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What You Can do to Stop Climate Change

Here’s an example of what a German family are doing to lower their environmental impact and make the world a little better for their children:
Georg Fürtges’s pride and joy is a green monstrosity standing in the basement of his house in the western German city of Essen, hissing quietly and consuming dark little pellets that [...]

December 9th, 2009
Topic: Direct Action, Energy, Environment Tags: , , ,

Five Ideas to Avert Global Warming

National Geographic has a short article on crazy-sounding ideas that could avert global warming. Read all five ideas here.
Digging for a Solution
Dissolving mountains of rock might sound like a mad scientist’s dream. But it’s one of the proposals for speeding up the natural process of rock weathering, as a way of absorbing CO2.
Normal rainfall is [...]

September 8th, 2009
Topic: Environment Tags: , , ,

OneWorld Creates Social Networking Site

OneClimate.net is now the home of a social networking site that is focused on, you guessed it, the climate. OneWorld Network is a great source for news from around the world and I’m sure that this new social networking attempt for them will work out just as good as their news has.
I encourage you all [...]

October 12th, 2007
Topic: Direct Action, Environment Tags: , , , ,

How to Make a Cool Home

Air conditioners are bad for the environment so it’s obviously good if you can avoid using one. It’s easier than you think! At Freshome they have complied a handy list that has many tricks to keep your house cool without using AC. Over at PlanetFriendly there is a list of alternatives to air conditioners. [...]

July 11th, 2007
Topic: Energy, Good Fact Tags: , , ,

Heart of the Earth

Researches have discovered that the Earth has a heartbeat. This just sounds neat! I wonder where exactly the heart is.
“In the early half of the 20th century, Serbian physicist Milutin Milankovitch first proposed that cyclical variations in the Earth-Sun geometry can alter the Earth’s climate and these changes can be discovered in the Earth’s geological [...]

December 29th, 2006
Topic: Environment, Fun Tags: , , , , , ,

Cloud Appreciation Society

I LOVE CLOUDS!
They are quite amazing and very often overlooked because we just see them day by day. And I looked into clouds and found there is something called the Cloud Appreciation Society and they have a great website full of amazing images of clouds, cloud art, cloud poetry and memorabilia!
Check it out!

November 1st, 2006
Topic: Environment, Mind Space Tags: , , , ,