- What's Actually In Biodiesel?
- Rising prices of energy fuels have prompted companies and individuals to search for low-cost sources of fuels for their machines and automobiles. One of the most popular alternative fuels is biodiesel, a fuel derived from vegetable and animal fats. B...
- Agriculture: Our Biggest Environmental Disaster
- There are no good old days of farming. From when people first started to herd animals and scratch the ground to plant seeds, farming has been an environmentally destructive force. We have heard a lot in recent years about the destruction of the rainf...
- Benefits of Deforestation
- Whenever people talk about deforestation, usually the things that spring to mind are negative thoughts brought on mostly by media hypes and environmentalist drives. People think about global warming, depletion of natural resources, and the casual ext...
- Dont Slander the Sludge - Making Good Use of Bad Sludge
- Sewage sludge. The mere thought almost puts you off your lunch, doesnt it? Ah, but convert it to biosolids, and thats another story! Biosolids are the nutrient-rich organic materials that are left over after the disposed sludge is processed and treat...
- Renewable Energy Tax Credits - Greener in More Ways Than One
- It's certainly no secret: the cost of renewable energy production and its implementation can be extremely high. This is the very reason why tax credits are often used to enable renewable energy sources to compete with fossil fuels. With rising oil an...
- A Great Bubbling: Economics Of Oil Prices
- The world will never be quite the same. High oil prices are not only changing the political and economic landscapes but they could also change energy itself, because they are stimulating the most widespread drive for technological innovation this sec...
- Observations at the Grocery Store
- Just going grocery shopping can be interesting when you want to live a more environmentally friendly lifestyle. I was shopping the other day and just marveling at some of the wasteful stuff there.I like buying from my local Henry's as they have a goo...
- Sharks are Interesting!
- Sharks are wonderful animals that have been around since as long as the dinosaurs existed: They inhabit in waters all over the world, in every sea, and even in some lakes and tributaries. There are around 358 unique species of sharks that can be divi...
- Humpback Whale Article
- The Humpback Whale has a built and well rounded body that narrows to a smaller tail stock. Its head is massive, marked with protuberances containing hair and providing sites for barnacles/whale lice. The giant pectoral fins easily distinguish apart t...
- Turning Green as a Stay at Home Mom
- Being a stay at home mom means you're there to set a great example for your children. Wouldn't it be nice to show them how important you consider helping our planet to be?Admittedly, being a stay at home mom can be pretty environmentally friendly in...
- Global Warming Gives The Palace A Cold Touch
- The House of Windsor's Prince Charles has famously led the debate on global warming and climate issues for a generation.But a new royal has entered the debate, and Monaco's Prince Albert recently joined Prince Charles at his innotative Poundbury vill...
- Environment And Global Warming Tops Monaco Agenda
- The world's environment and in particular global warming and the environment have been the top issues for Prince Albert of Monaco, and while he is preparing to mark the first year of his succession to the Principality of Monaco, a local destination g...
- Prince Albert Leads Monaco To Better Environment
- Just a year after Prince Albert of Monaco began a campaign to increase awareness of the impact of global warming among his fellow world leaders, Monaco itself has dramatically improved its own record on the environment among a group of 40 monitored n...
- Is Alternative Energy WorthThe Investments?
- Crude oil is expensive, very expensive, that is a fact. Because of these high prices other products like petrol and electricity are following. The prices are going up and down but the trend is up and the trend will not be going down in near future. W...
- Earth day: the anniversary of the forgotten one
- Earth day is celebrated on April 22th . Earth day started slowly in the year 1970 when it was created by the environmentalist movement. On the first official earth day on april 22th 1970, the US senator Gaylord Nelson was one of the first to encourag...
- Alternative Fuel Sources - Moving Away From Gas
- With soaring gas prices, and concerns about the effects fossil fuel use is having on the environment, researchers are scrambling to find alternative fuel options for America's dependence on foreign oil. While others are being studied, there are curre...
- Renewable Electric Power Takes Off
- Renewable electric power is beginning to soar. The current surge of activity, which has been accelerating over the last few years, is driven by several factors: high fuel prices; ongoing improvements in renewable power technologies; and increasing po...
- Will Innovation Transform Energy?
- Something big is going on throughout the energy business. It's a great bubbling of innovation in every part of the industry. This bubbling is the brew of many different ingredients-from the impact of high prices and geopolitical uncertainty to the gr...
- Wind Power as a Viable Solution to Alternative Energy Needs
- Although it is much less expensive to initially get hooked into the local electric company's grid than it is to set up and hook into wind turbines, in the long run one saves money by utilizing the wind for one's energy needs while also becoming more...
- Why Can't We Turn Our Lights Off
- On March 31, 2007, people and businesses in Sydney, Australia turned off their lights for one hour. The city streetlights and traffic lights were left on for safety purposes. Can you imagine a city like New York in the dark? Maybe some New Yorkers wo...
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