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What if you could save money and do good by just changing a lightbulb? You can.
Compact fluorescents emit the same light as classic incandescents but use 75% or 80% less electricity.
What that means is that if every one of 110 million American households bought just one ice-cream-cone bulb, took it home, and [...]
The whooping crane has been in serious trouble for a long, long time. The situation is so dire that several groups of people, including the Whooping Crane Eastern Parntership, have taken to hand raising them and teaching them to migrate by leading them with ultralight aircraft. Yes… you read that right. These folks [...]
Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, has an interesting editorial in the Washington Post titled Going Nuclear. He begins,
In the early 1970s when I helped found Greenpeace, I believed that nuclear energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust…. Thirty years on, my views have changed, and the rest of [...]
I have always liked the looks of the Mazda RX-8 but lamented the lack of a convertible roof. Now I have another reason to like the car. One of these days, I might have to buy one. FOXNews.com: Mazda Plans Dual-Fuel Car in Japan
Mazda said the RX-8 Hydrogen RE, based on [...]
If only we could stop using fossil fuels, polution levels would plummet, colicky babies would be cured, my Husky dog would shed less, and world peace would prevail. Hydrogen, solar power and electricity offer tantalizing alternatives to gasoline, natural gas, and coal. There are lots of problems with switching to hydrogen, including the cost of [...]
I’ll admit it. I throw away stuff that could be recycled. Actually, I throw away lots of stuff that could be recycled. I do it because I’m lazy and cheap.
Whew! It feels good to get that off my chest.
I suspect that there are many, many other people like me who simply find it [...]
Thanks to Slashdot for this story, Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand, about a 646 pound catfish that has been caught in Thailand.
Here is the original story, at National Geographic.
I wonder if the fisherman was noodling for it.
From Wired News comes this thought provoking story titled Brazil Schools U.S. on Renewables. I love the concluding paragraph of the story:
Consumer acceptance of ethanol in Brazil has grown for financial reasons, according to Felipe Atoline, a Sao Paulo forestry engineer who now drives an ethanol-only car. Many Brazilians were unhappy when the [...]
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