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Issue: Association - physical problems being defined
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last update Nov 18, 2001 at 11:47 am central standard time - Texas, USA -- 442
hits from 28 Oct 2001 to 09 March 2002
Events primarily of the 1980's, and 1990's that are here for keywords per my
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This page is speculation and the citations that I am using to speculate with.
America Insensitive / Kept in the Dark /
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©feb28, 2002 by L. L. Shipton - posted 2002 march 16, last update 2002 march 24
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New Knowledge: The Issues Are: 1990's landfills, recycling, search for crops and animals that have drought and salinity tolerance, manure spills with pharmesudicals in them, pathogens in manure, decreased nutrician and health of crops, 2000's looking at crops like sugar cane that seem
to require a lot of fresh water, looking at countries that seem to promote
increased pollution, manufacturing which has a high employment rate per
profit compared to pharmesudical companies that have a low employment
rate per profit, manufacturing which can be territorial and interested
in employees having businesses on the side, compared to pharesudical companies
which may switch areas dependent on the areas solely based on political
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| Keywords: Vermicomposting construction materials (drywall, ect.), cow manure, pig manure, dog poop, sewage sludge, composting (worm) toilet to replace septic tanks. These are links for vermicomposting systems that are small enough for a house as well as systems that can take on the sewage sludge of a city. Worms can apparently take sewage sludge with human pathogens and leave a end product that has the potential of being pathogen free. There are links on this page to show some of the tests that have been done but there do not seem to be any tests that show what percentage of pharmesudicals (antibiotics, ect.) are left if any after vermicomposting. Early articles are sceptical of vermicomposting as a way to reduce pathogens and later ones have actual studys on pathogen reduction. |
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| What makes me wonder is why Clinton did
not support vermicomposting like Canada has? Bacteria and earthworms are
some of the ways that radionuclides are being neutralized and removed from
the contaminated soil. Even though earthworms may not be a cure all Clinton
seems to be supporting a earth biospere that will be benificial to ants
like the Tentative hypotheses' for causes of Red Tides are - ballast water being transported globally, Sahara dust storms that rise to the atmosphere and travel with the weather fronts, chemicals killing micro-organisms, side effects of fish having ammonia "diaper rash" over their whole bodies and the red tides are just opportunistic, and - or manure decomposing in water and utilizing the available oxygen. One thing that does not seem to be in doubt, is that the killer conditions produced can result in toxic aerosol capable of creating dermatitis, amnesia, respiratory, and behavior problems. |
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| [ http://www.mrdowling.com/608-ottoman.html ] the Turkish Ottoman Empire ruled for almost 600 years World War I broke out in 1914. Britain, France, the United States, and Russia were united as the Allied forces. Central Powers of Germany Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Turkish sultans. [ http://www.caabu.org/education/chronologypart2.html ] 1912 -- Morocco becomes a French protectorate; Arab Nationalism and opposition to Ottoman rule begin to develop. 1914 -- Ottoman Empire enters World War One as an ally of Germany 1918 -- End of Ottoman rule in Arab lands. Iraq -- [ http://www.xrefer.com/entry/217664
] Additional Reading: "2018 A. D." also called "King Kong Blues"; Lundwall, Sam J.; 1975; Daw; NY |
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and comparison of the amount of nuclear material from 1986 Chernobyl reactor four exploding, GulfWar (1990), Kosovo - US involvment (1999), map of Isreal [http://info.jpost.com/C001/Supplements/MapCenter/] ** the map and information of the British Empire [ http://freespace.virgin.net/andrew.randall1/mideast.htm ] the British Empire Iraq Silent Hiroshima Culls A Nation's Children [ http://www.iacenter.org/rc12600.htm ] Ramsey Clark: Report to UN Security Council re: Iraq -- January 26, 2000 dropping 88,500 tons of explosives, the equivalent of 7 l/2 Hiroshima bombs. [Shipton's note only about 320 tons would have been DU the rest would have been conventional muntitions.] -The Oil for Food Program Ramsey Clark's bloody resume -- January 24, 2002
