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Earth has a special day. It’s sort of like a birthday. It’s called Earth Day. It began on April 21, 1970. Earth Day is celebrated all over the world, usually on the first day of spring but sometimes on April 22nd. It is a special day to remind us to take care of our Earth, our environment, and to learn what we can do to help keep the Earth healthy-not just on Earth Day but every day! Help your children honor the Earth by sharing with them these inspiring and educational activities.

Recyclables Game

Collect small cans, plastic bottles, and newspaper. Label 3 bins or trash cans: cans, bottles, and newspaper. Draw a line and place the containers about 3 to 5 feet away from the line. Have children stand behind the line and try to toss the recyclables into the appropriate container.

Trash Hike

Provide each child with a bag and gloves. Have them pick up trash. Talk about the items that they picked up. Ask children if they think any of the items they found are recyclable. If so, have them place the items in a container to be recycled later.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

First, explain to children what the following words mean:

Reduce: This means you cut down or lessen the amount of materials you use. For example, if you use both sides of a piece of paper, you are reducing the number of pages you need. Reuse: This means you use the material over again, either for the same purpose, or for something else. For example, a coffee could be reused as a container for crayons or pencils. Recycle: This means to use the materials over again to make a new product. For example, old newspapers are recycled when they are made into new paper products.

Next, create a 3-column chart. Label the columns Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Cut out pictures from a magazine of items like a tire, a Styrofoam cup, a plastic bottle, a glass jar, soda can, etc. and have children categorize them. Variation: Have bins in which children can sort the items.

Field Trip

Have children collect plastic grocery bags and return them to their neighborhood grocery store.

Trash CollageUse throw away paper, labels, scraps cut from junk mail, aluminum foil, pull tabs from soda cans-anything you can find that is typically thrown away-to make a collage.

Wind Sock

Cut the bottom of a cup or margarine tub. Cut streamers from crepe paper, ribbons and plastic bags. Attach other recycled items on a string. Arrange and glue them around the cup so that they hang down over the edge. Make two holes and attach a pipe cleaner or ribbon to make a hanger.

Dirt Cups

Have children make this fun snack by putting chocolate pudding in a paper cup. Have them top the pudding with crushed chocolate cookies and a gummy worm.

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Earth Day is a very important holiday! Everyone is concerned about the planet we are leaving to our children, and we must pass the responsibility from generation to generation, making it second nature for them to behave responsibly, and leave it green for their next generation!

This kind of earth day party will take some planning and organization, but will teach the pride and value of a job well done, as well as fostering the learned responsibility of conservation, preservation, and cohabitation! We only have one world, we must share with all creatures. Start early, make up flyers announcing a block party and the schedule for earth day, and enlist the aid of teens in your area, by getting them to distribute the flyers.

Earth day parties vary, depending on the area in which you live, but everyone can benefit from learning how to make the world a better place for all living creatures, large and small. Earth day can begin with teens adopting a road side. Under adult supervision, they can pick up trash, separate it for recycling, and have it picked up, or delivered to recycling centers. The team filling the most bags (or maybe all teams can win) wins a prize. If you ask ahead of time, local pizza parlors, video rental stores, and merchants along the route, are almost always willing to give coupons for freebies to the winners. You can make an earth day video, of the teens cleaning the roadside, and youngsters reciting eco friendly earth day facts, centered on the importance of preserving the eco system, ending with each child planting their own tree.

Finally, everyone on the block can gather at a central location, to celebrate with a hot dog roast, using recyclable containers for their earth day feast. Bits of the recording can be broadcast on the radio or local TV news, and photos can be featured in the newspaper.

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Some like it hot. According to environmentalist James Lovelock, we’ll get plenty of hot between now and the end of the century. “We are so far down the path toward the hottest we have been, since we were 55 million years ago,” Dr. Lovelock, who is also a leading atmospheric scientist, told StockInterview in a tape-recorded interview last week, “that as many of us look at it, it’s not going to make very much difference what anybody does.” In stronger commentary, which he wrote for England’s Independent newspaper, this past January, Lovelock warned, “The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years.” And we were worrying about another Ice Age?

