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With the economy in the crapper you may be looking into getting roommates these days. Hey, may be you want to get rent free and give it a lot for religion and join the conference. Well you could do worth to the Episcopal sisters of the community of the Holy Spirit in New York City. After fifty-seven years this sisters will be constructing a state of the art green compound with two roof top gardens, solar water heaters, rain water collection, natural ventilation and recycled glass and concrete throughout.
Some of you might be thinking if you are just kicking a old school and waiting for the rapture, why try and even be green. Well, it all started about an decade ago, when the sisters started talking about being green. This didn't go over too well at first. The sisters were like, we want to heal people, not the earth. But over time, the sisters started to see the whole. You need an earth to have people, part of the equation, and started to change their lives. And they have done a damn fine job.
Now, they compost, recycle, eat local organic produce. They sold filtered coffee and even sold their mini van, and use Zipcar. They are currently looking for a company that uses fair trade labor and want 100% organic cotton the make their nun's habit. Just to face market size it's a question of stewardship and responsibility. So, if you are hearing the call or just kind of come up with rent money, you can now Get Thee to a Green Nunnery, Ghosts Net. It sounds like some rouge branch of the C.I.A, that started killing head of the states.
In an attempt of world domination, the only thing that can stop them is the host of the green new show. No, anybody? Well, in reality Ghost Nets can be much deadlier. A Ghost Net is an industrial sized fishing net. That means, really big. They get lost at sea and float around the ocean and snaring and killing things.
The ocean defenders alliance recently put one of these things out of the commission. A troller sinked off the coast of Los Angeles in 2006. When it hit the bottom, its net became loose and got tangled around the rack, and the 40 foot high, 9000 pound net has been waving back and forth under the sea for the last two years.
Currently, where a founder of the Ocean's alliance said it's one of the stickiest things I have ever seen. It's a huge vessel encasing the net, and anything that swims in it, gets trapped. The rack is in about a 150 feet of water. So the divers have to use a tank filled with a special Nitrous Oxide mixture so they can spend more time at the bottom. Divers said at one point I was frantically cutting off pieces of net. When a net was tucked upwards by their back. I looked around and discovered I was in a kill zone.
There were tons of bones and bunch of sea-lions sculls, and a shark caught in fabric. Worldwide Ghost nets kill millions of animals a year. But, no one has solid numbers because the problem is so immense.
The High Seas Ghost Net Project is attempting to attach speaking nets and tracking by satellite for later removal. So head out to highseaghost.net and check out their interactive maps. All the ghost nets tracking, fun.
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With Salmonella in your Peanut butter and E coli in your veggies, we are wondering what the hell is going on with food?
Check out animalsvisuals.org. Webdesigner Mark Middleton gives you a first hand look at what it's like to be a commercial egg laying chicken.
If you are confused about the food products that have wacky levels check out www.ecolabeling.org They catalog any green labeling, you are likely to find.
And this year the California salmon run was lowest ever recorded. Scientists believe over fishing, warmer earth's temperature in 2006 and 50 years of crappy water management like California has the blame. So last year, the salmon season was closed for the first time ever in recorded California history. And it doesn't look like there's going to be salmon for dinner this year either.
But if you are joining some big fashion and you have got the cash, you can head on up to Tokyo where an increasingly rare Bluefin tuna weighing 445 pounds recently sold for whopping 173 thousand dollars. And if you are confused about which fish you should be eating, here's some fish to avoid. Bluefin Tuna, Yellowfin Tuna and Red Snapper. And here's some of your best choices Pacific halibut, Tilapia, and Bass.
For an handy pocket guide or an iPhone application there is an link in our show note. And check out the miracle fruit. That's really its name. When you eat it, it makes lime taste like candy, and vinegar like apple juice. The latest trend is to miracle fruit tasting parties. We really have nothing better to do don't we? And it makes snozberries taste like snozberries. Willy Wonka, anybody? Thanks for watching. You can always lick the snozberries at www.zaproot.com.
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