Depleted Uranium How the Pentagon Radiates Soldiers & Civilians with DU Weapons [ http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/dietz.htm ] May, 1997 20| DU Spread and Contamination of Gulf War Veterans and Others (excerpt) The fallout range of airborne DU aerosol dust is virtually unlimited. These micro-particles can be inhaled and ingested easily and that makes them dangerous to human health. *** Leonard A. Dietz [ http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/dietz.htm ] We review estimates of the tonnage of DU munitions fired during the Gulf War. Even if only one or two percent of a low estimate of 300 metric tons of DU fired had burned up, this would have produced 3,000-6,000 kg of DU aerosols. [ http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/dgvd.html
] Persian Gulf War also called Iraq, Desert Storm or simply Gulf War [ http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/du_ii/du_ii_tabf.htm ] [Shipton's note: total amount of DU would approximate 860,502 rounds of variaing amounts of DU approximate total of 320 tons] PBS [Persian Gulf War or Desert Storm] [ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/ ] serbia Kosovo war timeline [ http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/10/kosovo/timeline/ ] 1991 Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina declare independence from Yugoslavia 1999 March 24 -- NATO launches airstrikes. Depleted uranium "threatens Balkans cancer epidemic" -- 07/30/99: by Environment Correspondent Alex Kirby (BBC) July 30, 1999 [ http://www.softmakers.com/fry/du.htm ] Using calculations based on the Pentagon's statement that one in five of the rounds fired by its A-10 aircraft over Kosovo were DU munitions, Mr. Coghill estimates that more than 500,000 DU rounds were fired, of which half detonated. He says that would have resulted in the release of about one thirty-thousandth of the amount of radiation released at Chernobyl in 1986. "But that was in the form of caesium on the ground. This is free-floating particulate matter." Making the Harm Visible -- Global Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls Speaking Out and Providing Services Iranian Women and Girls - Victims of Exploitation and Violence, Sarvnaz Chitsaz and Soona Samsami [http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/mhviran.htm] These blatantly prejudiced views shed light on how discriminatory legislation against women has been proposed, adopted, and enforced in Iran since 1979. **** Lanning~Shipton's note: From Murmansk (North-East Russia) to UK Russian nuclear dustbin threats [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_607000/607175.stm ] Monday, 14 August, 2000, 13:49 GMT 14:49 Murmansk: World's biggest nuclear dustbin By James Robbins in Murmansk Russia has the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. However, it is the risk of an accident with ageing nuclear reactors from obsolete Soviet submarines which is causing most concern. A fifth of all the world's reactors and nuclear fuel is concentrated around the Kola Peninsula, home to Russia's Northern Fleet of submarines. UK Whistleblower clears last hurdle ---- [Russian Nuclear] [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_922000/922843.stm ] Wednesday, 13 September, 2000, 09:50 GMT 10:50 Alexander Nikitin: Victory after five years of court battles The Russian Supreme Court has completely exonerated a former naval officer, who had been charged with treason for passing information about Russian nuclear pollution to a Norwegian environmental group. ...Mr Nikitin was arrested in 1996 after he contributed to a report by the Norwegian environmental group Bellona on the dangers posed by radioactive pollution in the Arctic seas. ...In addition to his revelations about radioactive pollution, Mr Nikitin also provided Bellona with information about safety systems for naval nuclear reactors and details of Soviet nuclear submarine accidents. Prosecutors say this amounted to high treason, but Mr Nikitin and Bellona say the information was of environmental importance, and not subject to Russian secrecy laws. Citations: Biogas and other composting methods Methane (Biogas) from Anaerobic Digesters --- This brief was updated in February 2001 [ http://www.eren.doe.gov/consumerinfo/refbriefs/ab5.html ] In the United States, the availability of inexpensive fossil fuels has limited the use