Skeptics might wonder if his 1200-word essay was just book publicity hype. Lovelock’s scathing our-world-is-doomed article was published about two weeks before Penguin Books (UK) began selling his latest work, The Revenge of Gaia, in bookstores across the British Isles. He did admit within his newspaper commentary, “This article is the most difficult I have written.” While interviewing Dr. Lovelock, during our transatlantic phone conversation, the octogenarian sounded sad with his prediction, but still optimistic, despite his ruthless appraisal of what may lay ahead for the rest of this century. “I see the crunch coming as an opportunity to improve ourselves in a way. Who knows? Man may have a better chance when he starts again.”

ONLY ABOUT ONE BILLION HUMANS WILL SURVIVE

What does he mean by starting again? “By the end of this century, there is a high probability that the bulk of our species on the planet will be eliminated,” the soft-spoken Lovelock gravely remarked. “There may be something, plus or minus, on the order of a billion left.” Is there much hope, we asked. “I don’t see our current civilization hacking it,” he lamented in his response. But, but, what if? “Enormous changes must be made,” he stressed. “Society is much too slow in cutting back.” He insisted these changes should have started at least 50 years ago. Later he added, as an afterthought, “If Europe and USA were trying to be good and cut back by 30 percent, it’s really not going to help much. I don’t think the public wants to do it.”

In Lovelock’s forecast, he envisions, at the end of this century, the last few humans would be forced to rebuild the remnants of our civilization in the Arctic. It won’t be as cold up there by then, as you might think. He told us, “Within 25 years, most of the global ice in the Arctic will be gone. You will be able to take a sailboat to the North Pole.” How long before we begin to feel these changes? “In my own modeling, I rather think it is an unknown number of years,” Lovelock explained. “It may be five years or it may be 30 years.” He offered a visual, “Think of it as a rope or a string. Global warming may run up in a straight line or a curve lying a bit loose as the IPCC seems to project.”

Lovelock summarized why his forecast is dire and probably irreversible, “Everybody forgets the greatest damage we’ve done to the earth is not so much the emissions from greenhouse gases, but taking away the natural resistance from the farmland ecosystem. By doing that, we have disabled the planet’s ability to regulate itself.” Lovelock does not enjoy painting a picture of what earth might look like several decades from now. He wrote in the Independent, in January, “Much of the tropical land mass will become scrub and desert, and will no longer serve for regulation; this adds to the 40 per cent of the Earth’s surface we have depleted to feed ourselves.” Through his book and in various articles, Lovelock has repeatedly blasted environmentalists who gamble away earth’s future by campaigning for renewable energy sources.

That’s when we began talking about environmentalists, especially the idealists who claim to be helping preserve the earth. So, we asked this leading environmental scientist what was really wrong with today’s environmental movement. Bitterness entered his voice when Lovelock answered, “It’s mostly made up of urban people, who know almost nothing about the countryside and still less about the ecosystem.” He scoffed, “Their solutions are basically urban-political solutions. They continue to insist on wanting to run their cars on bio fuels. This is one of the maddest ideas of the lot.” Lovelock cuts no slack for those championing the cause of bio fuels. He writes in The Revenge of Gaia, “It would require us to burn every year about two to three gigatons of carbon as bio fuel (a gigatons is one thousand million tons). Compare this quantity with our yearly food consumption of half a gigaton tons… We would need the land area of several Earths just to grow fuel.”

Does he believe environmentalists are wrecking the environment? “I’m afraid I do,” he glumly responded. Because we know there remain several environmental groups who refuse to embrace nuclear energy as a much-needed solution to the planet’s energy mix, we asked what he would like to say about them. “They are being very foolish,” he quickly shot back. After a pause, he added, “They are living in a dream world.” Like the father figure he is, Lovelock is disappointed but tries to remain buoyant. He wrote in his recent book, “My feelings about modern environmentalism are more parallel with those that might pass through the mind of a head-mistress of an inner-city school or the colonel of a newly formed regiment of licentious, and naturally disobedient young men: how the hell can these unruly charges be disciplined and made effective?”

