Mark Lynas
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 Illegal logging is rampant: when Greenpeace asserted that 80 per cent of logging was conducted illegally, the Brazilian government -instead of issuing furious denials - threw up its hands and agreed.
Even if all this destruction stopped tomorrow, the Hadley Centre's model suggests that the Amazon rainforest would still be doomed unless global warming levels off at two degrees. If the world crosses this crucial tipping point, the model simulates a tidal wave of destruction, beginning in north-eastern Amazonia and advancing steadily south and westwards across the continent. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 If we strip away everything else, our ingrained reaction to stress is about focusing on the danger, fueling the reaction, and logging in the experience for future reference, which I think of as wisdom. It is only in recent years that scientists have begun to recognize and describe the role of stress in the formation and recall of memories. The development of this understanding is exciting because it sheds light on why — (and how)—stress can have such a profound effect on the way we perceive the world. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 If this suits you, there are tracking methods and software programs that you can use to help you in logging your intake high-tech style.
If you're at the computer frequently you might find that it works for you to keep your records there. The potential challenge with this method, however, is that you have to feel 100 percent confident that you'll be able to record every day. Some clients have told me that they began their food diary on their computer but then went on vacation or simply didn't have access to their computer for a day or two and this stopped them in their tracks. |
| But I should tell you, I've rarely had a client who wasn't eager to begin logging those steps to ever higher numbers!) You'll enjoy using a pedometer to record your steps, and walking is going to become a welcome part of your day—whether you do it in one long walk or smaller walks throughout the day.
Here are three steps you can take to get your walking program set up. You can do each step on a separate day or do them all at once; it depends on your schedule. But make sure you complete these exercises during the Prep Week so you'll be ready for regular, daily exercise during your SlimDown. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 Nearly 7,000 people from thirty countries participated in the experiment, and only a handful had problems logging on—with our team readily available to sort them out. Nine linked servers were on hand to distribute the load. For the first few moments of our experiment, they were almost full.
This time, after Gary had analyzed the results, the bean seed experiment showed a strong "glow effect"—the same as the London leaf experiment—but not in terms of statistical significance, largely because of the limitations of the imaging equipment. |
Ron Garner
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 It is reported that petrochemical producer DuPont joined forces with Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate, whose company was the main user of chemically treated wood pulp and a major holder of forest logging licenses. Together they mounted "an hysterical fear campaign of racism and misinformation" linking industrial hemp to its cousin, Cannabis, which can contain significant amounts of thc.49 This campaign was so fierce and effective that the word "hemp" became synonymous with the slang word "marijuana," and resulted in the U.S. government prohibition of 1937. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| EXERCISE YOUR OPTIONS
Now you know how exercise improves learning on three levels: first, it optimizes your mind-set to improve alertness, attention, and motivation; second, it prepares and encourages nerve cells to bind to one another, which is the cellular basis for logging in new information; and third, it spurs the development of new nerve cells from stem cells in the hippocampus. OK, but now you want to know what the best exercise plan is. I wish there were an ideal type and amount of activity to suggest for building your brain, but scientists are only beginning to tackle such questions. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 These landless peasants and settlers follow the logging companies down the roads they have built to extract timber into untouched rainforest lands, burning off whatever the logging companies leave behind.
The present approach to rainforest cultivation produces wealth for a few, but only for a short time, because farming burned-off tracts of Amazon rainforest seldom works for long. Less than 10 percent of Amazonian soils are suitable for sustained conventional agriculture. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| Gradually, she got into a routine, logging thirty minutes every morning. She had very little she could enjoy during this period, but she started having fun with the exercise. She described how she incorporated upper-body twists while pumping away on the trainer, and she followed her aerobic session with an hour of yoga (which has been proven to reduce anxiousness). She was gaining a sense of control over her state of anxiety, a vital step toward conquering the trait. |
David Steinman
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 The issue here is that BlueLinx is relying on their suppliers to represent the legal origin of wood products in a country where even the government admits that at least seventy percent of logging is illegal," Brant Olson, director of the RAN Old Growth Campaign, told me in an e-mail. "We're pressing the company to provide independent and verifiable evidence of the legal origin of the wood products that they buy. So far, we have seen no such evidence."22
BlueLinx's suppliers cite certificates widely distributed on the Indonesian black market, RAN alleged. |
| Dow attorneys ripped apart the testimonies of the women of Alsea, a local logging community in Oregon. There, these phenoxy herbicides were being sprayed to control brush, and traces had been found in the community drinking water. At the same time, childbearing women experienced unusually high miscarriage rates. The link between the herbicides and their miscarriages seemed strong, but I remembered how the attorneys for Dow used a line of questioning that made it look like anything could have caused the women's miscarriages. It was humiliating and unfair. |
| Carrefour, IKEA, and Lowe's are all creating business models that aim to support companies' wood products only from well-managed logging lands. Visit them at www.car-refour.com, www.ikea.com, and www.lowes.com.