of digesters solely for biogas production. However, the waste treatment and odor reduction benefits of controlled anaerobic digestion are receiving increasing interest, especially for large-scale livestock operations such as dairies, feedlots, and slaughterhouses. Where costs are high for sewage, agricultural, or animal waste disposal, and the effluent has economic value, anaerobic digestion and biogas production can reduce overall operating costs. Biogas production for generating cost effective electricity requires manure from more than 150 large animals. Citations: Russia, nuclear pollution Nuclear Age Has Claimed Billions of Lives - Russian Ecologist Interfax News Agency, May 22, 2000 [ http://cci.glasnet.ru/news/MAY00/00052905.TXT ] The nuclear age has claimed more than 2.33 billion lives, Russian ecologist Alexei Yablokov, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has said. .....Asked why the statistics have never been seen in the open press, the ecologist cited a 1959 agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency and World Health Organization that prohibited the WHO from publishing such statistics without IAEA consent. Caspian Sea Region -- February 2002 -- has a great maps [ http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/caspian.html ] Caspian Sea Region: Environmental Issues United States Energy Information Administration -- April 2000 [ http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/caspenv.html ] ...Untreated waste from the Volga River, into which half the population of Russia--and most of its heavy industry--drains its sewage, empties directly into the Caspian Sea. Oil extraction and refining complexes in Baku and Sumgayit in Azerbaijan are major sources of land-based pollution, and offshore oil fields, refineries, and petrochemical plants have generated large quantities of toxic waste, run-off, and oil spills. In addition, radioactive solid and liquid waste deposits near the Gurevskaya nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan are polluting the Caspian as well. Turkey: Environmental Issues United States Energy Information Administration -- March 2000 [ http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/turkenv.html#MARINE_POLLUTION ] Introduction Turkey's economic emergence has brought with it fears of increased environmental degradation. As Turkey's economy experienced high levels of growth in the mid-1990s, the country's boom in industrial production resulted in higher levels of pollution and greater risks to the country's environment. With domestic energy consumption on the rise, Turkey has been forced to import more oil and gas, and the resultant increase in oil tanker traffic in the Black Sea and Bosporus Straits has increased environmental threats there. Iran: Environmental Issues United States Energy Information Administration -- March 2000 [ http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/iranenv.html#AIR POLLUTION ] ... The city's air pollution recently reached a crisis stage in December when high levels of carbon monoxide and other pollutants engulfed the capital for several weeks. With a cloud of smog hovering over Tehran, Iranian authorities shut down elementary schools and closed off the city center to motorists for several days. Iranian-state radio urged Tehran's residents to stay indoors, and many who did venture outdoors resorted to wearing face masks and breathing through wads of cloth. The polluted air was blamed for causing several deaths, as well as causing problems for people with asthma, heart, and skin conditions. ... ... Alternative Energy Sources Iran's renewable energy consumption is low. With 9% of the world's oil reserves and 15% of its natural gas reserves (80% of which have not been developed), Iran has an abundant supply of fossil fuel resources, which tends to discourage the pursuit of alternative, renewable energy sources. Iran's 1997 renewable energy consumption--including hydropower, solar, wind, tide, geothermal, solid biomass and animal products, biomass gas and liquids, and industrial and municipal wastes--totaled 106 trillion Btu, a 6% increase over the previous year. ... Why Socialism Causes Pollution Posted on February 13, 2002 by Thomas J. DiLorenzo [ http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=183 ] Corporations are often accused of despoiling the environment in their quest for profit. Free enterprise is supposedly incompatible with environmental preservation, so that government regulation is required. Such thinking is the basis for current proposals to expand environmental regulation greatly. So many new controls