Author Archive for admin
Admin is an environmental author who researches and writes on all environmental awareness issues including sustainable living and renewable energy and participates in the go green movement.
Less Fog In Europe
Less fog in Europe equals more Global Warming and less fog in Europe is contributed to less pollution. Scientists say that since 1970 fog has reduced in occurrence by 50% and 10% to 20% just in the last few years. They have linked the [...]
EPA’s Ten Most Wanted
The Environmental Protection Agency has released it’s ten most wanted environmental criminals. There are several individuals who are wanted that are chief engineers of cruise line ship’s or other shipping companies. We were wondering why they were not going after the actual companies that employed [...]
Greenest Museum In The World
The California Academy Of Sciences in Golden Gate Park , San Francisco, is one of the greenest buildings in the world. The roof contains over a million different species of plant life. The green roof insulates the building, keeping it warm in the winter and cool in the summer. When it rains, the roof absorbs the water, bringing [...]
Chinese Glaciers Are Melting
Glaciers covering China’s Qinghai-Tibet plateau are shrinking by 7 percent a year due to global warming. Because of warmer temperatures in the area known as “The roof of the world” Tibet and the surrounding high areas will be turned into a desert. If the temperature continues to rise it will cause a massive drought. It [...]
Bad Economy Puts Recycling In The Red!
Unfortunately, due to the economy, people in the United States are not buying as much, which affects recycling in a big way. It used to be that we would accept shipments from China and we would load up the ships returning to China with our recycled [...]
Coal Ash Spill: Environmental Nightmare
The Tennessee Valley got an early Christmas present in the form of Millions of gallons of ash sludge, that poured through a broken dike at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Coal Plant, west of Knoxville, the day before Christmas. [...]
Head NASA Scientist Makes Climate Change Plea To Obamas
James Hansen, one of NASA’s top ranking climate experts, has written a new year’s plea to the newly elected Presidential couple, the Obama’s. In his letter, James Hansen has pointed out the public’s lack of awareness on climate change and the [...]
First Jatropha Powered Jumbo Jet Lands
Today history has been made by Air New Zealand in the first flight powered by Jatropha. Jatropha, an up and coming second generation biofuel, that does not take away from food crops, was used in a 50/50 mix of Jatropha and jet fuel. [...]
Australia Has Pledged To Decrease Emissions By 15%
Australia, highly criticized by environmentalists for not signing the Kyoto Protocol, has vowed to try to cut emissions by 5%-15% by the year 2020. Kevin Rudd, the 26th and current Prime Minister of Australia and federal leader of the centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP), says that this plan will not affect a previous commitment to slash [...]
Ben & Jerry’s Cleaner Greener Freezer
Ben & Jerry’s new in-store freezers do not use hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as refrigerants anymore. Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), is the type of greenhouse gas that packs 1,400 times the global warming impact of more-common CO2. The new [...]
