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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The way of their architecture and their principle towards securing the atmosphere and their dream of building these green buildings are attracted by the so many people, and at the same time they are offering timeless elegance and sophistication.   From the past decade, it has been observed that the rules and regulations of the constructing a building has been changed and most of the times, you need to follow some additional features to build these green homes.There are so many advantages with these green buildings that, you are able to reduce water and energy usage.Sometimes these homes are called as eco friendly home, and they will demonstrate improved energy, resource and water efficiency.With these types of works, you are able to reduce household running costs and green house gas emissions, which will be very good for environment. Another advantage with these green smart homes is you have some long term benefits such as lower energy and water bills, for years to come.  

Finally, building green homes not only protects environmentally responsible home and these homes are cleaner and healthier for their family to live in.  And also you are able to enjoy the comfortable joy of living.  There are some well established and experienced web sites are providing this information like green videos and many more formats to their valued clients.  For more information and details, please visit their valuable web site.

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Ecological concerns and the increasing awareness of the advantages of green homes have led to an upsurge in green homes in the country. Concerns about the impact their homes have on the environment have prompted some homebuyers to opt for green homes.

Building green homes is no longer a remote concept these days. Over disturbing facts about global warming and indoor air pollution, today, the top priority of the National Home Builders Association and the American Institute of Architects is constructing green buildings.

There is sufficient data around that indicate that the building of green homes is on the rise. According to the figures provided by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) (who developed the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building rating system), the number of buildings with LEED status in America has increased from 38 in 2002 to 669 now. Green buildings are progressively entering the mainstream with more and more buildings getting LEED certification.

Given that green buildings do not cost very much more than traditional buildings, and that they actually reduce energy bills, the building of green homes is on the rise. A green building is not only less expensive to live in but also spikes in value by 7.5 percent on average and improves return on investment by 6.6 percent on average.

Green building concepts begin to rise everywhere as the number of individuals who want to remodel, build or buy green homes are rapidly increasing. Architects and developers are responding to satisfy this growing demand. Green buildings have been found to appreciate faster than traditional buildings.

What was once a patchwork of green buildings in several cities has now increased to encompass whole communities and neighborhoods. According to a McGraw-Hill Construction survey in 2006, about two-thirds of builders would be building green homes in America this year. Green buildings are firmly mainstream now with federal government and 15 states requiring new public buildings to meet the LEED standards. In fact, four U.S. states and 17 cities offer incentives for private buildings built to LEED standards.

With rising government initiatives, consumer interest and the number of green developers and builders, the green building revolution is all set to go to a new level.

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This rate of consumption is increasing at an alarming rate. This will cause enormous environmental devastation in the future, to the extent that around 2025, people will need to complete major changes in their lifestyles to avoid the worst possible scenario.

The greenhouse gas effect is now so severe that around 2015, the whole planet will experience the result of rising temperatures in a far more severe way than most will expect.

While most people have begun to notice that the weather is changing they may not have understood that these climate changes are the forerunner of a much more serious problem. As a result most people are not changing their lifestyles, reducing their ecological footprint, resulting in a further increase of the present ecological imbalance.

With the ever continuing increase in environmental damage there will come a time where this will reach a point of no return, whereby the planet will no longer be able to support its own functioning. It is expected that by 2025, the planet will no longer be able to cope with the severe ecological damage. This will mainly be caused due to present geological stresses, further increase of global warming, and further destruction of the planet’s ecology which is so needed by the planet to provide support for its overall functioning.

It is of benefit for people to look at how they live their life and what they can do to change their lifestyle, so that an excessive need for goods and products will not become a major drive in one’s life. This may be difficult to do while the overall consensus is to buy more products. However, this is not reducing consumerism. At times, products may be needed to improve a lifestyle; however, people often wish to increase their buying and spending power and buy more products so they can feel better or can keep up with others. Thus, this need for an increase in products in the household creates an increase in the number of products manufactured, which in turn often results in an increase in environmental damage.

While humanity needs consumer goods, the impact these products or the production processes can have on the ecology has to be reduced. To save the environment humanity can no longer continue to increase its consumption of goods and, this should therefore not be encouraged. The human race needs to envisage a future whereby people still have their comforts but without the throw-away and polluting aspects of living, as is happening in most modern-day societies.

It is important that the planet’s worsening environmental crisis is taken seriously and action is taken to make adequate change to prevent a looming ecological crisis within the next twenty years. A simpler, less polluting lifestyle will result in a more manageable, sustainable environment, which as a result can function better as a support structure for the planet’s overall functioning.

Several years ago Mia was told by Spirit that by 2009 major climate changes would begin to show . This information can be found in her book – New Concepts for Business and Humanity. Chapter 1 can be downloaded for free from her website www.miadenhaan.com

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Green has many meanings to many people. Some say, its a color and some say “it’s about our planet Earth”. And they all are right in their respective terminology. But with the current initiatives taken at various levels… for me Green is now increasingly about our environment. Yes, all those keywords like “Global warming”, “Solar”, “Wind power”, Hydro electric” etc it “ALL” boils down to environment friendly energy and more about “Environment Friendly Home”. Your Home. YES, now is a greater chance for all of us to participate and contribute in creating a Green, Environment Friendly Home. Did you notice, just few years back, you imagined that you had nothing to do with environment. And now, with new global initiatives you can be part of it, starting to contribute your few cents towards it.

