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Go Wild
Why Lawns are Passé
Seas the Day
Starting next year, gasoline-pow-
ered lawn mowers, chain saws and
Celebrate World
weed trimmers, as well as boats
Ocean Day June 8
and other watercraft, must clean
Thousands of concerned citizens
up their act. New Environmental
will gather on World Ocean Day,
Protection Agency emission and
June 8,
fuel evaporation standards for new,
to deepen awareness of the univer-
small, spark-ignition engines take ef-
sal benefits and alarming plight
fect with 2010 models. They’ll now
of Earth’s oceans, and the need to
have catalytic converters, like those
stop human activities from harm-
required in cars since 1975. A riding
ing them. Inspiring community
lawn mower, for instance, currently
events, activities and celebrations
emits as much pollution in an hour
will roll out at aquariums, zoos,
as 34 cars. The move, “will allow
museums and other educational
Americans to cut air pollution, as
institutions in all 50 states and 70
well as grass,” quips EPA administra-
countries, based on the 2009 theme, “One climate, one ocean, one future.”
tor Stephen L. Johnson.
According the World Ocean Network, the oceans have, “never deteriorated
By 2030, the improvement will
so much in five years.” Fish populations are falling sharply; invasive species and
cut 15 percent of the nation’s annual
diseases are spreading; coral reefs are dying; and pollution continues to threaten
hydrocarbon pollution load, includ-
marine life, including plankton and shellfish that form the base of the food
ing 600,000 tons of hydrocarbons,
chain. Escalating carbon dioxide saturation is acidifying and altering ecologies
130,000 tons of nitrogen oxide, 1.5
in the warming waters of our oceans, which play a crucial role in maintaining
million tons of carbon monoxide
Earth’s climate.
and 5,500 tons of fine particulates.
It’s like removing one of every five
Find ideas for individuals, families, communities, artists, educators and
vehicles on the road, notes the
conservationists who want to join in at TheOceanProject.org/wod/wod_
National Association of Clean Air
ideas.php.
Agencies. This means less summer-
time smog, with associated reduc-
tions in respiratory illness, hospital-
izations, lost workdays and deaths.
NASA researchers estimate that,
Join us for a
despite widespread water shortages,
chemical fertilizer pollution and
Life-Changing Weekend
injuries from mowers, Americans
still cling to 50,000 square miles of
lawns. “[Lawns] could be considered
Sandra Rose Michael, Ph.D.
the single largest irrigated crop in
presenting the Energy Enhancement System, a
America, in terms of surface area,”
technology promoting anti-aging and optimal health
they report, consuming a third of all
residential water use. Plus, lawns
and
receive more pesticide and herbicide
Effie Poy Yew Chow, Ph.D.
application than any other U.S. crop.
presenting Chow Medical Qigong, They advise that just leaving clip-
a whole person approach for healing pings on the grass could nearly halve
the current volume of synthetic
May 29-30 X $20 per person
nitrogen fertilizer used.
For information, contact
Secondary Source: Environmental
Bob Mulligan X 239.621.2840 X Nilsa Abreu X 239.851.1506
Defense Fund
1 Collier / Lee Counties
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