Myth: We Are Destroying Our Forests (ABC News)

Myth: We Are Destroying Our Forests (ABC News)

- U.S. Forest land area increased from 747 million acres in 1997 to 749 in 2002 (U.S. Forest Service)
- Since the 1950s, timber growth has consistently exceeded harvest (U.S. Forest Service)
- Net Forest loss continues to decline globally and has been reversed in Asia (UN Food and Agriculture Organization)
- Net Deforestation in Brazil has fallen by two-thirds over the last four years (UN Food and Agriculture Organization)

How about this?

from: http://www.westonaprice.org/Old-Fashioned-Healthy-Lacto-Fermented-Soft-Drinks-The-Real-Real-Thing.html
“Anyone who has tried to incorporate all the principles of traditional foods into their diet will find that it is almost a full-time job. If you want to grind your own flour, bake your own bread, make your own yogurt, your own soaked-and-slow-dried nuts, your own relishes and chutneys, your own bone stock, your own sprouts, your own kombucha and ginger beer. . . this is more than the typical beleaguered house husband can handle. One wonders how they did it in the old days. The answer is, they didn’t! For one thing, before the age of the suburbs and the automobile, extended families lived together in the same house, and as often as not, next door to cousins and uncles. Four people cooking for 16 people is a lot easier than one person cooking for four. Moreover, communities were small and close-knit, and there was probably some degree of specialization and sharing among households.”

“I don’t want to make ginger beer for hundreds of people, most of them strangers, but I would be delighted to make it for a handful of other families whom I know well. Maybe one of them would make fresh-ground slow-rise sourdough bread for me (I never could get that to work). Maybe another would supply me with chutney and fish sauce. Maybe another makes soy sauce. Another brews beer; another wine from their own grapes. Maybe another neighbor has a 30-gallon cauldron for making beef stock; another, a 30-gallon pickling crock. For most traditional foods, the optimum level of production is more than for the nuclear family, but less than what is considered economically viable in today’s money economy.”

http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsuitablefats.shtml

Suitable Fats, Unsuitable Fats: Issues in Nutrition

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Sustainable oil?

Sustainable oil?

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Posted: May 25, 2004 By Chris Bennett

© 2009 WorldNetDaily.com

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38645

About 80 miles off of the coast of Louisiana lies a mostly submerged mountain, the top of which is known as Eugene Island. The portion underwater is an eerie-looking, sloping tower jutting up from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico, with deep fissures and perpendicular faults which spontaneously spew natural gas. A significant reservoir of crude oil was discovered nearby in the late ’60s, and by 1970, a platform named Eugene 330 was busily producing about 15,000 barrels a day of high-quality crude oil.

By the late ’80s, the platform’s production had slipped to less than 4,000 barrels per day, and was considered pumped out. Done. Suddenly, in 1990, production soared back to 15,000 barrels a day, and the reserves which had been estimated at 60 million barrels in the ’70s, were recalculated at 400 million barrels. Interestingly, the measured geological age of the new oil was quantifiably different than the oil pumped in the ’70s.

Analysis of seismic recordings revealed the presence of a “deep fault” at the base of the Eugene Island reservoir which was gushing up a river of oil from some deeper and previously unknown source.

Similar results were seen at other Gulf of Mexico oil wells. Similar results were found in the Cook Inlet oil fields in Alaska. Similar results were found in oil fields in Uzbekistan. Similarly in the Middle East, where oil exploration and extraction have been underway for at least the last 20 years, known reserves have doubled. Currently there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 680 billion barrels of Middle East reserve oil.

Creating that much oil would take a big pile of dead dinosaurs and fermenting prehistoric plants. Could there be another source for crude oil?

An intriguing theory now permeating oil company research staffs suggests that crude oil may actually be a natural inorganic product, not a stepchild of unfathomable time and organic degradation. The theory suggests there may be huge, yet-to-be-discovered reserves of oil at depths that dwarf current world estimates.

Continue here: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38645

Where the Wild Things are

Nice!

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Worm Farm

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Dog’s Unending Loyalty

Wow… this made me cry!

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The Verve – Love Is Noise

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The Verve – Lucky Man

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Best Video on “Swine” flu Vaccine

Hey folks! (This post was an email to my family and friends, but I thought it would be good to post it here as well.) I just want to let you know about this set of 4 ten minute videos I just watched regarding the “swine” flu vaccine. I have done quite a bit of research on vaccines in general and don’t believe any of them are ever safe or ever actually impart immunity, but most people I know tend to think some of them are “important” and are therefore “worth  the risk”, so I wanted to send this out to help you get some important information regarding this specific vaccine and the upcoming “pandemic”.

This link is to a video on Dr. Mercola’s website in which Dr. Mercola interviews the well respected and well researched Dr. Blaylock regarding the “swine” flu vaccine. The video is in 4 parts and is very easy to watch, I found each part more fascinating than the previous. The video is fact based, not at all fear based. Most of the information contained in the video I was well aware of already, but this was a very concise presentation compared to the 5 or 6 different websites I would have had to send you to for you to read the same information. Please take the time to watch this video and if you like it pass it on. If you have problems getting it to play or anything let me know and I will find a way to help (like converting it to a format you can easily watch and posting it someplace so you can download it to you computer).

Here’s the 4 videos linked so they will auto-play in sequence on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–nWrqIspnQ&feature=PlayList&p=ADDA4DD843963E96&index=0&playnext=1

Here’s the link to Mercola’s page with the videos and an article covering most (but not all) of the information (good for those who are blind or otherwise have no intention of watching 40 min of video).
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/19/The-Truth-about-the-Flu-Shot.aspx

I would be happy to send anyone more information regarding the science of vaccine damage or information regarding alternatives to the vaccine to prevent the flu or methods of treating the flu if you get it…

Much Love,
Bharata Ishaya / Daniel Barber

PS: Remember, flu’s and colds are nothing to fear – they have always been around and are one of the bodies most efficient methods of detoxification!