Should the EPA make a distinctin between occassional and daily firewood users for health purposes? With rising fossil fuel prices , more people are relying on firewood . In the past, we could afford to turn up the thermostat way up to get satisfactory warmth at homes. Now we are forced to turn down the thermostat to save money on expensive natural gas, heating oil or electricity coming from coal or nuclear or hydro. In quest of real warmth , we are begininng to use firewood more. a lot of trees are chopped down that you can see checker like patterns of bare forests and set aside forests if you fly over the mountains at certain locations. I saw many and it is alarming !! Indigenious people around the world are stripping forests bare that they are traveling further and further to obtain firewood. It seems to me that we are burning more firewood than coal already around the world.. many people including here in America are burning firewood on a daily basis.. EPA is sitting on hands and not doing much about the stark health effects on people living next door to daily firewood users who show no regards for their health.. Firewood smoke is bad but people are blocking it out of their minds ..

Completing the Sentence? Completing the Sentence Vocabulary Words: 1. accelerate 2. bystander 3. canvass 4. casual 5. downtrodden 6. entice 7. erode 8. flounder 9. graphic 10. gruesome 11. melancholy 12. ordeal 13. parch 14. persist 15. puny 16. quibble 17. ratify 18. regal 19. stifle 20. vital 1. In our environment class， we learned that in much of the United States， the topsoil has been badly _________by natural forces. 2. She gave us a clear， detailed， and _________picture of what is likely to happen if we fail to come to grips with the pollution problem. 3. As we fought the forest fire， we were practically _________ by the extreme heat and heavy smoke. 4. The President’s powers in foreign affairs are limited by the fact that any treaty he may negotiate must be _________ by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. 5. When the inexperienced swimmer realized that he was in very deep water， he panicked and began to ________about wildly. 6. According to Greek mythology， the Sirens used their remarkable singing voices to unwary sailors to watery graves. 7. Some poets are at their best when dealing with happy events， while others seem to prefer the more ________side of life. 8. A group of reporters form the local TV station _________ our district for reactions to the proposed changes in the law. 9. As soon as he learned that he was to play the king in the play， his whole personality took on an almost _________ air. 10. The _________sight that greeted my eyes at the scene of that awful traffic accident gave me nightmares for weeks. 11. He now claims that he was just an innocent _________， but I saw him actually taking part in the fight 12. If you were spending your own money， rather than mine， you would be more inclined to __________ over the price of the repairs. 13. Though the new halfback looked a little ________ to us， he managed to hold his own against players twice his size and build. 14. Regular visits to the dentist are _________ if you wish to have healthy， good-looking teeth. 15. How can he _________ in denying that he was at the scene of the crime when several people saw him there? 16. Since the twins' birthday party is by no means a formal affair，__________________ clothing is in order 17. The sled ___________ with alarming speed as it went down the steep slope. 18. At that tender age I was so shy that I found it a(n) _________________ to be introduced to people I’d never met before. 19. After an hour of trudging along the dusty road under the hot sun, we were so _____________ that all we could think of was cold water. 20. Although these workers were ________________ in their native land, in the United States they are entitled to a fair wage and safe working conditions. I need an answer by Nov. 15th 2010 6:20 P.M Thank you ~~~

