Green Options » onions http://greenoptions.com/tag/onions Posts tagged 'onions' Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:43:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Alkaline Eating for Better Body Chemistry, PH Levels, and Overall Health http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/10/15/alkaline-eating-for-better-body-chemistry-ph-levels-and-overall-health/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/10/15/alkaline-eating-for-better-body-chemistry-ph-levels-and-overall-health/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:43:11 +0000 Lucille Chi http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/10/15/alkaline-eating-for-better-body-chemistry-ph-levels-and-overall-health/

Going to a body and nutrition expert with my husband is one of the best things we’ve done for ourselves. What was the key take away? Warning! Turn Alkaline!

Turn Alkaline? Are we magicians? Well according to biochemists we are! You can change your body chemistry with what you eat!

Chemicals have seeped into foods, air, and water, which in turn lower our system’s ability to control the chemistry of our body fluids, increasing illness and chronic disease.

The sad fact is that most food consumption in the wealthiest nations has shifted from nutritious raw foods to low nutritional value processed foods and we need to shift it back. Now that our total biological terrain is at risk, we urgently need to do some clean up by shifting our body chemistry back to the raw, organic foods it was designed to function on as we’ve evolved.

Below I’ve listed out a quick list of the good foods (alkaline) to treat your body to often…

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]]> http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/10/15/alkaline-eating-for-better-body-chemistry-ph-levels-and-overall-health/feed/ 7 Odd Food-for-Fuel Solutions http://gas2.org/2009/09/07/7-odd-food-for-fuel-solutions/ http://gas2.org/2009/09/07/7-odd-food-for-fuel-solutions/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:11:08 +0000 Jerry James Stone http://gas2.org/2009/09/07/7-odd-food-for-fuel-solutions/ Using food as a resource in biofuel production is one of the biggest mistakes our country could make. And while we all shake our heads at the idea of corn ethanol…what about using turkey innards? Or Mountain Dew for that matter.

Shaq Wants Your Leftover Beer and Wine for Making Ethanol

First, who ever has leftover alcohol except maybe these guys? The Shaq-backed MicroFueler is a 250-gallon tank for organic feedstock, such as waste wine and beer, that converts it into pure ethanol. It also doubles as a fuel pump and the only waste product is distilled water.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/09/07/7-odd-food-for-fuel-solutions/feed/ A New Reason to Cry: Onions for Energy http://gas2.org/2009/07/21/a-new-reason-to-cry-onions-for-energy/ http://gas2.org/2009/07/21/a-new-reason-to-cry-onions-for-energy/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:00:49 +0000 Joanna Schroeder http://gas2.org/2009/07/21/a-new-reason-to-cry-onions-for-energy/ As electric vehicles gain traction, a concern is how to produce renewable energy to charge them up. Well, look no further than your refrigerator. One company is using onions to produce electricity and the owner, Steve Gill along with brother David Gill of Gills Onions, are crying all the way to the bank. In the new energy paradigm, many experts predict that we will no longer transport our energy around the world but will create it within our own communities. Using the waste juice from onions fits right into this scenario.

Gills Onions is the largest fresh onion processing plant in the world. The company has more than 15,000 acres of farmland and 300,000 square feet of processing and warehousing facility. Gill was looking for ways to reduce his costs in his farming operation when he began to experiment using the juice from his onion crop in Oxnard, California to create the energy to run his lighting and refrigerators. The result was the creation of an Advanced Energy Recovery System (AERS).

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/07/21/a-new-reason-to-cry-onions-for-energy/feed/ Music Fan Charges iPod With an Onion http://cleantechnica.com/2008/11/24/music-fan-charges-ipod-with-an-onion/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/11/24/music-fan-charges-ipod-with-an-onion/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:00:10 +0000 Andrew Williams http://cleantechnica.com/2008/11/24/music-fan-charges-ipod-with-an-onion/

Music fan Owen Louis was so concerned about the amount of energy used up by his iPod, that he figured out a way of charging it up … with nothing more than an onion.

Louis, 21, from Portsmouth in the UK, makes two holes in an onion, before soaking it in an everyday energy drink and connecting it to his MP3 via a standard USB cable. Incredibly, the technique (video) enables him to charge his iPod for a full hour. According to Louis, “A friend showed me the experiment as a laugh but I thought it was the greatest thing I have ever seen, and do it religiously every day.”

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