LOVELOCK WANTS THE WORLD TO GO NUCLEAR NOW

The headline of a recent editorial in a Boston newspaper asked, “Are Pro Nuclear People the New Greens?” We discussed that. “It’s a bit of an old term, really,” he grinned. “Nuclear has been around for more than 40 years at least. I suppose in some countries, like the United Kingdom, you will find some groups are looking more toward nuclear.”

Make no mistake in thinking James Lovelock is anything but Pro Nuclear. His quote adorns the top of the front page of the World Nuclear Association’s website, “There is no sensible alternative to nuclear power if we are to sustain civilization.” Rightly so, the trade association refers to their proponent as the “preeminent world leader in the development of environmental consciousness.” In his book, Lovelock writes, “There is no alternative but nuclear fission until fusion energy and sensible forms of renewable energy arrive as a truly long-term provider. Nuclear energy is free of emissions and independent of imports from what will be a disturbed world.”

Lovelock briefly analyzes the value and harm of each energy source in The Revenge of Gaia. He has a burning disgust for coal mining, and finds carbon-based fuels inefficient and dangerous, not only to humans but also to earth as a self-regulating system. He has frequently warned that renewables are insufficient to meet our planetary energy needs. In contrast to renewable advocates Amory Lovins or Senator Hillary Clinton, Lovelock sees little value in the immediate future for either solar or wind energy programs, and has harsh words for them, writing, “It will fail and bring discredit both to the greens and to the politicians foolish enough to adopt renewables as a major source of energy before they have been properly developed.” He believes their renewable energy solutions might only hasten our civilization’s demise.

Because Lovelock strongly opposes widespread mining, and because nuclear power depends upon the mining of uranium, how does he feel about uranium mining? “I don’t think it matters because it will never be a very big operation,” he replied. “When you consider the ratio of the energy produced from uranium compared to coal, on a ratio of millions to one, the quantity of uranium being mined is trivial compared to coal mining.” We explained to Dr. Lovelock how U.S. uranium companies replaced conventional mining with In Situ uranium recovery. Lovelock thought the In Situ is “a good idea because it mobilizes the uranium with the oxygen in the water and doesn’t make a god-awful mess of the environment.”

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Because of our coverage regarding environmental developments in New Mexico for companies such as Uranium Resources (OTC BB: URRE) and Strathmore Minerals (TSX: STM; Other OTC: STHJF), we talked about uranium mining in that state. Given that it was such an odd event, we discussed the Navajo Nation ban on uranium mining in the four-state tribal reservation area, called ‘Four Corners.’ Puzzled ourselves by this, based upon the latest scientific developments of the in situ uranium recovery method, we discussed an earlier conversation we had with Dr. Fred Begay.

This past November, while visiting Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL), we had asked Dr. Fred Begay about the new face of uranium mining. Dr. Begay, who is both a nuclear physicist and a Navajo, was continuing his affiliation with LANL by conducting community out-reach programs on the Navajo reservation. He told StockInterview, “The Navajo don’t get it. They have illiteracy on mining and uranium.”

We asked James Lovelock what he thought of the Navajo uranium ban in the context that the tribe also receives about $100 million annually from coal mining royalties. “Had there been no mining at all in the Navajo Nation, and they wanted to keep the deposits pristine as part of a natural ecosystem, I could understand their rejection to any mining,” he explained. “But if they allow coal mining, then it’s absurd to reject uranium mining.”

What would James Lovelock say to Navajo Nation president Joe Shirley, Jr. or to any of the aborigine tribes in Australia and elsewhere, which dislike uranium mining? “Very little,” he abruptly replied. Then, he clarified his response. “It’s almost like trying to persuade any religious person that their belief is unfounded. I wouldn’t dream to explain to a devout Catholic that I’m doubtful about the virginity of the Virgin Mary.” He compared it to an article of faith, adding, “They don’t think about it. They don’t know that it is wrong. It is very difficult to deal with people like that.” Does that apply to the average anti-nuclear environmentalist? He explained how he does deal with the uninformed, “The only thing I found effective in this country, the United Kingdom, is to say, ‘Yes, it may be slightly dangerous, but nothing quite so dangerous as global warming. So, we may have to use it to overcome this.’”

