#Environmental Service

[robbincenijn]

Stena / Future Vision / w. GiantAnt / 2019

[siglo-group]

Siglo Group - Ecologists association in Austin, Texas

Siglo Group integrates ecology into land management and design, community planning, and geographic assessments.

[environmental-service]

Environmental Services - Key to a Wonderful World

Our lives have been made easier by the new technology we have now because of our great intelligence. We all work hard to have a good life and enjoy all the things we can have. Having huge houses full of appliances is the most comfortable thing for us because with it all we have to do is to relax and live the life to the fullest. We can even go to beautiful places no matter how far it is from our homes because of different ways transportation that we had invented. Humans are indeed the most intelligent being in this world that deserves to have the best way of living this life.

New technology had changed our lifestyle like our ways of transportation. We can travel by land, sea or air depending on what we like and what we can afford. Appliances have also been invented to give ease in our daily works at home and at work. We can even have enough time to spend with our family like having a vacation with them in the most beautiful places. On the other hand, more destructive disasters are occurring because of the effects of the new technology in the environment. Some of it has marked in our memories like the tsunami in Thailand and lately the earthquake in Haiti. These things should give us a clue to realize what we would do now to prevent more disasters to occur.

Environmental Service

Seeing through the photos and videos of the worst effects of the disasters both in humans and in the nature will make us think of why did this happen and what can we do to resolve this. Helping the victims is what we can do after the disasters happen but the fact is that we can help them more before a tremendous thing would happen. We can join non-profit organizations in their activities for a better world like providing good environmental services that our mother nature needs now.

 It is good that we are worrying with others but what we should also be worrying about is the worst problem of our planet. Our environment needs our help in retaining its healthiness because our fault caused this destruction. Some of us are engaged in illegal logging which cause flash floods, dynamite fishing that caused polluted water and most of all our carelessness even caused spills that are harmful to all living things. These things we did can make help us earn a lot but it causes a lot of trouble and worst of it is that our family can even be a victim of these disasters. Vist https://www.ecowastecompacting.com/

  Now is the time for us to act to prevent more tremendous things to happen because we do not know it can be worst. There are a lot of ways we can do which are part of environmental services that our environment needs. Housewives can practice proper disposal at home and recycle the non-biodegradable garbage. Teens can now join some organizations in their eco-friendly activities while factories can practice proper disposal of toxic wastes. By this, our environment will be clean and we can enjoy bountiful fruits and vegetables. We can even have great amount of potable water and prevent epidemic illnesses as well. Healthy environment can cause a healthy body and life to all of us. All we need to do is help the planet because it provides all we need to live.

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[byler-alarmist]

Do people know most paper receipts are harmful to their health?

I'm going to get up on my soapbox for a minute, but do people realize how pretty much everyone is being overloaded with endocrine disruptors like BPA/BPS on a near-daily basis??

I don't think many people understand that ever since most of the world transitioned to thermal paper receipts (cheaper than ink), almost every receipt you handle from the gas station to the grocery store to the Square terminal printer at the local co-op is coated with Bisphenol-A (BPA) or its chemical cousin Bisphenol-S (BPS).

These chemicals have not only been proven to cause reproductive harm to human and animals, they've also been linked to obesity and attention disorders.

Not sure if your receipt is a thermal receipt? If you scratch it with a coin and it turns dark, it's thermal.

BPA/BPS can enter the skin to a depth such that it is no longer removable by washing hands. When taking hold of a receipt consisting of thermal printing paper for five seconds, roughly 1 μg BPA is transferred to the forefinger and the middle finger. If the skin is dry or greasy, it is about ten times more. 

Think of how many receipts you handle every day. It's even worse for cashiers and tellers, who may handle hundreds in a single shift. It is also a class issue, since many people who work retail and food service are lower-income and will suffer worse health consequences over time from the near-constant exposure.

Not only that, receipts printed with thermal ink are NOT recyclable, as they pollute the rest of the paper products with the chemicals.

People don't know this and recycle them anyway, so when you buy that "green" toilet paper that says "100% recycled"? Yup, you are probably wiping your most sensitive areas with those same chemicals (for this reason, I buy bamboo or sugarcane toilet paper as a sustainable alternative to recycled paper).

This page from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has some good links if you want to learn more.

As consumers, we need to demand better from our businesses and from our governments. We need regulation of these chemicals yesterday.

If you are a buyer or decision-maker for a business, the link above also contains a shortlist of receipt paper manufacturers that are phenol-free.

If you work at a register, ask customers if they want a receipt. If they don't and you can end the transaction without printing one, don't print one!

As a consumer, fold receipts with the ink on the inside, since that's where the coating is. Some more good tips here.

