Environmental protection may seem like an intimidating task, too big for one individual to tackle on their own, but there are many simple steps you can take to preserving the environment. Making just a few simple changes in your lifestyle can make a huge difference in the health of your local ecosystem!
Avoid Fertilizing Your Lawn (more…)
The roof is your home’s first line of defense against severe weather conditions, such as extreme heats, rain or snow. Its condition can affect your whole house and really add up to heating and cooling costs if it’s not done properly. By making your roof energy efficient, you’ll be able to heat or cool your house easier and, therefore, save up on bills. The type of roof you need depends on many factors, such as the climate you live in and the type of house you have, but here are some of the most cost-effective solutions out there. (more…)
When your house starts to feel like the walls are slowly closing in, your family has become to big or you’ve stuffed your home full with large tables and other space-eating items that now means you have to breathe in every time you walk through the kitchen? (more…)
Commenter “Mark” writes: Craig, here is a link to the work of IBM. Heat, cooling, desalination and electricity in one machine.
Yes, this is another take on Concentrated Solar PV, and apparently holds great potential. It’s another example of a couple of important phenomena: (more…)
A friend writes: I don’t “believe that all this anti-Trump rhetoric is actually vital to the needs of America.” On the contrary, history shows that America must have its people united to prosper. This anti-Trump stuff, promulgated by the far-left, tears us apart.
Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree, if you’ll pardon the cliche. IMO, the Americans who are sitting around in silence watching this outrageous stuff happen are no different than the common German citizens in the 1930s, quietly keeping their heads down as their neighbors were carted off in boxcars. (more…)
A reader notes on a Facebook post on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education: (Your) kind of anti-Trump rhetoric is painfully damaging to America.
I believe that it’s not nearly as “painfully damaging” as Trump himself, but I grant that we’ll have to wait and see how all this turns out. (more…)
For some reason, environmental issues tend to be controversial, perhaps because of the (deliberately misguided) notion that regulations in this arena stifle economic growth. For those interested in a few facts on the matter, I give you this snappy video by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Enjoy.
Here’s a video on a new approach to solar PV that claims to double the efficiency from about 18% to 36%. But I can’t see how anything these people say could possibly be true (beginning with the current efficiencies, which are in the 20s). (more…)
A self-described conservative on Facebook admonishes a fellow conservative who had majored in broadcasting in college and is now telling the world that climate change is a hoax: I think those of us on the right make a mistake when we try to argue the science of global warming. (more…)
Those of us who think of themselves as “people of peace,” might variously define that notion as: treating all people respectfully and fairly, standing up for a wide variety of human rights, and doing everything possible to avoid war. More interestingly, however, there seem to be two distinct flavors here:
• “Militant peacemakers,” which, though it sounds oxymoronic, means people (like me) who get seriously peeved when we see injustice, unfairness, stupidity, indifference to human suffering, support of violence, etc.—and do everything we can to fight it.
and
(more…)