have been proposed and enacted that the late economic journalist Warren Brookes once forecast that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could well become "the most powerful government agency on earth, involved in massive levels of economic, social, scientific, and political spending and interference. But if the profit motive is the primary cause of pollution, one would not expect to find much pollution in socialist countries, such as the former Soviet Union, China, and in the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. That is, in theory. In reality exactly the opposite is true: The socialist world suffers from the worst pollution on earth. Could it be that free enterprise is not so incompatible with environmental protection after all? .... |
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It seems as if the Clinton / Gore administration
was keeping the issues from the American people by whiningand making excuses
while the Bush (shrub) brothers had states that still believed in getting
things done instead of manipulating the stock market. By manipulating
the stock market (insider trading) the Clinton's and Gore's have made
a lot of money talking up mental pharmesudical futures, sidelined investigations,
circumvented the justice system, saying that America is a Democracy instead
of a Constitutional government and made America into a nation of mental
hypochondriacs. Gulf War -- enough information about pollutants
/ pfilestria toxins in water / fog / rain to speculate about Gulf War
Illness being from a combination of immunizations and evaporation. With
the amount of pollution from the Red Sea / Tigris River / Shatt-al waterway
flowing into the Arabian Gulf, to know that concentrations caused by evaporation
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George W. Bush
Jr. from 1994-2001
46th Governor of the State of Texas. November 8, 1994, with 53.5 percent
of the vote. In an historic re-election victory, he became the first Texas
Governor to be elected to consecutive four-year terms on November 3, 1998,
winning 68.6 percent of the vote. -- Saturday, 20 January, 2001, 21:37 GMT President Bush sworn in *** John Ellis "Jeb" Bush Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, Florida's 43rd Governor Elected: November 1998 TnCrimLaw's Online Library -[http://tncrimlaw.com/library.html] Help Return The Law To A Learned Profession - [http://www.tncrimlaw.com/civil_bible/burch_speech.html] The Civil Bible - [http://www.tncrimlaw.com/civil_bible/] 1987 CHADD started in Plantation, Florida red tide, Pfiesteria, Gymnodinium breve, Karenia breve, dinoflagellate 1993 -- toxic aerosol antibiotics -- probiotics including acidophilus -- 1997 vericomposting -- 1990+ education -- routine use of antibiotics for humans was discontinued about 1993 -- this was potential chaos for teachers. “A Brain In The Gut.” NISE. [Online] Retrieved December 4, 2000. http://whyfiles.org/026fear/physio1.html (Note: Two brains are better than one, especially if you're hungry) Gershon, Michael D. “The Enteric Nervous System: A Second Brain.” (1999.) McGraw-Hill. [Online] http://www.hosppract.com/issues/1999/07/gershon.htm (Note: Once dismissed as a simple collection of relay ganglia, the enteric nervous system is now recognized as a complex, integrative brain in its own right.) Sobel, Rachel K. “The wisdom of the gut.” April 3, 2000 [Online] Retrieved December 4, 2000 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000403/gut.htm “Private Papers of Nobel Scientist Joshua Lederberg Added to "Profiles in Science" Web Site.” [Online] Retrieved http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar99/nlm-02.htm (Lederberg won the Nobel Prize in Medicine at age 33 for scientific work started at age 20, which showed that bacteria can in fact, reproduce through sexual recombination. Although Lederberg was "astonished" to receive the prize, his diary entry for October 26, 1958, the day he heard he had won it, also records some of his fears: "On the whole I'm a little afraid the fuss and bother more than outweigh the egotistic satisfactions, the cash and the prestige factors that might help in getting my lab going.") 1995 -- Texas and Florida -- states that are doing something about education. ***** Core Knowledge: review and a list of schools that have adopted it (Polk County Public Schools, Bartow (District-Wide Adoption) ) this is Florida. ***** Saxon Math used in our public school -- Waco, Texas articles written by John Saxon News articles about Saxon Math May 22, 1997 HMO Liability Bill Becomes Law Senator David Sibley R. TX paves the way for HMO's to be accountable by passing a bill allowing patients to question an HMO's desion and ask for meditation - if that does not work then they are allowed to sue. Few lawsuits have had to be instituted though, because mediation has worked, like theripy would probly have worked for many of thos children in other states. 