What equals a whopping 22 tons a year? Answer: The average American’s total carbon footprint; which includes the emissions from your home, car, office, smartphone and everything you use and/or eat.  Let’s face it, you emit gas.

Thick clouds of grey smog hanging above cities are the most obvious form of air pollution we know. The culprits of this pollution fiasco we see in the sky, are typically coming from our standard vehicles and factories. However, what about the unseen gases? What about the poison seeping into our atmosphere from alternative sources?

Get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters–the worst may be yet to come. That’s the long-long-range weather forecast being given out by “climatologists;” the people who study long-term world weather trends.

Pause for a moment. Do you remember a time when you escaped the hustle and bustle of life, and reflected on the beauty of nature, with all its marvel and wonder? Or been memorized by the unique fashion of animals; such as livestock roaming around freely in lush green pastures, diligently enjoying their snack of emerald-green grass?

Mother Nature… her blooming trees, fertile grass and genetically-modified ear of corn. How did our once plentiful land and luscious crops get to the state they are today? When did everything that was simple, healthy and abundant from the earth turn complicated, unhealthy and seemingly scarce? When did farming the land for food, like the family on Little House on …