| The majority of the scientific community
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| | Apartments with flat roofs can have
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| agrees. Man is adversely affecting the
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| | rooftop gardens. Business people can fill
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| environment and accelerating global
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| | office buildings and retail
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| warming. Greenhouse gases created by our
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| | establishments with live trees, hanging
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| modern lifestyles are blanketing the
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| | plant baskets, and exotic flowers. Even
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| Earth in a warming cocoon and causing an
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| | people with a 'brown thumb' can find
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| ugly metamorphosis - a planet riddled
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| | easy-to-grow plants like philodendrons,
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| with severe weather, animal species
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| | cacti, spider plants, ivies, and African
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| extinctions, and an inhospitable
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| | violets.
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| environment for future generations.
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| | Reduce the impact of your trash.
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| Governments and industries are not
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| | Most landfills produce huge amounts of
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| reacting quickly. In our lifetime, the
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| | methane. Garbage produces methane gas
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| world as we know it may no longer exist.
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| | when it decays in an anaerobic
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| It is up to everyone to start making
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| | (oxygen-free) environment. Most landfills
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| changes NOW, working together towards a
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| | crush garbage and place it into a
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| common goal: the preservation of this
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| | plastic-lined pit, then layer the trash
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| glorious, beautiful world in which we
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| | with dirt and more garbage.
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| live.
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| | You can help prevent landfill methane
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| Quit overstuffing yourself at the table.
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| | production by composting as much as
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| Huh? That is a strange statement! How can
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| | possible. Just about anything organic is
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| your eating habits have an effect on
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| | compostable - potato peelings, coffee
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| greenhouse gases?
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| | grounds, unsalted pasta water, moldy
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| There are a growing number of overweight
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| | baked goods, etc. Avoid large items like
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| and obese people in the so-called
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| | whole potatoes and corncobs. You should
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| affluent countries. Have you ever
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| | chop them into smaller pieces before
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| considered where all those hamburgers,
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| | adding them to your compost bin. Avoid
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| hot dogs, and chicken nuggets come from?
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| | meat, oily or fatty substances, or
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| Producers use prime agricultural land to
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| | anything prepared with appreciable
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| cultivate grass and grain crops for
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| | amounts of salt.
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| feeding animals in the human food chain.
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| | Add finished compost to your houseplants
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| A single cow needs about five acres of
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| | and garden, or use it for lawn
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| pasture in order to thrive. During its
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| | top-dressing to create lusciously healthy
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| lifetime, a cow can create truckloads of
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| | growth. You can purchase a commercial
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| manure - manure that creates a
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| | compost bin at your local department,
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| considerable amount of methane (a
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| | hardware, or garden supply store.
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| greenhouse gas). The agricultural land
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| | Alternatively, search the Internet for
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| required to raise one cow would feed
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| | 'plans compost bin construction' if you
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| humans more efficiently when devoted to
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| | would like to try building a bin from
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| crops like wheat and soybeans.
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| | scratch.
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| The meat we consume goes through several
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| | You can add many unusual items to your
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| processing stages using a variety of
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| | compost:
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| materials - including paper, plastic,
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| | 100% cotton clothing (no buttons or
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| Styrofoam, and cardboard. Transportation
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| | zippers)
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| to the slaughterhouse, processing plant,
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| | 100% wool sweaters or socksbrown paper
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| retail store, and then to the kitchen
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| | bagsburnt toast, cakes, potatoescorked or
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| burns up energy and creates toxic
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| | soured winecrushed eggshellsdryer
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| greenhouse emissions.
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| | lintfeathers and furhair clippingsjunk
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| All that extra food ultimately creates
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| | mail (no plastic or metal)leather goods
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| methane gas when it ends up in the sewer.
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| | (metal and plastic pieces removed)pasta,
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| In addition, each extra pound of fat on
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| | cooked or uncooked (without the
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| the body requires more oxygen to
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| | sauce)shells from almonds, peanuts, and
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| maintain, depleting a resource that plant
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| | walnutsshredded papersmall pieces of
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| life must replenish.
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| | cardboardsmall quantities of expired
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| Give back some of the oxygen you breathe!
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| | dairy productstea bags and coffee
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| Plant life consumes carbon dioxide (a
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| | filterstoenail and fingernail
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| greenhouse gas) and produces life-giving
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| | clippingsvacuum cleaner bags and
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| oxygen. However, man clears forests and
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| | contentswooden skewers (broken into small
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| prime agricultural land to erect
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| | pieces)wooden toothpicks
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| ever-higher skyscrapers. If we were to
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| | You can locate a more comprehensive list
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| spend more time building down into the
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| | if you search the Net for 'things to add
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| ground instead of up into the air or
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| | to compost'.
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| sprawling into the countryside, we would
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| | These tips are just a start. Keep
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| leave more surface area for agriculture
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| | watching for further informational
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| and nature. Until architects embrace this
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| | articles in the days to come.
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| concept, we can help replenish a bit of
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| | (c) Copyright Kathy Steinemann: This
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| the Earth's oxygen by filling our lives
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| | article is free to publish only if this
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| with greenery.
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| | copyright notice, the byline, and the
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| Surround yourself with houseplants. Every
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| | author's note below (with active links)
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| balcony can have flowerboxes filled with
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| | are included.
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| beautiful oxygen-producing blooms.
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