You are about 70% water. Your spine with all of it's dense minerals is the heaviest part of your body per cubic inch. If it wasn't for the fat stores in your body, like your brain and liver, you'd sink on a summer day in a kiddie pool.

Oil is lighter than water. It floats to the top.

The esters, gasolines, and other components in an oil spill float even higher. They evaporate and float up to our ozone layer.

If you jumped in to save your friend, until all the super lite components of a fresh oil spill evaporated, you'd sink to the bottom of the oil layer until you hit water.

If you don't believe me, throw the BP Executive team into a spill. See for yourself.

This time of year, Magellan penguins migrate north from Argentina, Chile and the Falklands.

"Typically, 100-150 of them end up on these beaches - alive," says  Thiago do Nascimento of the Peruibe Aquarium. 

But this year, 500+ were found dead on the same beaches. An autopsy revealed empty stomachs. So scientists are initially theorizing that the penguins may have starved to death. There is no toxicology report yet. However, they say that climate change or overfishing may have depleted the penguin's food supply. More soon.  

Governor Schwarzenegger just signed a bill making most hybrids lose their HOV lane / Carpool lane privileges. This may sound like a bad thing but in reality, most of the vehicles that qualify, like the Toyota prius, didn't really save the environment as much as you'd think. 

To back this up, California is allowing white HOV lane permit stickers on super clean cars like the Tesla:

Blogger Andrew Price says he's behind the decision because it puts more pressure on manufacturers to be super conscious. Only downside for Andrew is that his own Prius dropped thousands of dollars in value.

Well folks, it's happening again. Due to farmers going bankrupt, the economy nose diving, politicians blocking free trade, and corporations destroying the natural ecosystem, seeds are becoming extinct.

But that's just half the story. Mega agriculture conglomerates are genetically engineering GMO soy, corn, rice, wheat, barley, oats, and anything else we eat. They say, "we are developing crops that are genetically engineered to resist the new strains of deadly fungus and climate change."

So, a group of scientists, probably hippies, started the Millennium Seed Bank. They are rapidly rushing to collect seeds from all over the world - just like the Pharaohs did in their pyramids with beans that still grow when you just add water.  

By now, we all know how that appliances still consume electricity, power, when they are turned off. Look at your cell phone charger. The green light is still on chewing up electricity while your phone is in your pocket.

Of these energy vampires, turns out that a plasma TV is the worst culprit according to a GOOD Magazine post.

But that post doesn't cover all the appliances, and electronic hardware you have plugged into the walls of you home and office. You put them together and you've got over $800 per household and small business you're wasting annually.

Between home and office, You would save about $800 a year

So your solution is simple. Just use a multiple switch surge protector or power strip and turn unused hardware off. It beats the wear and tear of unplugging things several times a day.

Just bear in mind that some computer equipment like inkjets are better off left ON. If you turn them off, the ink hardens and drys faster. You'll run to the office supply store to get a $30 refill twice as often.

For you insightful types, you're probably thinking, "even if I got a individualized on-off button power strip, I'd never use it." Well, there's a simple way to make sure you do. You know for a fact that you'll use it when you want to turn an appliance or plasma tv on. So you've got half the problem solved. Just put a note on your door to turn them back off as you leave. You'll save almost a grand a year and even get more walking in!

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If you've been debating whether or not to install a solar energy system for your home or business, you probably already ran into another fork in the road. Even if you decide to go solar power, it turns out that you have two more choices: photovoltaic vs solar thermal.

As the name implies, photovoltaic systems convert sunlight into electricity. Solar thermal simply heats your water with solar power so you conserve gas. http://Solarpoweredsolutionsllc.com explains that the simple way to decide which is right for you is based on which bill is higher: electricity or gas. So simple, it's ingenious, no? 

SPS continues to explain that whether you decide to go the photovoltaic route or solar thermal, since you have so many choices in hardware, the three main factors to consider are power, efficiency, lifespan, cost, and state/federal incentives. Depending on which state your home or business is located, the state and federal incentives alone could pay for your install over time. For example, in Oregon, the state could pay you back for your home installation in as little as 6 years. But that's not counting the savings in your electricity bills along the way.

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Ms. Shane Shirley-Smith produces a beautiful Blogger blog: http://shaneshirleysmith.blogspot.com/ . But as easy as it is on the eyes, it's even better on the heart. She covers stories about high fructose corn syrup in catsup that claims to not use it, chemicals in your baby mattress, and Wal-Mart's move toward being green.And she covers these issues in a way that directly relates raising the quality of your family and society life.

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No. This is not a joke. It's actually a pretty smart idea. 

We all know that a toilet flushes about 8 liters while a urinal only flushes about 3 liters. So if women stopped using toilets and just stood up and used urinals instead, the entire planet would save over 80% of the current flushing water. Besides, the women's lines would go a lot faster. As far as sanitary issues go, women's public restrooms are known to have twice the fecal matter and E.coli than men's. So since urine is bacteria fee in healthy women, PMate is just plain logical

The biggest bonus is that women can bring their flush water usage down to zero - just like us guys. They can pee on the side wall of their favorite night-club. For the real PMATE website: http://www.pmateusa.com/howtouse.html 

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I just read a CNN news brief about the devastation in the Gulf of Mexico from BP's oil spill. Everyone seems enraged and concerned about the spill migrating around florida and up the eastern seaboard. I just don't get it.

It's already done. As soon as that oil hits the atmosphere, the invisible, odorless components started to evaporate into the air. The oil does not simply stay integrated as whole oil. It disintegrates.

So the trouble is that people are only focused on damage control to the visible components of oil.

via HowStuffWorks 

People are only concerned about the visible part of the BP Gulf oil spill

The invisible components including gasoline and kerosine travel throughout the entire planet. And unlike the gasoline at your Arco station, this gasoline is odorless. The gas at the pump has artificial odor added in. 

Industrial pollutants travel so far that scientists just yesterday announced that giant sperm whales as far as Antarctica and the Arctic were contaminated with "Jaw-Dropping" levels of toxic heavy metals that are already in our human food supply: Giant Sperm Whales Die From Toxic Industrial Pollutants in Human Food Supply as far as Antarctica. 

If this is hard to imagine because of the out-of-sight, out-of-mind effect, think: sharks can smell you blood miles away (but it's not your blood, it components of your blood that instantly disintegrate in water).

(don't worry, the above photo is a fake. But the odorless, tasteless acid rain that will go into your vegis is very real.) 

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