A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted every day as a result of human beings’ activities. Emission of carbon dioxide pollutes the environment. Driving, cooking, manufacturing of various products, and heating are some of the common activities that lead to the emission of carbon dioxide. (more…)
Here’s an article suggesting: “We could power the whole of human civilization with wind turbines in the open sea.”
Perhaps we need to define what we mean by “could.” (more…)
Ecology has always found its place in education, no matter the country or school at hand. While the academic society reserves ecology for a specialized niche environment, primary and secondary schools all over the world have some kind of eco-education. But is that really a good thing? (more…)
Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is involved in two major offensives aimed at helping huge corporate polluters profit at the expense of the environment.
The first is the repeal of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan that subjects all forms of electricity generation to emission regulations, including greenhouse gases. Because of the toxins emitted from coal-fired power plants that would need to be scrubbed, this would make it difficult for coal to compete with natural gas, nuclear, and renewables. (more…)
There are two main schools of thought when it comes to PR: (more…)
I wrote a post yesterday about the troubling direction U.S. politics is going, suggesting that it could get worse. In response, frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes:
We have still moved forward a tremendous amount in the past 8 years, and while Trump is a complete horror show, he still has yet to undo all of the positive steps forward we experienced under Obama. We’re still further along than we were in 2010. (more…)
Efficiency is one of the most important qualities of a business. When a business operates with efficiency, every resource it uses goes directly to supporting and expanding the organization’s goals — without anything wasted. However, many companies focus on their organizational efficiency without stopping to consider other ways they could become more efficient. For example, commercial buildings account for nearly one-fifth of the energy consumed in the United States, but a good portion of that energy ends up being wasted for one reason or another. (more…)
My ill-fated idea to trade in my eight-cylinder 4.0 liter BMW for a high-mileage (43 MPG) car led me to the VW Jetta TDI, which I traded back to them the moment the Department of Justice ordered them to make such an offer. When I dropped the car off, I told them that I wouldn’t be coming back, but I still get emails telling me about the latest deal from VW. Here’s the response I just wrote: (more…)
Given the bizarre happenings in U.S. government today, many Americans view reminders of our country’s past with a kind of bittersweet nostalgia, and the fear that, absent a miracle, our best days are behind us. On this day in 1888, the Washington Monument was opened to the public. (more…)
As our civilization attempts to integrate more solar and wind into its grid-mix, the subject of energy storage becomes increasingly important. This article in GreenTechMedia offers a cursory look at the three technologies that are competing with batteries: pumped hydro, compressed air, and chemical energy storage (e.g. hydrogen). A few comments: (more…)