And whatever you do, DO NOT RECYCLE THERMAL RECEIPTS

[karl-marxs-ghost]

How long before they dissolve the national parks system and cut down the redwoods and start fracking in yellowstone and mining in the grand canyon and building condos in the everglades

[er-cryptid]

Sphenopsida

-- often called "horsetails"

-- tracheophytes

-- only 25 living species

-- true land plants

-- vascular

-- true roots, stems, and leaves

-- small leaves

-- scale-like pattern on leaves

-- grow in tropical and temperate climates

-- use alteration of generations

-- cell walls in leaves and stems contain silica

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[poppy5991]

Publicly available datasets are being removed from federal websites so if you rely on fed data for your job, thesis, dissertation, etc, go pull it now for safekeeping. CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index Data just got pulled from ATSDR. That’s the most widely used zip code data for public health analysis of how factors like poverty, health insurance access, education level, race/ethnicity, English proficiency, etc affect health outcomes.

Environmental databases and health databases have already been pulled.

For the record, these databases are part of how places like “cancer corridors” have been identified in the past. Where companies target low income minority communities for placement of poorly regulated chemical plants and cancer rates skyrocket. They know these communities don’t have the legal resources or media connections to fight the plant development and often academics are the only ones who can assist by proving the correlation years later.

[nyxelestia]

Environmental Storytelling

[robbincenijn]

Stena / Future Vision / w. GiantAnt / 2019

[environmental-service]

Environmental Services

Environmental services are available to keep your family and living space safe. Not only can they protect the condition of your home, but they can help keep your air quality clean and protect your home from molds and asbestos. Here are a few useful environmental services you may be interested in for your home or business.

Environmental Service

 1. Mold remediation is one of the top environmental services there is. Molds are formed in moist areas and should not be left alone or ignored. You cannot wipe or paint over mold to solve the problem. A professional mold remediation service needs to be done if you want to successfully rid your home of the fungus. A few dangers of mold are heightened allergies, an unstable building foundation, and an unhealthy air quality. The last thing you want is to live in a poor air quality, and it is certainly not a condition that should be exposed to infants and small children.

 2. Asbestos abatement is another important environmental service. Asbestos can be found in a number of places like pipes and furnace insulation, floor tiles, old homes, and more. It is a dangerous mineral fiber that is used in a number of fire-retardant insulation materials. It is constantly warned that only a licensed person should remove asbestos from a building. If asbestos is disturbed or improperly removed, serious health risks are at hand. The last thing you want is the fibers getting into your breathing air. Special materials and knowledge of the substance are required in order to safely and thoroughly guarantee the problem is permanently removed from a building.

 3. Being that every building has a certain amount of radon in it; radon mitigation is a very useful service. This is an easy and practical service that helps home and business owners maintain a safe level of radon in their building. Since radon is odorless and colorless, it is nearly impossible to locate the radioactive gas without the help of a trained home inspector. In order to obtain a healthy air quality, there should be no more than 4pCi/L of radon present. Vist https://www.ecowastecompacting.com/

 These are just a few of the top environmental services there are available. It is not worth it to leave mold, radon, or asbestos in your home. Not only can they be hazardous to your health, but the condition of your home is at risk. These are practical services that go a long way to provide a safe living environment.

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[lucelute]

The stock market has crashed, the tariff will make everything expensive, and Trump will sign to expand logging

The market and the tariff have already been spoken of, awful decisions; last time we had such high tariff was right before the great depression. I rest my case,

Also, to try and keep up with the demand for timber and other goods that come from nature, the administration will sign an executive order to expand logging across 280 million acres of national forests and public lands. Do you like nature? sorry, now we are going to destroy a lot of it because the imported ones are too expensive.

Elon wants both Amtrak and the U.S postal service to be private instead of government run.

And Al Green will be censured for disrupting President Trump's address to Congress.

Also, the administration said this morning that they were going to start dismantling the Department of Education, and immediately backpaddle.

[pizzleyanked]

i know that generative ai is today's boogeyman but i really wish that people were more precise when discussing it. ai is a huge field that isn't just "create thing based on stolen assets", there's many legitimate uses in medicine, research, etc. your beef is with generative ai, not ai in general.

[vampmilf]

second tour also was super niiiice although less eventful than the first one but everyone laughed at my jokes and told me they had fun and that i was very entertaining to listen to yippee <333

[cleangreen0]

How Are Solar Panels Recycled? A Step-by-Step Breakdown

As the solar industry grows, so does the challenge of managing old and damaged panels. But what happens to solar modules at the end of their lifespan? This guide breaks down the solar panel recycling process step by step, from collection and material separation to reclaiming valuable components like silicon, glass, and metals. Learn how innovative recycling technologies are making solar energy even more sustainable and what the future holds for end-of-life solar panels.

[girderednerve]

A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be deployed by webpage owners to protect their own content from being scraped or can be deployed “offensively” as a honeypot trap to waste AI companies’ resources.

“Of course, these crawlers are massively scaled, and are downloading links from large swathes of the internet at any given time,” [Aaron B, Nepenthes' creator, said]. “But they are still consuming resources, spinning around doing nothing helpful, unless they find a way to detect that they are stuck in this loop.”