Global Warming, Our Earth is Sick! Click here to read How to make the Environmental Friendly Enzyme to save our environment.- posted by Ven. Kungshih 9/7/2010
Click here to see a video of a talk given by Bhikkhu Bodhi, “Towards an Integral Model of Buddhism”, It is very interesting, offering a model of how Buddhism has been interpreted and transformed itself from traditional, through modern and now into “post-modern” life, from the perspective of a Theravadan Buddhist monk, who is also a post-modern westerner. - posted by Xianyi Sharon 8/21/2010
Click here to read a letter written in 2070. - posted by Ven. Kungshih 8/21/2010
Green Laundry - posted by Xianyi Sharon 8/3/2010
According to the Allergy and Environmental Health Association, both liquid and dryer sheet fabric softeners are “the most toxic product produced for daily household use.” Most of the popular brands of fabric softeners contain many neurotoxins (substances that are toxic to the brain and nervous system) and other types of toxins. As an alternative to toxic fabric softeners in your laundry, try adding a 1/2 cup of baking soda to the water in your washing machine and let it dissolve prior to adding your clothes. The baking soda acts as a water softener and helps makes clothes super soft.
Dangers of Anti-bacterial triclosan - posted by Xianyi Sharon 8/3/2010
The active ingredient in anti-bacterial soaps and detergents is triclosan. Triclosan kills bacteria—at first. But research has shown that prominent bacteria such as e.coli, salmonella, shigella and other intestinal bacteria become resistant to it pretty quickly.
But the bad news about triclosan doesn’t end there. It is an ‘endocrine disruptor’, and may interfere with normal functioning of your thyroid hormone and estrogen. It’s associated with allergies and can become contaminated with dioxin, a known carcinogen.
The marketing for triclosan products has been so effective that some people are afraid to wash their hands—or anything else for that matter—without an antibacterial product. However, study after study (after study) has shown these products are no more effective than regular, old-fashioned soap and water. For more information about the dangers of triclosan in the environment and food chain, click here.
47 Smart Uses for Salt | Care2 Healthy & Green Living - Posted by Xianyi Sharon 8/3/2010
Salt can substitute for many expensive, unhealthful, and “un-green” chemicals you may use in your home. Click here for the 47 great uses for ordinary table salt which is inexpensive and abundant.
Buddhist approach environmentally friendly cockroach control – Posted by Xianda Kenny 08/05/2010
As with most things, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; so first, threat reduction:
- Clean up thoroughly after food preparation and don't leave used dishes out overnight
- Wash your pet's food bowl as soon as possible after feeding
- Reduce shelter for cockroaches
- Plug up points of entry from outside using sealants or mesh
- Get rid of materials brought in from outside that may harbor cockroach eggs as soon as possible; particularly where those items have come from food sources; e.g. supermarkets
- Dry out damp areas inside your house such as under sinks - something as simple as baking soda can assist with this.
My Favorite Green Quotes:Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Chesuncook," The Maine Woods, 1848A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole [of] nature in its beauty. ~Albert Einstein, 1950
When we understand what we really are, we will be at peace with ourselves and our environment. We will cease trying to enlarge ourselves through possessions and power, take responsibility for our universal self -- the world -- and start living to give, rather than get.
~Ven. Sunyana Graef (The Foundations of Ecology in Zen Buddhism)
