Green Thanksgiving Tips
Thanksgiving day is coming up before you know it and with it comes friends, family, and food. It’s one of the holidays that Americans loosen up the belt to cram…
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Coping with Climate Change
Natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, droughts, and volcanic eruptions are found more and more in the news these days. Every year they are responsible for many deaths and…
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Climate Change Vulnerability
The Earth’s climate has been evolving continuously over millennia but the last two centuries have witnessed the development of the man-made greenhouse problem, which accelerates change climate vulnerability in an…
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Mitsubishi MiEV Tours Portland, Ore
Mitsubishi just happened to be touring in my neighborhood, the Pearl District in Portland, Oregon after eating lunch when I was asked to test drive the MiEV. I declined to…
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100% Renewable Energy by 2050?
The World Wildlife Foundation in Canada performed a study of renewable energy that reported that 100% of our energy needs could be met with renewable energy sources by the year 2050. If…
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Water – A Hotly Contested Resource for Survival and Development
Globally, the water crisis is much worse than most people realize. We are fast approaching a world in which the most hotly-contested resource for development and survival is not oil,…
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Are You In Climate Change Denial?
Wikipedia describes climate change denial as a term used to describe organized attempts to downplay, deny, or dismiss the scientific consensus on the extent of climate change, its significance, and…
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Green Your Back To School Routine
With all the craze involved in getting back to school…be it elementary school, middle school, high school, or college, it never hurts to take a different approach with the new…
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Why Are The Rainforests Disappearing?
Source: wikimedia.org The rainforests are one of our most precious natural habitats, providing homes for thousands of unique plant and animal species, as well as a fair proportion of the oxygen…
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The Sustainability of Food Production
How the world will be fed in coming years is a highly controversial issue. Not only is the world population increasing exponentially, we are also quickly depleting the non-renewable resources…
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