Happy Earth Day everyone! Here’s some Earth Day related links for you:
Earth Day from Wikipedia
…and if you’re in Toronto come out to the street celebration and parade!
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Help Save the Planet in 10 Ways
There are so many ways to save the planet that people get overwhelmed, for those of you who are lost in the goodness please keep reading. HowStuffWorks has posted a basic list of ten things you can do to save the planet.
The list is rather simple as it includes things like recycling (who doesn’t?) and not buying bottled water.
It’s good to remind ourselves that there are simple everyday things we can do to protect the planet.
A Knight Funds War (on Carbon Emissions)
That odd billoniare Sir Richard Branson has decided to fight carbon emissions while sending spaceships to space and air planes to air. Branson has made millions off of air travel (the worst way to travel environmentally speaking) and other things and now he wants to use those millions to help all of us.
Sir Richard Branson brought his talent for publicity to bear on climate change yesterday, offering a $25m (£13m) prize to anyone who invents an economical way of removing carbon from the atmosphere.
The Virgin group chairman said: “We have no super-hero. We have only our own ingenuity to fall back on.”
The CBC has a news clip on the story (direct link to WMV file).
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 archives, which is exactly what this research team, consisting of members from the United Kingdom, the U.S. and Canada, has done.”