So with that said, now a days, it all starts with your own home. We talk about installing a SOLAR panel. Agreed, its good. But before we do that, let us answer this question HONESTLY. As a home owner, how responsible we are to create a energy efficient home? What responsibility you have taken in your own home, in order to say proudly “YES, I am contributing in creating a energy efficient home”. If the answer to this question is YES, then probably your answer to following questions is YES as well. Please check out…

1>Do you switch OFF the lights in your rooms, when rooms are NOT occupied?
2>Do you switch OFF your air circulating systems (including FAN, AC, Heaters), when rooms are NOT occupied?
3>Do you turn OFF your TV, DVD, Video player, Audio system, when you are not watching/listening the program?
4>Do you turn OFF the sprinklers, when they are NOT in use?
5>Do your appliances go “Auto Off” mode, when NOT in use?
6>Do you have energy efficient dimmers, to control the energy consumption?
7>Does the HOT water keep running, when you really can suffice with cold water?
8>Does your water faucet keep dripping for NO reason?
9>Does the shower keep dripping for NO reason?
10>How about the laundry loads? Do we manage loads efficiently, so we dont have to RUN a second load?
11>How about the Vacuum cleaner? Is it being used efficiently?
12>Hope, Grills are running efficiently too.

So the point is, to contribute to our planet EARTH and environment, DOES NOT necessarily mean, shelling OUT few bucks and start installing panels. But, it can start with few baby steps.

Above precaution and measures could be your baby step towards a energy efficient home of your…

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That’s what they do in a small town called Natchitoches where I live now and in La Grande, Oregon where I grew up. It’s a celebrated annual event. The local grocery has big wooden racks to display the killed. You can even buy postcards to add your picture, with you and the dead deer beside. You don’t need den walls for display anymore, just props for the trucks on the road.

Now I was raised on deer meat, and I like it. It makes sense when you need to feed a family, as my folks did years ago. But sport? Like football for cheering?

Sarah Palin likes hunting wolves, which aren’t creatures we think of sympathetically. But in research on mass murder and war it has been found that people who enjoy killing animals don’t mind killing people some time. (True Crime) A smile from someone who talks about the sport of killing wolves (Detroit Free Press) that is then beamed on a political stage to celebrate the possible death of one’s son should make many of us worry. (KNVN 24) Because if someone likes killing animals from the air and finds that fun and smiles when a son goes to war, then will that same person protect or worry about our sons in a world where killing is a sport?

Certain types of creatures have been on the Palin hit list for some time. Still they have more in common than that; they help keep the rest of us safe. So we should probably think about protecting these characters, especially given all the other problems we have because they are directly involved in what’s going on. What happened to them might be the proverbial tip ofThe iceberg to what might happen to us.

Let’s talk about fish first. Let’s talk about salmon. I don’t know about you, but salmon is my favorite fish, anytime and any place. I was born and raised in Oregon, in salmon country. I grew up with salmon steak and went out with friends and family to catch a few now and then. So I love them and know them well enough to want to make sure they get the right treatment. By that I mean I want their waters to be clean enough to keep them healthy, and I want them to have an overall environment to breed, make babies and keep lots of us fed.

Sarah Palin doesn’t have the same opinions about salmon as I do. Oh, she likes to catch and eat them, that’s true. Protecting them is a whole other matter. Palin can look right out the door and see fish that are dying, even when the lake near her house is stocked as the fish continue to die. In order to get commercial interests into Wasilla Palin sacrificed the environment to do it. An example is right in her own backyard. Lake Lucille has been declared seriously impaired and really dead and has been since 1994 when Palin was Mayor of Wasilla. That was documented by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and remains like that today. (Talbot)

One Wasilla resident has said, as reported in Salon.com, “Sarah’s legacy as mayor was big-box stores and runaway growth,” said Patty Stoll, a retired Wasilla schoolteacher. Stoll, as reported, worked with Palin’s parents, Chuck and Sally Heath, at the same school. She continued, “The truth is, Wasilla is just plain ugly, it’s not a pleasant place to live. It’s not thought out. And that’s a shame.

“Sarah fouled her own nest, and I can’t understand why. I hate to think it was simply greed or ambition.”(Talbot)

But that’s not the only reason why salmon are grieving and leaving. If they want to die, they would likely want to do that proudly and not in polluted waters. One would think that watching a lake turn bad, and the fish flounder as a result, that some clean water regulation would be welcomed. However, Sarah Palin did the opposite: she spoke out against the Clean Water Act. Palin and her public want mineral mining more than food without tapeworms, which salmon from Alaska now have in abundance. (Summer Johnson) I wonder how many people who eat salmon grown in Alaska worry about how that affects them today. Palin, it appears, may not care.

