Stikkord: environment

#23. Mobiltelefoner er ikke bærekraftige

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Les ågso: #15. Bærekraftsdagen

Bærekraftsdagen feires 26. oktober. Cretan-Garden-såpene er økologiske og bærekraftige: de er laget av organisk olivenolje, organiske urter og organiske eteriske oljer. Oljen og urtene, som har en holdbarhetsdato, er omgjort til et bærekraftig produkt, nå som de har blitt brukt som råvarer til den håndlagde såpen, som ikke har noen holdbarhetsdato.

Bærekraft – å være eller ikke være bærekraftig

Viktig kunngjøring: Innstillingene for mobilbruk er deaktivert på nettstedet til Cretan-Garden. Dette har en grunn:

Mobiltelefoner er ikke bærekraftige, ikke økologiske, forurenser miljøet, er knyttet til menneskerettighetsbrudd, barnearbeid, folkemordet i den Demokratiske Republikken Kongo, og fremskynder klimaendringene. Råd: besøk denne nettsiden med en datamaskin, helst koblet til Ethernet.

Helse – Mobiltelefoner, alle trådløse enheter, Wi-Fi, smartmålere og mobiltårn forårsaker helseproblemer. Strålingen disse forårsaker er menneskeskapt og samsvarer ikke med den naturlige elektrisiteten i naturlige organismer til mennesker, dyr og planter, insekter, amfibier, fugler, fisk, hvaler etc. Lenker

Sikkerhetsretningslinjene er ikke pålitelige – Sikkerhetsretningslinjene blir utarbeidet av ICNIRP[liste over 59 parafraser med påstander mot ICNIRP][rapportere], en gruppe med interessekonflikt med telekomindustrien, som er telekom-økonomi vennlig, men ikke helsevennlig: de avviser tusenvis av (alarmerende) uavhengige vitenskapelige studier om biologiske effekter av EMF. ICNIRP validere kun de termiske effektene. Dette har banet vei for en enorm vekst i telekom økonomi.

Norge’s DSA følger ICNIRPs retningslinjer. Det betyr at Norge tåler alt for høy stråling. Fordi ICNIRP har et omfang som er verdensomspennende, kan vi konkludere med at strålingen fra mobiltelefoner, trådløse bærbare datamaskiner og datamaskiner, iPads, rutere, videre fra mobiltårn, smartmålere, Wi-Fi, 4G LTE, 5G og fra satellittene i verdensrommet, utgjør en trussel mot et sunt liv på jorden for alle livsformer.

Klimaendringer – Telekomindustrien skaper også et enormt karbonavtrykk, akselererer global oppvarming, og bruker alt for mye vann mens vann blir knappere i et økende antall land.

Konfliktmineraler – Mobiltelefoner inneholder konfliktmineraler. Disse utvinnes under svært farlige forhold, av barneslaver. Minene er farlige og korridorene for trange for voksne. Totalt mistet 6.000.000 mennesker livet i Kongo på grunn av utvinning av coltan, mineralet som trengs for batteriet i mobiltelefonen din. Kilde

Ikke bærekraftig – Mobiltelefoner i seg selv er ikke bærekraftige: spesielt Apple produserer telefoner med batteri som er limt inn, slik at fagfolk som jobber i grønne verksteder ikke kan reparere dem. Det trengs en Apple-«ekspert» til dette, og praksis viser at svaret ofte er at telefonen ikke lar seg reparere, selv om den er det. OBS: Det er selskaper som selger “bærekraftige” og “etiske” mobiltelefoner. Dette er basert på feilinformasjon.
Mer om dette snart.

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Stråling synliggjort. Ikke på bildet: mobilmaster

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Read also: #15. Sustainability Day

#23. Cellphones are not sustainable

Sustainability Day is celebrated on 26 October. Cretan-Garden soaps are organic and sustainable: they are made from organic olive oil, organic herbs and organic essential oils. The oil and herbs, which have an expiration date, have been transformed into a sustainable product, now that they have been used as raw materials for the handmade soap, which has no expiration date.

Important announcement: The settings for mobile use are disabled on the Cretan-Garden website. This has a reason.