2001 Florida tests vermiculture for pathogen reduction. pdf --- magizine review Worms seem capable of converting sewage sludge, human wastes of many types, animal manure and much more. Most pathogens do not like oxygen and vermiculture or cold composting uses oxygen and worms as bioreactors which seem to get rid of all pathogens without creating greenhouse gasses like methane. Organic waste can take a lot of oxygen to decompose and causes detrimental conditions in water, what worm do is to convert the waste into non-pathogenic topsoil that is ready for plants "On the discussion of using tillage to remove deep compaction I've seen tightly compacted soil down as deep as 5 feet. Nightcrawlers will burrow down 8 feet and are the only way to restore the soil structure in these areas. Areas that have silted in are a perfect example. Below is a terrace that silted in over a period of 15 years of tillage. The soil is densely packed by years of silting and driving on it when wet." Night Crawlers and No Till -- Link 1, Link 2. |
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All words and logos belong to the original holders, this is just a list of places that you may go to find citations. keywords: Algal Blooms/Eutrophication/Hypoxia/Plankton/Algal Species, Fish that have low body fat, in poor health, in Ammonia / Nitrogen water -- do they have a colossal case of diper rash all over their bodies? Do algal blooms cause fish kills or are they a after effect? Bilge water / blow the ballist organisms carried from port to port in ballast water Global Distiation / NASA photos -- Atmosphere > Aerosols > Dust/Ash worms take energy of bacteria and use probiotics to convert that energy into another form that does not give pathogens food. earthworms can tie up radionuclides and have been proposed for the Chernobyl radionuclides Austrilia has a picture of soil that has gone saline [Topline] most green waste can be reduced by about 90% in volume (one ton, 2000 lbs, reduces to about 200 lbs of worm castings). A family of four produces about seven pounds of organic or food waste per week. Converting 7lb of waste to less than one pound of worm castings. Vermicomposting generates water as the water of the organic mater is released "one pound of worms can convert one pound of pig manure to compost in 48 hours!" earthworms compost faster than windrow or invessel composting and produces a high quality compost" . |
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Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) are a reality and like
land dust storms or volcano ash, can transmit their byproducts long distances
by global distilation by wind currents in the atmosphere.
Fish kills can occur naturally or due to man-made disturbances, such as
pollution of water quality and excessive land clearing. More research is
needed on the causes of fish kills in northern Australia exerts
from the Bay Journal [http://www.bayjournal.com/update/99-02/menhdn.htm]"...had little, or no fat in the body cavity and exhibited signs of poor nutrition and starvation; approximately 12 percent of these fish had visual external lesions, ulcers or sores. "Atlantic menhaden are an extremely important link in the coastal marine food chain, transferring enormous amounts of nutrients into forage biomass, while at the same time improving water quality - they have the potential to consume up to 25 percent of the Bay's nitrogen." [Shipton's note: the way this is described leads me to associate it with diper rash - could the water have a ammonia problem and the fish have a bad case of external diper rash?] |
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Welcome to the 9th International Conference on Algal Blooms. Research on
Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) first emerged as a discipline in its own right
at the First International Conference on Toxic Dinoflagellate Blooms which
was held in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1974. Of major concern at that time
was the massive 1972 New England red tide caused by the toxic dinoflagellate
Alexandrium (Gonyaulax) tamarense. This successful meeting was followed
by two further International Conferences on Toxic Dinoflagellate Blooms
held in Miami, Florida, in 1978 and in St Andrews, Canada, in 1985, respectively.
