Tip: Healthy Mental Health is an Inner State of Psychological Bliss and Well-Being

World Mental Health Day on 10th October 2011. There are global talks and discussions on causes and treatments for various mental, psychological, behavioral and neurological disorders. Policies are being thought over to help end the centuries' old stigma towards mental illnesses. In this huge and much needed effort, we are forgetting something really important. Mental health is not limited to a mere absence of disease"

World mental health day 2011: Top 5 issues - The Times of India: "
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Ways to Mitigate Climate Change: Alternative Energy: Photovoltaic Panels, which convert sunlight into electricity, power homes and businesses

Alternative Energies became Kentucky's only manufacturer of photovoltaic panels, which convert sunlight into electricity to power homes and businesses. The company has rented office and manufacturing space in the old ATR Wire & Cable plant on Danville's bypass, trained 10 employees and set up a side business in security systems to cushion its startup.

"It has been slow starting," said Dan Tolson, one of three partners in the company. Solar power is a novelty in Kentucky, he said, "but we think the potential here is huge. It just makes sense." Photovoltaic-panel prices worldwide have fallen more than 30 percent in the past year, making solar power an increasingly viable supplement to conventional power supplies. "The more we use this technology, the cheaper it gets," AEK partner Troy Lay said."
Tom Eblen: Company says the future of solar panels in Ky. is bright | Business | Kentucky.com:

Alternative Energies of Kentucky installed this solar panel-power system on a customer's home in Frankfort. PHOTO PROVIDED

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Climate Change Update: Climate change not factored into companies' value, warns UN chief | Environment | The Guardian

As long as these companies [that emit large quantities of greenhouse gases] have a high value, we are giving out the wrong signals," said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, told an audience of carbon finance specialists in London. "It has got to be that those companies that are investing in the technologies of the future are recognised."

She called for "an active valuation" of companies with high carbon emissions, saying the world was "far behind" in doing so. "How is it possible that the valuation is not keeping pace?"

Companies should take note, she urged, of the political reality that governments around the world have signed up to a commitment of holding global temperature rises to no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels, which scientists regard as the limit of safety beyond which climate change becomes unstoppable and catastrophic."
Climate change not factored into companies' value, warns UN chief | Environment | The Guardian: ""
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