Good morning everyone!

For some, the mirror is hard to look at; even harder to say, “I love you!”

Yet, I ask you, “are we avoiding the truth of our free-will?” We can choose to ignore the fact that we are polluting the world to such a degree that it is literally killing life everywhere while we drive our cool cars and drink caramel lattés, but will your kids have that opportunity when there’s no pure water to drink that isn’t poisonous and no fresh air to breath that isn’t toxic?

When we actually participate in our own life and learn to take responsibility for loving ourselves, that love naturally changes what we see and feel outside ourselves. With our own love and respect of self, comes love and respect for other and the world. When we recycle, we are loving our self – we are the world.

When we live with conscious awareness and in consideration of life all around us, we are loving our self, and the world.

Please take a moment to read this news release and it will become very obvious (I hope!), that our wasteful behavior has reached all ends of this beautiful blue planet.

May we all love and care for Mother Earth together!

May we find Joy through harmony with all that supports us.

If you want to know what God is, simply ask yourself what you CAN’T do without for three days?…You will find food, water, air, top soil, plants, trees, animals high on that list. If you don’t, no worry, you are not human.

Lets love the God we know is here for sure.

Love and chi,
Paul Chek

Impossible to escape the toxic mess we have created Mount Everest Contaminated
December 9, 2010 6:10:13 AM
Tim Wall

Though climbing Mount Everest has always been potentially dangerous for your health, now even the snow is toxic, report researchers of the University of Southern Maine.

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While still a chemistry student, hiker Bill Yeo conducted the survey by collecting samples as he climbed most of the way up Everest. In the journal Soil Survey Horizons, he and his professor Samantha Langley-Turnbaugh report that the higher Yeo climbed, the more contamination he encountered, indicating wind-driven pollution from industrialization in Asia is to blame.

Between 17,500 and 25,400 feet in elevation, the snow and soil samples they tested exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s tolerance levels for both arsenic and cadmium.

“Arsenic is associated with bladder, skin, and kidney cancer, while cadmium is linked to lung and prostate cancer through the ingestion of contaminated food and water. Both are the by-products of fossil fuel combustion,” reports the Soil Science Society of America.

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Though there is no indication as of yet that the toxic metals are finding their way down the mountain and into local drinking water, one-tenth of the world’s population relies on mountain snowpack as their sole source of fresh water, according to the press release for the study. “Understanding the amount of pollutants in soil and snow is critical to maintaining the quality of alpine water sources,” the scientists report.
For now, hikers in the Himalayas are advised not to drink melted snow at altitudes.

Photo: Mount Everest from Rombok Gompa, Tibet; Wikimedia Commons