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Originally Posted by Roody
Sorry and thanks gwd
This thread is becoming more interesting all the time. I especially appreciate the links re: electrical usage and the toilets.
I'm pretty new to all this "green" stuff, and learning more every day, but it is so amazing how simple changes in the way one does things can make such profound differences.
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Originally Posted by wahoonc
Several reasons...it costs money to process water and uses harmful chemicals. Another is water that is in process (in pipes, treatment tanks, or water towers, etc) is water that is not available in the environment. Take a look at the Colorado River basin issues. The deserts of Egypt used to be a fertile green valley until they over used the water in it. (other issues involved but that was a main one)
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Originally Posted by Roody
Another reason is that the natural hydro cycles are disrupted. Here, for example, we pump drinking water out of aquifers and dump treated wastewater back into rivers. this depletes the aquifers, and one result is that they are more vulnerable to taking on toxins.
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While traveling between the red and blue areas I came to a rest stop in South Carolina. My wife told me that I had to take a look in the lady's room. After she made sure no one was there, I entered the woman's rest room. She said, "watch this" and she opened a small door on the wall. Inside was the red hot roaring flame of a tampon furnace! I've never seen one before or since.
In PA I dont so much fell guilty about flushing, since we are expected to get more rainfall thanks to global warming.
In PA I dont so much fell guilty about flushing, since we are expected to get more rainfall thanks to global warming.
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Originally Posted by slagjumper
While traveling between the red and blue areas I came to a rest stop in South Carolina. My wife told me that I had to take a look in the lady's room. After she made sure no one was there, I entered the woman's rest room. She said, "watch this" and she opened a small door on the wall. Inside was the red hot roaring flame of a tampon furnace! I've never seen one before or since.
In PA I dont so much fell guilty about flushing, since we are expected to get more rainfall thanks to global warming.
In PA I dont so much fell guilty about flushing, since we are expected to get more rainfall thanks to global warming.
Welcome to the South See, for entertainment, we like to drink lots of beer (domestic) and blow things up. That's why you see lots of big stores (I'm talking grocery store size) selling fireworks. The tampon furnace thingie just gives us a way to celebrate an everyday thing, ya know like living in the moment or adding spirituality to your everyday life - you get the concept. The mini furnaces used to make a big BOOM sound when the tampon was fully incinerated but they had to remove that feature because it was freaking out the Yankees traveling past.
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Not embarrassed in the least. I don't feel the need to answer to co-workers or strangers on the reasons on how I live my personal life.
But should I need a snappy comeback of sorts I can always refer to my abs and/or disposable income.
But should I need a snappy comeback of sorts I can always refer to my abs and/or disposable income.
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In the face of global warming, and all the dire predictions that go along with it these actions may seem small. Believe me there are plenty of days when I would like to swallow the "my actions are insignificant, I am only one person" argument. Getting in a car and driving to work would be much easier than loading myself down with cold weather gear, a change of clothes, coffee mug, and everything else I need for the day, but when I stop and ponder the decision for a moment, I k now what choice I will make.
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I laugh at my reflection and wave air under my armpits one last time; this is not exactly how I pictured myself on the first day of work, but at least I made it up that hill alive.
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Originally Posted by ellenDSD
Welcome to the South See, for entertainment, we like to drink lots of beer (domestic) and blow things up. That's why you see lots of big stores (I'm talking grocery store size) selling fireworks. The tampon furnace thingie just gives us a way to celebrate an everyday thing, ya know like living in the moment or adding spirituality to your everyday life - you get the concept. The mini furnaces used to make a big BOOM sound when the tampon was fully incinerated but they had to remove that feature because it was freaking out the Yankees traveling past.
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The deserts of Egypt used to be a fertile green valley until they over used the water in it. (other issues involved but that was a main one)
This couldn't have anything to do with the interruption of the flood cycles due to daming the nile could it? (hint: it does). The nile used to flood and during the floods silt would be deposited on the river banks making them fertile soils instead of sand. Dams have stopped these floods to control the river (read that as not allowing the river to wipe out everything on its banks during yearly floods). So without yearly floods, there is no sediment deposited, thus no fertile soils to be green. Not much grows in sand due to the sand having a poor capacity to hold water. Sand is a great growth medium, with the exception that it require extremely high water usage (not large doses of water, but small increments of water everyday or multiple times a day according to infiltration rate and evaporative transpiration). So basically, it's not the lack of water, its the lack of sediments deposited
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