CHINA AND FINAL WORDS

One can not talk about 21st century nuclear energy without bringing up China’s dilemma. The world’s largest coal miner and one of the worst air polluters, China is planning the most aggressive nuclear energy expansion program of the past thirty years. “The Chinese government is the strongest government in the world,” Lovelock began. “I have a friend that goes over there regularly to advise the Prime Minister on their environmental problems.” Thus began a classic Lovelock anecdote:

“They say to him, ‘We’re all doing our best to have more renewable energy than anybody else. We are building nuclear power stations, as fast as we possibly can, so as to not add more carbon to the atmosphere. However if we can’t develop the resources for our people, strong as our government is, there will be a revolution tomorrow. We are in no position to stop using the coal resource until we build enough nuclear or other renewable sources to meet our needs.’”

He concluded, “If the Chinese can’t do it, how the heck can the Western democracies do it?” Therein lies what some consider his fatalism about Earth’s health. Is he truly the pessimist some make him out to be?

“Quite to the contrary,” he responded. “I’ve been accused of being a pessimist, but no, I don’t think that way.” Lovelock compared the current threat of global warming to his experiences as a student and young worker, during World War II. “In 1940, we were threatened by invasion by a very powerful enemy,” he reminisced. “Some people threw up their arms in horror and said, ‘There’s nothing we can do.’ But it was a very enjoyable time for those who worked hard and faced the threat.” Britain and Lovelock survived the threat, passing to the next generation what he learned from this experience, “It is terrible to think of Global Warming, but it is nevertheless challenging. It can be quite a wonderful time for a lot of younger people.”

Some have reported The Revenge of Gaia is Lovelock’s last will and testament. We instead read Lovelock’s masterpiece in a different light. Our conversation with Dr. Lovelock led us to believe his book is his sternest warning to the world’s politicians and scientists to speed up their embrace of nuclear energy in order to avert a very possible series of catastrophic events, which may come to us in the decades ahead. He did say there was “a high probability,” but Lovelock never said “definitely.” In this broad difference, Lovelock yet looks into his cup and finds it half full, not half empty.

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Mother Earth has always changed over the years! In fact, she has gone through catastrophic changes so severe that human beings would not possibly be able to withstand such changes. Those changes occurred millions of years ago before mankind’s existence. However, it makes one wonder whether or not these catastrophic changes are on their way back.

The amount of catastrophic earthquakes that have begun to occur would give good reason for one to think that Mother Earth is undergoing changes consistent with those in the past. A prime example was the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile on February 27, 2010, a few days after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti, killing thousands. Luckily for Chile, their building infrastructure was intact, unlike Haiti’s. So, only a few people lost their lives.

The Chilean earthquake was no normal earthquake, Earthly speaking! It not only caused local damage in cities and towns, but it also caused damage to the Earth’s axis, according to a NASA scientist. This means that the normal rotation of the Earth has been changed. An immediate consequence of such change is the advent of shorter days.

As an inhabitant of Mother Earth, this is a very scary thing! If these massive earthquakes continue to occur, we may no longer have days. If each time a massive earthquake struck, time is deducted from a day then we will soon run out of days! According to the scientist, the Chile earthquake shortened an Earthly day by 1.26 microseconds. This is not good news at all!

During winter time, we are already robbed of a full day. So now, we will be robbed even more! All days, especially winter days will now be shorter. The sad thing is that such a change in the Earth’s rotation is permanent, the scientist said.

The 1.26 microsecond bite-size chunk out of our day is very significant; it is equivalent to a 3 inch shift of the Earth’s axis. Three inches are a lot. A snow accumulation of 3 inches can cause major problems on roads and highways; therefore, a 3 inch slippage or 3 inch change in Earth’s rotation is a big deal.

