“Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if you grow even a dozen different plants, you are surrounded by chemistry. Inside their cells even the most ordinary plants creates potent fungicides, insecticides, irritants, balms, hallucinogens, sedatives, nerve toxins, cell repair stimulants, lures, repellents... you name it. Treat all plants with respect!” IfsLongImportantDifferentCareNamesGrowsTermForgetOrdinaryTreatsSafetyPlantTake CareCellsLong TermNervesChemistryChemicalsDozenLureStimulantsToxinsHallucinogensIrritantsInsecticides Author:Janet Macunovich
“The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.” PeopleWorldShouldTodayNationsTechnologyGenerationsScientistSafetyInstitutionsPlantNuclearAcademicElectricityFeedbackNuclear PowerUpdatesNuclear Plants Author:Abdul Kalam
“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesPlansSafetyPlantNuclearOperationsPlusCiviliansRedundantNuclear Reactors Author:Joe Barton
“Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.” IfsCompanyLeaderImagineStandardsSafetyPlantCorporateOperationsInvestorsManufacturingBribery Author:Eliot Spitzer
“If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared. (pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy")” IfsWantHumansRealEarthLife IsTurnsWaterCommunityAnimalEconomyAirSecurityCreaturesRacismSafetyPlantProsperityNeighborLocalsOppressionWorldlySincerelyHomelandGoodwillOur CommunityGood HealthPlants And Animals Book:The Hidden Wound Source: The Hidden Wound
“If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.” IfsEnergyRiskWillingJudgingIndustrySafeMy FamilySafetyPlantNuclearExpertsHealthcareGambleGamerRenewable EnergyNuclear PowerPower PlantsHealth And SafetyNuclear Plants Author:Donna Reed
“While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.” TakenRiskSafetyPlantNuclearSecureTechnologicalNuclear PowerGreat RiskPower Plants Author:Naoto Kan
“A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can’t be sure it won’t.” IfsKnowsEarthFacesSafetyPlantBlowNuclearDepositsNuclear PowerPrecautionPower Plants Author:L. William Seidman