As you realize that global warming IS REAL, opportunities and need both increase for rainforest conservation. Info has been out there for decades, but maybe the public eye has become so accustomed to the burning and clear-cutting pictures, it no longer really notices them.

Logging – much of it done illegally – is the most visible form of rainforest destruction.

Clear-cutting is usually the most profitable means of harvesting valuable timber, because the rainforest tends to be an “equal opportunity grower” with trees of high monetary value interspersed with what are seen as “junk” trees.

At least with logging, not everything is wasted, as happens when the forest is burned to clear it for pasture or other agriculture. Burning rainforests can be clearly seen from outer space, as this astronaut’s photo of Mexico shows – what looks like white dots are actually fires.

But even with careful deforestation – selective logging – the roads that are built for logging access wind up being used for human activities that are further damaging to delicate ecosystems.

Why You Should Share Rainforest Conservation Info

Rainforests are crucial to the ecosystem of our planet. They have been described as the Earth’s “lungs” or respiratory system. The massive numbers of trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide (CO2), and then “breathe out” oxygen, which we need to survive.

We (humans and animals) breathe in the air around us, take in the oxygen, then throw off carbon dioxide as we exhale. This is a great arrangement, because everything balances out, if all is working as it should.

Unfortunately, the use of fossil fuels (carbon that has been stored underground for millennia, and is now being released) is dramatically increasing the world-wide levels of CO2. So just at the time we need all those trees in the rainforest the very most, we are destroying them through ignorance and greed.

Rainforests are also home to loads of wildlife and plant species, many of which have never even been documented. Many scientists believe the potential is huge for finding medical cures in these tropical regions.

As we destroy the forests, we also wipe out the indigenous cultures and people who have lived there for generations.

Find extensive rainforest conservation info at Mongabay.com

What Can You Do to Help Preserve the Rainforests?

It’s true that this a huge and terrible mess, but, short of going into the Amazon jungle and chaining yourself to a tree (not a really useful activity), there are many little things you can do to help save the rainforests.

Anything you accomplish that will prevent Global Warming will also help with rainforest conservation (info here).

You can buy a tree, or purchase the timber rights on an acre of rainforest.

And of course there are many great non-profit organizations who urgently need your contributions. You can even trigger a donation to save the rainforest by simply clicking the mouse on your computer.

Rainforest Conservation Info is a post from: Green Headquarters

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Every year, the average car spews about 10,000 pounds in CO2 pollution – a leading cause of global warming.

That’s about three times its weight in carbon dioxide!

What can you do, short of buying a hybrid or EV?

• Drive reasonable speeds. You’ll get a lot better mileage on most cars if you stay under 65 mph.
• Keep your tires properly inflated. Better mileage, more efficient braking, and a smoother ride, too.
• Keep your car tuned up and the fuel and air filters clean. Don’t make it work harder than need be.
• Then, if you want to further reduce the carbon footprint of your car, you can buy a Road TerraPass.

TerraPass invests in clean energy projects that reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
p>Your TerraPass is third-party verified to reduce the equivalent of your car’s carbon dioxide pollution (you choose which grade you’ll require).

Purchases made by TerraPass are verified each year by the Center for Resource Solutions.

What happens to the money when you buy a Road TerraPass?

First, you receive a member kit.

It includes a TerraPass window decal for the window of your car that shows how much you have reduced your carbon footprint.

Your new TerraPass bumper sticker will help spread the word.

Your TerraPass Purchase Supports Clean Energy Projects

When you buy a TerraPass, you sponsor a guaranteed reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

For example, an entrepreneurial wind farmer receives funds to expand his plant; a small dairy farmer gets capital to install digesters on her farm to control methane emissions.

Using financial instruments such as carbon credits, your funds result in guaranteed reductions. TerraPass has been financing these clean energy projects since 2005.

Reduce the carbon footprint of your car with a Road TerraPass.

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All those neat rows of plants, bare ground in between, not a weed in sight.

This modern sort of farming is made possible with massive amounts of petroleum products, and not just the diesel that runs the equipment! Agricultural chemicals – fertilizers and herbicides – are also petrochemicals.

And it turns out that breaking up the soil by plowing or disking, long used for weed control and water conservation, might not be the best answer after all. Mother Nature, with her way of mulching the soil with last year’s spent crop, has it all over those USDA crop scientists.

Forward-thinking agriculturalists all over the world have looked backward and decided to try not tilling their fields.

And guess what?

No-till farming means there is a natural mulch. Mulching controls weeds, so no herbicide is needed.

Mulching also slows evaporation, so not as much irrigation is necessary. Mulch also becomes compost (and extra compost can be added on top of the mulch, if desired), so chemical fertilizer is kaput, too.

What does this mean to the farmer?

Lower costs and higher profit margins.

What does it mean to the world? Reduction and possible reversal of Global Warming.

Here’s a short film out of Canada to explain no-till farming a little more.

For more on how proper farming methods can prevent global warming, see The Carbon Cycle and Agriculture

No-Till Farming is a post from: Green Headquarters

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It is a television commercial produced by the Ad Council, an organization that always seems to come up with brilliant ways to get a message across to their targeted audience.

Very powerful.

Global Warming Video – Short and Not-So-Sweet is a post from: Green Headquarters

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“Eat Local” has been in the news of late.

Many are longing for the feeling of community they miss by living in an anonymous city. Others have learned the carbon footprint of their groceries is too large for their own comfort.

And Macrobiotic principles state that foods grown in your own region are much healthier for your body.

It may be difficult to eat local out of your supermarket, however. Modern society has gotten spoiled to eating out of season, so foods are imported from the other side of the world, then taken back and forth across country for distribution.

Another reason to eat local is so you can know the condition and freshness of your food. The USDA has been lowering Organic Standards due to pressure from the Big Ag lobby, so even if it’s labeled “Organic,” you can’t really know for sure if that produce is free of harmful (and global warming) petro-chemicals.

If you know the farmers and their methods, you can be assured your food is pure.

So what about becoming a localvore?

According to www.Localvore.co.uk,”…in the same vein that a carnivore is a being who eats meat, and a herbivore is one who eats plants, a localvore is a person who eats only locally-grown and produced food.”

I support the idea, and yet I have a hard time giving up coffee, and chocolate, and salt, and fresh ginger. I would really miss cinnamon, and salmon, too.

My compromise is to grow a few things myself, shop with local farmers, and then fill in the rest at my local health food store. That way, I can be assured that my food is as local as possible, clean, and if it has been imported, it’s Fair Trade.

Look for locally grown and produced foods at small health food stores and “Mom and Pop” groceries.

Choose local farmers’ markets, produce stands, and community supported agriculture over supermarket foods.

Even if you don’t become a complete localvore, you can still eat local.

Eat Local to Prevent Global Warming is a post from: Green Headquarters

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