Endura Wood Products offers a wide variety of certified and rediscovered woods and wood products for homes and business. Visit www.endurawood.com.
At Eco Friendly Flooring, their reclaimed Yellow Heart pine and Douglas fir flooring deserves consideration when you are looking for a truly distinctive and warm floor. |
| Even their Uruku retail displays are made from reclaimed maple, sunk in North American rivers and lakes during the logging of the 1800s. Visit www.aveda.com.
In Middlebury, visit Vermont Soapworks' Discount Factory
Outlet and Soap Museum and buy certified organic petrochemical-free soaps. Their stated goal is to provide you?the awake consumer—with affordable alternatives to the current petrochemical-based personal care products industry." Visit www. vtsoap. com.
Avalon Organics (www.avalonorganics.com), Dr. Hauschka (www.drhauschka.com), Lily Organics (www.Ulyorganics.com), Eco Bella (www. |
| An investigation in 2005 by Greenpeace and RAN (Rainforest Action Network) tie JP Morgan Chase and BlueLinx, America's largest building products distributor, to illegal logging of endangered forests.17
According to the RAN-Greenpeace investigation, BlueLinx has been "smuggling legally disputed, undocumented timber out of Indonesia's critically endangered rainforests [sic] and flooding the U.S. marketplace with artificially cheap lauan plywood."
In contrast to the actions of BlueLinx, other wood products companies have issued a voluntary corporate embargo of Indonesian forest products. |
| Illegal logging in Indonesia is both an environmental and humanitarian crisis. It is morally reprehensible that America's second largest bank is connected with corrupt timber cartels that are directly responsible for the wholesale destruction of the most fragile and endangered forest ecosystems on Earth. JP Morgan Chase's involvement in the illegal timber trade is not only a national scandal, but further proof that the company must put renewed effort into matching the environmental commitments of industry peers such as Citigroup and Bank of America."
In an e-mail to me, BlueLinx's Ashley E. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| You'll think twice when you know you're logging it all. Review your portion control. Some people relax about portions as they approach their goals. This can stall weight loss. Pay attention to the amounts you eat—eat for the weight you want to be—and you'll see progress.
0 Keep it simple. The exciting SuperFoodsRx menus and options may have you overcompensating with your shopping to ensure you have all the ingredients necessary. Make sure to sit down and plan your weeks in two week cycles with plenty of, but not too much, variety (see page 90 for a reminder). |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 I came up over the next rise, saw hundreds of acres of forest on both sides of the highway that had been clear-cut by the logging industry, and immediately understood what my intuition was trying to tell me.
Intuitive thought is a subtle form of awareness most people don't "hear" because of all the loud static carried in our minds and the surrounding environment. It is nonetheless present in all people, and you can develop it to a high degree of sophistication. I will introduce you to the skills you'll require to experience it before the close of this chapter. |
Michele Simon
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 Furthermore, media experts say those kids are increasingly logging on to the Net and watching recorded TV via DVDs and TiVo, anyway."25
Tricia Wilber, senior vice president of ad sales and promotion for ABC Cable Networks Group, told MediaWeek that she doesn't anticipate Kraft getting out of the kid marketing business anytime soon: "It isn't that Kraft is pulling out of kids, it is what they are advertising that will be different. From our perspective, we are still trying to figure out what dollars are working, but we feel it will be pretty healthy" (as in, "healthy" profits). |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 The expanding international market along with the rapidly rising populations lead to ecological problems—not only because of overharvest-ing of medicinal plants for home use and export purposes but also because of deforestation by logging and conversion of backwoods to pasture and agriculture.3 This global development, together with increasingly restrictive conservation laws, will finally lead to considerable reduction of the still-dominant exploitation of natural resources in favor of cultivation. |
Alex Steffen
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 Watershed-altering timber practices were part of the agreement, along with improved dairy farms and septic systems. logging can send sediment coursing into creeks, where it fouls downstream reservoirs. The City of New York has funded more than five hundred forest-management plans covering 94,000 acres (38,000 hectares), bought and retired the development rights to forest land, and helped loggers harvest less disruptively. It even supplies temporary bridges for creek crossings, where loggers would ordinarily muddy the stream by driving right through it. |
| Some environmentalists would have us believe that every logging job is as bad as a clear-cut—that parkland is the only good use of a forest. That view ignores the emergence of sustainable forestry, a full-fledged industry that aims to reap a steady harvest from the forest for generations to come, while maintaining the integrity of ecosystems and social fabrics.