Cell phones are not sustainable, not ecological, pollute the environment, are linked to human rights violations, child labor, the genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and accelerate climate change. Advice: visit this website with a computer, preferably connected to Ethernet.

Health – Cell phones, all wireless devices, Wi-Fi, smart meters and cell towers cause health problems. The radiation these cause is man-made and does not match the natural electricity in natural organisms of humans, animals and plants, insects, amphibians, birds, fish, whales etc. Links

Safety guidelines are not reliable – The safety guidelines are drawn up by ICNIRP[list of 59 paraphrases with claims against ICNIRP][report], a group with a conflict of interest with the telecom industry, which is telecom-economy friendly but not health friendly: they reject thousands of (alarming) independent scientific studies on biological effects of EMF. ICNIRP only validates the thermal effects. This has paved the way for enormous growth in the telecom economy.

Norway’s DSA follows the ICNIRP guidelines. This means that Norway tolerates far too much radiation. Because ICNIRP has a worldwide scope, we can conclude that the radiation from mobile phones, wireless laptops and computers, iPads, routers, further from mobile towers, smart meters, Wi-Fi, 4G LTE, 5G and from the satellites in space, constitute a threat to a healthy life on earth for all life forms.

Climate change – The telecoms industry also creates a huge carbon footprint, accelerates global warming, and uses way too much clean water while clean water is becoming scarcer in a growing number of countries.

Conflict minerals – Mobile phones contain conflict minerals. These are extracted under very dangerous conditions, by child slaves. The mines are dangerous and the corridors too narrow for adults. A total of 6,000,000 people lost their lives in the Congo due to the extraction of coltan, the mineral needed for the battery in your mobile phone. Source1 Source2 Source3

Mobile phones are not sustainable – Apple in particular produces phones with batteries glued in so that professionals working in green workshops cannot repair them. An Apple «expert» is needed for this, and practice shows that the answer is often that the phone cannot be repaired, even if it is. Attention: there are companies who sell “sustainable” and “ethical” cellphones. This is based on misinformation.
More on this soon.

Additional:

Invisible electromagnetic radiation made visible. Not on the picture: celltowers, base stations.
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#15. Bærekraftsdagen

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Se ågso: Mobiltelefoner er ikke bærekraftige / publisert 10-10-2022

Originalartikkel: Hva er Bærekraftsdagen?

Visste du at vi feirer Bærekraftsdagen hvert år i oktober? Aldri hørt om det? Ingen bekymringer, faktisk betyr bærekraftsdag: en dag dedikert til å være bærekraftig og revurdere våre ritualer og vaner. Begrepet bærekraftig motsier ordet avfall, de throw-away society. Gjenbruk, resirkulering, redusering er kjennetegn ved bærekraft.

Bærekraftsdag 27. oktober 2021

I år vil denne dagen falle på 27. oktober 2021, selv om den kan være forskjellig avhengig av land. Nederland feiret det 8. oktober 2021. Hovedmålet bør være å feire det hver eneste dag! På denne dagen øker arrangørene bevisstheten rundt viktigheten av bærekraft, og deler også innsikt med hverandre med det felles målet å bygge et godt utdannet, ansvarlig samfunn.

Hvorfor er det en bærekraftsdag?

I dagens dag og århundre er ikke bærekraft noe vi hører en gang i en blå måne lenger. Selv om det startet som litt av en trend, har det vist seg for alle at det er kommet for å bli. Likevel, å ha en bærekraftsdag – som vi har Verdens Dagen og andre feiringer – er et øyeblikk for å minne oss på dette.

Heldigvis adopterer designere og merkevarer ikke bare prinsippene for bærekraft, men de har begynt å innlemme bærekraft i alle faser av å lage klær, fra øko-materialer til øko-emballasje, samt hvordan de behandler sine arbeidere.

Bærekraft er fortsatt et emne som mange ennå ikke har fordøyd og helt forstår, og det er derfor (blant mange andre grunner), vi feirer bærekraftsdagen hvert år den 4. onsdagen i oktober.

