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02/08/2010

It Shreds, Blends, And Wipes

It shreds, blends, dries, and wipes your butt.  It’s the next inventive machine from Japan, and it’s not an extra in the latest Godzilla movie.  The machine is called White Goat, and it’s the next best thing to an office shredder.  The machine made by Oriental, Co., takes everyday office. . .

01/14/2010

Is Green Becoming The Latest Cult Religion?

Sex, Politics, and Religion are the three main conversations that Emily Post says we should not discuss with people we do not know.  But, I cannot think of three topics that stimulate conversation more than these, with the exception of an all male sports talk show.

12/28/2009

9 Species On The Brink Of Extinction

The Aughts decade has come and gone, and as we are on the brink of a new decade, the World Wildlife Federation and Eco Wordly have highlighted nine species that can become extinct in this new decade.  Both organizations site environmental changes and poaching as the primary reasons.
Environmental lends itself. . .

12/24/2009

Shopping Is Fun Again

Has the shopping fatigue set in?  Has the frantic nature of this holiday season sent you to off to your local pub?  It’s the last day before Christmas, and I hope you have finished adding your contribution to the national economy.  Tis the season to spend and consume.
Hopefully the majority. . .

12/01/2009

The World Sprawls On

Urbanite, Suburbanite, and Exurbanites’ are seeing the constant push to develop farm land across this country.  Sprawl is not indigenous to our shores, but every country in the world is experiencing unprecedented sprawl.  Farmland is being developed at an alarming rate.  The University of California at Davis studied the conversion. . .

11/11/2009

Immortal Jellyfish

There is a new global imbalance on the horizon.  A jellyfish, the Turritopsis Nutricula, formerly indigenous to the Caribbean, is spreading unchecked throughout the world’s oceans.  This small 5cm jellyfish’s population has exploded across the globe. Research scientists have discovered that this jellyfish possess a unique capability to revert back. . .

11/10/2009

Solar Sailing

Everyone here on planet Earth knows that we can use the sun’s rays to harvest sustainable energy.  But, did you know that we can now harvest solar energy for sailing the cosmos?  Solar sailing is not something NASA has come up with recently.  The idea of using sails to harvest. . .

10/30/2009

Climate Change Refugees

One of the little known facts that has begun to make it in U.S. papers, is the growing international crisis of climate change refugees.  What is a climate change refugee?  They are not political refugees motivated to leave their homes because of war or religious persecution.  They are leaving their. . .

10/27/2009

Time To Eat The Dog?

Before the mass of pet loving people from around the world call for my neck, a new article from the Stockholm Environment Institute at York, UK, has purported that our pets have the environmental foot print of a car.  That fido and the cat are serious threats to the environment.
Not. . .

10/23/2009

Green Project Model Search

From 125 candidates the Green Project Model Search has narrowed it’s choices down to ten finalists.  From these ten finalists, a winner will be crowned Green It Girl on November 6th in Los Angeles.  The ten finalists seem to be fairly bright women who have a passion for the environment.
At. . .

10/21/2009

Nano Technology The Next PCB?

Nano technologies have now found their way into commercial applications.  This is no longer the fiction found in Star Trek.  One of the applications nano particles have been utilized in are socks.  Everyday, high performance socks to be exact.  The technology was first used in military clothing to protect soldiers. . .

10/19/2009

Seed Banks

Kew, the United Kingdom’s Royal Botanic Gardens located in London, recently achieved a milestone in plant conservation.  Kew recently celebrated their acquisition of their 24,200th plant species, a pink wild forest banana from China that is a staple for wild Asian elephants.  The Royal Botanic Garden started a project in. . .

10/13/2009

Seeding Ocean's With Nitrogen

Two weeks ago a red dust storm swept across Australia and dumped thousands of tons of soil into the Tasman Sea.  The Tasman Sea is located between Australia and New Zealand.  The infusion of the red dust into the surrounding waters ignited an explosion of microscopic life within the sea.
Scientists. . .

10/07/2009

Food Hysteria

Today’s morning paper had a piece on the riskiest foods found in the market place. It made the front page headlines.  Seems that an organization called the Center For Science In The Public Interest published a study of the riskiest foods found in America today.  The study compiled data over. . .

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