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from HolisticFuture.com --
 When
times get tough and drastic budget changes need to be made, people
can eliminate their cable TV, their nights-out, cell phone, or
internet. But people can’t eliminate food from their monthly
expenses, so they’re forced to resort to cheaper alternatives to
their regular meals. And since a lot of people lead such busy
lifestyles, both of these factors mean that people choose value
items from fast-food restaurants as their alternative. There are
quite a few chains now offering the Dollar Menu—fast food to go for
only a buck an item. These items, however, tend to be overloaded
with calories, animal fat, hormones, preservatives, salt, and bad
carbs, and are of very low nutritional value in general.
The Cancer Project, an
organization whose aim is cancer prevention and cancer survival,
analyzed these value menu offerings from the nation’s largest
fast-food chains and came up with the Top Five worst selections
based on unhealthy ingredients.
Jack in the Box
Junior Bacon Cheeseburger:
430 calories, 23 g fat, 55 mg cholesterol, 860 mg sodium. Cost:
$1.
Taco Bell
Cheesy Double Beef Burrito:
460 calories, 20 g fat, and 1,620 mg sodium. Cost:
$0.89.
Burger King
Breakfast Sausage Biscuit:
27 g fat and 1,000 mg sodium. Cost:
$1.
McDonald’s
McDouble:
19 g fat and 65 mg cholesterol. Cost:
$1.
Wendy’s
Junior Bacon Cheeseburger:
310 calories and 16 g fat. Cost:
$1.53.
Relying on such a way of eating
can have accumulative detrimental effects on one’s health,
encouraging the development of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and
cancer—three prolific and potentially deadly diseases that require
continuous costly testing, treatment, medications, and follow-up
care. The sad news is these diseases are for the most part
preventable and avoidable through our diet and lifestyle choices.
From
AlternativeApproaches.com --
 It's
been two decades since the Exxon Valdez ran aground in
Alaska’s Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million
gallons of crude oil and making it one of the largest
environmental disasters in history.
Twenty years after
the accident, its effects are still being felt by the wildlife,
on the beaches, and among the residents -- long after experts
predicted the oil would be cleaned up or dissipate naturally.
Funded by a $1.2
million grant received in 2007 from the Exxon Valdez Oil
Spill Trustee Council, Temple University Civil and
Environmental Engineering Chair, Michel Boufadel has spent the
past two years researching why oil from the Exxon Valdez can
still be found along many of the beaches in Alaska's Prince
William Sound. It is the first such study to examine the spill’s
impact on the beaches and why oil still lingers.
Over the past two
summers, Boufadel and several Temple engineering students spent
30 days in Alaska, visiting six beaches in the Sound and
collecting oil and sediment samples, as well as placing sensors
to take year-round water temperature, water salinity and water
pressure readings.
In his Temple lab, Boufadel tested some 50 lbs. of sediment and
soil samples from the six beaches and found them filled with
toxic material from the Exxon Valdez spill.
from
New Renaissance Magazine
--
 The
economic issues currently causing mass demonstrations in Iceland
have a less publicized ecological cousin, and one which has recently
identified as part of the economic collapse. In 1995 the Ministry of
Industry and Landsvirkjun, the national power company, began to
advertise Iceland's huge hydropower and geothermal energy potential.
In a brochure titled “Lowest energy prices!!” they offered the
cheapest, most hard working and healthiest labour force in the
world, the cleanest air and purest water – as well as the cheapest
energy and “a minimum of environmental red tape” to some of the
world's most well known polluting industries and corporations (such
as Rio Tinto and Alcoa). This campaigning has led to the development
of an 'Energy Master Plan' aimed at damming almost all of the major
glacial rivers in Iceland, and exploiting all of the geothermal
energy, for the power intensive aluminium industry. The loans taken
by the Icelandic state to build large scale energy projects, and the
minimal payback they have received from the industry, has been a
considerable contributing factor to the economic crisis, while at
the same time creating a European ecological crisis that is little
heard of this Icelandic green energy case study is that application
of a technology that has been thought of as renewable,
climate-friendly and low-impact, on the large scale that is
associated with fossil fuels, makes it a lot like the technology it
was supposed to replace
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