Home > Ways To Participate in the VSSE Podcast Project       Home    How To Listen    H2O Links    BLOG    Notification List ==~==~==~==~==~==    Water      Oceans      Seas      Great Lakes      Wetlands      Rivers          Waterkeepers®          American Rivers      Misc. - But Important    Earth          Pesticides      Earth's Tree News      Tropical Rain Forest    Vegetarian/Vegan    CAFOs    Climate History    Conferences    Energy    Nuclear Energy    Other Podcasts    Transportation    Turkish    Down in the Valley RSS FEED: Copy and Paste this feed: RSS FEED into your Aggregator Software to download New podcasts Automatically.    Ways To Participate in the "Vegan - Vegetarian Solutions for a Sustainable Environment" (VSSE) Podcast Project 1) Mostly I'm asking people to do a short (5-20 minute) lecture style audio presentation TWO times PER YEAR on some topic associated to the Environmental Reasons why the world needs to transition toward a Vegan/Vegetarian Diet/Lifestyle. 2) There is the need for people to read already written presentations. 3) There is a need for someone to read through some specific online news items once every 4 months or even every 6 months. This project will involve picking out a small handful of interesting items in the News that can be boiled down into a short synopsis for a segment of the podcast I'm hoping three or four people will take on called, "What's In the News?" 4) There is a need for people to do short interviews of fellow Vegans/Vegetarians in their area asking them some probing questions on why they think it is important for the Environment to be a Vegan/Vegetarian. 5) There is a need for people to think outside the box and come up with some imaginative idea to record a discussion, mock play, performance, song, poetry, or ??? emphasizing the Environmental Reasons for being a Vegan/Vegetarian. Thanks for seriously considering taking part in this important project. It is my hope that all the participating authors will also use their audio on their websites so their internet visitors can also appreciate the presentations. Note: any audio you create is your copyright protected property and can be used online only with your permission. I'm sure there are questions I've left unanswered. I'd be glad to discuss this further. Joseph Puentes NoMeat@h2opodcast.com ps: The content of your lecture style audio presentation is completely your decision but here is a non exhaustive list of possible topics that could be covered (taken from Pamela Rice's 101 Reasons to be a Vegetarian pamphlet; http://vivavegie.org): 4. Humans are scouring the oceans of fish; come 2048, say goodbye to fish stocks 8. As we cycle grain through animals, feed-to-flesh ratios tell a story of shameful waste 12. Subsidized Midwestern water has given us mountains of meat but poisoned wells, too 14. World's livestock responsible for 38 percent more greenhouse gasses than world's vehicles 15. Regulations to combat illegal fishing fail up against fierce consumer demand 22. 70 percent of world's precious little usable water goes to agriculture, much to grow feed crops 23. Meat is a guzzler of fossil-fuel energy; when cheap oil is gone, cheap meat will be history 25. Wild salmon in Norway wiped out by an aquaculture parasite; Scotland fears spread 27. In a vegetarian world, hungry people would get plenty to eat, as projected forward to 2050 28. Influenza, including the menacing H5N1 strain, would not exist if humans didn't eat poultry 31. An exploding human population, the planet's sagging grain reserves, on a collision course 36. Cattle likely the leading player in land degradation, pollution, climate change, overfishing 39. Predator control services provided to America's ranchers, compliments of the USDA 46. Arsenic, a long-time additive to chicken feed, found to be carcinogenic upon application 47. Fragile immune systems of factory animals require implementing airtight biosecurity 49. A recent study of coral reefs showed majority fished at a highly unsustainably rate 54. Aquaculture, is no-less disruptive to the environment than taking fish from the wild 58. Hydrogen sulfide emissions from mass feedlots eat the brains of neighbors over time 60. Ecoli O157:H7 infects most cattle on U.Sfeedlots, allows x-contamination to veggies 61. Worldwide, fertilizer, pesticides, and manure-runoff enter waterways to form dead zones 65. Wake-up call: Oregon has taken warnings about a bird-flu pandemic to heart with telling plan 68. Meat's real cost: government subsidies, dead zones, dwindling aquifers, a health-care crisis, etc. 70. Feedlot operators cannot afford to dispose of their manure safely: Hello, ecoli-spinach 77. The world's 3.2 billion cattle, sheep, goats, and domesticated bison pack an eco wallop 80. Today, nitrogen is cheap and easy to come by; It's the reason we have cheap feed/meat 83. Worldwide, livestock production uses 30 percent of the land surface of the planet 84. In America, essentially all farmed animals will be trucked around at least once 88. Since Earth's plant species evolved to use scarce nutrients, today's ammonia gluts kill them 92. Thirty percent of all the world's fish catch is non-target species, or "bycatch" 94. Veterinary pharmaceuticals are making their way into our waterways via animal waste 95. Farmers mine Ogallala Aquifer of 5 trillion gallons per year to power a meat infrastructure 101. Future generations will pay for global warming, other eco-problems, thanks in large part to meat ===================== Joseph Puentes http://h2opodcast.com/vsse.html (Vegan Environmental Solutions Podcast) http://h2opodcast.com (Environmental Podcast) http://h2opodcast.blogspot.com/ (Blog for above) http://PleaseListenToYourMom.com (Women's Peace Podcast) http://NuestraFamiliaUnida.com (Latin American History Podcast) http://NuestrosRanchos.com (Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Aguascalientes Genealogy)   For further information contact: Joseph Puentes email: Clean@h2opodcast.com RSS FEED: http://h2opodcast.com/rss.xml WWW H2Opodcast.com Copyright © Joseph L. Puentes 2005-2012 Counter developed by website design company designer.