I’m trying my best (step by step) to live as environmentally friendly as possible. I’m wondering what the great companies are out there (mind you, i live in po-dunk nowhere currently, so i don’t have access to much), and also what the bad ones are that i should avoid. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Here are a couple websites that may be helpful
biggreenpurse.com
betterworldshopper.com

Better World shopper grades a variety of companies on their social and environmental tract record.

Big Green Purse gives lots of tips on how to shop for the things we need while keeping the planet in mind.

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Watch as a pair of conservation experts discusses the topic of “green” cleaning in this free online video about environmentalism.

Expert: Nili Nathan
Contact: www.earth911.org
Bio: Nili Nathan, host of “Great Healing Getaways”, is the creator of a television series and Web site on holistic health, where she researches, writes, and reports.
Filmmaker: Nili Nathan

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CityTV morning hosts take a close look at a number of eco-friendly products for greener living from Vancouver online boutique Lavish & Lime – from bags made of Coca-Cola billboards to waste-free lunch kits. Visit http://www.lavishandlime.com to browse the entire eco collection.

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Watch as a pair of conservation experts demonstrates how to make a “green” nursery in this free online video about environmentalism.

Expert: Nili Nathan
Contact: www.earth911.org
Bio: Nili Nathan, host of “Great Healing Getaways”, is the creator of a television series and Web site on holistic health, where she researches, writes, and reports.
Filmmaker: Nili Nathan

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Make Earth Day an all year-event. Better shows you how.

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Learn how to identify eco-friendly products with these green guidelines.

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I found it hard to word this question. But do you think it is possible for humans to live in a technological world, like today, without the mass destructions of forests, loss of wildlife, world pollution etc. ? Do you think humans will ever live in such a world?

In a hundred years, there will be fewer than one billion people, and probably more like 400 million. Do you notice the cost of fossil fuels is going up? Do you see how the prices for everything else is rising? That’s because it takes petroleum to make them and to distribute them to the market.

The rate of world production of oil has peaked and is on an artificial plateau. That is, the drop-off would be greater by now, except that the Arabs have started pumping seawater under the last of the oil in their fields to raise the pressure and make the extraction faster. However, pumping sea water doesn’t add any more oil to the field than was there to start with, and, when the end comes, it will be sudden.

That’s when you can expect a Great Depression, plus the worst energy crisis in human memory, to slam into humanity at the same time. Food will be difficult to grow because of a shortage of artificial fertilizer, a shortage of pesticides, and a shortage of fuel for tractors and harvesters. It will be difficult to distribute because of a shortage of fuel for trucks. The companies that do these things now won’t be able to stay in business. The government won’t be able to bail them out because of its own economic troubles.

Then there’s global warming. The formerly American, now Mexico-occupied, southwest states of So-Cal, Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas are doomed to endure a drought for most of the rest of the 21st century. That means the Mestizos there will be on the march to points further north and east, pushing us out of yet more American territory. Unless we defeat them somehow, while expecting no help from a government that hasn’t offered any significant help yet in that matter.

The cities will burn. They’re filled with people who are accustomed to a parasitical way of life, living at the expense of working people through welfare checks. Experience has taught those people that they can make our politicians give them even more of our money if they riot, killing people and destroying property. But soon the politicians won’t be able to buy them off any more, so the rioters will tear down the whole city. They’ll invade neighborhoods that were always "safe" before and kill everybody in their own homes. Then they’ll move outward into the suburbs and do the same things.

There’s going to be a lot of killing and destruction soon. But it will last only ten or twenty years all together (with maybe some lulls between the hell times). After the population correction has run its course, the remaining people might find ways to live in an environmentally friendly fashion with what remains of the Earth.

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As we await the warm weather, let’s do some all-natural Spring Cleaning! This week, we learn how to make homemade, organic cleaning supplies and how to create a lovelier library. In preparation for the up-coming gardening season, we get a quick tip on bringing a little green into our nests.

links in this episode:

Dr. Bronner – http://www.drbronner.com/
Drugstore.com – http://www.drugstore.com/
Green Living Ideas – http://greenlivingideas.com/
Martha Stewart – http://www.marthastewart.com/
Method Home – http://www.methodhome.com/
Mrs. Meyers – http://www.mrsmeyers.com/
Seventh Generation – http://www.seventhgeneration.com/

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http://www.how2gogreen.com – has many practical tips when it comes to selecting earth friendly products. Regardless if it is for use in your home, for the office or something else.

Earth friendly living is of course a huge subject, but the general concept is not difficult to understand: everything that is sustainable and not harmful to the planet and those (people plants and other organisms) living here is earth friendly.

The best approach is usually to change your lifestyle gradually to more eco friendly practices. Cleaning products for example, are one of the more significant pollutants that the average household produce. Simply by paying attention to what these products are actually made of and if they are biodegradable or not is a great step in the right direction.

In all fairness I should also mention that “Earth Friendly” is the brand name of a company producing a series eco friendly products. You can find them on Youtube or in Google.

Here is a more detailed article on the subject of earth friendly living:

http://searchwarp.com/swa549641-Earth-Friendly-Living-Made-Simple.htm

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I’m just curious whether or not others feel like I do. I wholeheartedly believe that the earth is a living being that like everything else will eventually die just like other planets have. She might even just shake us off like a dog shakes off water after a bath if we irritate her too much (pollution). We are sooooo small in the scheme of things yet sooooo arrogant…

The earth is, mostly, a ball of molten iron hanging in space.

Life only inhabits a tiny portion of the earth: the skin on an apple is thicker than the earth’s crust, relative to the diameter – and organisms only live *on top* of that crust.

Eventually the earth will “die” when the sun dies and expands – boiling-off the earth’s atmosphere and water.

The interdependence of organisms in the biosphere means that by altering the levels of different substances in and on the earth, humans are playing havok with the balance. But I seriously doubt that humans could ever wipe out all life on earth – even if we really tried (which we aren’t: we’re only doing it by accident). Bacteria and simple organisms will always survive, but we might wipe out a lot of the larger organisms, including ourselves. The earth has both been a lot hotter and a lot colder at different points in the past, and life got on fine (albeit many species became extinct every time the climate changed dramatically)

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