Get a Good Health and Life Insurance Deal

In the new era of the Obama Health bill, everyone has to have some form of Health Insurance. That is the new environment of today, green, global warming or otherwise. So people in California can get help to get the best deal on Family Health Insurance. While you're at it, you might as well get a great deal on Life Insurance. After all, if you are the breadwinner of your family, you want to have your kids and spouse to be able to carry on, if by some disaster you happen to die before your kids are raised. So think about the future.

Children also need to be covered, so check out some California tips on Children's Health Insurance. This is the new reality. You have to have health insurance if you wanted to be treated by a doctor or at a hospital. If you do not have health insurance, it is possible that you will be denied treatment, except of the most emergency stabilizing sort. Today many hospitals are curtailing their emergency services, so this is not too reassuring. Plus, under the new health bill, within a couple of years, people above a minimum income have to have health insurance or pay a large penalty of several thousand dollars on their income tax. So, do the right thing, people in California and all over the United States and buy the best value you can for your family health insurance.

Quiet on Environmental Issues

People are kind of quiet about environmental issues these days. I think that the fallout from the Goldman Sachs swindle on mortgage backed securities is getting the big headlines. We in the United States are in a post-industrial society, which in plain English means that we don't produce much, so that is not too surprising that there is not much to complain about.

The UK General Election and the Environment

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The British education Foundation known as Edge is campaigning for British education to be centered on vocational training, including at the university level. They are focusing the public on three people who, depending on the election results, could be the next UK Education Minister, MPs Ed Balls, Michael Gove, and David Laws. This stance on vocational training is certainly a controversial stance. Many could answer that students need philosophical and theoretical education at an early age and through their university training. After all, you can get on the job training after you have finished high school or university. Still, I think this issue reflects the sort of feeling of hopelessness of young people in the United Kingdom and likely in many other advanced sector nations as well. The environment, both physical and social has a strong influence on the actual effect of education. Jobs of young people are important, whether green jobs or otherwise.

All this complicated training and then no jobs. What is it really about? It is a quite sad situation, when even primary school children are asked to decide what their life's career will be. Is this even possible? I feel that the economic depression and bailout of the financial system have sapped the souls of people in the UK. People want an easy way out, a guaranteed future for their children that probably does not exist. Is this a practical approach, or something quite impractical?

There are no easy answers except creating millions of productive jobs. In a place like the UK, the infrastructure is aging and needs repair. High-speed rail and maglev trains could help extend the breakthrough that was already made by connection the UK to the Continent with the Channel Tunnel, the so-called Chunnel. That type of development could lead to a more optimistic future and educational path for the children in the UK.

Make Your Own Doll, for the Environment

The powerHouse Arena will be hosting a "Make Your Own Mini-Me Day" with Youdoo Doll designer Sarah Lu on April 25th, Sunday from 2:00 pm to 3:30 PM. Did you ever get the feeling that it is better for the environment if you make your own goods for you and your family? It's probably true, and at least it will keep you and your kids busy. Sarah Lu will demonstrate how to make a doll in your own or your kid's image. Sounds like something right out of the Book of Genesis. You buy a Youdoo Doll, and Sarah will take a picture and iron it onto the doll-face. Then you have more fun by tattoo the doll and dressing it up. Note that you don't have to do all of the above, just what is right for you. This product is direct from the UK, and has been featured on the BBC show, Dragon Den. For more information, please contact Aaron Lake Smith, Events Coordinator: powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, tel: 212.604.9074 fax: 212.366.5247 email: aaron@powerHouseArena.com

As White as White-bread

There are other things in the environment at these funny white collar jobs. They recycle the garbage, but the word is that at the end of the day it all comes together anyway. Plus, nothing worse than a picky job agency. Been having some problems with Creative Circle. They are so picky. They gave me a job as a medical editor for 2 days, and despite rave reviews, have not gotten any more jobs from them. Hey, Harlem dudes, I hope I acted "white" enough. At these jobs, even if you are white, you better act as white as white-bread. Look at Obama, he is in his behavior as white as the British Queen, which is actually pretty bad.

Video Surveillance

Many people are nervous about video surveillance, but video surveillance could be important for the environment. You can target your camera and find out who is making mistakes in the sorting of their garbage. How can we create the proper mix of garbage for the environment without video surveillance? It is easy to say that society can educate people to act properly, but being a good enviromentalist is often difficult and expensive. So, I urge you to think about using these modern surveillance tools to make sure that the people around you comply with the law.

Beaucoup de gens sont nerveux au sujet de la videosurveillance, mais la surveillance vidéo pourrait être important pour l'environnement. Vous pouvez cibler votre appareil photo et découvrir qui est de faire des erreurs dans le tri de leurs déchets. Comment pouvons-nous créer le mélange adéquat des déchets pour l'environnement sans surveillance vidéo? Il est facile de dire que la société peut éduquer les gens à agir correctement, mais être un environnementaliste bien est souvent difficile et coûteux. Alors, je vous invite à réfléchir sur l'utilisation de ces outils modernes de surveillance pour s'assurer que les gens autour de vous conformer à la loi.