Earth is going through major changes, indeed. Places that never used to get snowfall are now beginning to experience snow-a recent snow fall occurred in a South American country, which caused major damage on livestock and farms. Southern American territories that never experienced snowfall before are now experiencing it. Severe floods are now wreaking havoc on many parts of the world that never had such problem before.

Why are all these Earthly changes? Is it because of the continued use of fossil fuel? Is it a biblical prophecy that is now coming to past? All these questions are up for debate because there are no clear answers to the reason why Earth is going through all these changes.

Whatever the reason for these Earthly changes, we as human inhabitants of Mother Earth should expect the unexpected because there is something brewing out there in the universe and it is affecting Earth in a big way, through massive earthquakes, floods, and unusual weather patterns.

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It’s an interesting question. How does the earth purify water? Seeing as though natural spring water originating hundreds, sometimes thousands of feet below the earth’s surface is the cleanest, healthiest and most delicious H20 ever to be tasted, it might be a good idea to understand just how that happens. How can water that comes from the dirty ground be purer and safer than what comes from my kitchen faucet? Perhaps the notion appears counter intuitive. But it is true. The water that has filtered through many layers of sediment and gravel is purer than even some filtered, bottled H20.

When investigating the answer to the question “How does the earth purify the water?”, I like to imagine that the layers of the earth are really just giant filters that help to eliminate contaminants in water as it makes its way down through the rocks, sand and gravel. This is not a quick process. In fact, you might go crazy sitting there waiting for it to turn into pure, underground spring water. In a given one square foot area, H20 passes through layers of dirt, sand and gravel at a rate of 0.1 gallon a minute. That’s 0.4 liters a minute. By the time you had enough water to quench your thirst, you might be old and gray.

Natural springs found deep below the surface of the earth has naturally filtered out 99.9 percent of contaminants that could harm a person’s health if ingested. As the water moves through the various porous layers of the earth, foreign particles are trapped in the sediment while it passes freely, but slowly, down to deeper layers. Even microorganisms that can cause disease and death in ingested by humans or animals are filtered out of the water through this natural process.

How does the earth purify water in other ways?

Another way in which the earth naturally purifies is through the water cycle. You probably learned about this in elementary school. The cycle starts with the large bodies of waters such as oceans and seas. Great volumes evaporate off the surface of these bodies of water and become gas and drift up into the earth’s atmosphere. Most particles are not able to evaporate and stay behind. The water then reconstitutes as a liquid and falls to the earth as rain or snow. Of course pollution in the air and water has devastated this process.

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“Some researchers believe that by pumping water down to that trapped heat and then using the hot water to turn turbines as it returns to the surface under very high pressure. We could generate power for decades and even centuries” Australian Geographic Beneath the surface of the earth lies a huge treasure of earth’s deposit. It is not gold, silver, precious stones or oil. It is the tremendous store of heat called GEOTHERMAL ENERGY.

The temperatures deep inside the earth are in the order of hundreds and even thousands of degrees Celsius. The amount of heat conducted to the earth’s surface from this interim in one year is thought to equal some 100 billions megawatts hours of energy and many times the electrical power used world wide; an astounding amount of energy indeed. Much of this heat is stored in underground layers of molten rock, or magma. Harnessing this treasure, though, is a challenge. However, the earth’s heat is indeed a treasure because it is a clean source of energy that offers distinct advantage over oil, coal, natural gas, and nuclear power.

The greater concentration of this heat lies under the earth’s crust in a layer called the mantle. The average thickness of the crust ids said to be about 35 kilometers. This is much deeper than the drilling capacity of present technology. These crusts, however, is made up of a good number of plates and is thinner at certain places, especially where the plates meet. The magma at the locations is said to be able to rise closer to the earth’s surface and the heat the water trapped in the rock layers. This water is usually only two to three kilometers below the surface of the ground, well within the reach of modern drilling techniques. It can be mined and put to good use.

