To decide whether a living, cut or artificial tree to celebrate evergreen hope at Christmas is not as easy as it once was. Considerations should be made as to how far a tree must travel, whether it is grown sustainably,…
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Bird flu ravaged the world in 1918 when the epidemic (known then as the Spanish flu) spread from its origin in the US to countries throughout the world in only months. It claimed the lives of millions of people. Nobody…
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Environmental crime is a relatively new phrase that has been thrown around without any strict meaning attached to it. Some define it as any degradation of the environment, which would make every single one of us environmental criminals. The more…
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In the past very few people questioned the ecological impart of their home when they built it and even those who did often didn’t know how to go about making any real change, but if you are building a home…
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Three times the oil in Saudi Arabia on one hand. Untold water usage and pollution as well as questionable yield on the other hand. Although the estimated 800 million barrels of recoverable shale oil is spread between three states (Utah,…
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It would have been a wonderful thing indeed if human society had developed in a way which embraced the needs of the natural world of which it is a part. It is lamentable that the arrival of the industrial age…
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The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR is the largest membership organization devoted solely to pollution prevention. Co-Chair of NPPR’s Pollution Prevention Policy and Integration Committee for NPPR Ken Zarker describes the NPPRmission in today’s society. “The journey toward a more…
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Global warming is just another hoax, Like the Y2K bug, it is a creation of the human imagination driven by fear of extinction. In his book; ‘Hot Talk, cold science, Global warming unfinished debate’, Dr. Fred Singer explores the arguments…
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Continental drift refers to the gradual movement of continents across the surface of the Earth. Although the ocean floor is also in a state of gradual but continuous change, the term “continental drift” is used because the continents appear to…
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Fighting runaway wildfires with a garden implement may sound a bit bizarre, but the hoe-dag can work wonders in efforts to control summer time grass and brush fires. The hoe-dag superficially resembles a mattock or grub hoe in appearance and…
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