Chicken manure is a solution for the energy

crisis. Every year 9 billion chickens are raised for food in the U.S. Because their phosphorous-containing poop is environmentally toxic, a Mississippi chicken farmer/conservationist developed the first chicken poop digester. Every day 4 tons of chicken manure are put into the $500,000 digester, heated and mixed with bacteria, which produces the methane gas that is converted into energy. The month before using the digester the farmer’s power bill was approximately $8,000, the next month it was $200 and the next month he got a check from the power company that definitely wasn’t “chicken feed”.

Body dryers are a solution for theme park rides designed to soak riders from head to squishy shoes. Walk-in, full-body dryers equipped with heat lamps and hot-air blowers have been popular in Europe for 10 years; but before 2010 there were only 30 in the U.S. The dryers hold up to 5 people and cost $5 for 4 minutes. The average, t-shirt-and-shorts-wearing visitor will get 95% dry. Although people in Europe are less shy about their bodies and take off most of their clothes to dry them separately, most Americans would not give that idea a “dry run”.

Prison inmates are a solution for the University of Florida’s West Florida Research and Education Center. When the 650-acre research farm experienced state budget Levitra cuts in 2009, inmates from a nearby, low-risk prison camp started farming the land 5 days a week. The crops grown for research are now food for Northwest Florida’s correctional facilities. They have replaced the primarily canned and frozen produce, saving the state $60,000 in the first quarter of 2010. Plans to turn this experience into a certified program will show future employers that inmates can raise cabbage and corn instead of “raising Cain”.

Pets Kamagra Soft for Vets is a solution for veterans who are having difficulty re-entering civilian life. Clarissa Black, 27-year-old founder of the Los-Angeles-based organization, is a certified animal trainer with a degree in Animal Sciences from Cornell. After volunteering at a VA animal therapy program and with the help of a few volunteers and donations, Black trains dogs to be companion animals. For example, she trains them to recognize panic attacks and to respond with a gentle nudge or kiss. Black has matched 8 dogs with vets in less than a year; and considering they are shelter dogs, the mutual healing is “matchless”.

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