The Center for ReSource Conservation has been around for over 30 years (in one form or another) educating people about energy technology. It has only been during the last 5 years they have branched out and begun working within four realms: Water, Waste, Energy, and Green Building.
In May of 2007 they released an article to the press titled, "Spring greening: 50 simple ways to be environmentally responsible." The article includes tips such as, "Water before 10 a.m. and after 6 p.m. to prevent evaporation." Helpful green tips like that are important to share because a lot of people honestly just don't know why or what to do to "be green."
They are also responsible for installing solar hot water systems in low income housing units around Boulder, Colorado, their home base. On Sunday, September 30, 2007, they will be presenting The Boulder Tour of Solar and Green Built Homes. If you can make it out there you should check it out to "see first-hand that solar and green built homes are comfortable, practical, reliable, and affordable." It's all part of Solar Week in Boulder.
After resuming commercial whaling just under a year ago, Iceland's fisheries minister said recently that his country will not issue new whale-hunting quotas until there's more demand for whale-derived products and until Iceland gets an export license to send whale meat to Japan. "There is no reason to continue commercial whaling if there is no demand for the product," fisheries minister Einar Guofinnsson said. "If there is no profitability there is no foundation for resuming with the killing of whales." This whaling season, Iceland's quota was 39 whales, but it harpooned just 14 due to low demand.
Personally I don't understand why whaling is necessary at all. And if it ever does become necessary there needs to be a less brutal way of it happening. I don't believe there will ever be so many whales that killing them will ever be the only way. This is how nature works folks, there are other ways in which whales die without a harpoon needing to be involved.
Grow Green News is a news service that works like a forum to update you about all things "Green." For the most part everyone contributes to the site so it's like a community of sorts.
They realize that the "key in fighting global warming is spreading the green message and hope that this news service will do just that."
You'll find articles and be able to submit articles in categories such as, alternative energy, climate change, daily green tips, science & technology and theories. One of the popular pages at the moment is "Newest Alternative Energy - Portugal's Wave Power Plant." So you are going to constantly be updated on the latest news around the world.
There are plenty of posts about things you can do yourself to help the environment. Whether you intend to turn your car into a hydrogen car or use solar power to run a device that will keep you cool in your car. Heck, if it suits your fancy there is even a post about building your own green house.
Posted just yesterday is some interesting news about developers in California making solar roofing a standard item. And see that is the very thing that needs to consistently happen everywhere, so I applaud their intiative and efforts.
Of course I checked out the Sierra Club website today, it's something I try to do everyday. There was an article about biofuels, so I decided to give it a read through.
It seems that these are the days in which because are scrambling to figure out how to fix the mess that our environment is in...and figuring out other sources to make fuel from is a topic that keeps coming up. Biofuels produce less carbon dioxide.
BUT
Biofuel crops are typically grown on land which is burnt and reclaimed from tropical forests. Of course also, if you are clearing land to grow brops to make biofuel, there will be less land for farming and therefore the cost of food will rise. Like high yielding crops of corn and soy that will most likely be used to make biofuel. Corn will be the new caviar.
And I digress.
There will probably always be a Catch 22, an equal and opposite reaction...Murphys law, etc.
Back to the drawing board folks. How can we make carbon-free, renewable energy? If only the sun would shed some light on this problem...
The main solvent used in dry-cleaning, perchloroethylene (or perc), is a likely carcinogen that also contaminates our soil and water. Opt for greener alternatives like wet cleaning (a kind of high-tech version of hand-washing) and liquid-CO2 dry cleaning. Or just avoid clothes that require dry cleaning in the first place.
Also, on Saturday, August 18th is the beginning of the SolFest. SolFest is the world's premier two-day celebration of renewable energy and sustainable living. They have a pretty cool poster you can download to advertise the event.
At a scary rate of 24 square miles per year, America's Wetlands along Louisiana's Border with the Gulf of Mexico, are vanishing. There is a dire need for coastal restoration in this area.
As the wetlands disappear, habitat is lost putting at risk numerous threatened and endangered species. During the winter this is the home for more than five million waterfowl and migratory birds. National Geographic Magazine wrote in October of 2004, "As a wildlife habitat, it [South Louisiana] makes Florida's Everglades look like a petting zoo by comparison."
This isn't just about the ecological concerns. This is also about economical issues. This is a working wetland, hosting production and distribution of 80% of America's offshore oil and gas supply. As the protective wetlands and barrier islands disappear, oil and gas infrastructure along the coast becomes exposed to open Gulf conditions. And more than 30% of the nation’s fisheries catch in the continental U.S. comes from offshore Louisiana.
As impossible as it may sound there are precautions that can be taken to slow further erosion AND to restore what has been lost. The main strategies of the plan are watershed management, such as river diversions and improved drainage, and watershed structural repair, such as the restoration of barrier islands.
