A Secret and Progressive Destruction of the World

I guess we have seen in movies a lot villains trying to take over and control the world. Either they are aliens or some being with unique super powers that could fly and create massive destruction.

In real life, there is also this destruction of the world. It is not caused by any superalien or something but by "us", the people living within it. That would make us the villains, though some people do not yet find out that they are the villains. If we are the villains, then who are the super heroes? We still are.

Most people believe that we are facing an ecological crisis. Some animals had become endangered and some even had become extinct. Horrific statistics about the state of the earth worsens every year. Many people are aware of the situation and are worried over this. Most of the blame for the worsening situation are the different plantations that discharge harmful and toxic waste products which causes a permanent damage to nature either by air, land or water. Some people forget that even we,ourselves are big contributors to the ecological crisis. Most people aren't yet aware that even in the most ordinary thing they do, the whole ecological cycle is affected.

One chemistry teacher once shared to our class. "Imagine yourself throwing a plastic trash in the ocean, then an innocent fish swimming in the ocean becomes trapped inside. What if that was the last fish in world?" I know its kinda an exaggeration but its true. If we were to relate that situation in real life, that would be people throwing their trashes on the sea causing for it to die, including the fishes and organisms that live in it.

Aware of it or not, each of us are contributors to the ecological crisis, even though how innocent-looking we may be. We may be just doing just simple things but we must also bear in mind that each individual is a part of the large puzzle.

We must be terrified with all the news and statistics we hear and see but we must also remember that no superhuman would show up and clean all the mess that we have made. It's really hard to rejuvenate the world in which the inhabitants themselves are the destroyers.

Energy From Trash

Trash, Materials recovered from curbside collection, drop-off centers, and material recovery facilities must be separated, cleaned, and processed. Material additional expenditures must be incurred in the immediate future to prevent leaching in many landfills. Public opposition to landfills is growing; and \par Whereas, the Boards of County Commissioners in the counties listed in Section 6 of this act, and the councils of many of the cities and towns located in such counties, have been advised that one new and very significant innovation in solid waste disposal is the "trash to energy" technology and equipment which has already been implemented in several areas of the United States. Materials that cannot be directly reused should be recycled. To find out more than what is in this article about Trash to Energy go to waste-energy.info

Trash-to-energy facilities are integral pieces of municipal infrastructure. These facilities serve two social purposes - they safely manage municipal solid waste for our client communities, while generating electricity. Waste Management is a complex issue for a community. Improper waste disposal could result in serious health problems for the entire population. Trash/Waste Management has 33 methane plants across the nation. OPPD will own the plant, and Waste Management will operate it.

Trash-Free Lunch: Designate a day each week to have students/teachers/staff members bring their lunch and drinks in reusable containers, in a reusable bag, including a cloth napkin. Involve students and staff in designing a logo to have printed on their usable lunch bags to sell in the school store. Waste prevention will help Oregon businesses be more profitable ? and competitive ? while reducing environmental burdens. Wastewater from approximately 47 percent of Vermont’s population is treated at wastewater treatment facilities, and septic systems serve the remainder of the state’s population. Of the nearly 22 million gallons of septage pumped annually in Vermont, more than half of it (58 percent) is transported to wastewater treatment facilities, where it is treated and results in the generation of biosolids.

Communities controlled prices for garbage disposal, and assured a steady source of fuel for their plants. However, the Supreme Court struck down the contracts that allowed cities to control the flow of garbage to their plants, leaving them more vulnerable to competition from cheaper landfills.

Types of Alternative Fuels

1. Ethanol is usually made from corn or biomass (agricultural biological waste). Methanol can be made from various biomass like wood or from coal. Ethanol, a liquid produced from grain or agricultural waste, usually is sold as a blend of 85 percent denatured ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. Ethanol had a dream that was sold that didn't necessarily have all the fundamentals, as it's dependent on the price of feedstock. However, the risk with geothermal is that people will say, "Well, it can only do 50 megawatts.

Ethanol is also available as an alternative fuel. E-85 is an alternative fuel blend containing 83% ethanol in the summer and 70% ethanol in the winter. Ethanol refueling sites can be found predominantly in the Midwest, close to the major supplies of ethanol. Efforts by DOE are underway in Minnesota to help construct a number of ethanol refueling sites.

2. Hydrogen, as an automotive fuel, is in the early stages of experimentation and development. Future hydrogen powered vehicles may produce tailpipe emissions that approach zero. Hydrogen can be used to cleanly power a modified internal combustion engine or a fuel cell vehicle with electric drive motors.