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“Bærekraftig” oversettes til “å opprettholdes i veldig lang tid”, som er nøyaktig målet, å kunne ta vare på planeten for alltid. For å nå dette målet bruker noen tid i løpet av dagen til å lære kolleger om hva som er resirkulerbart på kontoret og hva som ikke er det. Noen dedikerer dagen til å bygge bærekraftige strategier, andre lover å trykke tosidig på papir eller kun kjøpe resirkulert papir og skrivesaker. Bruk av naturlig sollys og ventilasjon for dagen og så videre.

Nederland er ikke fremmed den dag i dag. «Dag van de Duurzaamheid» kaller de det. Dagen er ment som et utstillingsvindu for bærekraftstiltak. Tusenvis av skoler deltar i bærekraftige kampanjer, fra leksjoner om avfallssortering til konferanser ved universiteter. Og det er ikke alt, den nederlandske Sustainable Fashion Week skulle dele bærekraftskampanjer.

Hva er de 10 reglene for bærekraft?

Det er mange måter du kan bli involvert på, og du kan gjøre dette alene eller kollektivt, du trenger ikke nødvendigvis å gjøre noe ekstraordinært eller starte et opprør. For å feire denne dagen kan du ganske enkelt tenke på noen av dine vaner og ritualer. Så enkelt som det!

Photo by Lara Jameson from Pexels

Her er noen ideer:

  • Doner klærne dine i stedet for å kaste dem i søpla.
  • I dag, hvorfor ikke sykle i stedet for bilen (hvorfor ikke hver dag!).
  • Vær oppmerksom på vannforbruket ditt
  • Resirkuler, gjenbruk, gjenbruk klær (eh, ikke bare klær).
  • Bruk en gjenbrukbar vannflaske, eller gjenbrukbare sugerør noen?
  • Støtt og se på merker som er bærekraftige
  • Hvis du handler på nett i dag, bestill lokalt.
  • Hvorfor ikke prøve å kjøpe bruktklær?
  • Prøv veganske støvler og vesker
  • Og til slutt, kjøp mindre og kjøp bedre!

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Cretan Garden-såper er bærekraftige

Cretan Garden-såper er bærekraftige. Ideen til Cretan Garden-nettbutikken er født ut av ønsket om å resirkulere olivenolje og urter i kjelleren før de ville ha gått ut på dato, og derfor gått tapt. Cretan Garden-såper har ingen utløpsdato fordi de er helt veganske, og urtene ble fullstendig tørket før bruk. Alle råvarer er perfekt resirkulert, reddet fra avfall, og fordi sluttproduktet, såpen, ikke har en utløpsdato, er såpen garantert bærekraftig. Innpakningen har blitt miljøsikkert trykket. Papiret kan resirkuleres igjen.

Cretan Garden såpe er bærekraftig, biologisk nedbrytbar, vegansk, laget av økologisk olivenolje og økologiske urter.

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See also: Mobile phones are not sustainable / published 10-10-2022

#15. Sustainability Day

Original article: What is Sustainability Day?

Did you know we celebrate Sustainability day every year in October? Never heard of it? No worries, in fact sustainability day means: a day dedicated to being sustainable and rethinking our rituals and habits. The term sustainable contradicts the word waste, the throw-away society. Reuse, recycling, reduce are characteristics of sustainability.

Sustainability Day on 27th October 2021

This year this day would fall on 27th October 2021, although it might be different depending on the country. The Netherlands celebrated it on October 8th, 2021. The main goal should be to celebrate it every single day! On this day, the organizers raise awareness towards the importance of Sustainability, and also share insights with one another with the common goal of building a well-educated, responsible community.

Why is there a sustainability day?

In the current day and age, sustainability is not something we hear once in a blue moon anymore. Even though it started out as somewhat of a trend, it has proved to everyone that it is here to stay. Still, having a sustainability day – like we have Earth Day and other celebrations – is a moment to remind us of this.

Thankfully, designers and brands are not only adopting the principles of sustainability, but they have started to incorporate sustainability in every phase of creating clothing, from eco-materials to eco-packaging, as well as how they treat their workers.

Sustainability is still a subject that many have yet to digest and completely understand, which is why (among many other reasons), we celebrate Sustainability Day every year on the 4th Wednesday of October.