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By: Ted Leischner Posted On: Sunday, 17 December 2000 These species of worms can vermicompost organic wastes such as sewage biosolids, agricultural wastes like animal manures and coffee pulp, municipal food waste, brewery and paper pulp and cardboard recycling wastes. Some of the notable projects she highlighted include Medical University of South Carolina, processing 100 lbs. of cafeteria food waste per day, Sampson Correctional Institute, feeding 30 lbs. of food waste and office paper daily to worms and New York Hospital, using eight Worm Wigwams to handle 60-140 lbs. per day. This is eight tonnes of food waste per year. But, then there is Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, with a low-tech system with the ability to transform 300 lbs./day (35-tons/year) into valuable castings. Composting worms move feedstock around more and have grinding gizzards like chickens to produce a superior textured product, free of harmful salts and of a lower pH (5.8-7.2) that is more favourable for plant growth. Because of the unique microbiology of vermicomposting, nitrification and humification is more complete with levels of plant nutrients in a form more available to plants. This means nitrogen is stored in a form that will not pollute water and no researcher or grower present could cite an example where the use of earthworm castings has ‘burned’ plants. |
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Mark Twain, 1835–1910 (Nov. 30, 1835
- April 21, 1910)
Samuel Clemens, more commonly known as Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri on Nov. 30, 1835 "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." 'Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great." [http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/] [http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/great/2jon.htm] JOSEPH PULITZER, 1847–1911 Pulitzer summarized his credo: "Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations." [http://www.pulitzer.org/History/history.html#bio] Some of my standards, whether I get there or not. I am not endorsing any organization by having these here, but they do show where someone could go if motivated. |
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| Growing Plants with Worm Poop: Vermicompost as an Amendment for Soilless Media. ©apr98 | [http://floriculture.osu.edu/archive/apr98/vermicom.html]
Ohio Floriculture at Ohio State University"one pound of worms can convert one pound of pig manure to compost in 48 hours!" By Dr. Jim Metzger Professor and D.C. Kiplinger Chair References: Drs. Clive Edwards and Scott Subler from the Entomology Department at The Ohio State University. |
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[http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/michel/csu.pdf]
1) Orange County Enviromental Protection Division, -- Orlando, Florida 2) Florida Department of Environmental Protection, -- Orlando, Florida 3) Soil Ecology Laboratory, Ohio State University, -- Columbus, Ohio 4) Tri-Tech Laboratiories, Inc, -- Orlando, Florida [http://gnv.fdt.net/~windle/refrence/nov99.htm] Achieving Pathogen Stabilization Using Vermicomposting By: Bruce R. Eastman Reprinted with permission from BioCycle November 1999, pages 62-64 Digest Vermicomposting for pathogen stabilization. Vermicomposting is the practice of using worms to convert solid waste into a soil amendment. A pilot project at the City of Ocoee (FL) wastewater treatment facility had shown that red wigglers reduced four pathogen indicators in wastewater biosolids (sludge): enteric virus, fecal coliform, helminth ova, and Salmonella spp. A full scale project aimed at demonstrating a three- to fourfold reduction of pathogen indicators to produce Class A stabilized biosolids (acceptable to EPA) was undertaken. The results show that earthworms do reduce pathogen indicators and can quickly accomplish the EPA standard of a three- to fourfold decrease. The study also shows that using traditional thermal precomposting to destroy pathogens prior to treatment with earthworms is unnecessary. --Water Environment & Technology May 2000. 12 pg paper. A field experiment tested the feasibility of vermicomposting as a method for eliminating human pathogens to obtain United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Class A stabilization in domestic wastewater residuals (biosolids). [http://gnv.fdt.net/~windle/refrence/april97.htm] "Preliminary data, obtained in small-scale vermicomposting systems, indicate that human pathogens may not survive vermicomposting. After 60 days of vermicomposting, fecal coliform bacteria in biosolids dropped from 39,000 MPN/g to 0 MPN/g. In that same time period, salmonella sp. dropped from <3 MPN/g to <1 MPN/g." |
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| The Irish Worm Company Your One Stop Shop to Compost the lot. [Shipton's note: this site may not have as many products as the ones you will find below, but they have a nice info page. Jump to MO. for some great information.] |
[http://www.irishearthworm.com/vcomp2.html] 6.2 Rate of organic matter decomposition The rate of organic matter decomposition in the vermicomposting process is significantly higher than that in conventional composting. Experimental trials at the State University of New York, found decomposition and breakdown of aerobic sewage sludge to be three times as rapid by vermicomposting as it was by composting. |
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Producers Can Go Pro To Keep Livestock Healthy
Laura's note - competitive exclusion seems to
be a word that could be used when you use worms as bioreactors since they
work with thier own probiotics and enzymes. |
Probiotics is a general term that
refers to the natural bacteria normally found in the stomach or intestine
of healthy animals. When an animal becomes sick, disease-causing bacteria
called pathogens replace the normal bacteria, Morishita said. "By treating
animals with probiotics, the goal is to have normal bacteria colonizing
all the intestinal sites within the animal, so bad bacteria can't attach
and cause disease," she said. "This concept is called competitive exclusion."