Do we want to risk another knee-jerk mistake?? Brazil just announced that deforestation is on track to double this year; "It's like witnessing a rape." the Amazon rain forest happens also to be an incomparable storehouse of carbon, the very carbon that heats up the planet when it's released into the atmosphere. Brazil now ranks fourth in the world in carbon emissions, and most of its emissions come from deforestation. This land rush is being accelerated by an unlikely source: biofuels. An explosion in demand for farm-grown fuels has raised global crop prices to record highs, which is spurring a dramatic expansion of Brazilian agriculture, which is invading the Amazon at an increasingly alarming rate. But several new studies show the biofuel boom is doing exactly the opposite of what its proponents intended: it's dramatically accelerating global warming, imperiling the planet in the name of saving it. Corn ethanol, always environmentally suspect, turns out to be environmentally disastrous. Even cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass, which has been promoted by eco-activists and eco-investors as well as by President Bush as the fuel of the future, looks less green than oil-derived gasoline. •Backed by billions in investment capital, this alarming phenomenon is replicating itself around the world. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html Add #1: "oil-industry engineer Robert Rapier, who has spent years studying cellulosic ethanol, says that the difference between ethanol from corn and ethanol from cellulose is "like the difference between traveling to the moon and traveling to Mars." And even if the engineering hurdles can be overcome, there's still the problem of land use: According to Rapier, replacing fifty percent of our current gasoline consumption with cellulosic ethanol would consume thirteen percent of the land in the United States - about seven times the land currently utilized for corn production."

Can anyone get all of them? Hi, I'm feeling really bored, so i'm gonna see who can get the most of these riddles right. 10 points for winner. :) 1. In the neighbourhood, there is one family known for causing trouble. they are the price family. The parents are a Mr. Andy price, a mrs. Betty price, and their children are called Catty, Mark, Daniel and Sarah. One night a rather serious offence takes place. The whole town knows which of the price family members it was, but are far to frightened to tell the police. however, one brave young man gave the officer a note, reading: ?price! which of the price family was immediately arrested? 2. Barry was very tired one foggy night, and decided to go to bed early. When he awoke, he heard on the news of a terrible tradgadey, that had killed over 100 people, and it was all barrys fault. why? he did not wake up or sleepwalk. Clues: his alarm had broken, and did not ring he switched of his telivison, radio and lights before heading off to bed. 3. A man enters his house, and asks his daughter (sally mae) a question. he does not know the anwnser to this question, but whatever awnser he is given, wheatrher it is true or false, he will know the awnser to his question. What was the question? 4. A man is born before his father and his mother. How can this be possible? 5. What is it that you can see with the naked eye, seems to have no weight and yet the more of it you put into an empty container, the lighter the container becomes? (there are two possible awnsers for this) 6. What is so fragile, that when you say it's name it is broken? 7. you are walking alone in a jungle. in the jungle live two tribes: the lielies, and the truthtruths. true to their names, the lielies only tell lies an the truthtruths only tell the truth. you come to a fork in the forest. you have two possible directions, and one way leads to certain death, and the other out of the jungle, but you do not know which is which. there is a member from each of the tribes standing before you, but you do not know the lielie from the truthtruth. you may only ask one question to one member of the tribe. not one each, and you do not know which is the lielie and which is the truthtruth. what question will get you out of the forest, no matter who you ask? Hi, you're all doing great! every question has been geussed correctly by at least one person, exept the one about the man asking his daughter a question. well done everyone! :) i'm sure someone can get them all though...

Why should Greenpeace worry about carbon price crashing? Today's news @ http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090602/tsc-alarm-raised-over-forest-plan-to-fig-c2ff8aa.html Reported by environmental group Greenpeace argues that REDD credits could flood global markets, sending the price of carbon crashing by as much as 75 percent below market price. Why should they concern about market price of emission trading? Aren't they pleased that more nations elected to plant more trees - that's what this new agreement about - REDD. Yet they are concern about carbon price crashing, who are they, city banker? Insider comments on facts and people behind or financing them, appreciated. Well agrue Kayak, if the course is so serious as CFCs at one time, in the Montreal Protocol 1987, CFCs emission trading was not on the agenda. Now they try to replace the Kyoto protocol (due to expire by 2012), emission trading is still on the agenda. And flatly refuse Indian Prime Minister and many African nations suggested that developed nations should pay for under & developing nations to clean up their acts, the answers were no way. Also the sudden change in tune on CH4, since scientists confirmed that humans and meat farming induced more than 50% of the potent greenhouse gas - methane, and turn back to CO2 tradings. And the sudden release of a scientific memo suggesting that driving is more enviromently friendly to the Earth than going by train - common sense?