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“Sustainable” translates to “to be maintained for a very long time”, which is exactly the goal, to be able to take care of the planet forever. In order to reach this goal, some spend time during their day teaching colleagues about what is recyclable in their office and what is not. Some dedicate the day to build sustainable strategies, others pledge to double-sided print on paper or buying only recycled paper and stationery. Using natural sunlight and ventilation for the day and so on

The Netherlands is no stranger to this day. ”Dag van de Duurzaamheid” they call it. The day is intended as a showcase for sustainability initiatives. Thousands of schools participate in sustainable campaigns, starting from lessons about waste separation to conferences at universities. And that’s not all, the Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week, was to part sustainability campaigns.

What are the 10 rules of sustainability?

There are many ways you can get involved, and you can do this alone or collectively, you don’t have to necessarily do something extraordinary or start a riot. To celebrate this day you could simply re-think some of your habits and rituals. As easy as that!

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Here are some ideas:

  1. Donate your clothes instead of throwing them in the bin.
  2. Today, why not ride the bike instead of the car (why not every day!).
  3. Be mindful of your water consumption
  4. Recycle, reuse, repurpose clothes (eh, not just clothes).
  5. Use a reusable water bottle, or reusable straws anybody?
  6. Support and look into brands that are sustainable
  7. If you are shopping online today, order locally.
  8. Why not try to buy second-hand clothes?
  9. Give it a go to vegan boots and bags 
  10. And finally, buy less and buy better!

Cretan Garden soaps are sustainable

Cretan Garden soaps are sustainable. The idea of the Cretan Garden webshop is born out of the wish to recycle the olive oil and herbs in the basement before they would have become expired, and therefore lost. Cretan Garden soaps do not have an expiring date because they are absolutely vegan, and the herbs were fully dried before using. All raw materials are perfectly recycled, saved from waste, and because the end-product, the soap, does not have an expiring date the soap is guaranteed sustainable. The wrapper has been environmentally-safe printed. The paper can be recycled again.

Cretan Garden soap is sustainable, biodegradable, vegan, made out of organic olive oil and organic herbs.

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#13. Wood ash

The most discussed and criticized part of the soap making process is the so-called lye. Lye is the chemical substance that transforms vegetable oil into soap. There are two kinds of lye: the lye from wood ash[1] —potassium hydroxide— and store-bought lye —sodium hydroxide—. The lye from wood ash is lesser caustic and should therefore be preferable. But it is not. I explain this in the following paragraphs.

The goods of trees

The wood ashes that are suitable for soap making are from trees like the oak, walnut, beech, elm, holly, and fifteen more[2]. The olive tree[3] is also on the list, but named ash tree, the English name for the Fraxinus family[4], whereto also the olive tree belongs. These twenty trees produce hardwood.

Trees are multitaskers: their wood is for instance used for furniture, houses, fences, doors, plates, boats, masts, boxes, and sculptures. Their leaves are creating wonderful colours in the surrounding landscapes[5]. The blossoms of several of these trees are used in the Bach flowers remedies[6], like oak, walnut, holly, beech, willow, cherry, elm, and olive.

In the Fall
Photo: Mike
Alpherveld 1
Photo: Anna Poelstra

Last but not least: trees extract CO2 from the air and convert it into oxygen and biomass (such as wood, leaves, and roots). They release the oxygen into the air. Trees mainly store extra CO2 when they grow. Trees play therefore an essential role in the climate change, and there even exist so-called compensation-forests, created to compensate the CO2 emissions from the industry[7].

Trees, wildfires, deforestation, economic fascism, eco-terrorism and the climate change

Worldwide, during almost three centuries, a by economic fascism[8] created violence against nature took place. It has increased extremely fast after WWII. Humans plundered nature, exploited nature. This has resulted in the man-made climate change. The 2021 report about the climate change makes clear that the natural balance of nature is irreversible destroyed. We experience an increase in extreme weather: droughts and floods. Extreme droughts create wildfires. The devastating effects of the wildfires of 2021 have created a catastrophic loss of CO2 converters. There is another worrying factor: tropical forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon[9]. Wildfires create carbon. Recent evidence indicates that as much as ten per cent of wildfire produced carbon remains in the atmosphere, contributing to global warming[10].

