Saving Mother Earth one step at a time

The fluctuating weather, unbearable heat, and the erratic temperatures we endure today is a result of global warming.  It’s sad to know that the global climate has been deteriorating at an alarming rate over the years.  

Here are some ways on how to help save our Earth from the page of HubPages:

• Doing volunteer work is one way of showing our love and care to our environment.
• Saving an endangered animal is great deed.
• Tree planting is one of the most popular ways of protecting our planet.
• Minimizing the use of refrigerators, foam blowers, solvents, aerosol spray propellants containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
• Not buying exotic and endangered animals. 
• Educating our children, friends, and even our local community about the harmful effects of dynamite fishing, illegal logging, and animal poaching.
• Reducing, Reusing, and recycling.  Make it a habit to reduce the things we need or we consume.

It doesn’t take a huge effort to keep the Earth from falling apart. A few baby steps at a time can do it. 

Top 10 Eco-Friendly Ways to Clean the House | Care2 Healthy Living

There are exciting ways to do some house cleaning.  This Care2.com article suggests some of them.  Click the link below:

Top 10 Eco-Friendly Ways to Clean the House | Care2 Healthy Living

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This is a great read from the healthcare industry. Read this article from Satori World Medical:

PRLog (Press Release) - Oct. 30, 2012 - San Diego, CA – October 30, 2012 – Satori World Medical (http://www.satoriworldmedical.com./) will be participating in the upcoming Texas Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA) Annual Conference (http://www.texasprima.org/events_training/conference_GENERIC.html) in Frisco, TX on November 11-14, 2012. Steven Lash (http://www.stevenlash.com/), President and CEO of Satori World Medical will be joined by Leonard Martin (http://www.cityofcarrollton.com/index.aspx?page=203), City Manager, City of Carrollton, TX, presenting an informative session exploring the benefits of global healthcare in an employee’s medical plan. They will be presenting an overview of the challenges of managing healthcare costs in a public sector entity, how medical travel can be helpful in lowering costs and a case study detailing how this additional benefit became a cost-saving solution for the City of Carrollton, TX.

 

“We are excited about sharing information related to our case study and educating others on how their city can potentially save hundreds of thousands of healthcare dollars by choosing this innovative approach,” said Leonard Martin.

“Health-care costs are steadily increasing at a shocking rate and are projected to continue rising.” said Steven Lash, President and CEO, Satori World Medical.

“City and state municipalities can contain costs and lower other postemployment benefits liabilities by offering a medical travel plan as part of their benefits package.”

This insightful session presented on Monday, November 12 at 1:45pm-3pm will explore the impact and savings of a medical travel (http://www.satoriworldmedical.com/content.php?id=10) benefit for public sector employers and focus on how medical travel can lower projected GASB 45 liabilities.

Texas PRIMA is a state chapter of the National Public Risk Management Association. Texas PRIMA produces and presents an annual conference attended by risk management, safety, claims and benefits professionals from across the State of Texas.

About Satori World Medical:

Satori World Medical’s Global Network™ is comprised of International Centers of Excellence with leading physician specialists. Satori delivers all travel related services, while lowering overall medical expenses for both the patient and the plan sponsor. Satori, through its patented Health & Shared Wealth Program™, is the only global network that can offer sharing of the savings, including a 100% medical benefit to insured patients that choose to have surgery outside the United States. All physicians and medical facilities in the Satori Global Network™ are required to meet Satori’s rigorous quality standards which meet or exceed U.S. standards.

For more information on Satori World Medical, call +1 (866) 613-9686 or visit http://www.satoriworldmedical.com.

Source:

http://www.prlog.org/12012519-satori-world-medical-to-present-at-the-2012-texas-prima-annual-conference-in-frisco-tx.html

Forbes: The Best Place To Laugh At The Mayan End Of The World (Unless They Were Right): The Roxbury Motel In New York

This Forbes article written by Ann Abel shows a fun boutique about the Mayans and more. 


 The brand-new “Archaeologist’s Digs” cottage at the Roxbury—the Hudson Valley’s most fun, best-run “boutique motel,” about three hours from New York City—isn’t just about the Mayans, but part of it pays homage in grand style.

