Your home’s water will have a major impact on your family’s comfort and well-being. Tainted water can create a wide variety of health problems including nausea, bacterial infections, and rashes. For those who are unsure how safe their water currently is, here are a few tips that will help you identify and remove potential contaminants.
Test the System Yourself (more…)
Jeff Merkley, a progressive senator from Oregon (a progressive state) is introducing legislation that provides a plan by which the country can wean itself off fossil fuels by 2050. Though the details of the plan aren’t available, they include the obvious: electrification of transportation and using renewables to clean up the grid mix. (more…)
Green travel is often misunderstood, with people thinking that they have to sleep in tents, or never use cars to get around. Most people forego even trying to plan an eco-friendly trip because they are under the misconception that traveling green involves sacrificing too many “regular” activities, especially those that make holidays fun. (more…)
According to The Writer’s Almanac, it’s the anniversary of “Black Sunday” in 1935, the day on which the Great Plains region experienced one of the largest dust storms in American history. It’s an important reminder of what happens when farm land is misused, which, of course, is happening every day at some level.
Let’s begin with the article mentioned above: (more…)
Learn how municipalities can speed up clean energy projects by thinking outside the box. With sustainable initiatives sprouting around the globe, municipalities are looking for crowdlending platforms to engage their communities while achieving environmental outcomes. Here are three sustainable development examples that were launched by municipal councils and financed through crowdlending platforms, such as ECrowd!. (more…)
Even since the advent of large-scale commercial wind energy in the 1990s, there has been a certain interest in airborne wind, as illustrated here. In principle, it offers all the benefits of offshore wind, on steroids. It’s less visible than onshore wind, which some people find offensive to the eye. More importantly, it’s situated in places of more stable and higher velocity wind currents. (more…)
As we learned in the early 20th Century, depending on the circumstance, light can behave either as a particle or a wave. Want to see the wave nature of light? Set up a double slit experiment (see photo on left) and notice that particles would not produce these interference patterns. Want to see light behave as a particle? Consider solar PV, and notice that particles of a certain energy can dislodge electrons in the semiconductor substrate materials. (more…)
Here’s a conversation on Facebook that presents my viewpoint.
Liz McCleney He (Spicer) misspoke (about Hitler’s not using chemical weapons), he apologized; move on. (more…)
Here’s eminent climate scientist James Hansen’s recent Ted Talk on global warming. I’m not sure there’s anything new here in terms of the data themselves: the imbalance of the Earth’s heat energy is 0.6 Watts/square meter, 20 times the rate of energy consumption by all 7.4 billion of us, the equivalent of 400,000 Hiroshima atom bombs exploding every day, 365 days per year. (more…)
Here’s an article on how the IoT applies to smart buildings, in this case, greenhouses for cannabis–yet another sign that “the times they are a’changing.”
Cannabis clearly has medical value, both in pain relief generally and in the treatment of certain conditions, e.g. glaucoma and a range of emotional disorders. (more…)