Killing Nukes? Don't Blame it on the Fish

The NY State Dept of Enviromental Conservation is lying about its "proposal" for the 2 units of the Indian Pt. Power Plant. The plant is located 35 miles north of central Manhattan, and supplies 30% of the electricity to New York City and Westchester County. If they want to help the fish, Entergy Corp. the owner of the plants, has offered to put in fish nets and wire screening to make sure that less fish are killed in the open water cooling mechanisms.

Any move to change the plants from an open-circulation system of water cooling, to a closed system with cooling towers would mean the end of the plants.

More details on Entergy's counter-proposal, below, source is http://www.safesecurevital.org/entergy-makes-filing-with-nys-dec/:

After a rigorous and thorough study, an engineering firm commissioned by Entergy, Enercon, and its leading nationally recognized biological experts concluded that Wedgewire screens would better protect fish eggs and larvae over the 20-year period of a renewed Indian Point license in large part because they can be installed and operational 12 to 15 years sooner than cooling towers.

Moreover, unlike Wedgewire systems that operate beneath the surface of the river with no harmful emissions, the massive cooling towers would emit approximately 100 tons of particulate matter a year of air pollution. Particulate matter are considered among the leading environmental causes of respiratory illness, especially among the very young and the elderly.

Wedgewire screens is a technology that is growing in popularity with hundreds in operation worldwide and in the US, including The Charles Point Resource Recovery facility adjacent to Indian Point and an IBM facility on the Hudson River.

The Enercon study concluded that there is very little, if any, chance that the massive cooling towers could receive the necessary construction, rock blasting and zoning permits required from the Village of Buchanan, N.Y. Entergy could also encounter significant opposition to moving a major interstate pipeline that, according to its owner, supplies approximately 50 percent of New England's natural gas requirements to make way for the cooling towers.

See Green with iLasik

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See the Green of spring in a global warming daydream with iLasik. The beautiful colors that you may say are sung about and played about in the iLASIK Video Contest. These great videos are from the iLASIK contest that is now finished. The first prize winner won $5,000 so that now he can stop losing his contact lenses or cracking them, and he can just get up in the morning and see. The killer Grand Prize winner had a musical video that was too much. It was crazy, it was wild, that guy really should get an advertising contract on Madison Avenue. He was out in a green meadow and strumming his guitar in one scene. I felt the greenie environmentalist vibes, and knew right then and there that he did not like global warming one bit either. Then he was riding on his bike, but fell flat on the floor, and he sang, that he couldn't read his books no more, until he got his iLasik. Now, his life is so basic. Dig it, it rhymes.

The other 1st prize winners and the runner-ups in the iLASIK Video Contest also put on a pretty good show. This contest was multi-layered with many chances to win great prizes. In one funny video, the guy tries to kiss his girlfriend on a park bench, and ends up connecting his lips to her nose. Later, he has to go to a public restroom, but first walks into the ladies' room, until quickly beating a retreat and going into the adjoining men's room. Of course all these socially embarrassing problems were immediately solved when our hero had his iLasik procedure done. There was another division of the contest, where people had videos show how they could do a sport better after iLasik. A funny one was a pure animation, of a guy riding a surfboard. He actually had to find his contact lenses on the surfboard, while an animated shark waited to eat him. Whether or not you are ready to have eye surgery, you gotta see this!!!

Pakistan, Real Green is Nuclear

For large countries like India and Pakistan, a real green, global warming, environmentalist policy means nuclear energy. Pakistan has reached a nuclear deal with China whereby China will provide Pakistan with 82 percent of project cost, comprising a loan, technology, and installation facilities to set up Chashma III and Chashma IV, two pressurized light water reactors (PWR), each of 325 MW capacity. They will be located in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

Two earlier reactors at the same site, Chasma I and Chashma II, were also of the same capacity supplied by China's CNNC under safeguards. The main part of the plant was designed by Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute (SNERDI), based on Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant. It started up in May 2000 and is also known as CHASNUPP-1. Construction of its twin, Chashma II, started in December 2005. It is reported to cost US$ 860 million, with $350 million of this financed by China. A safeguards agreement with IAEA was signed in 2006, and grid connection is expected in 2011.

The nuclear agreement with China was among a dozen economic cooperation accords signed during President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to Beijing last year. The breakthrough deal was finalized ahead of the latest round of the Pak-US strategic dialogue, as the federal cabinet granted financial approval at a meeting on March 24. Sources privy to the deal told the Pakistani media that Pakistan's federal cabinet had approved an inter-government framework agreement on the financing of CHASNUPP-3 and CHASNUPP- 4 with China. All and all it's a very good deal.