Author: Ruthan Brodsky
Title: Boomers Learn To Keep Their Home Safe From Harmful Chemicals

Article: Think about recycling and the first thing to pop into your head is not the damage that is done to the earth when you use chemically laden products at home. Recycling is about reducing waste, recycling products and reusing what can be reused, but it is also abut protecting the earth from poison.

Harming the environment is not something you set out to do. Using unsafe products to clean your home and work place is a long time habit, however. not realizing products can be harmful to not only the earth itself, but to any living things that may come in contact with the wash off water. We live in a sterilized world, where the idea of a clean home and clean work place for ourselves and our family is important. But we need to stop and think about what harm we may be doing in our quest for the cleanest living area.

Is it worth a colony of ants to clean your kitchen floor with a harmful chemical, and that when you dump out the bucket that contains those chemicals, onto the ant hill, you risk wiping out the entire population? Maybe you don’t like ants, and that wasn’t the best example, but you know what I mean. We have a responsibility to the other creatures that share this Earth with us to not purposely do it, and them, harm. We need to be mindful of what our actions are producing and how our actions affect all other living things.

There are now many options for safe cleaning products on the market that you do not have to look much further than your local grocery shelf. Pay attention to the words that describe the items you are buying. Do they contain the words, toxic, poisonous, or dangerous? If they do, then read the next product’s ingredients and make a better choice.

Understand that many chemicals are unable to breakdown after they have been used and may make their ways into the streams. They can have a disastrous affect on any forms of life that inhabit the stream. It will only take a little effort on your part and those of other baby boomers to prevent something like this from happening, so why not start with you and your friends.

We need to be careful with the chemicals we have easy access to and become more responsible for what happens as the result of our choices. It really is not that hard to make an informed choice that is not harmful to the Earth but being irresponsible with basic cleaning products can end up causing great harm to the planet on which we live. Remember, it does not take much more than a little awareness to be an advocate for the health of the place we call home.

Boomers Be Smart. Shop Smart. Clean Smart. I invite babyboomers to learn more about how you can maintain a healthy environment in your home and office. Be productive and wise in life. Claim your free report on how Green Living for Boomers at Green Living for Boomers

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Author: Aydan Corkern
Title: How To Prevent Fires From A Campfire

Article: If you are camping, you need to follow the rules for campfires so you will not cause a wildfire. The first thing you have to do is clean up the areas where you are camping and anywhere you are putting the fire. You have to remove all the debris from the area like branches, trash, leaves, weeds, and make sure the area is all dirt for a campfire to be put in. You should camp by water so it will be easier to get to and to put it out at night and in the morning. You need to put a lot of rocks around the area where the fire is going to go so the fire will not get out and spread to other things.

You can also dig a little hole for the fire, but it is not necessary to do it. Don’t put gasoline or lighter fluid on the wood for the fire because that is very dangerous and it is against the rules. That can cause a wildfire to rise and you can get hurt and injured or kill many things. Do not put the fire under a tree or under branches because they can catch on fire and cause the tree to go up in flames and the risk of it spreading to other tress and plants. Do not throw trash into the fire that can cause the flames of the fire to rise and things could shoot out of the fire and start things on fire.

Never leave a fire burning or smoking because that could cause a fire, and the wind can blow something on it and it could start the fire again. Dump a whole gallon or two on it to be sure it is out, and if there is still heat coming from it, put some more water on it. There should be no heat, light, or smoke coming from it. This will ensure safety from fires starting. You need to have your tents far from the fire as possible and the same goes for sleeping bags. If you get them too close, it can cause them to catch on fire and burn up.

Watch when you are roasting marshmallows because you could flick it on something and start a fire or you can flick it on someone and burn them. If you are cooking over the fire, do not use oil because that is just asking for trouble. The oil will get in the fire and cause it to rise. This will cause the flames to get bigger and it can splatter the oil, which can also catch things on fire. Do not try to put out the fire with a blanket because that does not work and it will make thing much worse. If you use bug spray, do not spray it near the fire. Point it the other way. Aydan Corkern is a writer in many fields, and encourages you to check out wooster water damage and derry water damage.

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Author: Jimmy Cox
Title: How to Use the T-Square for the Draftsman

Article: Mechanical drawing is entirely different from freehand drawing. In freehand drawing the artist takes a pencil and some paper and sketches roughly what he sees – whether it is a portrait, a landscape or a nude figure. In doing this he makes use of his creative ability – his artistic sense – as well as his knowledge of design and anatomy. If he is sufficiently creative and gifted, his drawing will be a “work of art” even though it will be far from an accurate representation of the real thing.

