Want to do your part but not sure where to start? For my money, the best place to begin is to start reducing the amount of waste you create throughout the year. A reduction of the amount of things you throw away and/or recycle goes a long way towards helping to clean up the [...]
Did you know that cutting down trees actually helps to stop climate change? Me neither. How about that when you chop down trees, the carbon dioxide they had absorbed through time gets trapped inside the product made from said wood? Nope, me neither. But the Forest & Wood Products Australia timber body says [...]
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau
Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. ~Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990
Suburbia is where the [...]
Dear EarthTalk: How are heating, cooling and electricity produced by geothermal energy? I don’t understand how it works.
The term “geothermal” is derived from the Greek words for Earth (geo) and heat (therme). In essence geothermal energy is power harnessed from the Earth itself. Heat from the Earth’s core, which averages about 6,650 degrees Fahrenheit, emanates [...]