When we practice sustainable forestry, we care for the forest as a whole system, made up of creatures from soil fungi to spotted owls, from lizards to loggers. |
| Buying FSC-approved wood guarantees that the timber came from a responsibly managed logging operation, and that using it does not contribute to the destruction of the world's forests [see Sustainable Forestry, p. 494].
Bamboo
If you've ever walked through a bamboo forest, you know the clean sound of stalks clicking together in the breeze, and the uncomplicated lines of thousands of vertical poles growing close together. Bamboo grows with astonishing speedup to twelve inches per day—making it one of the most renewable resources used in building and product design. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 It sounds like the high-pitched noise the computer makes when logging onto the Internet. I am 36 years old and in extremely good health. I have not experienced any head trauma and am not exposed to loud noises.
I had an MRI to rule out a brain tumor. Neither my family physician nor an ear, nose, and throat doctor could find anything wrong with me and they have not suggested any remedies. I currently just barely manage it with white noise la fan) at night.
Treatments for Tinnitus
When everything else has been ruled out and you are left with ringing in the ears, what can be done? |
Alex Steffen
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| First, the gross market value of natural-capital extraction—related to logging, mining, oil and gas extraction, and hydropower generation—is added up. Next, subsidies and costs of natural-capital extraction—such as tax incentives and the health costs of air pollution—are subtracted. Finally, ecosystem-service values—flood control, water filtering, biodiversity value, carbon sequestration, and nature-related recreation—are considered.
When the final value is calculated, the boreal forest is worth far more money as a living ecosystem—two and a half times more, in fact. |
| Most of this devastion comes from logging tropical hardwoods such as teak, mahogany, and rosewood. The demand for exotic timber flooring drives deforestation—this is especially tragic because it's unnecessary. We can obtain the same gorgeous, solid, natural-wood flooring in a sustainable way—and for less money than rain forest wood —by reclaiming and reusing discarded hardwood.
People who know wood understand that the best-quality timber comes from old-growth trees, whose wood is much harder, and generally has a smoother and more uniform surface. |
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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 Orofino, a rustic logging community, gave me that opportunity. The Clearwater Valley Hospital was on the edge of the largest wilderness area in the lower forty-eight states, and there we took care of everything from delivering babies to dealing with trauma from logging accidents to performing minor surgery.
My patients were unusual. For instance: Franklin, a forty-year-old, four-hundred-pound Nez Perce Indian whose drooping breasts, thin black ponytail, and flushed, hairless cheeks made him indistinguishable from a woman. |
Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes
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| Indian women who understand this have embraced trees so loggers could not cut them; they have placed themselves between chain saws and trees where intense logging was destroying primeval forests; they have formed human chains across logging roads to keep out logging equipment.
What kind of person hugs a tree? Someone who knows that nature is a day-to-day source of every aspect of her own and her community's life. She may not know the specific biochemical connection between trees and global warming—that trees absorb the principal "greenhouse gas," carbon dioxide. |
Alex Steffen
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| No, but it does mean that logging, mining, and other uses should only be allowed to the extent that they do not damage the services the boreal forest gives us. Assessing the full value of natural ecosystems, and considering them as assets in our accounting, helps us develop and prosper for the long term.
In the big picture, local efficiency improvements are not enough—earth system limits as a whole have to be respected. To return to the business analogy, an efficient branch office or manufacturing plant isn't enough if a business as a whole burns through all its cash and credit. |
Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes
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| Indian women who understand this have embraced trees so loggers could not cut them; they have placed themselves between chain saws and trees where intense logging was destroying primeval forests; they have formed human chains across logging roads to keep out logging equipment.
What kind of person hugs a tree? Someone who knows that nature is a day-to-day source of every aspect of her own and her community's life. She may not know the specific biochemical connection between trees and global warming—that trees absorb the principal "greenhouse gas," carbon dioxide. |
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