Archive for February, 2009
Overpopulation: One Cause Of Global Warming?
Uncontrolled population growth threatens to undermine efforts to save the planet, warns John Feeney, a free lance writer with the BBC. In this week’s Green Room, he calls on the environmental movement to stop running scared of this controversial topic. This is a headline in the [...]
Coal Fired Plants: Will They Be The Death Of Us?
James Hansen, a head NASA scientist and climate expert, is pleading with world leaders one more time. Coal fired plants have been found to be one of the greatest threats to mankind. Pre industrial CO2 levels were at a level of 280 parts per million. The levels have increased to 385 parts per million [...]
TerraCab: Emission-Free Pedi-Cabs
New eco-friendly TerraCabs are set out to serve the public free of charge beginning Earth Day 2009 in an effort to reduce transportation congestion and pollution in downtown areas.
There’s no secret to getting people to go green [...]
Freecycle: Finding Treasures In Recycling
Freecycle is a network of users that want to recycle things they no longer need or want but do not want to place it in the garbage or have a yard sale. Freecycle works by email.[...]
Gardening Old Farm Land For Sustainability
Your suburban home is probably sitting on old farm land, an old orchard site or a once productive forest.
Here in the United States we are loosing nearly 3,000 acres a day and many times the land lost is some of the most fertile land we have for growing food.[...]
Green
Green is not just a color anymore. Green stands for a whole environmental movement or subsequently called the “Green Movement”. In this Green Movement, you can “Go Green” or become “Eco-Friendly”. Environmentalism started in the 1800’s with Henry David Thoreau who wrote the book [...]
Suburban Hedge Garden: An Environmentally Sustainable Option
Since most of us do not have a forest or an estate in the country, a Suburban Hedge Garden provides many of us with an environmentally sustainable option, to maximize the capabilities of our suburban property, to provide food and shelter for wildlife, food for the table and even sequester a bit of carbon from the atmosphere for centuries [...]
