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Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15th – October 15th)

THE IMPORTANCE OF ACTING EARLY WHEN LIVING WITH LUPUS
Recognizing the Disproportionate Impacts of Lupus on Hispanic and Latinx Communities

Women of color are disproportionately affected by systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the most common form of lupus. SLE is a chronic, inflammatory disease that can result in permanent damage to major organs.[1] Notably, it is estimated that 21 percent of those living with lupus in the U.S. are Hispanic.[2] Patients of color, including Hispanic people living with SLE, also have significantly higher rates of lupus nephritis (LN), a potentially life-threatening complication of lupus, compared to White patients.2

Hispanic and Latinx individuals may also face distinct challenges that can impact access to healthcare that may make managing the disease even more difficult, such as language barriers.[3],[4]

Fortunately, early intervention with the use of FDA-approved medications can help reduce the risk of organ damage progression.[5]

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, on Tuesday, September 24, Guillermo Valenzuela, M.D. is available to discuss the effect of lupus on the Hispanic and Latinx communities. Dr. Valenzuela, who is the Medical Director of the Internal Rheumatology and Immunology Specialists medical center, can also discuss the unique challenges these communities face and the importance of early disease intervention.

Interview is courtesy: GSK

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Here are two Good News Posts that reflect the Asian American Pacific Islanders Heritage Month. Our first is with two wonderful Chinese Children who sing, You Raise Me Up, in English, who for me made me cry from this talent and emotion.  Our Next Generations…(click on the words below the picture)

You Raise Me Up

Our other story is Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine recognizing Asian American Pacific Islanders Heritage Month Celebrating Changemakers in the community.

Borough President of Manhattan

Mark Levine and other representatives

“Celebrating Changemakers,”

an Asian American

Pacific Islander Month Event

I am honored to add some Multicultural Background on our company, Milestone Broadcast Corporation, MBC. We were encouraged to start back in 1985, by the largest Chinese Media Company in America, the World Journal, to create a multicultural marketing, media rep and advertising company. I agreed, as my dream was to create Positive TV Programs for the World and by working with the multicultural communities I would have helped them and maybe they would put my TV shows into their country.  MBC initially started to represent all the Asian Media in America, as well as the European, which was my ancestry, and then later on the African, Hispanic/Latino and Middle Eastern America communicates. America the home of ALL, or as termed by Times Square, the Crossroads of the World.  

I learned through that media representation experience by working with the multicultural communities how similar we are, we all laugh, cry, hurt, care and much more… we are brothers and sisters HOMO-SAPIENS, YAY. FORWARD MOTION. ONE WORLD.

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There were many very qualified applications representing a variety of Businesses, and nonprofits that are doing great things to advance our move toward greater sustainability.   The Winners were selected and THEY ARE:

AgriArk – Princeton, NJ   Offer a closed loop solution taking food waste and turning it into products that regenerate the soil. They also provide healthy greens through our greenhouse growing operation.  This method is the most efficient and least costly method of processing food waste.

www.agriark.com

Bright Energy Services   White Plains, NY    A full service firm specializing in energy   conservation/reduction.  The firm deploys tailored energy efficiency solutions and leverages renewable energy technologies to help commercial and industrial property owners reduce their carbon footprint.

www.brightenergyservices.com

CCI Energy Solutions  Uniondale, NY     A sustainable energy solutions provider that helps building owners, developers, co-op boards, and managing agents plans and implement energy efficiency projects, including natural gas conversion, combined heat and power installation, energy procurement, and energy conservation measures.    www.ccisolutions.com
Eco- Brooklyn   Brooklyn, NY     Providing cutting edge green building solutions since 2008. Eco Brooklyn focuses on the most radical green building techniques in order to find ground breaking solutions to our ecological problems.  We try to build with 100% salvaged materials. We attempt to create no waste by reusing as much as possible. Our goal is to use more garbage than we create.  We build super high efficiency homes.     www.ecobrooklyn.com

Green Hospitality Initiative, NY     The GHI is a NYSRAEF program to provide free support to New York Restaurants in adopting profitable green strategies to help create more sustainable and financially sound businesses for the community and to positively impact the environment.  The GHI has been funded the past 4 years through grants from the Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute.   www.nysra.org/?EF_GHI_Home

Tri- State Bio Diesel Bronx, NY   Tri-State Biodiesel focuses on the development and implementation of urban-based biodiesel projects utilizing non-food crop biodiesel feedstocks, such as Used Cooking Oil, Jatropha, Oil and Algae Oil.  Tri-State Biodiesel’s provides recycling services to restaurants, cafeterias, caterers and food providers. They acquire cooking oil with the sole purpose of providing it as fuel for home heating, diesel engines, generators and construction equipment.  www.tristatebiodiesel.com

Brooklyn Grange   Brooklyn, NY    They design, install and manage urban rooftop farms in NYC.  Its 2 rooftop vegetable farms comprise 2 ½ acres and produce 50,000 pounds of organically grown vegetables each year.  It also has the largest apiary in NYC with 30 honey bee hives.   Its produce find its way to local kitchens and restaurants.   www.brooklyngrangefarm.com

Sustainable Princeton    Princeton, NY     Educates, engages and excites the Princeton community about how to reduce energy and waste.  A nonprofit whose motto is Change a habit. www.sustainableprinceton.org

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A Dot Earth reader, Jay Rappoport, followed up on Peter Barnes’s proposal for a “cap and dividend” system with another take on the idea that’s worth highlighting here, if only because the central metaphor is so easy to absorb — having a “bottle bill” for climate.

