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Sep 11, 2010
36th Annual Peach Festival and Flea Market
Location: Doylestown United Methodist Church
Town: Doylestown

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Concerns: Food Production and the Impact on the Planet
 

Her view:  All industrial farming is devastating the planet.  Not just vegetables, fruit, and grain.

The CAFO's where by far the most meat animals are grown produce such huge amounts of fecal matter that it often overflows into rivers and creates dead zones in rivers and lakes.  Herbivores are only sustainable when they eat and poop on vast amounts of land, but they're fed grain.  And even when they're raised properly, the people who eat the meat don't return their poop and piss to the land where the cattle are raised, so the phosphorous and nitrogen end up in waste-water treatment plants that eventually release it to lakes and oceans.  The nutrients are lost to the land and create vast dead zones in rivers, lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Our entire system is unsustainable and harms the planet, and it totally depends on fossil fuels which are rapidly disappearing.
 
Our genetics have changed more in the past 10,000 years than the past 6 million to adapt to the agricultural diet -- the hunter-gatherer diet is not "healthy" for us anymore -- we've evolved to eat more carbs (grains)....  

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SEPTA for Newtown?

Watch here - http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5345286 

 

What will the Lower Makefield community and officials think on 3/10/10 as Newtown SEPTA supporters make their presentation to the EAC?  

 03/10/2010 Lower Makefield Township EAC Presentation

Location: 1100 Edgewood Rd, Yardley PA 19067
Time: 7:30PM 

PA-TEC presented the R8 project to members of the Lower Makefield Township's Environmental Advisory Committee, and members of the public.

http://www.r8newtown.com/

For more information contact:  jfrey40535@gmail.com

 

 

 
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Reviewer: Dave Dated: 2010-02-24 18:52:31
Coal Country - Fantastic Show, with spectacular scenery of Utah's Red Rock wilderness areas. A wonderful visual experience. Hope you can make the presentation as we want Congressman Murphy to become a sponsor of a bill to help preserve its scenic area so future generations can gaze at its beauty.
 
 
Reviewer: Ken Gallagher Dated: 2010-02-03 14:15:09
Would you please email me about your meetings one day before it actually happens. I am very interested in participating and supporting your cause. Thnak you, Ken Gallagher
 
 
Reviewer: Henry D'Silva Dated: 2010-02-02 13:53:23
While the representative from the US Chamber of Commerce made clear their position on Climate Change (or Global Warming) and the idea of Cap & Trade, Penn Environment's rep spent time explaining why measures to counteract Climate Change are important but did not adequately explain why the legislation as written would work and why the Senate stalemate on C & T. The issue boils down to the difficulty of getting any significant piece of legislation passed at the Federal and frequently at the State level. Given 435 House (proportionately regional) and 50 Senate members (disproportionately regional) their opinions & loyalties plus the data to analyze, it is easier to understand why it is so hard to achieve anything meaningful in a straightforward manner. Furthermore, note the rapid expansion of carbon trading in European Markets with US participation as recorded in Terry Gross' interview with Mark Shapiro (Jan 28, 2010 http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=123037162). Shapiro's corresponding article is in the Feb 2010 issue of Harper's magazine (http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/02/0082826). At small meetings within communities one notes the variety of opinions and objections to ideas and proposals. Yet decisions are made rapidly, not always to public satisfaction though communities are generally better able to handle their own issues except in major catastrophes. Hence the importance of communities to cooperate at regional levels to compensate for our burdensome and tedious government action (remember Healthcare) and to counter Wall Street and other markets who are always ready to sacrifice the unwitting speculator.
 
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