Probiotics are most often used in animals just born or hatched. Young animals
have no intestinal bacteria, so treating with probiotics -- the earlier
the better -- helps establish a good set of bacteria before pathogens arrive,
Morishita said. This treatment also is recommended during times of stress
for the animal, such as during vaccination or after the outbreak of a disease.
"Probiotics are not a wonder drug. They are a preventive medicine step,"
Morishita said. "Disease can still occur despite their use, and if it does,
an antibiotic would likely be needed to kill the pathogens. Then normal
bacteria could be reestablished to reduce the possibility of future illnesses."
But the use of probiotics early on should lessen the potential for invasion
of harmful bacteria. Lactobacillus acidophilus is one type of bacteria normally found in the gut of animals. It gives off a substance that makes the stomach and intestines more acidic and less environmentally friendly to pathogens. The use of natural, nonharmful bacteria to prevent pathogens is not a new idea. The concept has been around for more than 30 years, but it has become more effective in recent years, Morishita said. "The key is using specific bacteria isolated for use with specific species of animals," she said. "In the past, probiotic use had variable results because the host specificity had not been totally worked out yet. Now that it's been determined which bacteria work best for each type of animal, they are more effective, and probiotic use is picking up." More stable forms of packing also have made probiotics more effective. They usually come in a freeze-dried form and are given to animals by either mixing them with water or incorporating them into feed, Morishita said. --Morishita et al (1997) Avian Dis 41, 850 --Morishita, T.Y., Aye, P.P., Harr, B.S., Cobb, C.W., and Clifford, J.R. 1997. Evaluation of an avian-specific probiotic to reduce the colonization and shedding of Campylobacter jejuni in broilers. Avian Dis. 41:850-855. FDA US Gov citation at July 2001, Volume 1, Issue 1 Human Health Impact and Regulatory Issues Involving Antimicrobial Resistance in the Food Animal Production Environment Teresa Y. Morishita, DVM, MPVM, MS, PhD, Dipl. ACPV Assistant Professor and Extension Poultry Veterinarian Dept. of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and The Ohio State University Extension Animal Net April 19, 2000 |
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Lumbricus rubellus: Also known as red worm, red wiggler,
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| Vermitech Systems, Ltd. Albert Eggen Canada From simple plastic bins to large composters that can be used by schools, hospitals or other large places. |
[http://www.vermitechsystems.com/home.html] [http://www.vermitechsystems.com/installations.html] Installations [http://www.wormdigest.org/articles/index.cgi?read=27] Simple Plastic Bins Written By: S. Zorba Frankel and Kelly Slocum Posted On: Thursday, 6 January 2000, at 11:15 p.m. In Regard To: Issue 23: Worm Bins (S. Zorba Frankel and Kelly Slocum) Simple plastic bins are by far the most common type of vermicomposting bin. They were first commercially available in North America in 1990 from Canadian Original Vermicomposter Ltd. (now Original Vermicomposter, Ltd.) and many other companies followed, very quickly, with a great number of bins. [http://vermico.com/speakers.html] keywords: canadian, vermicomposting Albert Eggen holds three international patents, including one for the self-harvesting Vermi-Organic Digester, an in-vessel vermicomposting system currently in use at the Brockville Psychiatric Hospital (Ontario, Canada), Metro Hall (the seat of the city’s administrative and mayor’s offices in Toronto, Canada), at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee, and in other institutional settings. Eggen’s Vermi-Organic Digesters are ideally suited for on-site processing of organic waste, generated by hospitals, military bases, schools, prisons, hotels, and other institutions wanting to minimize collection and hauling costs of organic residuals while producing a valuable soil amendment for landscaping needs. Albert is the co-author of three books on vermicomposting, two of which are college course manuals. A fourth book is entitled The Canadian Vermicomposting Guide. Since 1990, his Toronto-based firm, Original Vermitech Systems Limited, has put more than 50 million Eisenia fetida earthworms to work processing household, institutional, and even industrial waste throughout the United States and Canada. |
