Want to hear something outstanding? After more than 115,000 Americans had gone on the Internet and registered their interest in the 2011 Nissan LEAF all electric car, last Tuesday (April 20), Nissan opened the reservation lines and in the first 65 hours 6,635 customers paid their $99 and signed up to reserve their zero emission car for a December delivery. Far exceeding the expectations of the company which hoped to have 25,000 reserved customers lined up by the car’s roll out in December. Better than 25% of their goal reached in hours instead of months. (more…)
On Tuesday night April 20th, in the Gulf of Mexico, 50 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded.
Two days later on Thursday afternoon the blazing inferno of wreckage sank 5,000 feet to the bottom of the Gulf. 126 people were on board at the time of the explosion, 17 were injured, and on Friday rescuers suspended the search for the 11 people missing from the British Petroleum leased Transocean Ltd oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
On Friday the Coast Guard said crews were continuing efforts hoping to have it all “cleaned” up before the estimated shoreline arrival in nine days. They had recovered 181 barrels of an oil-and-water mixture by midday Friday, with ‘only’ about 200 barrels remaining within a 2-by-12-mile-long oil slick spreading through Gulf waters 40 miles offshore.
But by Saturday morning the Coast Guard reported the spill now covers a 20-by-20 mile area as remote vehicles found the rig capsized and lying on the sea floor about 1,500 feet northwest of the well. Oil shooting from the end of the pipe that had connected the rig to the well at the sea floor. Spewing out at a sickening rate of 42,000 gallons a day.
Forty-one years after an oil well blowout off the Santa Barbara, California coast gave rise to the environmental movement and the first Earth Day event, look how far we have come. An accident that is likely to be one of history’s worst in terms of human loss and environmental destruction.
Without a doubt, the major talk will be around the financial cost. So, let me ask you this, would the ‘cost’ have been this severe if the accident had been a blown out wind turbine rotor or a faulty solar panel? I think not. And neither do you.
Bless the fragile waters, wetlands and coastline of the Gulf of Mexico that are now is serious peril. Bless the families of the lost. Bless our world and her children.
For Every Sector, Little Earth Day Ideas For A Better World
For everyday people like you and I:
Celebrate Earth Day by doing simple things like checking the air pressure in your car tires. Keeping tires properly inflated can earn you another 10 cents per gallon. If everyone’s tires were properly inflated, we would be saving about 4 million gallons of gasoline every DAY. (more…)
The Orville and Wilbur Wright of the Green 21st Century
Ten years ago, on March 21, 1999, after close to 20 days in the air, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones’ balloon “Rozière” landed in the Egyptian desert, so ending the first non-stop circumnavigation of the earth in a balloon. And giving inspirational birth to the dream of Solar Impulse. (more…)
According to Wikipedia, Aquaponics is the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment.
Fish waste accumulates in the water of a closed system. This effluent-rich water is toxic to fish but high in plant nutrients. Hydroponic plants grown as part of this water system utilize the nutrients in the water and in the process clean the water for the aquatic animals.
Sounds like a win-win, right? Well, how about a win-win-winto give you a warm and fuzzy feeling for the future?
Chicago’s Community Youth Development Institute is a charter school for urban kids at high risk. They have developed an innovative science program utilizing aquaponics that has inspired these kids.
A unique and ingenious program to save kids and show them how to help their planet -
FedEx Shows Off Their New Green Machine On ‘America’s Main Street’
FedEx Corp. celebrated the expansion of its alternative-energy vehicle fleet with a road trip for the first all-electric FedEx parcel delivery truck in the United States.
Four purpose-built electric trucks optimized for electric operation from the wheels up are slated to hit the road in the Los Angeles area starting in June 2010. By the end of June, the FedEx alternative energy fleet will have grown to 1,869 vehicles in service worldwide. Helping to diversify and expand the all-electric and hybrid-electric vehicle market around the globe. (more…)
The Ability To Have Supper From A Biosphere Home Farm
Royal Philips Electronics, a global powerhouse headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has been knee-deep in electronics manufacturing since – well, since pretty much, the dawn of electronics.
Back in the un-information age before Personal Computers, Philips manufactured every CRT (Cathode Ray Tubes), in most every brand of Terminal attached to a main-frame computer system. Odds are they made the CRT’s in every big bulky PC monitor you ever owned – no matter the brand name on the outside encasement. If you have graduated to a flat screen monitor, they probably made that one too. (more…)
Want to hear something outstanding? After more than 115,000 Americans had gone on the Internet and registered their interest in the 2011 Nissan LEAF all electric car, last Tuesday (April 20), Nissan opened the reservation lines and in the first 65 hours 6,635 customers paid their $99 and signed up to reserve their zero emission car for a December delivery. Far exceeding the expectations of the company which hoped to have 25,000 reserved customers lined up by the car’s roll out in December. Better than 25% of their goal reached in hours instead of months. (more…)
On Tuesday night April 20th, in the Gulf of Mexico, 50 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded.
Forty-one years after an oil well blowout off the Santa Barbara, California coast gave rise to the environmental movement and the first Earth Day event, look how far we have come. An accident that is likely to be one of history’s worst in terms of human loss and environmental destruction.
Celebrate Earth Day by doing simple things like checking the air pressure in your car tires. Keeping tires properly inflated can earn you another 10 cents per gallon. If everyone’s tires were properly inflated, we would be saving about 4 million gallons of gasoline every DAY. 
Ten years ago, on March 21, 1999, after close to 20 days in the air, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones’ balloon “Rozière” landed in the Egyptian desert, so ending the first non-stop circumnavigation of the earth in a balloon. And giving inspirational birth to the dream of Solar Impulse. 
According to Wikipedia, Aquaponics is the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment.
Royal Philips Electronics, a global powerhouse headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has been knee-deep in electronics manufacturing since – well, since pretty much, the dawn of electronics.
