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Roll Back the Specter of a Warming Planet

Image via Wikipedia It wasn’t Al Gore who said this. No, it was President Barack Obama who uttered these brave words during his Inaugural Address: With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet. Each day brings further evidence that [...]

Is Google Polluting The World?

Image via Wikipedia The Times of London ran a piece earlier this week that claims that two Google search queries equal boiling one tea kettle, in terms of CO2 emissions. However, TechCrunch reveals today that the story is stretching the facts, and that a young physicist by the name of Alex Wissner-Gross has never made [...]

Life is Toxic

Paleontologist Peter Ward argues that plants and bacteria have almost extinguished all life on Earth several times in the past. In Ward’s view, the earth’s history makes clear that, left to run its course, life isn’t naturally nourishing – it’s poisonous. Rather than a supple system of checks and balances, he argues, the natural world [...]

Is Cement the Future of Green Economy?

Global Warming is caused by CO2. Processing cement takes up much electric power. This power comes from fuel burning. Fuel burning is one of the major sources of CO2 emissions. What if we could manufacture cement that captures CO2 instead of emitting more CO2? Well, that’s exactly what Calera cement aims to do.

Al Gore claims North Pole will be gone in 5 years

Is he out of his mind? Or is it a simple scientific truth? Al Gore was visiting Germany last week, and during a speech in the opening ceremony of a Dinosaur Park, he clearly stated that the entire North Pole would be gone within 5 years! It’s easy to joke about Al Gore. He’s a [...]

A Child’s Wisdom

Severn Cullis-Suzuki, a 9 y/o girl from Canada, spoke boldly in the 1992 UN Earth Summit:

2009: Climate Change is Still Controversial!

Only one more year to go before we wrap up the first decade of the third millennia. Al Gore, who lost the presidency in 2000, has since become a fierce advocate of Global Warming. He has “shown the light” to industrialized America, and today the greater part of the scientific community backs his position. Yet [...]

Going Green Pays Off

It’s a common misconception that “Going Green” is expensive and counter-productive from an economic point-of-view. However, that doesn’t have to be the case. Chris Goodall disproves in a Guardian article the 10 most common myths regarding green technology adoption. If you think of shifting your business towards a more eco-friendly model, but are afraid of [...]

Another Site Recommendation

Chelsea Green is a lovable Green website, which features great articles and interesting merchandise, such as the book “How the Rich are Destroying the Earth”. The site also has a community of blogs and their own radio station.

Satire: Cola to save the world

How could Coca Cola help our environment? The answer is simple: Cola is black. Oil is black. Can you imagine the possibilities? Environmental terrorists could silently pollute oil reserves with coca cola, therefore making people suspicious of oil, and more likely to switch to alternative sources of energy. Cola is a very acidic liquid. We [...]