earths resources’ to a ‘do more with less’ ideal. human power

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Motor oil leaked from individual vehicles—or outright dumped by homeowners and commercial garages inevitably finds its way into local water bodies.  Topsoil and natural vegetation would ordinarily filter many of these pollutants out, but the impermeable pavement that covers much of the surface where these pollutants originate carries it right into storm drains and into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean where it can poison marine life—which we might eat—as well as entire riparian or coastal ecosystems.

This pollution also finds its way into underground aquifers that supply our drinking water, so reducing it is a human health measure and could also save municipalities millions of dollars a year in drinking water treatment facilities and operational expenses.

While government agencies try to craft and implement development and zoning standards to help reduce storm water runoff problems caused by commercial and industrial entities, there is still much that individuals can do to reduce their impact as well. Indeed, upwards of 40 percent of oil pollution in the U.S. comes from the improper disposal of used motor oil by individuals.

What is Used Oil? The Environmental Protection Agency’s definition of used oil is as follows: Used oil is any oil that has been refined from crude oil or any synthetic oil that has been used and as a result of such use is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities. Simply put, used oil is exactly what its name implies—any petroleum-based or synthetic oil that has been used. During normal use, impurities such as dirt, metal scrapings, water, or chemicals can get mixed in with the oil, so that in time the oil no longer performs well. Eventually, this used oil must be replaced with virgin or re-refined oil to do the job at hand EPA’s used oil management standards include a three-pronged approach to determine if a substance meets the definition of used oil. To meet EPA’s definition of used oil, a substance must meet each of the following three criteria:

1.  Origin — the first criterion for identifying used oil is based on the origin of the oil. Used oil must have been refined from crude oil or made from synthetic materials. Animal and vegetable oils are excluded from EPA’s definition of used oil.

2. Use — the second criterion is based on whether and how the oil is used. Oils used as lubricants, hydraulic fluids, heat transfer fluids, buoyants, and for other similar purposes are considered used oil. Unused oil such as bottom clean-out waste from virgin fuel oil storage tanks or virgin fuel oil recovered from a spill, do not meet EPA’s definition of used oil because these oils have never been “used.” EPA’s definition also excludes products used as cleaning agents or solely for their solvent properties, as well as certain petroleum-derived products like antifreeze and kerosene.

3. Contaminants — the third criterion is based on whether or not the oil is contaminated with either physical or chemical impurities. In other words, to meet EPA’s definition, used oil must become contaminated as a result of being used. This aspect of EPA’s definition includes residues and contaminants generated from handling, storing, and processing used oil. Physical contaminants could include metal shavings, sawdust, or dirt. Chemical contaminants could include solvents, halogens, or saltwater.

How is Used Oil Recycled?  Once oil has been used, it can be collected, recycled, and used over and over again. An estimated 380 million gallons of used oil are recycled each year. Recycled used oil can sometimes be used again for the same job or can take on a completely different task. For example, used motor oil can be re-refined and sold at the store as motor oil or processed for furnace fuel oil. Aluminum rolling oils also can be filtered on site and used over again.

Recycling Used Oil Is Good for the Environment and the Economy – Here’s Proof
•Re-refining used oil takes only about one-third the energy of refining crude oil to lubricant quality.
•It takes 42 gallons of crude oil, but only one gallon of used oil, to produce 2 ½ quarts of new, high-quality lubricating oil.
•One gallon of used oil processed for fuel contains about 140,000 British Thermal Units (BTUs) of energy.

To prevent your own oil leaks and spills, take the following into consideration:

•Take steps to prevent leaks and spills. Keep machinery, equipment containers, and tanks in good working condition and be careful when transferring used oil. Have absorbent materials available on site.
•If a spill or leak occurs, stop the oil from flowing at the source. If a leak from a container or tank can’t be stopped, put the oil in another holding container or tank.
•Contain spilled oil. For example, containment can be accomplished by erecting absorbent berms or by spreading an absorbent over the oil and
•Clean up the oil and recycle the used oil as you would have before it was spilled. If recycling is not possible, you first must make sure the used oil is not a hazardous waste and dispose of it appropriately. All used cleanup materials, from rags to absorbent booms, that contain free-flowing used oil also must be handled according to the used oil management standards. Remember, all leaked and spilled oil collected during cleanup must be handled as used oil. If you are a used oil handler, you should become familiar with these cleanup methods. They may also be part of a spill response action plan.
•Remove, repair, or replace the defective tank or container immediately.

By taking care not to contribute to the problem of used oil being improperly disposed of, you can help maintain our clean and healthy drinking water for years to come.

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Alex welcomes back to the show Alan Watt, well-versed NWO researcher, author, and talk show host. www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com prisonplanet.tv Maurice Strong Interview (BBC, 1972) www.youtube.com You Tube June 29, 2009 COMMENT: With Al Gore & Co. on the verge of making law of Cap & Trade policies, it is important to recognize the power propaganda that has paved the way for phony environmentalism and depopulation eugenics. Isnt the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isnt it our responsiblity to bring that about? – Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme Opening speech, Rio Earth Summit. 1992 Today, Maurice Strong sits atop the global environmental movement headed by the United Nations and its interlocking NGOs and tax-exempt foundations. 1972 BBC interview with Maurice Strong about sustainability, over-population and other issues where the United Nations would convince us that humanity itself is the problem. Strong is considered to be the person behind the globalization of the foundation-funded environmental movement, and was the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in 1972, in Stockholm, Sweden. He co-authored the Earth Charter with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1992. It was Gorbachev who stated in 1996 that the “threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key that will unlock the New World Order.” Strong was recruited by David Rockefeller at the age of 17 and …

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