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Can you taste that CO2?
Per this report, we have not had this much CO2 in our atmosphere in millions of years.
For the first time in recorded history, carbon dioxide exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) in May 2025.
Humans account for 50% of the current CO2 in the atmosphere.
The last time Earth’s CO2 level was this high was over 30 million years ago, when the world’s climate was far angrier than the climate we have enjoyed during our lives.
Your children are not going to be happy with the environment you are giving them. They will live in a world with higher temperature, more extreme weather, less land, and dirtier air.
If you would like to be part of the solution, contact us.
Have you heard of Protein Folding?
We talk a lot about contrast oxygen, which is one of our modalities at Gym for the Brain.
However, possibly the most powerful tool we have at Gym for the Brain is the NanoVi.
Proteins do all the work in your body, including the important job of repairing damage. Before proteins can do their work, it is necessary for them to fold into precise 3D shapes. For this to happen, the water surrounding the proteins must have specific properties. NanoVi influences water surrounding proteins in a way that helps them fold; allowing them to function.
NanoVi is a unique, scientifically backed protein folding therapy.
Improvements are significant and measurable.
Here is a video that includes some of the benefits of the NanoVi.
If you have been reading the research studies on the value of contrast oxygen, think about the synergy of combining it (and six other modalities) with the NanoVi.
Have you considered being a referral partner?
Due to studies, the #1 issue on the minds of people around the world is the environment (ie, we are using our resources faster than Mother Earth can replenish and we are accelerating our carbon-emissions-driven global warming). The world we are passing to our children will be far hotter and angrier than the world we were given. This is a bigger concern to the people of the planet than war, economy, politics, et cetera.
Turning this sentiment to the market place, consumers are more interested in a company’s ability to prove its sustainability commitment than they are in its brand names. 7 out of 10 of them will change brands if they find a certified sustainable company that offers a similar product. They will even spend more for a certified sustainable product.
Driven by the above demand, certified sustainable companies are growing up to 20x faster than their non-certified peers – the market is rewarding companies that are able to prove they are sustainable (via certification/validation).
The Edenark Group ISO 14001 environmental sustainability certification program is the premier program of its kind in the world – You get to help the planet and differentiate and grow faster than your peers.
We have a 100% client renewal rate – every client we have ever certified has renewed, every year.
We get most of our new clients from referrals from existing clients.
However, we also get a good number of clients from referral partners who like what we do and introduce us to organizations they feel would benefit from our services.
This defines what we believe a sustainability program should contain.
This master class explains why a company would want to do this.
We are looking for organizations that 1) care about the environment; 2) want to be part of the solution; and 3) want to be an example that other organizations can follow.
If you agree with our mission and our definition of what a sustainability program should be; and if you know some organizations that meet the above requirements; you might want to consider becoming a referral partner.
Send us a note and we can discuss.
What if you wouldn’t have to piss away your piss?
Think about how much urine you have flushed down the drain.
What if you could sell it?
Per this article, researchers are using human urine to produce hydrogen, which is a clean-burning fuel that can help us decarbonize manufacturing, shipping and aviation.
Historically, creating hydrogen from regular water has been expensive.
But this new approach, of pulling hydrogen from human urine, is less expensive.
If they can scale the concept at low cost, it could be a powerful tool in our effort to decarbonize.
And…….think of the impact on beer sales!
World Environment Day is Today – Here are some Video Shorts!
Last week, via this post, we asked if anyone would like to do say something about the environment via a selfie video for World Environment Day.
We are happy to provide the below videos for your viewing enjoyment.
When you watch them, think about the world we are handing over to our children. Is it as beautiful and bountiful as the world we were given; or is it a hotter, angrier, less abundant world?
If the latter, what are you going to say to your child when you pass the responsibility to them? Are you going to say, “Sorry, I knew what was happening, but thought it was someone else’s responsibility to protect you? “
Or will you avoid the conversation?
Either way, we didn’t do them any favors. They are not going to have an easy go of it. The only question is how difficult it will be; and we can still influence that.
So, think about your role over the coming years as you watch these videos –
Kristina Smith, CEO of United Tech PEO
Remy Takang, A-Law International, and his son
Jonathan Knaus, CEO of Seagull Business Consultants
Samantha MeiYun, graduate student
Gloria Giraldo, Hand Therapist
Debbie Austin, Occupational Therapist
Debbie Matta, Environmental Supporter
Judy Ray, Environmental Supporter
(We asked our existing clients not to submit, as we didn’t want this to be about us. A couple still submitted, and their comments are generic, so we have included them.)
(We asked for submittals to be sent to us by last Friday, 30 May, 2025; and we apologize to all of you who submitted after that date and are not included in this post.)
Know of any other Earths nearby?
Per our current consumption we need 1.7 Earths.
We have been over-consuming since 1971.
If you over-spent your household budget for 54 straight years, would you still have a house?
If you can’t think of any place else to go, maybe we work a bit harder on hanging on to the place we have.
If you would like to be part of the solution, contact us.
Will Climate Change Raise Your Mortgage Costs?
Per this article, weather-related disasters, driven by climate change, will cause an increase in insurance and mortgage interest rates….which will increase the number of foreclosures….further increasing insurance and mortgage interest rates.
- A 1% increase in insurance costs has an equal 1% increase in foreclosures
First Street, a research firm, says FEMA should double the number of properties in its flood zone, from 8 million to 18 million.
Whether you care or don’t care about climate change, your wallet is going to care.
Do you wear perfume when SCUBA diving?
As most of us know, the world’s coral reefs are in distress:
- A large coral reef takes 100,000 – 1 million years to form
- Due to global warming, we have lost 50% of all coral reefs in the last 50 years
- Over 80% of the remaining reefs are under threat of death, due to rising temperatures
- There is a good chance the remaining reefs will be gone in your lifetime
- This will have a dramatically bad impact on sea life, and us
Early in my career, I worked in the HBA industry, manufacturing and marketing perfumes, colognes, soaps, shampoos, and other health and beauty items.
But as a SCUBA diver of almost 50 years, I can’t remember a time I applied my favorite cologne prior to putting my SCUBA gear on.
Clearly, I was not thinking creatively enough.
It seems scientists are using coral-attracting perfume to entice coral larvae to rocks they want to form new reefs on.
Maybe I should approach my old industry and present a new scent – Eau de fish parfum!
If your organization cares about the environment…
….we suggest you review this quick 10-slide presentation.
Doing the Right Thing can lead to a Good Thing!
Let’s Have Some Fun for World Environment Day
World Environment Day is June 5, 2025.
Here is a video from the CEO of United Tech PEO (one of our clients), recommending that your business become environmentally certified sustainable.
Let’s take us out of it and just focus on World Environment Day.
Send us a video of you promoting the environment by this Friday, 30 May, 2025. As long as it is in good taste and supports the environment, we will publish it in a post on June 5, 2025.
WE NEED YOUR VIDEO BY MAY 30, 2025! THAT’S THIS FRIDAY.
It will only take you a few seconds. Do a selfie and send it to us.
Here are some ideas for your quick video (but you can come up with your own):
– Do the Right Thing!
– Doing the Right Thing can lead to a Good Thing!
– Be part of the solution!
– Choose to do good!
– Doing good can be fun!
– Let’s make World Environment Day a day to celebrate!
– Let’s make Momma Earth proud!
– I’m in! Are you?
– Reduce, reuse, recycle!
– Be the change – embrace sustainability!
– This year, my actions will match my words!
– Let’s end plastic pollution!
– Go green, breathe clean!
– Earth will be fine. We are the ones at risk!