To mine or tap this heat, heat pumps are connected to loops of piping buried in the grounds. The energy is thus gathered and can be used to heat homes in the wintertime or perform other useful works. Usually, water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. However, pressures are much higher underground, and water remains liquid at higher temperatures. The boiling point of water remains increases to about 230, 315, and 600 degrees Celsius at the depth of 300 1525, and 300 meters respectively. During the drilling process, where the drilling taps into water that is above 175 degrees, the water can be used to drive electrical generators.

A lot have been said or have to be said about geothermal energy and its impact on environment. One striking thing about it is the fact that countries that develop power from it reduce their dependence on oil. Take for example, every ten megawatts of electricity generated for a year represents a savings of 140, 000 barrels of crude oil per annum. Equally, geothermal resources are immense, and the dangers of depletion are much less than it is with many other energy sources. Pollution problems are greatly reduced. In addition, geothermal energy production costs are very much at a low side compared with those of many other energy forms.

In spite of all these positive notes, there are some environment concerns. Geothermal steams usually contain hydrogen sulfides, a toxic. This is quite a lethal toxic when much in high quantity and equally a nuisance in low quantities because of its uncomfortable sulfurous smells. However, unlike the other energy sources such as fossil fuels in particular, treatment processes for removing it are effective and more efficient than emission control systems at fossil -fuel power plants. Even at that, particulates in the effluent may contain small amounts of arsenic or other toxic substances. Happily, when these particulates are collected and reinjected into the ground, the danger is kept to a minimum. Another negative side ids the possibility of contamination of underground water supplies, this though can result only when and if the geothermal wells have not been sealed to great depth with steel casings and cement.

Above all, one is quick to note that the sitting of most geothermal power plants is only noticeable by the steams vented from the power plant. With careful management, geothermal power can co-exist with people, animals, plants, and the environment.

Most geothermal power plants are installed using only high- temperature steam for power generators. However, efforts are in top gear to extract energy from fluids that are less than 200 degrees Celsius. As a result, binary -cycle technology has been developed. This uses tapped hot fluids to vaporize a secondary fluid, which in turn drives a turbine/generator set.

All countries living in areas of recent volcanic activity or dormant hot springs sources are enjoined to tap into these earth treasures to save our planet earth from the deadly effects of fossil fuels and make the earth a GREEN place to live in.

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The entire reason that Earth Day has been set aside as a holiday is to celebrate the wonderful provisions of this planet and to remind ourselves that we shouldn’t abuse it in our daily lives. By promoting green tasks and objects, we are conserving energy and helping to save and restore the earth. Therefore, participating in green holiday crafts can really show our dedication to helping keep the earth beautiful and productive for hundreds of thousands of years to come.

Using recycled goods to create a piece of art is a great way to partake of the Earth Day theme, especially for school children. Tin cans, paper shreddings, crayon shavings, and other recycled or recyclable materials can be used to depict a scene, or a drawing that shows something to do with Earth Day can be equally stimulating.

You may also wish to gather a classroom full of children and create a mural, with each child participating by adding to a large picture that shows what Earth Day means to them or what they can do to help protect and preserve the earth. The mural can hang on one wall of the classroom for several weeks to remind the children of the importance of Earth Day and what it represents.

Providing children with holiday related crafts, especially for lesser known or observed holidays like Earth Day, can really help them to get a sense of what the day should mean to them, and at a time when lack of natural resources and damage to the environment are such strong topics, Earth Day is a great place to start implementing such educational projects and crafts.

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Earth day is celebrated by more people around the world every year on april 22th. Social awareness that pollution and waste of natural resources by man is now turning against ourselves.
Earth day is a reminder that important actions have to be taken towards limiting waste of nature’s limited resources such as pure water, pure air, vegetation and wildlife among others.
One important step in the right direction is accomplished by using natural organic fertilizers. Chemical fertilizers have been highly used in the past and evidence of their toxic effects on the environment and mankind are now proven. After all, when rain washes out the fertilizers, they are returned to earth can absorbed by human beings.
Many studies in the agricultural industry are currently undergoing to find all natural fertilizers. Natural Science has finally come up with an all natural organic fertilizer for all u garden-makers and organic farmers.

