There has been a lot in the press in recent years about conflict diamonds. The 2006 film Blood Diamond, starring Leonardo DiCaprio did much to trigger the public’s interest in the topic, but it still remains a fact that most people do not have a clue where their diamond came from and many do not [...]
I love to cook and when I have the time I make soups, stews and pasta meals in large batches and freeze them. I use leftover plastic containers, but I know this is not good. What kinds of containers are safe for freezer food storage?
Reusing leftover plastic food containers to store items in the [...]
The room smells a bit like a chip shop. There is a reason for that. They are making biodiesel – converting vegetable oil from local McDonald’s restaurants so that it can be used to fuel trucks.
Modern wind turbines are actually a pretty simple concept based on age-old science. The inherent kinetic energy in moving wind [...]
Scientists have estimated that the earth gets enough solar energy from the sun each hour of each day to provide our electrical needs for an entire year. That’s a lot of free energy constantly hitting our planet each and every minute of the day! While we humans have used solar power for centuries, we have [...]
LEED stands for “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design”, and it is an internationally-recognized green building standard and certification. I am asked this question quite often so I figured it would make sense to assemble some research for those looking for an easier-to-understand definition than can be found on some other sites. LEED was [...]
What is a dead zone in an ocean or other body of water?
So-called dead zones are areas of large bodies of water typically in the ocean but also occasionally in lakes and even rivers that do not have enough oxygen to support marine life. The cause of such hypoxic (lacking oxygen) conditions is usually eutrophication, [...]
Fox News called the three-and-a-half-minute segment “Climate Change Myths: Separating Fact From Fiction” — an apt name because as far as the science is concerned, there’s very little that could be characterized as fact, and a whole lot that could pass for fiction.
Few (cosmetic) brands are living up to their marketing claims, with some [...]
