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postheadericon Another Reason to Use Environmentally Friendly Waterless Car Care Products

Another Reason to Use Environmentally Friendly Waterless Car Care Products

Article by The Waterless Carwash Granny

So, I have been reading alot lately since i have the free time….being retired in all and there is a big push to be kinder and gentler to the environment. That I like to hear and it is no wonder the earth has sustained more than enough damage. Entire species have been killed off. There is a growing hole in the ozone layer. Resources we once thought to be limitless and abundant are now showing signs of being depleted, some completely. So when scientists began exploring the possibility that there might be ways to create environmentally friendly car care products and succeeded in that endeavor, the consumers answered by investing in them.

The beauty of environmentally friendly car care products is that when people use them, they can feel good about the impact they are having in the environment. This is to say, of course, that they are having no impact on the environment. The products that have been created are meant to prevent the problems of the past. Previously, water was consumed in large quantities to wash the vehicles in automated car washes. Even worse, the water that was left from the process of washing the vehicle created even more problems for the environment. The runoff was ripe with chemicals that seeped into the ground water and polluted the soil.

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postheadericon Is There a Chance of Another Green Revolution Not Only in Agriculture but on Climate Change?

Is There a Chance of Another Green Revolution Not Only in Agriculture but on Climate Change?

Copyright (c) 2010 Alison Withers

In the last decade according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation global food prices have risen by an average of 83% overall.

That’s just one statistic from this week’s crop of news reports on climate change, global warming and food production.

Here’s another: global greenhouse gas emissions since the 1850s would have been a third greater without the 1960s Green Revolution, according to the researchers in the US.

Neither of these findings is likely to bring much comfort to the millions of people currently struggling with the effects of this year’s unprecedented rainfall in Pakistan and China, which has displaced at least 20 million people in the two countries, flooded out of their homes, their work and all they own, including crops, seeds and livestock.

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