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July 31, 2010

Environmentally Building

Filed under: Health Care — Nancy @ 9:42 pm -0700

If you are scheduling on building or your home, you should think of evaluating environmentally safe building projects in addition see how you can utilise these concepts in your own home renovation project.

With concerns that the Earth will not be sustainable for future generations, numerous people are not easy to find better, environmentally safe ways to build their properties.

This is typically referred to as green building, or green living. By taking on environmentally safe building projects in your home, you may take comfort in the fact that you will not be adding to the problem.

When you are thinking of which environmentally safe building projects are right for you, you require to think of your future furthermore your lifestyle.

If you are someone used to living in a chilly home in the summer and savor a lot of heat in the winter, you will want to preclude into environmentally safe building materials that have good insulation for winter what’s more is able to keep up cooler temperatures in the summer.

With the right construction, you may manage to keep up the temperatures you want without utilizing a lot of heating or air conditioning.

If you cannot reside without a very streamlined heater or air conditioner, you should think of how you can build solar panels or other green electrical options directly into your home.

By installing solar panels, you can counter the electricity you consume on luxuries with green energy.

If you do not consume all of the energy your solar system produces, you can then feed this electricity back into the power grid.

Many electric companies will recompense for the excess energy, as it lowers the demand on their grids.

If you enjoy vegetables, take the time to grow your own garden, employing organic methods of farming.

This may radically lower your grocery bill while improving your diet at the same time.

As gardens need to be maintained, you are similarly getting the exercise you need.

If renovating, the cleaning agents and base materials you employ are vital in insuring your environmentally safe building projects are as good for the environs as possible.

Eco social cleaning supplies take out the damaging, harsh chemicals furthermore replace it with material that will not harm the local ecosystems.

If you are doing foundation work or turning a lot of soil when working on your environmentally safe building projects, create certain that you utilise silt traps to prevent runoff into the local streams besides waterways.

Silt may cloud otherwise clean water moreover choke fish additionally plants.

Once you have through construction, plant grass or other vegetation instantaneously to control excess silt runoff.

There are many companies that focus on environmentally safe building projects.

You may pursue these online or contact your nearest environmental agencies for more info on companies in your locality.

Are you Environmentally Responsible?

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When The Government Owns GM…

Filed under: Uncategorized — Nancy @ 8:06 pm -0700

the other auto-makers are not going to be treated very fairly.

Senior officials at the U.S. Department of Transportation have at least temporarily blocked the release of findings by auto-safety regulators that could favor Toyota Motor Corp. in some crashes related to unintended acceleration, according to a recently retired agency official.George Person, who retired July 3 after 27 years at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said in an interview that the decision to not go public with the data for now was made over the objections of some officials at NHTSA.

“The information was compiled. The report was finished and submitted,” Mr. Person said. “When I asked why it hadn’t been published, I was told that the secretary’s office didn’t want to release it,” he added, referring to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Welcome to the corporate state, Obama-style.   Not to mention some old-fashioned bureaucratic CYA:

Since March, the agency has examined 40 Toyota vehicles where unintended acceleration was cited as the cause of an accident, Mr. Person said. NHTSA determined 23 of the vehicles had accelerated suddenly, Mr. Person said.

In all 23, he added, the vehicles’ electronic data recorders or black boxes showed the car’s throttle was wide open and the brake was not depressed at the moment of impact, suggesting the drivers mistakenly stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake, Mr. Person said.

“The agency has for too long ignored what I believe is the root cause of these unintended acceleration cases,” he said. “It’s driver error. It’s pedal misapplication and that’s what this data shows.”

Mr. Person said he believes Transportation Department officials are “sitting on” this data because it could revive criticism that NHTSA is too close to the auto maker and has not looked hard enough for electrical flaws in Toyota vehicles.

“It has become very political. There is a lot of anger towards Toyota,” Mr. Person said. Transportation officials “are hoping against hope that they find something that points back to a flaw in Toyota vehicles.”

