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When you see blueberries on the box,
do you believe there are really
blueberries inside?
Check the ingredient list
to find out what’s REALLY
in your food.
Technology
Earth Day 2012
Earth Day History
The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970. Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, was concerned with the environment after the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Twenty million people celebrated that first year. Today over 500 million people participate in Earth Day events.
How Can You Celebrate Earth Day?
• There are many Earth Day events planned … or plan your own.
• Learn to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
• Only use non-toxic, green cleaners that are safe for your family, your home and the planet.
How dangerous can chemical cleaners be? Just take a look at these statistics.
• Over 90% of poison exposures happen at home.
• Common chlorine bleach is the #1 household chemical involved in poisoning.
• Organic pollutants, found in many common cleaners and even air fresheners, are found at levels 2 to 5 times higher inside your home than out.
• A person who spends 15 minutes cleaning scale off shower walls could inhale three times the “acute one-hour exposure limit” for glycol ether-containing products set by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.
• Common cleaners give off fumes that can potentially increase the risk of kids developing asthma, the most common chronic childhood disease.
• 1 in 13 school-aged children has asthma. Rates in children under five have increased more than 160% from 1980 – 1994.
• Children are highly vulnerable to chemical toxicants. Pound for pound of body weight, children drink more water, eat more food, and breathe more air than adults. The implication of this is that children will have substantially heavier exposures than adults to any toxicants that are present in water, food, or air.
• If your home is anything like the average U.S. home, you generate more than 20 pounds of household hazardous waste each year (the EPA designates toilet cleaners, tub and tile cleaners, oven cleaners, and bleach as hazardous waste).
Resources:
•To find out what’s lurking on your shelves, go to the National Institutes of Health Library of Medicine Household Products Database. You can search almost any brand of cleaner you use, find out what’s in it, and uncover its links to health effects. Or search by chemical ingredients (see list below for some examples) and discover what brands contain it. The information may shock you.
Chemical ingredients to look out for:
Sodium hydroxide
Hydrochloric acid
Butyl cellosolve (2-Butoxyethanol)
Formaldehyde
Bleach (sodium hypochlorite)
Ammonia
Sulfamic acid
Petroleum distillates
Sulfuric acid
Lye (potassium hydroxide)
Morpholine
• Watch the Toxic Brew Video.
• I recommend Shaklee’s Get Clean products.
Celebrate Earth Day every day!
Penguin Cam from SeaWorld San Diego
As caretakers of the earth, we’re responsible for our family and so much more. The choices we make and the things we do, can have far reaching effects. Chemicals we use in our homes. Pesticides that are sprayed on our fruits and vegetables. Hormones and antibiotics that are in our meats and dairy products. They all go somewhere. And they end up in the soil, the rivers, lakes and oceans. We can make a difference by keeping the chemicals out of our environment.
Here’s a site we don’t often get to see. Penguins being penguins.
Keep them safe. Use non-toxic cleaning products.
Frozen Planet airs tonight at 8:00 pm on Discovery Channel.
To switch views, click the “Multiview” button in the gray bar above.
Watch the penguins on land or in the water.
This is live streaming video from SeaWorld San Diego
This video cam is available March and April 2012.
WARNING: Penguin Cam can be addicting!
Do you watch other animal cams? What’s your favorite?
Add a comment with the link and let me know.
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Searching for WHY
I’ve been in direct sales for years. I think of it as a personal enrichment program with commissions. One of the things I keep working on is my WHY. Why am I doing this business? The easy answer is “for the money.” But, that’s just the obvious. There’s so much more to it when I dig deeper. I think money was my why when I started. Then, it was the things money can buy.
But now, I’m thinking past the material things. I’m searching for a new why. I’ve watched my customers and distributors improve their health. Maybe my new why has something to do with wellness. I’ve also thought about starting a foundation or partnering with a charity. I’m looking for my purpose in life and a way to make a difference in the world.
As I was researching this online, I ran across a video by Simon Sinek called “How Great leaders Inspire Action.” It explains WHY we all need a passionate why and how businesses like Apple use it.
Do you have a strong WHY?
What are you doing to leave your mark in the world?
Do you have any suggestions?
If you’re willing to share, post your why in a comment.
