Best air-filtering houseplants, according to NASA

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Best air-filtering houseplants, according to NASA

If these plants are good enough to filter the air of the space station, surely they’re good enough for your home.
Having good indoor air quality is very important, especially since many of us spend so much time inside. NASA did a study to find out which plants were best to filter the air of the space station, and the agency’s findings are available to all.
Read online to see which houseplants are best to filter the air (not only producing oxygen from CO2, but also absorbing benzene, formaldehyde and/or trichloroethylene.)

5 ways to help save the bees

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5 ways to help save the bees

Honey bees are an important part of our ecological fabric, but their population is dwindling. See what you can do to help save the bees.
By Care2.com

Pollinators like bees are critical to our world’s food supply, and their numbers are dwindling. What can we do to help save the bees? We rely on bees to pollinate over 30 percent of our food crops, but Colony Collapse Disorder threatens the world bee population and the future of our food supply. Plants like apples, avocados, squash, cucumbers, and many other food plants that we commonly eat need pollinators in order to grow.

Luckily, it’s not all gloom and doom! Here are some ways that you can take action right now to help the dwindling bee population.

Read this article for five ways you can help the bees.

NASA’s James Hansen, Leaving Post to Fight Climate Change Full Time

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James Hansen, the NASA scientist credited with raising the earliest and most consistent alarm over the dangers of human-caused global warming and climate change has announced that he’s leaving his government job so that he can put his full energies into the climate movement he helped spur.

After almost half a century working for the government, he told the New York Times on Tuesday he now considered it appropriate to step outside so he could more fully join the political and legal fight to limit greenhouse gases and runaway climate change.

“As a government employee, you can’t testify against the government,” he told the Times in an interview.

October 1, 2006 Hour One

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Guests: Dr. Lorraine Fertsch, M.D., P.A. and Dr. Christine Mitchell, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Ruscombe Mansion Health Fair on Oct. 8th http://Ruscombe.org AND Guest: Sue Green Baby Boomer Expo on 10/11 and 10/12 at Timonium Fairgrounds www.SeniorExpoOnline.com

October 1, 2006 Hour Two

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(best of from 8/27) Guest: Wendy Kelman The Geppi’s Entertainment Museum in Baltimore www.GeppisMuseum.com AND Guest: Marisa Canino Chesapeake Chapter of Habitat for Humanity www.ChesapeakeHFH.org

October 15, 2006 Hour Two

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(best of from 7/16) Guest: Mike Tidwell Author, Filmaker, and the founder & director of Chesapeake Climate Action Network (C-CAN) www.ChesapeakeClimate.org AND Shirley Crawford-Gantt Big Brother’s, Big Sister’s of Baltimore www.BigLittle.org    

October 22, 2006 Hour One

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Guest: Gilbert Sandler Author of “Small Town Baltimore: An Album of Memories” http://ABELL.org & http://WYPR.org AND Guest: Gary and Lisa Jolbitadl Tomatoe Art Company 410-744-9444 for more info.

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