Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes
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| A stratum of gases and clouds enables light to enter Earth's atmosphere and then absorbs and contains some of that solar energy as heat, much as glass does in a greenhouse. Without the "greenhouse effect" of this canopy of gases and clouds, the Earth would be about 40 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit colder than it is. Much of the planet would be frozen. The greenhouse effect is central to nature's strategy for equilibrating Earth's temperature, a function that is no less vital to life on our planet than the temperature of the human body is to our own life. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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 No one ever spilled sunlight in creating solar energy.
The Forests and the Greenhouse Effect
The relationship between deforestation and the Greenhouse Effect is an obvious one. But Americans seem to be able to see only distant objects clearly when it comes to environmental causes.
Unfortunately, a vigorous green life, needed to remove carbon dioxide and create oxygen, is vanishing from this planet at a staggering rate. Whether cleared to raise cheap beef in Central or South America, or to make room for our cars at the mall, trees—the great lungs of the earth—are sacrificed. |
Earth RightH. Patricia Hynes
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| Commercial uses of windpower and solar energy are proving their potential. In California, several 30-megawatt solar thermal electric plants supply electricity to utilities at competitive prices. The world market for wind turbines doubled every year from 1981 to 1985, reaching the equivalent of one coal-fired plant per year. All this has been developed without the government subsidies that nuclear power has enjoyed and the artificially low costs from which fossil fuels have benefited, because the tab for environmental damage they cause is picked up elsewhere. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Every aspect of our lifestyle—organic gardens, life force-preserving food preparation methods, ecologically sound strawbale architecture, hybrid solar energy systems, the heartfelt quality of our human interactions, and the spiritual energy generated by our committed staff—all contribute to creating, supporting, and sustaining the living of life in balance.
Participants learn on an experiential level how to draw healing energies from the Divine and the elements of Earth, air, sun, water and the living planet as a whole. |
Hemp TodayEd Rosenthal
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| Energy conservation, solar energy, especially passive water and space heating, electricity from windmills, tidal power and solar batteries, and waste to energy and other technologies can all help to meet our energy requirements and get us off the petroleum addiction.
Energy production would yield a low profit to farmers. Burning should be used as only the last step in a recycling program. After the plant is recycled as paper and cardboard several times, it could be burned or converted to other energy forms. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
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 They have dendrites which give them the potential to transmit and are our bodies' biologic solar energy cells. We, just like a pot of geraniums, need direct sunlight for good health.
An interesting and controversial study was carried out in a Sarasota, Florida grade school at Ott's suggestion. Two windowless classrooms were equipped with Ott's radiation shielded full-spectrum fluorescent lights. Two identical classrooms were equipped with standard cool white fluorescent lights to be used as controls. |
E. D. Hirsch
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 Any resource, such as wood or solar energy, that can or will be replenished naturally in the course of time.
Richter scale (RIK-tuhr) A scale used to rate the intensity of earthquakes. The scale ranges from 1 to 10. A serious earthquake might rate 6 to 8, and very destructive quakes rate higher. fa No quake greater than 9 has ever been recorded.
San Andreas Fault (SAN an-DRAY-uhs) A fault in California where the North American and the Pacific tectonic plates meet and slide along each other. (See earthquake and plate tectonics. |
| The term solar energy often refers to processes that use this energy to genetate heat or electricity for human use. (See solar cells.) stalactites Rock structures formed on the ceilings of caves as water drips down, leaving behind minerals before it falls. (Compare stalagmites.) fa Stalactites grow very slowly, fa One easy way to distinguish stalactites from stalagmites is to tecall that stalactites "hold tight'''' to the ceiling of a cave. Stalagmites "might reach the ceiling" of the cave and form a column. |
Carl Jensen
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 By 1994, Time magazine was ready to announce a "sunny forecast" for solar energy and Shell International Petroleum in London predicted renewable power, particularly solar, would dominate world energy production by 2050. By 1996, the first large, commercially competitive solar power projects were underway. In India, the Rajasthan State Electricity Board signed a 25-year power purchase agreement with Amoco/Enron Solar for power. |
| More than 90 percent of the federal solar energy budget for research and development has ended up in the coffers of the largest corporations in the United States.
SOURCES: New West, 8/11/80; Mother Jones, September-October 1980.
UPDATE: Following the energy crisis in the early 1970s, entrepreneurs rushed to develop solar power projects to free America of its oil dependency. Many of them went broke or were bought out by large corporations, including the big oil companies, as revealed in the 1980 story. |
John Robbins
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 Much of the western United States is sunny and windy, and could be used for large-scale solar energy and wind-power facilities. With the cattle off the land, photovoltaic modules and windmills could generate enormous amounts of energy without polluting or causing environmental damage. Other areas could grow grasses that could be harvested as "biomass" fuels, providing a far less polluting source of energy than fossil fuels. And much of it could simply be left alone, providing habitat for wildlife and gracing our world with wilderness. |
Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata
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 The dark bodies of most temperate ants soak up solar energy, which allows them to forage when it is cool. They sit at home when it is cloudy. The lack of opportunities for solar heating explains why ants are scarce in the gloom of tropical cloud forests, even though the average temperature in these habitats is warmer than that of temperate regions or of alpine areas higher in tropical mountains.