The existence of this report is one reason, suggests Walter Olson, why the Democrats in Congress (abetted by the NY Times) seem in an enormous hurry to pass a new auto regulatory bill.  After all, automobiles have been sold in this country for only about 100 years, so every day counts in getting new regulatory infrastructure in place

The recall of millions of Toyota cars and trucks because of persistent problems of uncontrolled acceleration has exposed unacceptable weaknesses in the regulatory system. These weaknesses are allowing potentially fatal flaws to remain undetected. Democrats in Congress are pushing legislation to improve regulation and oversight of auto safety. It should be passed into law without delay.

As Olson points out, the NY Times has bent over backwards to ignore recent NHTSA findings in its reporting. This in particular is the enormously flawed logic of the regulator:

N.H.T.S.A. could fine Toyota only $16.4 million for delays in revealing problems with defective accelerator pedals that left the throttle open after being released. That’s pocket change for a company of its size.

Pay no attention to that free market behind the curtain.  The billions of dollars this acceleration problem has cost Toyota in recalls, repairs, lost sales, and damage to reputation are irrelevant — only fines imposed by the Administration (and torts by its allies in the litigation industry) matter.  And if the same problem beset government-owned GM, anyone want to bet what the penalty would be?  They would probably get a new bailout from Obama to pay for the recall costs.   In fact, even without the NHTSA findings, this Toyota problem is really no worse in terms of incidence rates or costs than any number of other recalls by US manufacturers.  The only difference is the media attention lavished on the problem.

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Florida church’s ‘Burn a Koran Day’ brings Islamist threats

Filed under: Health Care — Nancy @ 7:04 pm -0700

The controversy over the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan has sparked a wave of anti-Muslim activism among some conservative and religious groups, and nowhere is that more in evidence than in a non-denominational church’s plan to hold a “Burn a Koran Day” on the next anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Muslim advocacy groups and evangelical Christian organizations alike have condemned the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, for its plans to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a day for burning Islam’s holy book. And at least one jihadist organization has promised revenge if the event goes ahead as planned.

“On September 11th, 2010, from 6pm – 9pm, we will burn the Koran on the property of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, FL in remembrance of the fallen victims of 9/11 and to stand against the evil of Islam,” says the church’s Facebook page. “Islam is of the devil!”

The church has drawn condemnation from the National Association of Evangelicals, which said in a statement that “Burn a Koran Day” shows “disrespect for our Muslim neighbors and would exacerbate tensions between Christians and Muslims throughout the world.”

“It sounds like the proposed Koran burning is rooted in revenge,” NAE President Leith Anderson said. “Yet the Bible says that Christians should ‘make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else’.”

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The church’s plans have grabbed the attention of the Islamist movement. Members of the al-Falluja online forum have reportedly promised to “spill rivers of your (American) blood” if the event goes forward.

But the church is holding steadfast in its position.

“We believe that Islam is … causing billions of people to go to hell, it is a deceptive religion, it is a violent religion and that is proven many, many times,” Pastor Terry Jones told CNN.

The church has also stirred controversy with its plans to protest Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe, who is openly gay. And some former church members have accused the leadership of using the church’s tax-exempt status for profit.

The Gainesville Sun reported earlier this month:

Former church members who have worshiped under senior pastors Terry and Sylvia Jones are speaking out about what they describe as financial abuses at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville and its sister church in Cologne, Germany, founded by Terry Jones in 1981 and closed in 2008.

By all accounts – the church’s Web site, interviews with current and former members and Terry Jones’ own description – the church in Gainesville, as was the one in Germany, is structured with a for-profit business operating out of tax-exempt church property, using the unpaid labor of church members to maintain a steady stream of merchandise for sale online.

That structure has raised questions with the Alachua County Property Appraiser’s Office, which has said it will investigate the church’s tax-exempt status.


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