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most green waste can be reduced by about 90% in volume (one ton, 2000 lbs,
reduces to about 200 lbs of worm castings). New Mexico |
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| The Worm World - Worm Gin large enough for a water treatment plant |
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Gin WaterTreatment / SewageSludge / septic sludge The Burrow [http://fdt.net/~windle/] |
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| Worm Farm (worm farms) | [https://secure.in-command.com/cart/Wormfarm/list.php3?g=Wormfarms] from < 100 lb/day to units that can handle 600 lb/day |
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[Shipton's note: these do not
mention using earthworms but the rest of the information seems top notch.] GREYWATER What it is ... ways to treat it ... ways to use it. |
[http://www.greywater.com/samples.htm] Beautiful pictures of Sample soil beds for greywater irrigation and infiltration [http://www.greywater.com/] Organisms adversely affecting human health do not grow outside of the body (unless incubated and with rare exceptions) but are capable of surviving especially if hosted in human feces. [http://www.greywater.com/pollution.htm] Urine is sterile save in exceptional circumstances (e.g., grave urinary tract infections). In households with infants in diapers, fecal matter can enter the laundry water, mainly through washing machines that has a pathogen killing effect in themselves by breaking the encapsulation and exposing potential pathogens to detergnets. |
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| Yelm - KISS—Keep It Simple & Save - N.Califormia | [http://www.yelmworms.com/kissplan.htm]
[http://www.yelmworms.com/casestudies.htm] Case Studies in Vermicomposting: (pathogen reducation included) 1994KISS Plan for vermicomposting on a modern dairy or horse farm |
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| =coir brick | http://www.yelmworms.com/suppliesstore.htm Coconut fiber -- coconuts can grow in saline soil and coconut fiber is a good soil amendment as well as a excellent worm bedding. $2.25 + $2.25 s&h |
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| Squirmy Wormz Farm-KISS | [http://www.squirmy-worms.com/farming.html]Australian Worm Farm | ||||
| The Squirmy Wormz Farm | [http://www.squirmy-worms.com/index.html]
[http://www.squirmy-worms.com/dogpoo.htm] [http://www.envirolead.com/lifecyc2.htm]dog poop - worm swag and can-o-worms |
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| Happy D Ranch | [http://www.happydranch.com/wormbins/index.php3]Different Worm bins | ||||
| Alaska Iditarot! your composting consultant Iditarot!(c) Vermicomposter can-o-worms Worm-A-Roo The Worm Wigwam |
[http://www.can-o-worms-alaska.net/vermcompfacts.html] Earthworms are secondary decomposers, that is, they eat the microbes which eat the decaying food. Those microbes are bacteria, mold, fungi, protozoa and other organisms which are too small to see. Their enzyme activity physically changes the food waste to a sludge or slurry, which the earthworms suck through their mouth. Microbes also break large particles into their chemical components, releasing heat, air, water and humus Compost can be formed in four weeks in heated piles, and takes six months to cure. Vermicompost is a rich, black, small particle ready in four to six weeks and does not need a curing stage. . |
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| Worm-a-Roo | [http://www.worm-a-roo.com/]side-by-side home unit | ||||
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