Not only wildfires create deforestation: because of the mining of coltan, enormous areas of the rainforests in Congo have been deforested. Coltan is used by the telecom industry, to create batteries for cellphones, but coltan is also used to create batteries for electric cars[11].

There can also be other reasons that trees are hacked down: criminality and ecoterrorism[12].

Olive grove in Crete. Thirty-five years old olive trees were cut, but not by the owner[13]. Also in Israel, West Bank, this happens. “Jewish settlers have gone on a rampage in occupied West Bank towns and villages, hacking down hundreds of olive orchards just as they were about to be harvested.”[14, story of 2003, but also in 2021 this happens[15].] This is named ecoterrorism.

A form of economic fascism[8] is the extreme violence against nature for economic profit: the hacking down of trees for the rollout of 5G. Where 5G is going up, all around the world where 5G is going up, trees are coming down. The reason is: trees inhibit the progress of 5G.[16, lecture Barrie Trower, part 2, at 06:03]. Trees suffer anyhow from the radiation of cell towers. Every time you use a wireless device, you attack the trees between your device and the cell tower[17][18]. Finally, parts of the tree die, or the tree dies completely[19].

Because this kind of economic fascism takes place on behalf of democratic governments and even unions like the EU, and USA, it is not recognized as economic fascism, but essentially it is economic fascism. It is blind naïveness that makes one believe that WWII brought fascism to an end. Is the urge for 5G making the cutting down of trees a responsible choice? No. We absolutely do not need 5G. Industrialists are masters in brainwashing minds in order to sell their unnecessary products. This has to stop. We cannot endlessly continue exploiting nature for the economic growth of the rich countries. On the long term—but not that long—there is nothing left. We stare into the abyss[20, PDF, page 36, conclusion].

Conclusion

When we add all these facts up, we can only conclude that making natural soap with wood ashes is not environmental friendly, not sustainable. Trees become endangered, worldwide. Soaps, made with wood ash, are therefore not environmentally friendly soaps. When the soap manufacturer uses the wood of a tree that died naturally, the use of wood ash is ethically correct. The price of each bar of soup should be adapted accordingly. The profit of each single bar of soap made with wood ash should be donated to rainforest protection groups, or scientists who research the dramatic effects of wireless radiation on trees[18].

References and additional information
  1. Ash – Wikipedia
  2. 20 Different Types of Hardwood Trees – Pro Garden Tips
  3. Is olive tree a hardwood? – Askingglot
  4. Fraxinus – Wikipedia
  5. Trees – Gallery on Flickr
  6. Dr Edward Bach flower remedies – Multerland
  7. Bossen voor niets geplant: CO2 compensatie in rook op – RTL nieuws
  8. Economic fascism – Foundation for Economic Education
  9. Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds – The Guardian
  10. Wildfires, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change – Future Directions International
  11. Deforestation in Congo – Multerland YouTube
  12. Ecoterrorism – Merriam-Webster
  13. He went to his olive grove and found the olive trees cut – Creta Live News
  14. Jewish settlers destroy olive groves – Al Jazeera
  15. Israeli settlers destroy 100 olive trees in West Bank – Anadolu Agency, Turkey
  16. Trees hacked down because of 5G — Lecture Barrie Trower, part 2, at 06:03 – Multerland
  17. Andrew Goldsworthy ~ Tree damage: Effects of Electromagnetic Stress in Trees ~ 2011 – Multerland YouTube
  18. Collection of articles and scientific research about the impact of EMF on trees – Multerland
  19. Tree Damage – Observation Guide, by Helmut Breunig, March 2017 – Multerland
  20. Report UNESCO – PDF
  21. Protecting Crete’s ancient olive trees from being fed to the fire – Ekathimerini
  22. Wildfire ash damaging to vehicles – Sonoma News
  23. Effect of Wood Ash Waste from Black Soap- making on Heavy Metals in Leaf Amaranth, Cowpea and Maize – ResearchGate

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