http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/environment.htm en-us sepp@lastrega.com Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:26:40 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/02/15/creating_reality_from_consciousness_and_free_will_to_three_dimensional_networking.htm How often have we been told that we create our own reality. That all we need to do is envision, with positive thought, what we want and it will surely come about. Actually, a whole industry has sprung up around that meme, from life coaches to do-it-yourself success books. Perhaps the most recent and arguably one of the most widely known examples of this is The Secret, an inspirational film and a book that promote what is called the law of attraction. The object seems to be to obtain what you most wish for. In our society, that normally turns out to be financial success, but it is not necessarily limited to that. Now how does this... Human Potential Sepp Hasslberger Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:26:40 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/02/01/world_health_organization_paralyzed_by_nuclear_lobby.htm A study by the World Health Organization's senior radiation advisor Dr Keith Baverstock, completed in 2001, suggested that the use of uranium weapons in Iraq could pose a unique health hazard to the civilian population. The publication of the study was suppressed by the World Health Organization's hierarchy and only in February 2004 the UK Sunday Herald broke that story. Dr Baverstock was quoted as saying: “I believe our study was censored and suppressed by the WHO because they didn’t like its conclusions. Previous experience suggests that WHO officials were bowing to pressure from the IAEA, whose remit is to promote nuclear power. That is more than unfortunate, as publishing the study would have helped forewarn... Environment Sepp Hasslberger Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:46:11 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/05/29/bird_flu_and_microwaves_are_we_killing_birds_with_radiation.htm Are we killing our feathered friends with radiation? The question might seem far fetched, but it really is not a big stretch of the imagination. Microwaves do cause heating and other, more subtle changes of biological tissues. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho of ISIS says: "Birds near mobile phone base stations do not breed well" in a recent article titled Mobile Phones & Vanishing Birds - Where did all the sparrows go? In addition to birds, bees have been getting sick and disoriented, and whole hives are being deserted - we even have a new name for the phenomenon: Colony Collapse Disorder or Vanishing Bee Syndrome. The mysterious illness has decimated the honeybee population in several nations. There are... Environment Sepp Hasslberger Tue, 29 May 2007 17:40:31 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/05/09/confined_animal_feeding_operations_spearhead_corporate_food_monopoly.htm Factory farms or CAFOs, Confined Animal Feeding Operations, not only provide most of the foods that are eaten in "developed" countries the world over, they are a spearhead for establishing a food monopoly of giant biotech corporations and Big Food multinationals. That is the gist of an urgent call to action issued by Eileen Dannemann, the former director of the National Coalition of Organized Women, on the Progressive Convergence site: The sudden overwhelming proliferation of Confined Animal Feeding Operations; the FDA approval of cloned meat and milk from cloned cows unlabeled at the consumer level; the Monsanto patents pending on GMO hog breeds; and the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) are all synchronized elements of the covert... Environment Sepp Hasslberger Wed, 9 May 2007 17:11:34 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/03/06/millions_of_bees_die_are_electromagnetic_signals_to_blame.htm Bees in the US are dying of some unknown cause - millions of them are leaving their hives and do not come back. What is happening? The problem has got a name - colony collapse disorder - but no apparent cause. Bee hive - Image credit: EnviroZine Some years back, France and other European countries had a similar, if less severe die-off of honey bees. At the time Gaucho, a poisonous seed treatment chemical produced by Bayer, was blamed, the die-off has continued in Europe, although at a comparatively slower pace. The situation in the US seems even more severe than what happened in Europe, and certainly the onset is more sudden. According to The Independent, millions... Environment Sepp Hasslberger Tue, 6 Mar 2007 23:10:03 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/12/14/biofuels_hard_choice_want_food_or_fuel.htm It's been just over two year ago that Georges Monbiot warned us of the dark side of an apparently good idea: replacing petroleum based fuels with others based on bio-mass. My article reporting on this drew some critical comments, but the initial fears seem to be borne out now as we are getting closer to implementing the biofuel option. In May 2005, US president Bush urged widespread adoption of both biodiesel and ethanol production from agricultural products, as part of a strategy to reduce US dependence on oil imports. What he apparently didn't consider were the knock-on effects of such a strategy on food prices and ultimately on the ability of agriculture to assure a supply of... Environment Sepp Hasslberger Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:28:38 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/10/17/electromagnetic_pollution_campaign_issue_in_ontario_local_elections.htm One of the most widespread, but perhaps least acknowledged health problems today is the effect of electromagnetic pollution from ubiquitous mobile phone and computing networks as well as electric power transmission lines. Now this issue is entering local politics in a campaign for upcoming Ontario Municipal Elections and is perhaps soon to enter the National political scene in Canada. Martin Weatherall, candidate for Mayor of the Blandford-Blenheim Township, says he is making severe electrical pollution of our environment the main subject of his election platform. The issue is not an easy one, so he is telling his electorate: "You will need to conduct some basic research to understand the dangers that we are all facing, but the... Environment Sepp Hasslberger Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:34:37 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/09/28/depleted_uranium_doubled_diabetes_rate_leuren_moret.htm Depleted Uranium has been used in bombs and armour piercing munitions by the US-led war machine for about two decades, with great increases in the Iraq wars, in Afghanistan and the Balkans, and more recently also in Lebanon. But the uranium spread around the battle fields as a fine dust does not stay where it was released. It spreads around the planet and causes - says Leuren Moret - a veritable epidemic of ... diabetes around the world, quite apart from making wide swaths of country in the bombed nations too dangerous to live in. Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who worked at the Livermore nuclear weapons lab where she became a whistleblower in 1991. She has... Environment Sepp Hasslberger Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:42:51 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/02/03/asian_vultures_face_extinction_antiinflammatory_diclofenac_culprit.htm Vultures in India, Pakistan, Nepal and other South Asian countries have been decimated from being the 'most common large bird of prey' just two decades ago, to hovering at the brink of extinction. More than 95 % of the vulture population has disappeared, before we took notice. The reason is an anti-inflammatory drug, commonly used in livestock, such as cows. The drug's residues destroy the liver of the birds that feed on the carcasses of treated animals. The cause of the great dying was found just over a year ago, according to a BBC report, which fingered diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug whose veterinary use on livestock in South Asia has grown rapidly in recent years. The... Environment Sepp Hasslberger Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:07:24 GMT http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/01/28/chemicals_better_than_nature_perhaps_not.htm A recent report from the UK-based group Sense About Science titled Making Sense of Chemical Stories challenges the concept that natural is better for our health than chemical. Chemical substances are often safer than natural ones and are being unfairly blamed for cancer and other illnesses, the report says. Those suffering from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity/Chronic Fatigue Syndrom (MCS/CFS) would disagree. Sometimes one heavy exposure to a toxic substance is enough to sensitize a person to a class of chemicals and turn the life of the victim into pure hell. The flat-out denial of the existence of illness as a consequence of damage from chemicals can ruin people's lives and worse, it will work to deny them real... Environment Sepp Hasslberger Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:40:57 GMT