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Give A Little Green On Earth Day And Beyond
Happy Earth Day to our readers from the Green Earth Friend team!
We wanted to share with our readers a special green campaign, introduced to us by Julia Barmeier, who works for GlobalGiving, an online marketplace for philanthropy that connects donors directly to international grassroots development projects.
She reads this blog and thought our readers might be interested in a [...]
Earth Day Contest
As Earth Month kicks off, a nonprofit group called GreatNonprofits has launched their 2009 Green Choice Awards in an effort to identify the best organizations working towards environmental sustainability. The focus of GreatNonprofits and their Website is to offer a way for everyday people to review their experiences with nonprofit groups — similar to resources like [...]
Amazon Forest Shrinking Due To Global Warming
A new study of the Amazon Rain Forest carried out by scientists at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, has determined that any rise in temperature in the Amazon area could kill off 85 % of the plant life. Tim Lenton, a climate expert for the University, says that when he was young, he thought [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
T. Boone Pickens Plan For Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs)
Billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens has a plan to reduce U.S. reliance on imported oil. His plan is to build fields of windmills across the Great Plains to generate electricity so that cleaner burning natural gas, which currently costs about $1.50 a gallon, and is used to power many electric plants, can be freed [...]
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 [...]
Alaskan Coast Line Eroding Before Our Eyes
The Alaskan Coast Line is eroding rapidly. Climate change is believed to be at fault since Arctic Sea Ice recedes seasonally. The water warms up and transfers the heat energy to the shoreline, melting the frigid soil, allowing it to break off and dissipate in the water. The ice has always receded seasonally, however the amount of time the [...]
Environmentally Friendly Christmas Trees
How can we still enjoy our Christmas Celebrations and have an environmentally friendly Christmas Tree? The Original Living Christmas Tree Company, located in Portland Oregon and founded by John Vogel, has rented out 419 Christmas Trees this year with the environment in mind. Prices starting at $55.00 for a 7 ft Douglas Fir. They pull the [...]
Geothermal Power Plants: A Sustainable Green Energy
Geothermal Power Plants have been installed all over the world and are an inexhaustible or sustainable source of energy. The way they work is this: Holes are drilled to the core of the earth. Pipes are installed and heat comes up through the pipes.
The largest Geothermal Power Plant is located in California in a place called [...]
