Environment

Plastic and the Environment

By Sally Falkow · 16 years ago

It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without plastic; it’s used for so many things we do as a normal part of our lives. Our newspaper is wrapped in plastic to keep it from getting ...

An Untapped Reservoir Of Renewable Energy: What Is Solar Energy?

By Noel Lillis · 16 years ago

An Untapped Reservoir Of Eternal Energy: What Is Solar Energy? The most exact definition of Solar Energy is plainly the energy from the sun. It is a term used to classify the electromagnetic radiation given ...

Solar And Wind Power For Residential Homes

By Koz Huseyin · 16 years ago

It is now fully possible to get solar and wind power for residential homes. Costs are coming down, and more and more people are jumping into the benefits of solar and wind power for residential ...

How to Start Designing a Landfill

By Steve Evans · 16 years ago

The overall approach that the promoter and developer of a landfill should take is that of embarking on a construction project, carried out over an extended period, to build a desired landform using waste materials ...

Environmental Waste Solutions for an Ever Changing World

By Steve Evans · 16 years ago

In all nations he public and their servants are continually seeking out new environmental waste solutions. As time goes on these are becoming more and more sophisticated in order to protect our environment. The problem ...

Chinook Winds - A False Spring

By Marlene Affeld · 16 years ago

Chinook ~ A Warm Sweet Wind Is Blowing People who have spent some time in Montana tell eerie tales of the warm winter winds. Have you ever experienced a chinook? If so, you surely remember ...

Eco-Friendly Toys For Kids... And Dogs?

By Victor Epand · 16 years ago

With an increased awareness about the state of the environment, more and more families are choosing to "go green". Making choices that are eco-friendly is an easy process; there are now lines of environmentally-friendly foods, ...

Waste Prevention and Landfill Methane Production

By Steve Evans · 16 years ago

Waste prevention and recycling which will massively reduce the amount of waste going into landfills are critical to stopping climate change. Waste-to-energy (WTE) plants create heat and electricity from burning mixed solid waste. Waste minimization ...

Gasoline Electric Hybrid Cars Versus Conventional Cars

By Kath Mathews · 16 years ago

Today, more and more people are now considering getting rid of their gas-guzzling conventional cars and purchase a new kind of car available in the market today called hybrid cars. You may wonder why hybrid ...

Preparing for a Hurricane

By Gym White · 16 years ago

There are lots of countries in this world where you can witness more natural disasters as compared to other countries. For instance, there are some countries where people my have to deal with earthquake on ...

Precautions during an Earthquake

By Gym White · 16 years ago

Natural disasters can happen anytime. Science has really evolved in a great way, but, it doesn’t have enough power to fight with natural disasters. With all of its powers, science and technology can only give ...

Recycling Everyone Can Do It

By Rich Colmes · 16 years ago

RECYCLING: Imagine floating in the sky in a shuttle and looking down at the earth. One might hope that looking down you might see all the wonderful things put together by humans on this earth, ...

The MotherShip

By Ralph P. Brown · 16 years ago

Suppose for a moment that you have been chosen to make a one-way journey into deep space. Because this journey will take the whole of your life, everything that you need for survival must be ...

Gray Wolves Returned To Endangered Species List

By Marlene Affeld · 16 years ago

Wolves are once again protected in the northern Rocky Mountains of the United States. On Tuesday, October 14th, 2008, a court victory for environmentalists returned gray wolves to the endangered species list. "The northern Rocky ...

Montana Bears Prepare For A Long Winter's Sleep

By Marlene Affeld · 16 years ago

There is fresh snow on the high mountain ridges, a bone chilling wind from the west rattles the tamarack, scattering golden needles across the forest floor. Tendrils of silver fog accent the hush that lies ...

Recycle Polycarbonate Plastic

By Mike Guy · 16 years ago

The recent move by the Canadian Government to ban Polycarbonate plastic baby bottles has stirred up a lot of concern over plastic use for food and drink. The attention also prompted some issues over the ...

Biofuel Fever on Jets

By Erik Johannessen · 16 years ago

Dec. 3 is the date when Air New Zealand and Boeing will make the first flight using sustainable biofuels from Auckland using a 747-400 jetliner. Conducted in partnership with Rolls-Royce and UOP, a Honeywell company, ...

Using Fossil Fuels

By Gloria Smith · 16 years ago

Fossil fuels are a natural but non renewable source fuels or organic compounds made of hydrogen and carbon that develop thru the natural decomposition of plants and animals over thousands of years. The fuels are ...

Landfill Gas Characteristics and Opportunities

By Steve Evans · 16 years ago

Landfill gas is produced in landfills by the decomposition of organic materials. The primary components of LFG are methane (50%) and carbon dioxide (48%). This gas is a product of the decomposition of organic materials ...

Types of Bio Fuels - Are they good?

By Peter Harris · 16 years ago

As the term suggests, bio-fuels are fuels that are formed when biological matter decomposes. The bio-fuels are mostly derived from plants. Bio-fuels exist in all the three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Difference ...

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