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Submitted By: Derek Both
As the temperature rises during the summer season, many households turn to more than just ice-cold drinks to keep them cool. Air conditioning was once regarded as a residential luxury, but has become something of a necessity throughout the United States. Not only will air conditioning cool a room to a bearable temperature during balmy, humid summer days, but also uses the same techniques as a refrigerator to provide ventilation and dehumidification for indoor air.
Brief Air Conditioning Hist ...
In Category: Consumer Awareness
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Submitted By: Glenn Freiboth
If you watch the History channel and watch the top 10 disasters that will befall the world, the number one prediction that is actual happening today is Global Warming.
We begin this article with a brief explanation of Global Warming and it's impact on life on earth and then move on to the worlds first and only command and control system that will help first responders help save lives when disaster strikes.
Global warming is the increase in the earth's average temperature due to the buildup ...
In Category: Environmental Reviews
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Submitted By: Aydan Corkern
It seems that every time we turn around there has been another disaster involving chemicals, oil spills, or some other environmentally unsafe thing. The latest is in Kingston Tennessee at a TVA coal burning fossil plant along the river not far from Knoxville. It seems that a sludge pond containing coal ash overflowed and has contaminated about 300 acres. There are homes both being lived in and for sale in the area.
A lot of people had to be evacuated on December 26th when this took place and ...
In Category: Environmental Reviews
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Submitted By: Bill Williams
The car industry at present not only has to cope with a financial crisis but it is being forced to redesign cars to cope with satisfying the environment lobby in their quest to reduce carbon gas emissions to help prevent global warming.
The world credit crunch and banking crisis is not confined to the financial sector alone, industry in general is hurting and none more so than the car/motor industry.
With a global workforce estimated near the 50 million mark when all the ancillary parts of ...
In Category: Automotive News
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Submitted By: Aydan Corkern
Although Australia had been discovered and inhabited long before 1770 when the British Government laid claim to the eastern half of it, it was not until this time that is became somewhat civilized. Even then it was a penal colony where many criminals were sent to work off their sentences and this particular civilization began about 1788 in the colony of New South Wales. It was a wild and untamed land that drew many people to it to live and help turn into the magnificent continent it is today.
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In Category: Nature
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Submitted By: James Nash
An article in the Washington Times recently discussed how skeptics of global warming are 'treated like a pariah'. The article begins, 'Scientists skeptical of climate-change theories say they are increasingly coming under attack - treatment that may make other analysts less likely to present contrarian views about global warming.' The article cites an example of this by mentioning how a climatologist in Oregon might be stripped of his position by the governor for speaking out against the origins ...
In Category: Politics
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Submitted By: James Nash
Carbon Offsetting involves paying an organisation to neutralise the climate impact of your own activities, thereby making those activities "carbon neutral" or "climate neutral". Some offset schemes focus on reducing future emissions by, for example, giving out low-energy lightbulbs in the developing world or buying renewable electricity credits. Others focus on sucking CO2 directly out of the atmosphere - usually by planting trees.
The planting of trees clearly has a positive effect in the fi ...
In Category: Environmental Reviews
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Submitted By: James Nash
Quite simply, you pay money to account for each tonne of carbon dioxide; or one of the other 5 common environmental pollutants that you create. 'You' can refer to individuals, corporations or political entities. So say, for example, that I generate 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, and each carbon credit costs $20 per tonne. I would have to pay $200 to be carbon neutral; meaning, that I am paying a fee for each tonne of greenhouse gases I produce and this fee contributes to products that eit ...
In Category: Finance/Economics
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Submitted By: James Nash
The need for tax shifting - lowering income taxes while raising taxes on environmentally destructive activities - in order to get the market to tell the truth has been widely endorsed by economists. The basic idea is to establish a tax that reflects the indirect costs to society of an economic activity. For example, a tax on coal would incorporate the increased health care costs associated with breathing polluted air, the costs of damage from acid rain, and the costs of climate disruption.
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In Category: Finance/Economics
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Submitted By: James Nash
With gas prices continuing to stay high, many people are looking at other fuel options, such as, for example, diesel fuel. Ethanol is another alternative fuel option that can also save you some money at the pump.
Ethanol, grain alcohol made mostly from corn in the U.S., has seen a resurgence in interest lately, including new federal mandates to produce at least 36 billion gallons of biofuels by 2020. Most ethanol today is blended into gasoline in a mixture called E10, 10 percent ethanol to 90 ...
