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Little or Big SH?T: Resource or Hazard?

Worldwide handling our collective excrement there is no one silver bullet.  Each person disposes of 1/4 of pound of feces each day and about a quart of urine. Promoting best management practices (BMPs) for these biosolids—also known as sludge--will lessen water pollution and safeguard public health. Yes it a Herculean  issue.  No longer do we have the fifth labor of Hercules.  Just in one day he cleaned the stable of 3000 cattle for King Augeas breaking two walls and diverting the river through cattle yard  that had been there for three decades.   In 2013, with almost 7 billion people worldwide, this amounts to about 400 million metric tons a year. Add to this add 1.4 billion cattle, 19 billion chicken, 1 billion pigs, and 1.8 billion goats and sheep or 14 billion metric tons of animals. This does not include all the wildlife that also adds to this crap.  If you address the major public health issue about one third of population (2.5 billion people) lack clean drinking water w

A Green Diet, to Be Free

What life choices you make is linked to your very freedom.  Prosper and become lean and green. A green liberation awakens us to become economically, and ecologically responsive. Simply, if you engage in wholesome action that is beneficial to all, your become less imprisoned by your harmful habits. Let's shift from being consumers to becoming conservers.  Embrace a green diet, lessening both our waste and waists.  Yes, be green and lessen your chances of HEART ATTACK with a more wholesome diet for the sake of our planet. When you take care of the world, you also help yourself. Since what goes around, comes around, our individual actions directly have consequences that reflect back on us. Over-consuming on our planet creates lots of personal and global suffering besides breaking our collective heart.   Your courage becomes evident once you quiet your mind and listen to your heart.  Show reverence for conserving by taking the H from the end of eartH and place in front spellin