3. Electric vehicles are eco-friendly because they don't produce tailpipe emissions, although the generators producing the electricity used to charge EV batteries do emit pollutants. However, these pollutants are considered to be minimal when compared to the usage of gas. Electrical energy can be made by burning oil, coal, solid waste (rubbish), biomass, or other fuels. Or, electricity can be made without burning anything - by using the energy of the wind, the sun, or flowing water (more on electricity ). Electricity can be used as a transportation alternative fuel for battery-powered electric and fuel-cell vehicles. Battery powered electric vehicles store power in batteries that are recharged by plugging the vehicle into a standard electrical source.

4. CNG is a natural gas comprised mainly of methane, although it also contains small amounts of propane and butane. It is produced during the winning of crude oil or directly from natural gas fields. CNG also offers good availability and easy adaptability for today's automobile internal combustion powerplants. CON: CNG has a lower energy content than gasoline, so vehicles using it can generally only travel about 150 miles per tank.

State and fuel provider fleets are increasing their purchases of alternative fuel vehicles. City and County governments and large corporations may be required to purchase alternative fuel vehicles beginning in 2002. State vehicles outside the Ecogas contract (such as existing vehicles already converted to LNG or CNG, or new vehicles purchased already equipped for natural gas) will refuel at the 76?/gallon price.

Vehicle fuel systems for flex-fuel and dedicated natural gas vehicles are very similar. The main difference is that the gasoline fuel system is left intact on the dual-fuel or bi-fuel vehicle. Vehicles that can use either gasoline/diesel or an alternative fuel (bi-fuel vehicles) are a good transitional step. Soon, fleet use should bring enough demand for alternative fuels to make them as readily available as gasoline -- or as close as your home natural gas or electricity supply.

Vehicles covered by the CLEAR Act include those powered by hybrid engines, dedicated alternative fuels, fuel cells, and electric batteries. Vehicles that have been converted to operate on gasoline and alternative fuel (bi-fuel, must demonstrate ability to run on either fuel). Original equipment manufactured alternative fueled vehicles do not require an alternative fuel certificate. Vehicle storage systems being developed include compressed hydrogen, liquid hydrogen, and physical or chemical bonding between hydrogen and a storage media (for example, metal hydrides). Hydrogen vehicles are only available in a few select areas for small pilot programs.

Tips For Curing Insomnia - The 4 BIG Tips & more by James Watson

Hello Insomnia Sufferer,


Insomnia is a form of sleeping disorder. Which may not seem serious, but it can lead to extremely serious health issues.

One of the key componants our bodies need is rest, no matter how healthy or fit we are we will always need sleep. Lack of it can cause our bodies to break down, to give into illness and to make us perform worse physically and mentally.


A lot of humans like yourself suffer from the common condition of "insomnia". Insomnia is not a deseise but a condition, which can be cured. There are loads of different causes for insomnia, and they are all individual. Some tips are to follow..


Insomnia is NOT helped by alcohol. Alcohol has been proven to even CAUSE insomnia in previous years. Caffine is definatly bad for insomnia sufferers as caffine will make you more alert, hence less chance of getting to sleep.


Even during your waking hours, control your alcohol and caffine intake, this can play a key role in you getting to sleep some 12 hours later.


Insomnia is sometimes spurred from inconsistant sleep. Try to stick to a steady bed-time routine. Try sleeping/waking at the same hours, no matter what time for a week.


The 4 BIG Tips To Cure Insomnia From home:

Taking a Warm Bath This is a great way to relax your body. Don't overdo it though. You simply want to relax your body, not make yourself exhausted. If you spend too long in hot water your body can be drained of vitality. Use bath salts. These will help you chill out and whilst doing that remove toxins from your body.


Having a Massage Have someone give you a massage just before attempting to sleep. If they can give you a full body massage, awesome! If not, a short backrub or a face massage could be the difference with you sleeping or not.


Listening to Music Play some soft, soothing music that can send you to sleep. There are even cassettes designed for this purpose. If you don't have a cassette/CD player with the "sleep" function I do not reccommend this.


Drinking Warm Milk Just A glass of warm milk 15-20 minutes before you hit the will help relax your nervous system. Milk contains calcium, which is proven to help tension in the nervous system.



