For many people, their passion is the environment and natural world around them. If you love the outdoors and nature and want to do your part to help conserve the environment for future generations, getting a degree in environmental science, law, or biology might be something you’ve considered. (more…)
Here’s a short but wonderful video created from images from NASA’s Goddard Space Center called “The Way the Oceans Move.” As you’re watching it, ask yourself: Shouldn’t this be called “The Way The Oceans USED To Move?” Rising ocean temperatures, changing densities/salinity, and melting ice are changing all this stuff right before our very eyes.
Right now it’s tough to get excited about anything else than the single most bizarre thing that’s ever happened in U.S. history, i.e., the firing of the FBI Director, the totally incredible reason provided for it, and what appears to be the beginning of the end of the Trump administration. But here goes: Germany set a new record for the use of renewable energy, mostly solar energy. On April 30 of this year, 85% of all the electricity consumed in Germany was being produced from renewables such as wind, solar, biomass, and hydroelectric power. (more…)
You want to live in a comfortable house, but you also want to reduce your environmental footprint. The key is to go green with your HVAC system.
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We’re getting much better at harnessing the power of solar energy. Technology has advanced to the point where solar power isn’t something clunky but accessible for all sorts of users. One of the best devices you can get if you want to use renewable energy to your advantage is a solar battery maintainer. But what is it and what are the five advantages of using it? (more…)
Regarding one of my more cynical posts, a commenter writes: Craig, things seem to cycle in and cycle out thru societies over history. It looks like we are seeing a recycling of Oliver Cromwell and his idiot round-heads are in power in the US. Nothingness is out of fashion, but the tides will turn! Keep on the right path don’t be distracted; the morons and minions will run out of hot air and their current overreach in time. (more…)
When moving, we mostly think about our clothes and furniture arriving in one piece. When it comes to moving plants, many of us think it’s enough to place them in the truck and take them to the new home no matter how far away it is. (more…)
It’s the birthday of the American poet, practicing Buddhist and an environmental activist Gary Snyder (pictured), whom Lawrence Ferlinghetti once called “The Thoreau of the Beat Generation.” (more…)
It’s always interesting to look at the ever-expanding number of disciplines in which the scientific community has created specialties. (more…)
What are we to make of what’s going on in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)? Is it coincidence that we’ve seen the appointment of Scott Pruitt, career-long EPA enemy as its administrator, the removal/burying of references to climate change from the EPA website, the discharge of five top scientists and the probable replacement with top executives in the industries that the EPA supposedly regulates? (more…)
