Good to Know

  S HOULD WE WASH OUR CARS IN OUR DRIVEWAYS?       Washing your car in the driveway seems like a fairly acceptable and benign act.    All kinds of people will wash their cars in their driveway thinking that it’s less costly than going to a commercial car wash.   Before washing your car in the driveway, please consider the following facts: ·        Everything you use to wash your car goes directly from the storm drains into lakes and rivers. ·        Cleaning products for cars may contain nonylphenol ethoxylates which strip away fishes’ protective mucous coating, causing them to absorb more chemicals and making them more susceptible to disease. ·          High concentrations of NPE’s can actually kill fish and kill the eggs of invertebrate species and the NPE’s can penetrate the oils birds need to maintain a dry layer of insulating feathers. ·        Detergents may contain phosphates which are responsible for algae bloom which has contributed to the disappearance of cold wat

  QUOTABLE QUOTE   If we killed humans at the same rate we are contributing to the death of helpless wild animals we would extinct in 17 days!!--    Children's Author  Illustrator  Educator Presenter  

     WHY WE NEED TO MAKE BOLD CHANGES TO OUR LANSCAPING PRACTICES Recently when I went on a 2000 km road   trip exploring and enjoying the great variety of vistas   in Ontario and Quebec, I noticed the majority of   homeowners and   municipalities   continue to focus on creating static monocultures of clean cut Kentucky grass, rather than creating habitats for flora and fauna by allowing   the areas to grow according to the whims of Mother Nature.   Maybe, just maybe, Mother nature knows best!   v    our precious pollinators, for their continued survival,   need   a variety native and non-native flora growing in meadows-like areas- the greater the variety the healthier and more robust the pollinators v    there is a dire need to  increase nectar-brimming flora as the UN ( 2020)   announced a decline of 90 % in our bumblebee population- with their fat and furry bodies bumble bees are master pollinators - we rely on pollinators  for one third mouthful of all the food we eat v

  QUOTABLE QUOTE  -THE LAST MAN "Let us… seek peace… near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave “life,” that we may live." - Mary Shelley, The Last Man  

  ALGORITHM FOR COVID OUTBREAKS    Canadian mathematical expert just released the algorithm for your chances of encountering someone with Covid - If you are in a group of 500 your chance of encountering someone with Covid is 87. 9 %. If you are in a crowd of  1, 000,  your chances become an astounding 98.5%!  So that means every time Trump supporters attend one of his rallies,  they will willfully drive up the alarming number of deaths in the US - the highest in the world at over 230, 000 deaths so far and climbing daily! POSTED NOV. 1 2020 

  MESSAGE FROM BRENT ELSEY, MEDICAL DOCTOR, MEMBER OF BARRIE DOCTORS ON CLIMATE SOLUTIONS (DOCS)     In comparing Covid   to our   present climate crisis, Dr.   Elsey made the following observation. The climate crisis impacts will be more significant, longer in duration, and will have no easy fixes-like a vaccine. Our communities will experience extreme weather events with infrastructure destruction that will impair health care delivery, worsening food security, increased poverty, special upheaval driven by climate chaos refugees, epidemics from old pathogens like cholera and malaria. Canadian values and cooperation (I will add within Canada and with our biggest trading partner the US) are very much needed and they have been evident during the Coved crisis Innovative thinking is encouraged and supported.   WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW TO REDUCE GLOBAL OVERHEATING Ø COMPOST -   20% of all   methane gas in the world comes from compostable materials dumped into landfill sites

 

   THUMBS DOWN TO  PEOPLE WHO LITTER DISPOSABLE MASKS   THE CATASTROPHIC IMPACTS OF DISPOSABLE MASKS Most of the masks you throw away are made from polypropylene- these masks might take up to hundreds of years to decompose.   If you are neglecting to dispose of them properly in containers, they could end up causing the agonizing deaths of al kinds of marine life including dolphins, sea turtle, and whales . Many people seem to be completely ignorant of the fact that anything with plastic components can survive in the environment for hundreds of years.   Sooner or later discarded items end up in a lake, and then a river and all rivers flow into oceans.   Globally, we are using 129 billion facemasks and 65 billion plastic gloves every single month!   Divers and observers are now finding discarded gloves and mask floating underwater   catastrophically affecting the marine life as they mistake the floating items for food and end up starving   to death! Residents have also report

  Gander and 7, 000 Stranded Travelers     19 years ago the World trade center was attacked; the Pentagon went up in flames, 3,000 died   on that harrowing day. All the planes in the sky carrying over 7, 000 passengers were ordered not to land in the US, just in case missiles had been ordered to attack all planes – the airspace shut down.   The Us now   faced with an impossible dilemma! Luckily,   the US’s teadfast ally readily opened up an international airport at Gander on the island of Newfoundland, known locally as “the rock”.     People from Newfoundland are known for their generous hearts, their selflessness, and their willingness always to lend a helping hand. They knew the passengers   would be   frightened and   frantic with worry as they had no idea where they had landed nor why. The residents of Gander –a town of 10, 000 and surrounding small villages now faced a logistics night mare- how to feed, clothe and provide accommodations for 7. 000 passengers.

    SAVE MONEY ON FOOD The cost of all foods have sky rocketed for example milk and chicken has tripled in the last few years. However, there is one food that has actually decreased in price and the good news is that it is not a processed, fake food that does nothing but add on unwanted pounds and cause inflammation in your body which are responsible for most diseases. This food is considered a super food for the following reasons- 1.      It is the number one antioxidant. 2.      It is loaded with protein (we only need a small percentage of the protein we actually get, we do not have to combine these proteins in any special way    as laid out in Diet for a Small Planet), controls blood sugar as it’s released slowly into the bloodstream, 3.        Helps curb your appetite as they release leptin into the bloodstream which reduces appetite and increase your metabolism 4.        Loaded with fiber which helps remove toxins and waste products more quickly,   “Soluble” fiber be

QUOTABLE QUOTE  Mother Nature has created a perfectly beautiful system of biodiversity and a perfectly   balanced w eb of life –LEAVE IT  ALONE!

  CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIRDS  314 species of birds will be seriously threatened by climate change by the end of this century. Dramatic climate change such as famine producing droughts, killer floods ,   out- of -control forest fires, desertification of fertile lands,   melting of the polar caps,  soaring  record- breaking  temperatures, increase in the  number of deadly and property destroying weather events such as hurricane, tornadoes, cyclones, massive mud slides, freezing rain, and snow blizzards affect all birds in different ways. v It can greatly affect bird distribution in specific area. v   It can modify the birds’ behaviour. v Their numbers can be dramatically reduced. v And even their genetic composition can be altered. v The timing of year when birds migrate and when they breed can be drastically altered depending on the severity of the change in climate. v Birds are affected directly in a negative way if rainfall is suddenly reduced in a specific area or