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Conserve health – sugar alert Pauline Lee Did you know that the average American consumes 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day? This amount is equivalent to 350 calories and it adds up to over 70 pounds of sugar a year. Amazingly most people aren’t even aware of it. While we do sometimes add sugar…

Conservation Corner: Global warming III

Global warming III Pauline Lee The industrial revolution has brought amazing developments in our civilization. Unfortunately, these advances depend on the use of fossil fuels which has increased the production of greenhouse gases (particularly CO2) that trap heat from the sun. Since 1880, our global temperature has increased by an average of 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit…

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Global Warming II Pauline Lee The first installment of Global Warming established carbon dioxide (CO2) as the main contributor to global warming. This CO2 is a by product when fossil fuels are oxidized to produce energy that has driven world economy since the Industrial Revolution began over 200 years ago. About 82 percent of the…

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Pauline Lee Our sun can warm up the Earth. But if the sun’s rays are reflected back into space, the heat is lost. Thus Mars, with practically no gases in its atmosphere, stays below freezing; Venus, with 300 times the carbon dioxide as Earth, is hot enough to melt nickel; but Earth has maintained life-sustaining…

Conservation Corner – Our endangered oceans II

Pauline Lee Our oceans are our planet’s life support system. They provide us with oxygen, food and fresh water and control our weather. One teaspoon of sea water contains as many as a million one-celled algae which produce oxygen during photosynthesis. These algae are at the bottom of the food chain that leads to whales,…

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Our endangered oceans—part 1 Pauline Lee Since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, sea trash has made global headlines. The hundreds of objects sighted off the Australian coast as possible aircraft debris turned out to be discarded fishing equipment, cargo container parts or plastic shopping bags. Sadly, there’s more garbage in the oceans than we…

Conservation Corner – April 2015

Pauline Lee The 45th anniversary of Earth Day will be celebrated on April 22. It will be celebrated globally by more than a billion people in more than 192 countries with the goal of planting one billion seeds/trees in support for environment protection. It will be a part of the biggest grassroots effort in history,…

Conservation Corner – March 2015

Demise of single-use plastic bags? Pauline Lee Can you believe that about one million plastic bags are used every minute around the world? In the U.S. the average family accumulates 60 plastic bags in only four trips to the grocery store, costing the retailers $4 billion annually. Only 0.5-3 percent of all bags are recycled.…

Conservation Corner – February 2015

Recycling basics Pauline Lee The population in the U.S. is just 5 percent of the entire world’s population, yet we generate 40 percent of the world’s waste. This amounts to 1,690 pounds of trash per person per year. When solid waste is put into landfills, labor and energy are required to dispose of the trash…

Conservation Corner – January 2015

Diane Beatty If you are interested in getting freshly picked organic vegetables, you will find them in Ken Singh’s Farm, an enchanting forest located just a few hundred feet east of the Loop 101 on Thomas Road in Scottsdale. Singh’s main business is supplying produce to restaurants and compost to other organic farms and the…