If you have tried these 4 BIG tips above, and these have not been successful for you, i would reccommend you to click onto the below link, which offers a FREE questionaire, with answers and solutions, with FREE help from psychological proffessionals.

Using Liquid Herbal Extracts as an Aid in Your Health by Anne Harvester

If you take herbal dietary supplements, you may find that as you learn about more herbs and the benefits they may offer that you add more of them to your daily routine. The only problem is that supplements often come in large capsule sizes, causing you to swallow many bulky pills every day. Now there is an easier way with liquid herbal extracts. Quality herbal extracts and tinctures may be as potent as the dried herbs used in dietary supplements, except that instead of swallowing pills all you do with liquid herbal extracts is put a drop under your tongue, where it is absorbed into your blood stream.
For the greatest benefits, choose Herbal extracts suppliers who use organic herbs in the making of their liquid natural herbal extracts. Pure herbal extracts come in many different varieties, and are offered with organic certification as well as in many cases kosher status.

In order to gain the best benefit from botanical herbal extracts, your herbal extracts suppliers should also use a cold process method of extraction, so that the vitamins, minerals and active constituents in the herbs are maintained. Once extracted, the herbal extracts and tinctures are produced by mixing the extract with either an alcohol or alcohol-free glycerite base. An eye dropper is typically used to place drops of the natural herbal extracts under your tongue.

Dozens of liquid herbal extracts are available for your use. Choose from ginseng, chamomile flower, dandelion root and many other pure herbal extracts. Herbal extracts suppliers may also offer herbal extract blends for specific purposes. With these, you may find relief from your next cold that sets in this winter, or may experience better circulation, male support or may find benefit to the lower bowel.

Liquid herbal extracts are also available that can enhance the flavors of your food. You will find many of these flavorings in your favorite desserts. Choose from almond, anise, cinnamon, lemon, orange, peppermint and vanilla the next time you want to boost the flavor in your homemade cookies, cakes, pies and dessert drinks such as hot chocolate. Almond extract offers an herbal experience not to be missed when added to sugar cookies. Lemon extract is wonderful used in lemon pie fillings, and orange flavor is a delight in pumpkin spice cake. Peppermint flavoring is delicious in hard candies handmade for holiday festivities, and vanilla is well-loved in puddings and ice creams.

Herbal extracts have many uses, but before you use them you will want to check with your health care provider since herbal products have not been evaluated by the FDA.




About the Author
Herbal extracts and tinctures may be as potent as the dried herbs used in many dietary supplements and can quickly be absorbed into your blood stream.

Are You Drinking Contaminated Tap Water? by Juanita Ruby

Are you drinking contaminated tap water? You might think that public authorities would report that your health is at risk, but the truth is somewhat different. Public facilities, the EPA and other regulatory agencies know that our public supplies have a variety of contaminants. Their primary concerns over the years have been bacterial contaminants and the threat of waterborne illnesses. Their attempts to control these threats include a variety of treatment methods that include chemical disinfection, UV light and ozone. But all of these efforts have increased the number of disinfection byproducts that flow out of our faucets. They call them THMs. Exposure to THM contaminated tap water doubles your risk of bladder cancer. It increases your risk of colorectal cancer by 40%. We are exposed to so many different cancer-causing chemicals on a daily basis. The only way to reduce our risk is to protect ourselves whenever possible. There are wonderful purification devices on the market that remove THMs. But, sadly, there are many companies that fool you with their advertising and marketing. They entice you with their low prices and they are largely ineffective. What else do we need to worry about? How about cyst contaminated tap water? The Environmental Protection Agency has made a point to try and warn people about the risk of cyst consumption. These are tiny parasites in an early stage of development. Primarily they are cryptosporidium and giardia. If ingested, by drinking tap-water, brushing your teeth or eating fresh fruits and vegetables that have been washed with tap-water that contains them, they cause an illness similar to food poisoning. The illness can kill people with weakened or poorly developed immune systems. So, children, the elderly and the ill are most at risk. What else? Perchlorate is a volatile organic compound or VOC that is not regulated by the EPA. It has been found in over 800 test sites around the US. Its presence has been identified in milk and lettuce. So, once again, the sources of exposure are numerous. Perchlorate causes dysfunction of the thyroid gland. It was, at one time, used as a drug to treat hyperthyroidism. In those with a healthy thyroid gland, it causes hypothyroidism, decreased function of the thyroid gland that causes numerous metabolic disorders, including obesity and diabetes. If you are concerned about chemically contaminated tap water or cyst contamination, you should invest in a home purifier that removes these things. You don't have to pay thousands of dollars for reverse osmosis or a bunch of Japanese rocks (included in one expensive brand). You need multi-stage selective filtration that costs around $100. You might also be interested in a system for your showerhead, since chemical contaminants like THMs can be absorbed through the skin and inhaled when they become airborne. There are a lot of things that government authorities neglect to tell us about. So, spread the word and stop drinking contaminated tap water, today. You will live longer and be healthier. You might save a life, and it could be yours.


