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 [...]
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 [...]
I know it is very easy to get caught up focusing on the bad stuff going on in our world – the destruction of our rainforests, climate change, peak oil, hormonal changes due to our use of toxic chemicals – sometimes it seems like the totality of the environmental movement focuses only on the negative [...]
