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Earth's Friends
Welcome to Earth's Friends
What Is Earth's Friends?
This website was created to gather support for our planet, and to spread the word on climate change and anything that may adversely affect our friend and host in this life, planet Earth. read more »
Local Food Movement
The Local Food Movement Picks Up Momentum
The word local is one of America’s hot new buzz words. Although the idea of buying locally grown food is not at all new, the local food movement has certainly picked up momentum in recent years and has therefore thrust the word “local” into all kinds of headlines. Forty years ago it was mostly grown hippies and environmentalists who promoted local food. College towns had food co-ops and bigger cities hosted weekend farmer’s markets. Today, politicians, white collar workers, blue collar workers, housewives, retirees, college students and people from all parts of society are getting on the local food movement bandwagon... read more »
Kleenex Hand Towels - What Are They Thinking?
No More Kleenex For This Author
We have Tivo, so I don't sit and watch that many commercials. But this one happened to catch my eye. A new ad for a Kleenex hand towel. A product that supposedly will replace the standard hand towel people use. They tout their Kleenex towels as being the solution to combat germ spreading in the household. Who are they kidding? Do they have any idea the adverse impact all those extra disposable towels will have on the environment?... read more »
High Fructose Corn Syrup: Health Risks
Is High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) Endangering Your Health?
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is both a preservative and a sweetener. It is produced through a process that changes the form of sugar in cornstarch from glucose to fructose. This sounds natural enough and does not immediately conjure up concerns about health risks, but a closer look at high fructose corn syrup reveals several factors that do cause concern. In particular, the connection between high fructose corn syrup and increased obesity along with the correlating health risks such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and coronary artery disease.... read more »
Climate Refugees
What is a Climate Refugee?
A climate refugee is someone that has been displaced geographically as a result of climate change. In other words, they were unable to stay in their homes due to an impending change in the surrounding climate - be that from fire, storm, flooding, earthquake, etc. that caused them to move from their homes.... read more »
Happy Planet Index List
What is the Happy Planet Index?
The happy planet index, or HPI, is an index that determines a measure of happiness, per nation, based on environmental impact and well-being. What does it mean to be in the happy planet index? It doesn't necessarily mean that the highest scoring country has the happiest people, or that by moving to that country you'll be happy (that's ultimately up to you). What it does show is how the efficiency with which a nation converts their share of the planet's resources into longer and happier lives for their citizens... read more »
The Kyoto Protocol Summary
The Kyoto Protocol and Climate Change
The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan on the 11th of December, 1997, but not enacted or enforced until the 16th of February, 2005. The protocol was adopted to help combat the adverse effects of climate change, or global warming... read more »
Most Environmental Gas Station?
An Environmental Oil Company, Really?
Sounds like an oxymoron doesn't it? Usually when the words environmental and gas station or used in the same sentence, they negate each other. In this case, however, we are looking to find a gas station that currently does the least environmental harm. In other words, a lesser of evils... read more »
Carlo Petrini and the Slow Food Movement
What is the Slow Food movement?
In a nut shell, the slow food movement is the opposite of fast food. In fact, it was founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy as an initiative to preserve local, cultural cuisine, and thereby combat the unchecked growth of unhealthy fast food. The slow food movement encourages us to return to our roots... read more »
Tap Vs. Bottled Water
The Bottled Water Craze
There's been a huge surge in the bottled water industry. To the point where it seems the average person is drinking more water from bottles than from their home tap. The problem with this isn't just the proliferation of plastic waste into the environment, but the fact that in many cases bottled water may in fact be less healthy than tap water... read more »
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