About the Author
Juanita Ruby is passionate about health. She knows our bodies contain more than 70% water, thus the quality of our water greatly affects our health. She uses a water filtration system to purify her water. Visit her website at http://www.your-best-water-site.com/ to discover which water purification system she trusts for her health.

Science and Environment: From Nothing, to Thing, to Something by Dan Cloer

Almost 55 years have passed since the publication in Nature of Francis Crick and James Watson's description of the structure of DNA. It was on February 28, 1953, that the two Cambridge colleagues actually pulled together the crystallographic and chemical data to form the original model of the double helix. They shared the 1962 Nobel Prize with King's College physicist Maurice Wilkins for their innovative discovery.
Research crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, who had made the key reports and x-ray images from which Watson and Crick gleaned their data, died in 1958 and thus was not included in the Nobel Prize.

In retrospect, the discovery of the structure of the gene was a landmark event in science and environment. But at the time, it was met with skepticism and doubt. The new era of biotechnology that sprang from that initial discovery could have followed the same track as the space program. Man's first step on the moon was hailed as a fantastic moment in the history of technology and exploration in 1969, yet a coherent follow-up remains illusive and piecemeal.

As Watson reminisced at a 2005 Technology, Education, Design (TED) conference presentation, the next few years after their initial discovery remained scientifically lean. Most biologists did not immediately buy the "twisted ladder" as the reality of the gene. But Watson and Crick were confident that they had solved the most basic secret of life: how life begets life.

"We knew we were right," Watson says in his presentation. "From nothing to thing" in about two hours. While they believed that the structure they proposed also solved the multiple riddles of replication, inheritance and evolutionary variability and mutability, Watson recalls that there were only five references to their work over the next few years. The run-up to today's world of burgeoning gene-centric potentials was at first slow.

"We were left by ourselves trying to do the last part of the trio," Watson continues. That trio--the three-step process the cell uses to translate the DNA information into a molecule called RNA and then into working proteins that drive all biochemistry--is the focus of new research into disease and diagnosis.

This is particularly a focus of cancer research. Finding ways to block gene function, to literally interfere with the faulty protein-making process that seems to control cancer cells, would be an ideal way to attack these cells. Rather than blanketing the body with generic therapies such as radiation or toxic chemicals, RNA-based therapies would target the errant cells precisely.

According to a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory press release concerning recent research published in Science, "These [RNA molecules] can target a specific gene and stop it from being expressed. If the cancerous cells die off, and the same short-hairpin RNA doesn't kill off healthy cells, then the gene it targets is a cancer proliferation and survival gene."

The work has led Gregory Hannon, Ph.D. CSHL professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and his coauthors to propose a "Genetic Cancer Genome Project" in which geneticists will identify and catalogue cancer type-specific genes with the goal of revealing potential drug targets. The press release continues: "This could mean that the next generation of cancer treatments will include fewer side effects, and be tailored to target certain types of cancer, such as breast or colon cancer, specifically.

"This means that we can investigate thousands of genes at a time which will allow us to comb through the human genome with previously unattainable efficiency,' said Dr. Hannon. 'We have already identified several genes that appear to be selectively required by certain breast cancer cells but not by normal cells.'" The press release concludes that as this new technique is used to discover increasing numbers of cancer proliferation and survival genes associated with different kinds of cancer, it could introduce a new era in cancer treatment. "We have opened a door into a whole new world of cancer treatment possibilities," Dr. Hannon said.

It is certainly something to imagine a world of personalized medicine where the very chemical core of our maladies could be repaired, patched or blocked. While it will certainly be quite some time before these possibilities ever reach the clinic, the process had to begin with understanding DNA. For that, society and culture can be thankful for the work and sacrifice of Rosalind Franklin and for those who used her work to lay the foundation of our genetic century.



About the Author
Author, Dan Cloer, contributes articles on science and environment for Vision Media. More information about these and other topics can be found at http://www.vision.org.