The Mayan Temple bedroom cleverly riffs on the ancient civilization’s numerical system and astrological calendar. It’s a great place to be next week or anytime this winter. (It’s welcoming its first guests December 26, with rates from $650.) The three-bedroom house is a comfy, campy base to look back and laugh at this whole “end of the world” thing, while also warming up in front of a fireplace after a day of skiing. (All four nearby ski basins are currently open.)

The Roxbury is among the most theatrical places I’ve ever stayed—the owners worked and performed on Broadway before becoming hoteliers—and this is their tour de force. They call it a “room adventure,” and they filled it with pieces they picked up at auction when the estate of a local antiquities enthusiast was liquidated.

Their primary focus is Indiana Jones, who is most cheekily represented in a bedroom with brown leather walls and a bed canopy made of 40 bullwhips. And the rest of it is what Indy might have collected if he’d been experimenting with hallucinogens and had access to top-notch craftsmen: It’s a madcap mashup of secret passageways, hidden treasures, idols, reptile skins, hieroglyphics, gold, treasure maps, sultan’s tents, Egyptians, Mesopotamians,

Micronesians, Indians, Romans, Spartans, Arabians, Aztecs, Siamese, Trojans, and a 400-gallon saltwater aquarium separating the living room from the Cleopatra’s-underwater-tomb-themed bathroom. But about the Mayans: The hidden temple bedroom is the most playful (if not most spacious) feature. The cottage’s foyer has a six-foot boulder suspended from the ceiling and damask snake-print wallpaper designed by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, and a 3-D wall sculpture of a Mayan god that could pass a relief from Chichen Itza. The face also contains a secret lever that makes the wall swing open to reveal a snug bedroom with an extra-long full-size Murphy bed that folds down when you pull the nose ring of another Mayan sculpture—this one of a maternity goddess (hmmmm).

Designed by high-caliber Hollywood set designers (The Bourne Legacy is among their recent credits), the bedroom has the look and feel of an ancient stone temple tells the story of the Mayan numerical system, alphabet, and astrological chart. The illuminated blue night-sky ceiling depicts the civilization’s cosmology. It’s the kind of fantastic, fantastical place that will make you happy the world didn’t actually end.



Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/annabel/2012/12/19/the-best-place-to-laugh-at-the-mayan-end-of-the-world-unless-they-were-right-the-roxbury-motel-in-new-york/.

An Afternoon of Reading and Reflecting: The End of the World, The Environment, and James Rollins

"This book will have you running under a warm blanket"

I have just read Ice Hunt by James Rollins and I don’t know what’s worse, the thought of extinct carnivorous whale species being brought back to life after thousands of years of hibernation or experiencing the second ice age brought by intentionally melting the polar ice caps using a sonic bomb.  

Although to actually discover and potentially study an “Ambulocetus natan” (walking whale) is a marine biologist’s dream and nightmare!

Despite enjoying James Rollins macabre fascination for paleo-fiction and compelling storyline, I can’t help but wonder if a second ice age could, in fact, be a good thing for our horribly depreciated planet. 

I know it might seem like something an environmental extremist might say or do for that matter, but looking at how the environment has suffered somehow makes me wish for a fresh start. Although in order for me to experience it, I might have to build one of those ultra-submarines from the movie 2012 or maybe even a good old-fashioned ark. 

With the increased climate change and man-made pollution that has reigned over the world for the greater part of the century, it’s not a surprise when nature fights back to regain its balance. 

Although it can be argued that climate change does not cause the occurrence of super storms like Sandy, it does, however, act like a steroid that enhances a storms capability for destruction. 

Super storms are not the only proof that nature is fighting back. 

The recent red algae bloom in Australia had left scientists and most of my colleagues dumb-founded.  If environmental atrocities will continue, we might really see the world end and it won’t necessarily be at December 21, 2012.

And yet whenever I see the sunset over the horizon and watch as porpoises swim gracefully across the open sea, it fills me with an overwhelming sense of joy and an ironclad resolution to protect the world and all its inhabitants, because however bleak the future may be, there’s still hope that everything will be alright.

   

“We share this planet with many species.
It is our responsibility to protect them, 
 both for their sakes and our own.”
- Pamela A. Matson