If you thought it was only fish that should worry, you need to know about bears. Sarah Palin is against classifying polar bears as endangered species. Palin told the public that scientists had said that polar bears were not endangered at all. When questioned, secrecy measures immediately began, as anyone who asked for the emails from scientists were kept at bay with large sums of money asked for disclosing them. Rick Steiner, a University of Alaska professor, was someone who had asked for them and was told that this request would be costly, as in $468,784. After going through federal records, Steiner found out that the scientists had indeed said that polar bears are an endangered species and worthy of protection. (Steiner)

Despite Steiner’s findings and the available knowledge about polar bears, Palin filed suit to keep the polar bears off the endangered list. Palin’s reason: she was worried that environmentalists are using the Endangered Species Act to block the extraction of oil and gas according to an interview she had earlier this year with Glenn Beck.

Palin also said that the population of polar bears is growing, but not according to the experts. One of them, Ian Stirling, who is a scientist who has studied polar bears for 37 years, says “Polar bear populations have not been increasing for the past 37 years, and that’s a well-known fact,” Stirling has studied polar bears more than anyone. So the issue is to lie, no matter the consequence to polar bears these days. That makes some people sad, just to think of how soft and cuddly they look, but who would feel sad for the wolves we’ll talk about next? (Stirland)

Most people don’t feel a sense of wonder and joy when they think about wolves. Actually most people get scared, but these days the wolves are. It’s one thing to keep wolves out of areas where people live and work, especially when they can eat not only livestock but people too if they are hungry enough. It’s another thing to make that a sport, just to kill for the fun of it. I’ve touched on that before, but it warrants inclusion with the fish and the bears.

Palin put a bounty on the heads of wolves, to encourage average citizens to load up their guns and go kill them, from the air, from everywhere. (Benjamin) That bounty was eventually stopped through legal action. Palin, however, wanted the practice to continue despite the ethical issues involved. All over the Internet there are pictures of Palin smiling over wolf carcasses as part of her campaign, so the practice continues certainly. Palin claims that humans killing wolves helps thin out the populations of predators that kill moose and elk which subsistence farmers in Alaska need to survive.

In defense of those wolves, not my friends surely, there’s not much scientific support for Palin’s position. In fact in 2007, 172 scientists wrote to Palin with their concerns about the lack of real science supporting killing the population of wolves. ( Benjamin) They are concerned about the balance of nature related to global warming taking place in the wilds of Alaska. (O’Brien) That didn’t influence Palin to change. The shooting continues and is applauded as well. In the wilderness of the gun, this is one more place people can practice sharp shooting. So what’s next for the propaganda machine that supports candidates like Palin who really don’t care about the effects of what they do on the rest of the world?

How someone thinks about life in any form, including protected animals, in relationship to the acquisition of material gain tells us something about how an individual might relate to victims of acts over which they have little control. Let’s learn about how Sarah Palin looks at certain social issues to try to figure out how she might respond to legislation surrounding such issues as domestic violence, sex abuse, and the rights of people with disabilities since these get to the core of her beliefs about life and how we should treat the least among us.

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However, what are the benefits of finding a green home?  You can list a plethora of benefits in getting this type of home in terms of health, costs and environment.

For health, you will surely get a house that is free from toxins as the materials used in building these homes are safe.  At the same time, they can prevent intrusion of allergens and pollution.  This will prevent respiratory problems to your families.

Aside from the preventing allergens and pollutants, the materials used in building these homes promote proper ventilation.  In this way, you will have good air circulation plus the fact that you are only getting fresh hair inside the house.

For the environment, these houses prevent too much energy usage since its materials allow proper ventilation.  Less usage of energy results to less heat production that is detrimental to our environment as it contributes to global warming.  With green houses, it is possible to save energy up to 40% of energy.  This will make us more dependent on natural energy than the ones available in the market.

Another benefit is that it is not contributing that much waste to the environment.  Building a property would give a lot of waste to the landfills.  Whereas the materials used in green homes are recycled materials so they are far more natural.  Building green homes are would lessen landfill wastes.

Getting these homes would also make it possible for you to save a lot when it comes to water consumption.  They have made the houses efficient in terms of irrigation and water system.  This would prevent you from wasting too much water especially during summer time.

When it comes to costs, you are already saving a lot of money when it comes to electric and water bills since you have been saving a lot in energy and water consumption.  Aside from this, getting a green home is cheaper than getting the regular ones.  The professionals who are making these houses would give you high quality homes at a very affordable price.

Since the house gives you a lot of health benefits, you will be able to save a lot of money when it comes to medical consultations.  This will save you a lot in terms of checkups and even medical admissions.  Not leaving due to health reasons will not cause you to miss your work and deduct your absences to your paycheck.

Green homes definitely have a lot of benefits for those who will buy them.  These types of house are considered as an innovation when it comes to property building but in a very helpful manner for everyone.

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