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 [...]
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web, and this year [...]
