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The Ocean as Toilet
Thanks to a new generation
of Eco-Green Giants, partnering
with some of our biggest and best
chain stores, many of us will soon
come to realize that our ocean was
never intended to be a dumping site
for our plastic, nor an extention
of the toilet.
Date: 5/21/2009 8:47:30 AM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 1417 times
"Diatoms, most of which are far too tiny
to see without magnification, are incredibly important
in the global carbon cycle, says Thomas Mock,
a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher in oceanography
and lead author of the paper.
During photosynthesis, diatoms turn carbon dioxid
into organic carbon and, in the process, generate oxygen.
They are responsible for 40 percent of the organic carbon
produced in the world's oceans each year."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123150516.htm
6:06 AM
May 21, 09
PETER FONDA, of EASY RIDER fame,
the breakthrough for freedom film of the 60's.
was not breathing easy the day
I met him.
He was at the PERF GO GREEN EXPO.
The evening was a special screening of a film
called FUEL, and Peter was there to support
the filmmakers.
I spend some minutes with Peter after the film.
His attention was on another topic;
air.
He was very concerned that most of us
did not know that most of our air comes from
the ocean.
He was very concerned that most of us did not know
that nature's original technology for making air
in our oceans was dependent on the health of
single celled life forms called diatoms and other
tiny sea creations.
He was very concerned that our air supply,
the part we get from the oceans, was deminishing.
This is likely not a topic most of us need to be too
concerned with.
We still have air to breathe.
We will likely not get upset about this issue
until more of us starting gasping for air,
or other product entrepreneurs start marketing
our air supply in bottles, the way they have made
an industry out of selling us water.
Fire? Most of us already take it for granted
that we need to pay for heat. Water, it comes
from the tap, but much of it, from a health point of view,
is contaminated with little add ons like chlorine.
Not many of us have florine in the water that some say
is a great way to dumb down and numb out
too much thinking.
Last night I heard a comment from
a rep of the plastic industry. He was being
interviewed in the compelling film
ADDICTED TO PLASTIC by IAN CONNACHER.
The rep was pointing out that most of us
need an education regarding handling our waste.
Much of it goes out to sea, especially from wealthy
countries like the good Ol US of A. We recycle about
5% of what we use.
Photo from IAN CONNACHER's CRYPTIC MOTH BLOG.
We are still in th mindset of the 50's where
the throw away society, in one LIFE MAGAZINE
article, pointed out how time saving it was
to for women to be liberated from the kitchen
thanks to the creation of plastic products.
These products were intended by design
to be used once. ADDICTED TO PLASTIC
show a woman working in the kitchen by
herself. Then she goes around a wall
and appears delightfully attired, ready
to go out on a date with her husband.
How delightfully perfect for the nuclear family
to have plastic come to the rescue.
Plastic has been around 100 years.
Now, thanks to this film ADDICTED TO PLASTIC
more and more of us will come to realize
that much of our plastic has been dumped
at sea. Here is collects and degrades into
little friendly particles called nurdles that
are innocently eaten by birds and ocean life.
The result can be death.
These little nurdles collect the run off
from conventional ag. They become little poison
pills, the film points out.
There is now more plastic in the ocean in many
areas than there are the creations that produce our
air supply. The stats are staggering.
Most of us received smiles from our moms
when we learned to use the toilet rather than
poop in our diapers.
Mothers of today, who care about the earth
and the future of their offspring, will likely
be teaching a few more things about
potty training.
The scenes in the film
that show plastic garbage in the oceans
are quite disgusting.
They are as hard to look at as some
of the delightful bowel excrement photos
that show in in DR. BERNARD JENSEN's
BOWEL MANAGEMENT book, or here
on CUREZONE.
There are bright lights on the horizon.
People are being asked to wise up.
Manufacturers and stores that sell
plastic bottles are being asked to
take them back.
ANTHONY ZOLEZZI, the brilliant
sustainability expert, traveled to Europe
and noted excellent models where
the nations of Europe are asking
these manufacturers to reclaim what
they sell.
That is in essence the principles behind
GREENOPS and GREENOPOLIS the
social networking site that gives points
to people who bring back for redemption
what they use.
These are the first steps.
It is hard to watch what we have done
to our oceans. We have treated it as a toilet.
On the list of Green Jobs
that will be part of
THE GREAT EARTH CLEANUP
now in progress, I see and seed
millions earmarked
for ocean cleanup
I want to give out shout
to Anthony Zolezzi and KEEP
The BEET's Team of Eco
Green Giants who are bumping
recycling up to new levels
of enlightenment.
Thanks to all of them
we will outgrow the idea
that our ocean is our toilet.
PHOTO from GREEN OPS launch in
March at the NATURAL PRODUCT EXPO WEST
LINKS & PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOGS:
Diatoms as Osygen producers:
http://www.stormbefore.com/diatoms.htm
ANTHONY ZOLEZZI explains the new GREENOPS
Eco-Station to MARK RETZLOFF, Chairman of the
Board for AURORA ORGANIC DAIRY. The intro
took place at the NATURAL PRODUCT EXPO WEST
in March.
The GREENOPS ECO-STATION launch took
a major advance Earth Day '09.
Here is a Video that explains
How GreenOps Works:
http://greenopolis.com/video/greenops-tracking-stations-launched
ANTHONY ZOLEZZI,
Sustainability Expert:
http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1366598
ECO STATION PHOTOS:
The LAUNCH BEGINS:
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1370591
ADDICTED TO PLASTICS
is included on 2009 Volume 3
of the DVD disk
from our friends at
the EARTH CINEMA CIRCLE:
Http://www.EarthCinemaCircle.com/
ADDICTED TO PLASTIC is one of four films
on 2009 Volume 3.
RED GOLD is also very compelling
and life shifting. I saw RED GOLD recently at the
PRO PENINSULA WILD and SCENIC ENVIRONMENTAL FESTIVAL
in San Diego.
MORE ABOUT DIATOMS:
http://chamisa.freeshell.org/plant.htm
Without the plants in a stream or a river, no animals could live. Even though a lot of animals may be carnivores (eat other animals), like stoneflies or trout do, it all starts with plants. Plants grow; an herbivore, like a mayfly, eats them; and a carnivore eats the herbivore. So you see, in a very real way, carnivores must have plants to survive.
Amid the tiny strings of green algae, a different kind of plant can be seen, one that has only one cell. Instead of the bright green of chlorophyll, these plants, as you can see here, are a brownish-yellow. These plants are called diatoms, and they have a special yellow sunlight-gathering pigment in addition to their green pigment, which is why you don't see green. In fact, it's this brownish-yellow color that you have seen covering the rocks of mountain rivers. And it is what makes the rocks slippery. It so happens that these plants are the favorite food of many of the stream's herbivores!
Diatoms of many different types cover all the wet surfaces of the stream: the rocks, the leaves and sticks and logs that have fallen in, and various kinds of debris. In fact, the streambed is coated with plants!
Diatoms grow in rivers, too, of course (and lakes and the ocean as well). In the rivers, they will coat the macrophytes--those big, green plants--right in among the fuzzy green algae. In fact, even where you see macrophytes, it will be these microscopic diatoms and algae coating them that do most of the work of providing food and oxygen to the stream's inhabitants.
Diatoms, which are often yellow-green, and algae, which are green or blue-green, are both one-celled organisms. (Though are often strung together in colonies). We call both diatoms and algae phytoplankton ("drifting plants"). One-celled animals, on the other hand, are called zooplankton ("drifting animals").
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