Don’t let the textbook feel and format scare you away from Learning From The Forest: a Fifty-Year Journey Towards Sustainable Forest Management by authors Robert Bott, Peter Murphy and Robert Udell. Within a few pages of thumbing through you can’t…
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Rivers bring with them the elixir of life for mankind and animals alike, and flow majestically along their merry way, usually from a lake or glacier, following the path of least resistance, and flowing into either another lake, an ocean…
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For many decades, scientists were aware regarding the enormous potential of ocean waves to generate power in terms of electricity to fulfill the demand for renewable green energy. However, when compared to other renewable energy sources such as wind and…
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Fossil fuels are found in nature in the forms of coal, oil, and natural gas, and are the remainder of life that has undergone a treatment of heat and pressure for over 300 million years in order to become what…
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Shallow water corals are small polyps that grow in crystal clear waters in the tropic at depths of less than 50 meters. They float around as microscopic plankton, find a hard surface and attach, then start to produce calcium carbonate…
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Rocks in the group known to earth scientists as granite are an important and widespread component of the Earth’s crust, in particular the crust that underlies the continents. Granite (the word rhymes with “SPAN it”) is one of the igneous…
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Solar energy is the energy of choice and although it has been a long way getting to where it is practical, the latest information shows it to be slowly becoming more affordable. At least this is the mid-2008 report. The…
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Saving energy is vital to aiding efforts to save the environment and it can save you money. Going green isn’t as hard as it sounds, in fact you can go green and save energy with little effort. Changing habits is…
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It is well known that greenhouse gases emitted as pollution warm the earth by trapping heat. What is not so well known is that some gases, notably sulfur, and black carbon, also are responsible for cooling the planet. The science…
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If you live anywhere in the great plains, chances are you have more wind than you know what to do with. Instead of letting all of that potential energy go to waste, you might consider installing your very own wind-turbine….
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