Now the draftsman is not an artist in the above sense. He is not supposed to be an artist, and he need have no artistic ability or knowledge of anatomy for his important profession. He never draws from nature because all his subjects are man-made things.

Good draftsmanship is really accurate, neat, clear line representation of mechanical objects drawn solely for the purpose of enabling carpenters, contractors and mechanics to make these objects. A mechanical drawing of a large oak tree or a beautiful nude girl would be just as impractical as a rough and totally inaccurate sketch of a vital machine part. Anyone can be a draftsman if he is willing to work and apply himself to accurate precision drawing.

There is absolutely no doubt that the postwar period will make extreme demands on the draftsman. All branches of engineering, as well as architecture, are sure to spurt ahead as never before. Technical men are sure to be in great demand, particularly in the field of electronics and electronic machinery, and in the building field.

In all fields, whether in engineering, architectural or machine shop work, the draftsman is a very important person, for he is the middleman between the engineer and contractor; the architect and builder; the designing engineer and the machine shop mechanic.

Below are some useful exercises to practice using the t-square used in mechanical drawing. Follow these steps carefully and do everything that you are told to do:

First:

Place a sheet of paper on your drawing board and secure it to the board by means of the tape or the thumb tacks (one tack in each corner). There should be about an inch margin all around the paper; or, in other words, the paper should be 2 inches shorter and 2 inches narrower than the drawing board.

Second:

Hold the T-square in position and draw a line clear across the paper, from left to right. Move the T-square up and down and draw six or seven other lines clear across the paper.

Third:

Take your ruler and measure off 9-1/2 inches somewhere near the top of the paper. Do this by making two small points 9-1/2 inches apart. Now bring the T-square up to these points and draw a line connecting them. This is the way to draw a line of a given length with your T-square. Practice by measuring off other distances, like 7-1/4 inches, 11 inches, etc., and draw lines connecting them.

Fourth:

Now place the ruler in a vertical position at the left of the paper and mark off every half inch for four inches. You will have eight tiny points, one under the other. Now draw a line through each of these eight points with your T-square; you will then have eight parallel lines spaced a half-inch apart.

Repeat this operation, marking off quarter-inch points instead of half-inch points. Mark off 16 points a quarter of an inch apart, one under the other, and draw the sixteen lines with your T-square. Now do the same thing with sixteenths of an inch and draw the thirty-two lines with the T-square. This is excellent practice in the use of the T-square. New! Unprecedented Way To Learn Mechanical Drawing In Days Not Years

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Author: Jim Corkern
Title: House Fire Sources

Article: Fires can start in the house a number of different ways and knowing as much as you can about fire safety in the home is important in preventing this from happening.

Cooking in the kitchen poses the most amount of risk, but since most people have to do this to survive because they cannot afford to eat out all the time, it must be done. Safety comes first and this means that you should not leave anything on the stove unattended in the kitchen. If you do have to leave, turn it off or leave someone in the kitchen to watch it for you.

Space heaters that you using during the winter time can also present a substantial amount of risk if you do not know where you can safely place them in your home. They should never be put near furniture, curtains, or any other fabric item. Something else you need to know is that extension cords should never be used with appliances that use a lot of electricity or put out a large amount of heat. Electric skillets and deep fryers fall into this category along with space heaters and if you use a normal household extension cord with them, they will melt. If you have to use one, use a heavy duty one that is normally used outside.

If you smoke, this is another possible source of fire in the house. If you have to dump out cigarette ashes, make sure everything in the tray is completely put out. Something you should never do is smoke while you are in bed. Do not let yourself become too relaxed in a chair, either, since you may end up falling asleep and dropping the cigarette, either on the chair, bed, the floor, or yourself.

Chemicals that are flammable like gas and turpentine should be kept outside the house, preferably in a separate building. This way, if they catch on fire for some reason, the extra building will be on fire and not your home.

Electric blankets are also a great convenience, but the bad thing about these is that people tend to leave them on all night while they are sleeping instead of just using them to heat up the bed. Beds catch on fire due to improper use of these, so never leave the house while they are on and never leave them on while you are asleep. Jim Corkern is a writer and promoter of
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Author: Rick Jorgenson
Title: The Age of Stupid–How to Help it Get Smart

Article: The Age of Stupid is the latest and quite possibly the most powerful of the new genre of films aimed at helping to wake up the citizens of Planet Earth to the crucial urgency of reversing global warming. It follows in the loud and ominous footsteps of its predecessors–An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore and The Eleventh Hour, narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.