In Category: Renewable Energy
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Submitted By: Aydan Corkern
All of the four seasons of the year have their own individual and unique beauty to display, but the one that usually stands out the most as far as vibrancy goes is fall or autumn as some like to call it. Many people will take a shorter vacation at this time of the year just because of a longing to see the changing of the leaves. Usually the first changes to trees and other foliage starts in New England and the Northwestern states. The Rocky Mountains also get changing colors earlier than other p ...
In Category: Nature
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Submitted By: Roger Munns
Prince Albert had long been thought of as a playboy while his father was the monarch of Monaco. He was known for his carefree lifestyle, much of which he learned while attending college in the United States.
Since Prince Albert has taken over the throne in Monaco, he has changed his ways and become a leader concerned about the future of the second smallest country in the world. To this end, he has worked hard to protect the environment of Monaco.
Prince Albert takes such a remarkable in ...
In Category: Environmental Reviews
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Submitted By: Mike Hirn
An Ice Age brought on by global warming was the scenario depicted in the movie THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. While the science on which the movie based has been called into question, there may be some merit in the theory that global warming could cause an Ice Age.
Why is Europe's climate comparitively milder than other places at the same latitude? Alaska and Greenland, both the same distance to the North Pole as Europe, are covered with ice and permafrost while most of Europe is not.
The ...
In Category: Nature
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Submitted By: Roger Munns
Tenerife is one of the seven Canary Islands off the coast of Africa and a favourite destination in the winter for European holidays, and the island is now looking at how it can improve it's environmental record, in both the public and private sectors.
Tenerife and Tourism
The island of Tenerife is almost completely dependent on tourism, and is a particular favourite for British tourists.
Known among many in the UK as 'Paradise Island' Tenerife is sunny year-round, which makes it the pe ...
In Category: Press Releases
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Submitted By: James Nash
We are on the doorstep of environmental and energy crises. In 2003, the fourth hottest year since 1880, thirty-five thousand Europeans died in a heat wave. Today we watch as glaciers recede and ice shelves break off into the sea. In the US, we import over 60% of our oil. Energy has been the primary motivator for two wars resulting in thousands of American armed forces deaths and hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in the Middle East.
Hurricane Katrina exposed our energy supply/demand vu ...
In Category: Environmental Reviews
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Submitted By: James Nash
Some people enjoy baking cookies in the oven, some people enjoy baking themselves in the backyard. Even if oil-soaked sun-worshipping Saturday afternoons are the most direct experience most of us every get with the energy of the sun, we know picture of the sun instinctively that the sun is essential for life. It turns out it's also essential for just about any type of energy you can think of.
Solar energy is free and inexhaustible, and has been for the 5 billion years or so that the planet ha ...
In Category: Home Additions
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Submitted By: James Nash
There's an old joke about how you can tell when a lawyer is lying - his lips move. Can the same thing be applied to politicians? Oops - most politicians ARE lawyers!
Is the public's increasing apathy towards politics partly due to the perception that politicians can't be trusted to give it to us straight? Have many of us become so jaded that we assume it's normal for politicians to lie? Where does "spin" end and outright lying begin? Is silence on an important issue the same as lying about it ...
In Category: Politics
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Submitted By: Shawn Wilson
While worries about the stock market, the auto industry, and just about everything to do with the economy are making the front pages of every daily newspaper, worries about global warming have never left the front of our minds. According to most scientists, the Earth is getting warmer, and the environment is already suffering for it. And those same scientists mostly agree that the problem has been created by the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.
While reducing carbon emissions and conser ...
In Category: Environmental Reviews
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Submitted By: James Nash
Carbon offsetting provokes a powerful emotional response in some people. They just don't like the idea that you can pay someone else to mop up your carbon emissions. It smacks of indulgence and cheating. Critics say buying an offset while continuing to fly, or drive an SUV, or live in a mansion with all the lights on, is at best hypocritical, and at worst, downright dangerous. It simply avoids the issue, which is that we should be reducing our carbon footprint, and simply encourages the delusion ...
In Category: Environmental Reviews
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Submitted By: James Nash
Global warming is going to wreak havoc with the world economy. That is the latest prediction based on the idea that our use of fossil fuels and our production and release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is responsible for an increase-to-come in temperatures.
We've got to act now, we are being told. There is a strong consensus that we're in for some heavy heat and that industry is to blame for it. So energy use must be curtailed and polluters must be made to pay. UN General Secretary ...
In Category: Politics
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