If you search diligently in tropical American cloud forests between 6,000 and 9,000 feet up the Andes, you might find a sprinkling of small, lethargic ants. |
Nelson Foster and Linda S. Cordell
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 Like maize, millet, and sugarcane, amaranth is an extremely efficient converter of solar energy and is thus fast growing.
It is also prolific and highly drought-resistant, so it hardly seems remarkable that it spread far and wide from its centers of domestication in Mexico and Peru, reaching fields as far south as present-day Argentina and as far north as the pueblos of the southwestern United States. At the time of the European invasion of the Americas, the most extensive cultivation of amaranth was in the high valleys of what is now central Mexico and which then lay within the Aztec state. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| Batteries produce a weaker electromagnetic field, and rechargeable batteries can easily be recharged with solar energy.
• Use alternative energy sources (such as the sun or wind), which produce a lower voltage of electricity. |
Richard Gerber, M.D.
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 As humans, we are continually bathed by the unseen radiations of a diverse vibrational environment, from the more common radio, television, and radio frequencies, to the more subtle aspects of solar energy. We live in resonance with and can be subtly affected by many different energy frequencies that permeate our local geocosmic setting. As many ancient cultures have worshipped the sun and its healing rays, one wonders whether or not such cultures had knowledge of the subtle energetic influences of ch'i and prana. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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| The term solar energy often tefers to processes that use this energy to generate heat or electricity for human use. (See solar cells.) stalactites (stuh-lak-teyets) Rock structures formed on the ceilings of caves as water drips down, leaving behind minerals before it falls. (Compare stalagmites.) fa Stalactites grow very slowly, fa One easy way to distinguish stalactites from stalagmites is to recall that stalactites "hold tight" to the ceiling of a cave. Stalagmites "might reach the ceiling" of the cave and form a column. |
| Any resource, such as wood or solar energy, that can or will be replenished naturally in the course of time.
Richter scale (RiK-tuhr) A scale used to rate the intensity of earthquakes. The scale is open-ended, with each succeeding level representing ten times as much energy as the last. A serious earthquake might rate 6 to 8, and very destructive quakes rate higher. fa No quake greater than 9 has ever been recorded.
San Andreas Fault (san an-dray-uhs) A fault in California where the North American and the Pacific tectonic plates meet and slide along each other. |
Linda Mason Hunter
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 Even though our government is no longer supporting solar energy with tax credits, as it did in the late 1970s and early 1980s, solar heating is still a viable alternative economically.
The starting point for a passive solar house or sun-room is good southern exposure. Next, bear in mind that the best passive designs strike a subtle balance between insulation, thermal mass, and the amount of south glazing used. Think twice before using glass in roof sections of a passive solar space. Glass roofs can create overheating and night insulation problems. |
| Emphasize radiant heating and solar energy.
¦ Construct buildings that smell pleasant or neutral, with no pollution by toxic fumes.
¦ Choose lighting and colors in accordance with nature.
¦ Provide adequate protection from noise.
¦ Preserve natural electrical field conditions.
¦ Use ergonomic furniture.
Baubiologie advocates holistic living, a philosophy that weaves its way through your whole life. |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
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| B Operates a home with a three desk office and a product construction shop with power tools on solar energy with wind power as a backup on stormy days when there is no sun. Because of their respect for animals and all life, they discourage using their equipment for electric fences that can harm animals.
Holly Solar Products. Solar panels, mounting packages and hardware.
Integral Energy Systems. A good selection of the basics, plus books on alternative energy. jade Mountain. |
| Renewable Energy_
Although 30,000 homes in the United States already use solar energy as their primary energy source, switching to non-polluting and renewable sources of energy is now becoming a realistic option for many people.
I've listed here general alternative-energy catalogs that have a wide range of products that can help you convert to alternative energy either partially or entirely, or experiment with single appliances such as solar fans that can be powered by renewable energy. |
Marion Nestle
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 Because plants can extract minerals from soil and use solar energy to synthesize vitamins and other essential nutrients, and because animals eat plants and
TABLE 39. Dietary components generally considered essential or beneficial to human health
Category
Definition: Examples
Calorie sources
Essential amino acids
Essential fatty acids
Vitamins
Water-soluble
Fat-soluble
Minerals
Large molecules that are broken down by digestive enzymes, absorbed, and metabolized or used to construct body molecules: carbohydrate, fat, protein, alcohol. |
James Trefil
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 We knew that the number of sunspots on the sun goes through an eleven-year cycle (you may be aware of this, because during the peak of the sunspot cycle, particles from the sun sometimes disrupt radio transmissions on the earth). Scientists expected that the brightness of the sun would follow the same cycle, being lowest when there were the most sunspots and highest where there were few. The total expected change in brightness wasn't large (perhaps 0.1 percent), but even such a small change could well play a role in the earth's climate. |
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