All three of these films, along with a rapidly-growing array of similarly grim media reports, are currently alerting us to a potential impending global disaster of nearly incomprehensible magnitude.

Unlike advance warnings of other imminent disasters, such as tornadoes and hurricanes that are predictable only a few minutes or hours before they descend upon us suddenly and violently, the horrific disaster that we are being warned about here has been unfolding outside of our ordinary awareness very gradually and insidiously for many decades. There is now strong evidence, in fact, that it has been brewing slowly from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

Unfortunately, the human species is not genetically well-equipped to deal effectively with this kind of slowly-developing and nearly imperceptible danger. The reason for this is very simple. Down through the vast eons of our evolution, the survival of our ancestors has depended most strongly on successfully fighting with, or fleeing from, immediate, in-our-face dangers, rather than those that were far removed in time and space.

We are also notorious as a species for relying on a variety of ego-defenses, such as denial and rationalization, in dealing with unpleasant realities that activate our discomfort. This gives rise, for example, to the well-known “elephant in the living room” phenomenon whereby we dysfunctionally ignore blatant warning signs of serious impending problems.

Given these inherent human deficits and the unique nature of the looming disaster of global climate change, then, extraordinary “alarm clocks” are required to wake us up and call us to take effective action in order to avert or reduce the magnitude of the impending disaster.

Fortunately, there is growing evidence that this is happening to an increasing degree throughout the world. Paul Hawken, for example, in his most recent book, Blessed Unrest, speaks of this as part of “the largest social movement in history.” He estimates that there are now two million or more separate grassroots groups all over the world that are recognizing and addressing various aspects of this problem, along with those concerning social justice.

He likens this phenomenon to that of our individual immune systems becoming spontaneously mobilized to counteract a bodily disease that threatens our personal survival.

There is a growing consensus among environmental scientists that the global warming crisis is more severe and also more imminent than was originally estimated. Due to the progressive thawing of the tundra in the Arctic, for example, methane gas is being increasingly released into the atmosphere. This is accelerating the melting of the Arctic icecap, which in turn is increasing the rate of thawing of the tundra in a classic vicious circle.

There is also now a very strong scientific consensus that no matter what we do to slow down or reverse the emission of greenhouse gases, there will inevitably be some major disastrous planetary effects, both for humans and other life forms. Many of these, in fact, are already occurring.

In a worst case scenario, if we don’t take immediate and effective action to reduce the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, civilization as we know it could be destroyed.

This is the basic thesis of the eco-documentary, The Age of Stupid, which is set in the year 2050 when global warming has reached catastrophic proportions. The protagonist in the film, an archivist, has discovered through his investigations that the masses of people living in 2008, had they not ignored warnings about the approaching disaster, could have helped prevent it.

There are endless ways that everyone can help “the age of stupid” get smart by heeding the urgent warning message of this film, along with that of thousands of the world’s top environmental scientists. First and foremost, this requires that we get educated as fully as possible in all of the many things we can do to reduce our personal carbon footprints and then actively and consistently implement this knowledge.

Secondly, we can effectively become part of the earth’s “immune system,” as Paul Hawken suggests, by becoming actively involved in–or at least actively supporting–one or more of the vast number of groups that are already mobilized to counteract the massive corporate and governmental resistance to reversing greenhouse gas emissions or to otherwise helping to preserve the natural environment.

Interestingly, one of the simplest and easiest ways to help support these groups is through a process of “embedded giving” that entails no personal cost at all. All that it requires is to do your online shopping through a designated website of the organization of your choice.

The sponsoring organization then earns a significant commission on whatever is purchased. Since substantial rebates are paid on all of the products that
are purchased in this way, the supporting shopper actually ends up paying less, rather than more, while simultaneously helping their chosen organization to generate revenue to fund its particular mission.

Paul Hawken points out that absolutely everyone can participate in some way(s) in helping to heal the deep wounds that we, as a species, have collectively and unwittingly inflicted upon the larger nature that we are all part of. As he says, very simply and succinctly, “the ‘Help Wanted’ signs are everywhere.” So in meeting this huge challenge to our future survival, nobody needs to remain “unemployed”. Rick Jorgenson is the founder and Executive Director of HealthyLife Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping non-profit environmental organizations.
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