Of course, one problem with most bottle bills around the United States is the fee hasn’t risen to adjust for inflation, so many bottles still go into the trash because the five-cent surcharge is a yawn. And many drink containers (like all those water bottles!) are left out in most cases. (This recent Green Counsel post about troubles with an updated bottle-bill law in New York State is worth a look.)

In the case of climate, the fee would have to steadily rise to propel a steady shift away from energy choices that come with a lot of carbon dioxide releases, and it’d have to encompass all sources (and perhaps credit “sinks,” like new forests, that sop up the gases). Is that sellable?

Here’s Mr. Rappoport’s thesis:

I have been nursing a similar concept for perhaps 25 years, which I had first conceived in a sophomore economics class back in College in the early 80’s, when the ideas of externalities and market failure came together for me.

I believe this principal is as important and fundamental to understanding the general progress of human civilization, as the concept of erosion is to geology.

Without further delay, here it is:

UEMF; Recognizing and Addressing The Universality of Environmental Market Failure. By Jay

Rappoport – 11/17/07.

Introduction

The question to be addressed here is that of managing human generated global warming specifically, and more generally the larger question of sustainable growth, as all follow from the same underlying causes, and are amenable of the same solution. What follows is a brief discussion of the issues, and an effort to reframe, refine and build upon the emerging consensus view concerning the ‘cap and trade’ approach, and to suggest the minimum regulatory structure necessary to this end. The structure suggested here may be public, private, or collaborative.

Economic vs. Natural property

The fundamental underlying issue in this discussion is property rights. Everything that follows, turns on understanding the role of property rights in the market.

So to begin, consider everything in the world as a ‘good’, and falling into one of two types; as either part of ‘The Economy’ and therefore an ‘economic good’, or alternatively, ‘The Natural Environment’ and as such, an ‘environmental good’. The only difference being, that ‘goods’ in the economy have a defined property right, and that ‘goods’ in the environment do not. (Often referred to as “externalities” in economics, examples of environmental goods might be the polar ice caps, unpolluted water, the earth’s atmosphere, and so on).

An economic good can be bought and sold, only because it is owned by someone who had the property right to sell it. An environmental good cannot be sold, because no one owns it to sell it. As an example, imagine a stranger offering to “sell you The Brooklyn Bridge”.

 In order to sell an environmental good, ownership must first be established, at which point it becomes an economic good, and can then be sold. So, until ownership has been established, an environmental good cannot be sold, nor hold a price in the market.

Markets, Pricing & Incentives

Because environmental goods lack a property right and are therefore unable to hold a price in the marketplace, so far as the market is concerned, their ‘pricing’ is effectively pegged at zero value. This perception of the pricing of environmental goods as being at or nearly zero has profound consequences in the economic arena.

To the extent that there is model validity in saying relative profitability can be expressed as a comparison of profit/cost, then as environmental costs are pegged at or near zero, the relative profitability of environmental goods is perceived in the market as ‘very high’, if not infinite. (Consider for example the proliferation of spam email, with a marginal cost of zero per email. How much spam would be eliminated if there were a cost of 0.001 cent per email?)

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New York, NY (October 19, 2012)

On Wednesday, October 17th, the German-American Hall of Fame (GAMHOF) inducted two Americans who have changed the face of our nation, Donald J. Trump and John Augustus Roebling. The program was emceed by nationally-known radio and TV host Rita Cosby.

William Hetzler, the Chairman and Founder of the GAMHOF, stated that: “We at GAMHOF are so proud to warmly welcome Donald J. Trump and John Roebling to the German-American Hall of Fame.”

The formal induction ceremony took place at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City. GAMHOF Chairman William Hetzler recently met with Mr. Trump to inform him of the Board of Trustees’ decision. “I am honored to join the remarkable group of outstanding Americans already in the Hall,” said Mr. Trump.

GAMHOF was established in 2004 by prominent Americans of German ancestry to recognize and celebrate the impact of German immigrants and their progeny to the United States by highlighting some of the most remarkable German-Americans through a virtual “Hall of Fame.”

As has been a custom every year, there was a posthumous inductee, and that individual for 2012 was John A. Roebling, the revolutionary civil engineer builder of the Brooklyn Bridge and other notable American structures.

“By inducting Donald J. Trump and John A. Roebling into the German-American Hall of Fame, we are recognizing two great Americans of German ancestry who have truly changed the skylines and landscape of America,” said GAMHOF Chairman and Founder William Hetzler. “Literally tens of millions of Americans and visitors have shopped, traversed or lived in the architectural creations of Messrs. Trump and Roebling. We are most proud of them, their distinctive styles and their huge impact on the United States of America.
Donald J. Trump inducted in the German-American Hall of Fame, October 17, 2012

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