Category: Environment
A Chance to Speak and Be Heard
Wherein I share the link to the Environmental Protection Agency’s site for sharing comments, ideas, and discussion regarding the direction you want the EPA to go.
Mushrooms Save the World!
Paul Stamets is not the most dynamic speaker, and sometimes it may be hard to follow the thread of his argument, but I guarantee that some of his ideas will blow your mind with possibilities and you’ll learn a side if fungi that is decidedly more interesting that a portobello mushroom sandwich.
Links to Make You More Betterer
My name’s Chris Jeavans. For one month I am attempting to live my normal life with one main change – no new plastic. That means no bags, no packaging, no plastic to hang around in landfill. In this blog I’ll keep you updated to let you know how I’m getting on.[From BBC NEWS | Month …
Forget Biofuels – It’s Air All the Way, Baby!
Check it: What’s sad is that, but for human greed and short-sightedness, this could have been the path for the automotive industry beginning over a century ago. Oh, but you can’t make nearly the money on compressed air as you can on selling fuel, be it gasoline or biofuels or hydrogen. So yeah, all those …
A New Meaning to “Hair of the Dog”
But one man’s problem is a nation’s opportunity. Has any scientist researched the practicality of replacing coal-fired power plants with new versions fueled by a never-ending supply of dog hair? Other promising possibilities: (1) automotive fuel additive (great opportunity for catchy brand name – Petkinol, Labrodiesel, or PetroK-9); (2) compressed pellets for use as mail …
Turn Them Lights Out, Bubba!
Today, hundreds of thousands of people, and hundreds of cities across the world are participating in Earth Hour. From 8 pm – 9 pm local time, people all over the world will be turning off their lights. In homes, businesses, city & state government facilities, the lights go dark as a way to raise awareness …
Bottled Water = The Suck
The more I find out about bottled water and the environmental and human costs that producing bottled water incur, the more I am convinced that we – and by “we” I mean “I” – need to make some changes. Tonight I attended a meeting of my food coop and one of the items up for …
Invasion of the Indestructible Plastic Bags
So, one of the ways we are screwing over ourselves and the planet is the sheer, overwhelming, mindbogglingly huge amount of plastic that we litter around our world.Plastic does not die. Maybe, someday, all the bags, tops, six-pack rings, etc. will find their way below the earth’s crust and be destroyed by the fires of …