Earth will greatly benefit from such natural organic fertilizer made from recycled leather taken from animal hides. These “ingredients” of the natural organic fertilizer then undergo a process of sterilization and are transformed into another form for easy application. This natural organic fertilizer remains a great choice by its slow-releasing, non-harmful, water insoluble natural fertilizer.

Another natural way of giving back to earth its essential nutrients is by not picking up grass cuts after mowing the lawn. These small pieces of grass will then naturally return to earth within 24 to 48 hours providing the soil back with these precious nutrients.

Natural organic fertilizer raises the organic matter content levels of the soil and aid in its conditioning. Nitrogen and other nutrients in soil are quickly drained because of the looseness of the soil granules but by using organic fertilizer that is no longer a problem to worry about.

A lot of farmers are concerned of using phosphorous-rich fertilizers, especially if their land is located on properties near lakes and streams. Phosphorous has been known to leak into these vital water sources and to cause increased aquatic weed growth, resulting in ugly algae blooms. Many natural fertilizers contain no phosphorous. Natural organic fertilizer is a great way to fertilize the soil for people living near water streams.

By choosing carefully what is used on people’s lawns, we will be able to better control how earth is treated. Everyone will benefit from a more aware use of fertilizing products. By carefully reading the labels and choosing natural organic fertilizers, man will be able to limit the damages made to the important balance of earth’s resources. Reading the appropriate books and magazines focused on environmental issues and participating in forums and websites dedicated to earth’s well-being, everyone will benefit.
By taking care of mother nature our grandchildren will be able to celebrate earth’s day in 100 years.

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The face of the Earth, everywhere you look, has changed dramatically over the last hundred years (a mere blink, in cosmological time). The Earth is our home. The only one that we will probably ever have. Yet we treat the Earth as a garbage dump. We pollute the waters, the air, the Earth, with disregard that we are actually polluting all of Earth’s creatures in the process. Humans included.

The Earth can be thought of as a living organism in many senses. It also sustains many additional organisms from large to small. The Earth has been making many changes over the last several decades. You can see the changes. Many of the changes have been reported in the media.

These changes indicate that the Earth is making corrections to rid itself of the infection (Humans), that are causing the problem. In the long run, the Earth will survive. Life as we know it will probably not survive the onslaught of intense weather changes, severally polluted food and water, depletion of the Earth’s ozone layer.

I’m a firm believer that humankind can indeed correct and reverse the course that we have set the Earth on. But do we have the will? After all this is our home. Do we have the means. Are we ready to make the sacrifices that are needed to reverse the course?

Hopefully, this will turn into a discussion on how we can save our home, before it wipes us out.

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If you want to see the largest magnet known to man, look no further than the Earth beneath your feet. You would not feel the Earth’s magnetic force pull a metal object toward it; the magnetic force is only 0.3 Gauss compared to 100 Gauss of a small bar magnet. Nevertheless, the Earth’s magnetic force supports life on the blue planet.

The Earth’s magnetic field forms a magnetic shield, called the magnetosphere, above the Earth’s surface; approximately 70,000 km from the center of the Earth. The magnetosphere is in a vital region in space since it prevents the solar wind from entering the Earth’s atmosphere and wreaking havoc through the environments of all life forms. Think of the magnetosphere as a shield preventing the creation of another Mars, on Earth.

Solar wind can be as gentle and charming as the aurora borealis, or as harmful as a powerful electromagnetic field that can wipe out electronic data and trip down power lines. At high concentration levels, solar wind can cause sun burns, even various forms of cancer. At its deadliest concentration level, (should the magnetosphere suddenly lose its protective shield), life upon Earth would be fried in a very short span of time. We have a lot to thank the Earth’s magnetic field for, beyond just making possible the creation of the compass that guided Columbus to discover America.

Scientists are finding worrying signs that the magnetic field of the Earth is weakening slightly each year. Is there something the human kind can do to prevent it from totally shutting down? Only time will tell. The important thing is to understand that there is a shield above us, holding back the harmful wrath of the sun. Will it be there forever?

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