We enter into the meat industry and the amount of methane being emitted is disastrous. Cows emit between 2.5 and 4.7 ounces of methane for each pound of beef they produce. The global warming potential of methane increases 23 times and is equivalent to 6.8 pounds of CO2 per each pound of beef produced. Furthermore, the economically efficient CAFO (http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/) system is not the cleanest production method but FAO implies that the world average emissions from producing a pound of beef are several times the CAFO amount.

Solutions?

It is important to give careful thought to diet and the consequences for the planet if limiting the emissions of greenhouse gases is to be a realistic goal.

According to new scientist findings, the young vegetation of reforestation may not sustain as much diverse wildlife or trap as much carbon dioxide as the older trees did. Among the array of discussions this topic has provoked, the international community is pondering how to prevent the disaster that has come to be-global warming.  Due to the high absorption rate of carbon dioxide that the rain forest trees absorb, these trees have come to be a critical part of the solution process. Currently, only about 1.7 percent of the original forested areas are growing back. Although regrowth is offering bleak possibilities, the fact of the matter is that in the time it takes one to wash one’s hands 50 football fields of tropical rain forest will be devoured.

The existence of this pristine land is in question when one takes a look at the research done by Mr. Wright of the Smithsonian Tropical Institute and Helene Muller-Landau of the University of Minnesota. Both scientists predict that “large areas of tropical forest cover will remain in 2030 and beyond, and thus that habitat loss will threaten extinction for a smaller portion of tropical forest species than previously predicted. Loosing about half of the of theses species in the coming decades, as predicted puts much emphasis on these “new” trees but it is unlikely that these trees will support what the old-growth forests did. Furthermore, they will not be able to trap the same amount of biodiversity and critical ecosystem and are much more vulnerable to fire. The demolition culprits are mainly logging, mining and large-scale industrial agriculture but everyone can do their part; plant a tree.

According to the governments top energy forecasting agency the United States will be well below the biofuel mandate regarding the uncertain development of fuels made from grass and wood. The main risk at play is the development of cellulosic biofuels technology says the Energy Information’s Administration head. The worlds largest producer of ethanol, the United States will only transform about 30 billion gallons of ethanol fuels into gasoline by 2022; falling short 17 percent of the U.S. mandate.

A spokesman for the ethanol industry group, Renewable Fuels Association, said that the research in cellulosic production can actually help the United States meet the standards of this mandate. The former Governor of Iowa, the countries largest ethanol producer, and the President-elect’s choice for agriculture secretary, recommends phasing out subsides for corn-based ethanol and reducing tariffs on Brazil’s sugar cane ethanol.

Taking in consideration that four barrels of oil are consumed for every one barrel found, the ambition towards the ethanol world is unquestionable. The current ethanol limitation in gasoline is ten percent, while any special cars, flex-fuel cars, can contain almost 90 percent ethanol. The ethanol capacity in the United States is too high so distillation is not very profitable. The nations capacity to make ethanol is slightly more than this years mandate for to introduce 11 billion gallons of biofuel to gasoline.

1. Eat more plants!

2. Eat less processed food. Packaged food consumes priceless resources unnecessarily!

3. Filter tap water. 2,200 fossil fuel calories produce a one-calorie drink!

Your health gives H.O.P.E to our Mother Earth!

One feature is the MOTO W233 Renew. This is a cell phone made from recycled water bottles and is actually the first “carbon-neutral” phone. Motorola and Carbonfund.org allied to offset the CO2 required make, distribute and use the cell phone through investments in renewable energy and reforestation. Go Motorola!

The current practice of risk assessment entails a very complex account of exposure and damage before the chemical is ever restricted. This makes hiding the dangers of hiding chemicals much easier to do. Thousands of chemicals are being used in manufacturing, but safety data is available on only a small percent. According to the California governor, “instead of paying attention to the toxic substances in our everyday products only when it comes time to throw them away into the landfill we will now pay attention…when the product is designed, manufactured, used and recycled.”

Electronics and retardants of today’s products are so extremely toxic and the contaminants slither into the health hazard category in an uncontrollable manner. As they escape into factories, workplaces, water supplies and land fills they will now be met with more regulation and legislation.

Although measuring “how green is green?” is still a grey are when the product is green and the overall footprint is bad. The ten years that this proposed initiative would take is much worth the secrets of the undisclosed world of trade.

H.O.P.E encourages all consumers to be conscious of their choices, because a can of worms is lurking behind the shiny products behind the shiny store windows.

During the industrialized times, the ocean was much more alkaline and 55 million years ago the pH shift was much more extreme but, as of today, the conditions indicate that we are surpassing this in through to the next century. If, indeed, this shift doubles by the year 2300, the pH of the ocean will approach 7.0, the dividing line between alkalinity and acidity.

The escalation of CO2 deposition is on a rampage. Research and environmental organizations, like H.O.P.E, tracks these changes through observing environmental trends and emphasize that consequences are inevitable at the pace that industrialization has escalated in. Indeed, 55.5 million years has been covered up by time but adding a big load of CO2 into the water in just a few millenniums is a drastic difference rather than adding the same amount in only a few centuries.