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Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

To the charger we connect our wired world and convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) to power cell phones, laptops, answering machines, and tons of other appliances. But many people leave charger and converter black boxes plugged into the wall all of the time. Then there are the many chargers hidden within computers and other appliances. One estimate is that 3.1 billion charging boxes are in the United States, and 400 to 500 million more are sold every year. These black-box vampires use only one-quarter of the energy they draw.

Since to varying degrees we all use appliances from washers and refrigerators to microwave ovens, as well as high-tech electronics gear like laptops, cell phones, and digital music players, it pays to know more about the companies manufacturing these products and from whom we are purchasing them if we want to extend our good acts into the world at large. Most of these companies manufacture throughout the world so our shopping dollars have a lot of power to prevent or foster destruction. Let me tell you what I've learned about many of our most popular brands of kitchen and high-tech appliances.

Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind Rick Levy and Lou Aronica See book keywords and concepts

People who sit in a busy airport terminal pounding away on their laptops while oblivious to the noise are in light hypnosis. If you've ever had the experience of spacing out while driving, maybe intending to go to a friend's house and winding up at the grocery store instead, you've experienced medium hypnosis. Everyone enters a state of deep hypnosis just before falling asleep and just before waking up. We all go into hypnosis naturally and often. What I'll help you do is control how and when you go into hypnosis and teach you how to use it to achieve your goals for health and wellbeing.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

The first thing you notice is the doctors and nurses striding down the halls pushing chrome carts that carry wireless laptops. Every nurse and every doctor has instant access to patient records here. Up in the intensive care unit, chief nurse Shirley Paulson sits down in front of a desktop computer to show me a medical record used for patients in the unit. Paulson pushes a key and a brightly colored record appears on the computer screen. The patient has just undergone surgery, and he is on a ventilator.

Air traveler choked to death in police custody at Phoenix airport after being handcuffed, detained Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

They wipe down our laptops and screen them for cocaine and explosives using high-end chromatography machines, and if we even dare mention that we are NOT a terrorist, that gives them the justification to arrest you for simply uttering the word "Terrorist!" (If you don't believe me, just try it at the airport and see what happens...) Airport security squads have created a situation where we have to prove our innocence in order to simply board an airplane!

Review: Tesla Motors pioneers all-electric performance sports car Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The high energy density, lithium-ion batteries that power the Roadster use the same technology as laptops, cell phones and many other portable electronics. When the battery is fully charged, the Tesla Roadster stores the energy equivalent of about eight liters of gasoline - a very small amount of energy needed for a car that performs so extraordinarily. There is no internal combustion engine, only the battery unit that can be recharged easily from an electric power grid such as a standard plug-in wall outlet.

You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

No laptops, no TV: Ideally, the bed is used for two things and two things only. If you have any other type of stimulus, like work or a TV, you're not sending your body the right message that it's time for sleep. Need more incentive to kick Leno to the living room? People who don't have a TV in the bedroom have 50 percent more sex than those who do. þ Add white noise. Use a fan for background noise, or one of those machines that lets you pick sounds, from the rain forest to the ocean.

The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest Dan Buettner See book keywords and concepts

They always sat at the same table with their laptops open, discussing their work earnestly, always in French. They were the first ones up in the morning, they did interviews together, and ended up at the same table at night, where they consolidated their findings in a giant spreadsheet. They had both made sacrifices to join us in Costa Rica (it took months for Gianni to apply for permission from his university to get the time off) and they had both taken a chance that their efforts would bear fruit.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

We may not be able to identify the tree growing in our own backyards, but we can instantly conjure up a satellite photo of our neighborhood on our laptops. We might not be able to point south without the aid of a compass, but our cell phones can tell us our near-exact latitude and longitude. We may not be able to name the birds singing outside our windows, but we can empathize with the sorrows and joys of Antarctic penguins at our local movie theater.

Innovations like cheap laptops for children and vans outfitted with on-demand book printers are bridging the last mile of the digital divide in villages across the Global South. Online communities are making the off-line work of teachers and literacy practitioners easier, allowing them to share course materials and lesson plans. And the open-source movement [see Open Source, p. 127] is providing distance-learning tools that are enabling autodidacts anywhere on earth to take the same classes—from Latin to Laser Holography—as students at elite Western universities.

We can power our toxin-free laptops by teasing energy out of the sun. In trying to create this change, designers can spend a lot of time fussing about technical details that are often outside their purview, thereby failing to play to their greatest strengths. The liberation of sustainable design will mean changing the way we compose and conceive of our material world, piece by piece. Designers may be able to come up with great solutions for the complex challenges that humans create, yet they alone can't solve the ecological design problem. Businesspeople decide what gets made.

The houses that contain us and our trusty laptops represent another couple of hundred thousand dollars worth of capital, and rely extensively on the availability of lumber, shingles, and glass—and on centuries of architectural refinement. This is modernity: a pile of capital, of sunk costs, running into the quadrillions of dollars. It takes this much capital to provide average Americans or Europeans with their average lifestyles.

Let's start with the laptop, an indispensable tool in creating this book: laptops contain dozens of incredibly refined components, requiring tens of billions of dollars of capital to create. They're recharged by being plugged into power outlets, and the wires in those outlets run back to another trillion dollars of capital: the national grid. Dur wireless Internet connections go to cable modems, running over incredibly expensive buried copper wires laid to carry yesterday's big thing, cable TV.

Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it Sue Palmer See book keywords and concepts

In less than two decades, technology has transformed our homes: PCs, laptops, email, the worldwide web; cable, satellite and digital TV, camcorders, DVD; computer games, PlayStations, iPods; mobile phones, text messaging, camphones ... And everything happens much, much faster than it did in the past. Social changes have been no less startling.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

When our laptops die and we toss them, they either rot in landfills or children in the developing world end up wrestling their components apart by hand, melting toxic bits to recover traces of heavy metals. Did someone forget to design for these kids? With so many products coming out in green versions, why do our computers still only come in the standard, havoc-wreaking model? Paradoxically, computer designers, engineers, and inventors have more tools than ever to make long-lasting machines that can be continually upgraded or safely discarded and easily recycled.

Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call Doris J. Rapp, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Some upright computers, in particular, tend to cause symptoms such as chest pain, headaches or fatigue. laptops tend to be better-tolerated. Protective chest shields or medallions worn over the chest are thought to help protect against EM emissions. (See Appendix C.3.) • Keep your children at least three feet from television sets at all times.48 The use of electric blankets or heating pads (especially if pregnant) is strongly discouraged. • Buy a set of earphone adapters so there is no need to hold a cellular phone directly over your ears or on your head.

Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today John D. Lantos, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Every morning, we would dutifully send our laptops through the metal detectors, then walk through ourselves. We needed to bring our own laptops because there was no office support for the health reform working groups. Instead, we typed our memos wherever we could find a place to sit, and scurried around from the National Security Office to the Office of the Special Assistant to the President, looking for an unused printer. If only we could find a printer, we thought, we could transform the health care system.

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