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In many forms environment has a huge impact on our health. Everyone knows that air, water and housing is important. But political and cultural situation also has a great influence on our health. Select the category of your interest or search with your own keywords.
Fifty Ways to Help the Planet - 50waystohelp.com
Check out these fifty strategies that each of us can do every day to make oue planet a better place. Some of these things are what everyone knows. Other things are quite unexpected.
Video: Discovery Channel Planet Earth Time Lapse - The Album Leaf - youtube.com
This is an episode from a series of time lapse videos taken from the revolutionary documentary "Planet Earth" on the Discovery Channel. "This is your world. Prepare to see it as never before." The Album leaf song is entitled "The Outer Banks".
Video: Are Plastic Water Bottles Safe? - divinecaroline.com
A nice short clip from MSNBC about water bottles and leeching chemicals. Its nice to know that there are some things we can do to avoid potential risk. The main take-away is to avoid plastic bottles marked with a "3," 6," or "7" in the plastic recycling triangle stamped on the container.
Coca-Cola Urged to Close an Indian Plant to Save Water - nytimes.com
A leading environmental research group based in New Delhi has asked Coca-Cola to consider shutting down a bottling plant in the drought-stricken state of Rajasthan, saying that the plant is depleting scarce water supplies.
AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water - ap.google.com
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
Photo: One of the Most Air Polluted Places - Sauron's Kingdom - Moscow - worldfrontpage.com
This picture speaks for itself, No explanations needed - just have a look. Would you like to live there?
Web Guru Fights Info Pollution - news.bbc.co.uk
E-mail, the net, weblogs, instant messaging, text messaging, multi-media messaging... the list of ways to communicate electronically in the 21st Century is growing. Computers are starting to control us, and it is time to "rule the computer and put it back in its place". How to do that?
Pollution-Busting Plants - sciam.com
Plants are a good method for remediating soil and water. Even in their natural state, such trees and plants absorb environmental contaminants and break them down into harmless components—all with the power of the sun. To boost this natural process, researchers are creating new type of plants.
Photos: The World's Most Polluted River - dailymail.co.uk
It was once a gently flowing river, where fishermen cast their nets, sea birds came to feed and natural beauty left visitors spellbound. Today, the river is in crisis, choked by the domestic waste of nine million people and thick with the cast-off from hundreds of factories. Is this how the whole world will look in near future. We've got to stop and do something about this now. Tomorrow is too late...
Photo: Germany's Polar Bear Cub - time.com
Female polar bear Vera carries one of its cubs in an enclosure at the zoo in Nuremberg. A cub had been "rescued" by zookeepers after mother, Vera, showed signs of rejecting her offspring.
Work for Greenpeace - greenpeace.org
Greenpeace International employs more than 150 staff, from all corners of the globe, all dedicated to meeting the professional standards expected of the world's leading campaigning organisation for the environment. From our Amsterdam office we lead global campaigns and provide strategic support to our national and regional offices, funded by millions of members worldwide.
Photos: Surviving Darfur – The Tragedy of Sudan - time.com
More than 50,000 people have been killed by violence, hunger, and disease in the past year in Western Sudan. For the survivors, every day is a struggle for food, shelter, and medicine.
Pollution: A Life And Death Issue - news.bbc.co.uk
Cutting waste and clearing up pollution costs money. Yet time and again it is the quest for wealth that generates much of the mess in the first place. Living in a way that is less damaging to the Earth is not easy, but it is vital, because pollution is pervasive and often life-threatening.
Environment
sponsors:
Peter Milliken MP
Federal Member of Parliament. Speaker of the House of Commons
www.petermilliken.org
Commerx Corporation
Complete internet solutions
www.commerx.com
Real Estate Toronto and Area
Welcome to Prudential Huronia Real Estate. Representative - Natalie Korchuk
www.condoandhome.ca
David Swann, MD, MLA
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary Mountain-View
www.davidswann.ca
testimonials:
Bill Gates... asked me to personally respond to you... I am a physician who serves as Microsoft's worldwide health director... I surveyed your portal site and commend your work... All of us at Microsoft wish you the very best.
Bill Crounse, MD Director, Worldwide Health, Microsoft Corporation www.microsoft.com