EARTH DAY, PICK FIVE FOR ENVIRONMENT

Ten ways to save the environment:
1. Use less water.
2. Commute without polluting.
3. Save electricity.
4. Reduce, reuse and recycle.
5. Test your home for radon.
6. Check your local air quality.
7. Use chemicals safely.
8. Reuse and recycle electronics.
9. Enjoy the outdoors safely.
10. Spread the word to family and friends.
At least picking five would contribute to saving the environment.


Start on the Pick 5 for the Environment Web site
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More you can do on Earth Day

Mail I received from EPA and I did more than my pick 5 today.

MakeSH

Most Polluted in United States Air, Water and Land

Air: Los Angeles
particle pollution and ozone pollution

Air: Bakersfield, California
particle pollution and for ozone

Air: Pittsburgh
particle pollution

Water: Streams and Headwaters in Appalachia
mountaintop removal mining
Head Water Destruction

Water: Gulf of Mexico
excess nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates
HYPOXIA

Water: Chesapeake Bay
urban and agricultural resources," she says. "There's runoff from large factory farms, including large poultry farms, and raw sewage from Washington D.C.

My Ph.D Research: Toxicity Studies on Chespeake Bay Tributaries.
My research was one of the pioneer research on sediments of Chesapeake Bay Tributaries and it indicated that one of the river - Pocomoke River (Later to my study Massive fish kills occured in this river) was highly contaminated with runoff including large poultry farms.


Land: The Nelson Tunnel, Creede, Colorado
Superfund Site Heavy metals
arsenic, cadmium, lead and zinc

Land: Iron King Mine Humboldt Smelter, Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona
arsenic and lead poisoning
Land: Escambia Wood, Pensacola, Florida

Wood Treatment:
The soil and ground water around the site is polluted with creosote, naphthalene, pentachlorophenol, polyaromatic hydrocarbons and dioxin.

Makesh Karuppiah, Ph.D

SPAM POLLUTION

SPAM AFFECTING THE ENVIRONMENT - ARTICLE FROM McAFEE

Spam mails sent (only in 2008) - 62 trillion spam e-mails.

Energy required for processing and filtering - 33 billion kilowatt-hours (comparable to electricity used in 2.4 million homes).

Emission level compares to 3.1 million passenger cars using 2 billion gallons of gasoline.

Countries with higher emissions per e-mail users: United States of America and India.

Article

Spam Expert Mr. Richi Jennings

ICF International

STOP THE SPAM POLLUTION.

MakeSH

What on Earth

What on earth is that?

Space Junk and debris(NOT STARS), As technologies increase we will have more and more satellites floating causing Space Junk. We would not just be polluting our Mother Earth, but also will be polluting our space.

Update on March, 2022 - Science Article.

Pharmaceuticals Cause Serious Environmental Harm In India

ScienceDaily (Feb. 7, 2009) — Many of the substances in the most common medicines are manufactured in India and China. Some of these factories release large quantities of antibiotics and other pharmaceutical substances into the environment. There is an obvious risk of these releases leading to resistant bacteria.

Cetirizine, ciprofloxacin, citalopram, levofloxacin, losartan, metoprolol, norfloxacin, ofloxacin and ranitidine were used in this study.

University of Gothenburg (2009, February 7). Pharmaceuticals Sold In Sweden Cause Serious Environmental Harm In India, Research Shows. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 12, 2009, from Link

Bailouts, Tragedy, Prayer and Green Jobs

So many bailouts (trillion dollars) going on and a news that
a 93-year-old man in central Michigan, who owed some unpaid
electric bills froze to death inside his home because the electric
company cut the power, made me to think something is not right.
However most of the world is not running smoothly now:
Economic Problems, Joblessness and Wars:

Problems in MiddleEast
Problems in Africa
Problems in Asia...
Problems Everwhere!

When people begin to do good things even to their enemies, then everything will be alright.

Praying to God to bring that mind to each and every person in the world.
Also praying to God to bring more people like the following great people to earth:












Good News: So many Green Jobs are going to come. At least we are going towards a good path.

Beautiful Environment & Worst Destruction

After hardwork and setbacks in the end of the year (2008), took a break to get more positive energy. I drove to Keywest, Florida and Everyglades.
As a marine estuarine environmental scientist I enjoyed my every moment at Keywest, Florida.
Lots and lots of beautiful marine environment.
Fauna & Flora at Everglades.
Driving through long bridges surrounded by water never get erased from your mind.
Hopefully we can preserve these type of environments all over the world.

This trip gave me more required positive energy.

However seeing some gruesome pictures of children bleeding from war made me to pray to all Gods (irrespective of religion) to give human beings more peace.