recentgradtrish | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 20 2009 | environment, environmentalism, environmental terms, environmental resources
In order to understand what you as an individual or as a member of an environmental organization can do to help preserve our natural resources, you first need to know some basic terms.
- recentgradtrish | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 06 2009 | environment, eco friendly home
For the past 16 years, Hilaire Purbrick of Brighton, East Sussex has practiced living an eco lifestyle in his eco friendly home. Only, it’s not what you would call a traditional eco-friendly home: it’s actually a 7-foot wide cave that he dug on his own land.
- recentgradtrish | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 03 2009 | sewage, waste, recycling, environment
Did you ever think that a 30,000 square-foot building could run on composting toilets and waterless urinals?
- recentgradtrish | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 19 2009 | pollution, waste, environment
A new project financed by the government of Norway and the Global Environment Facility will have inmates at an African prison working towards purifying human waste and producing biogas to reduce carbon emissions.
- recentgradtrish | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 20 2009 | pollution, environment, air pollution, land pollution, water pollution
No matter where you go and what you do, there are remnants of pollution. Pollution has a detrimental effect on any living organism in an environment, making it virtually impossible to sustain life.
- recentgradtrish | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 13 2009 | pollution, environment
Quoted: Pollution is the introduction of a contaminant into the environment. It is created mostly by human actions, but can also be a result of natural disasters. Pollution has a detrimental effect on any living organism in an environment, making it virtually impossible to sustain life.
- recentgradtrish | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2008 | biofuel, energy, environment
Bryan Beer not only has a cool last name, but he also has a very cool idea for the future of fuel: Jatropha trees.If you’re wondering what a Jatropha tree is, it’s a tree that is native to Central America, and it produces fruit with seeds that contain oil. This oil can be used to power diesel engines.
- recentgradtrish | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 23 2008 | environment, pollution
These blog posts from Green Student U touch on stories about pollution, how to control it and what tips people can follow to reduce its impact on the environment.
- recentgradtrish | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 11 2008 | green vehhicle, environment, solar energy
General Motors is already known for its great line of eco-friendly green vehicles, such as the Sierra 2-Mode Hybrid and the Chevy Malibu Hybrid, but the cars aren’t the only things that are green about this company. GM just announced that its new Zaragoza plant in northeaster Spain will be the world’s largest plant to use rooftop solar panels.
- recentgradtrish | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 27 2008 | green products, health, environment
When a horrible odor starts to permeate throughout your home, the first thing that you want to do is to make it go away.
That’s when air fresheners come in handy. They battle unwanted smells in a single spray, but even though they can make your home smell like a meadow of flowers or fresh vanilla, what you may not know is that they can be damaging to your health.
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