Archive for the ‘Green Living’ Category
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Producing Green Energy From A Variety Of Waste And Knocking Down Global Warming At The Same Time – Priceless !
Echo Energy Group, based out of South Carolina, is driven towards the total realization of the Waste To Energy (WTE) program. In its pursuit to serve industries and communities, Echo Energy provides a solution to trash reduction and resources optimization. Echo Energy Group has introduced an outstanding innovation in waste disposal: gasification. Echo Energy’s gasification technology was developed by NASA in the early 1980s and has been successfully tried and tested by the Department of Energy. This breakthrough in waste management (more…)
Tags: asphalt, Business, carbon footprint, combustible gas, Concrete, Construction and Maintenance, destructive elements, eco-friendly, energy group, environment, fabric paint, feedstocks, future generations, gasification process, gasification technology, gasifier, Going Green, greenhouse emissions, Middle East, nitrous oxide, organic resources, Pavement, plastic steel, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, producer gas, renewable electricity, Site Construction, soil remediation, steel glass, sulfur oxide, syngas, waste to energy
Posted in Going Green, Green Living, Natural Living | 1 Comment »
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Harvesting Your Own Safe, Fresh, Vegetables – Year Round
The Benson Institute in Provo, Utah is a nonprofit organization established in 1975 as a division of the College of Biology and Agriculture at Brigham Young University (BYU). Named in honor of Ezra Taft Benson, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture during President Dwight Eisenhower’s administration. Throughout his life, Ezra Taft Benson worked to help others help themselves. (more…)
Tags: brigham young, brigham young university, earth, economic circumstances, economic self reliance, educational experience, environment, Environmentalism, ezra taft benson, family resources, health university, Kids and Teens, money, native tongue, people of the andes, poor families, president dwight eisenhower, provo utah, ripple effect, School Time, secretary of agriculture, self sufficiency, Sustainability, Sustainable living, teaching community, three decades, vegetable production
Posted in Going Green, Green Living, unity | 4 Comments »
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
Here are some home remedies to take care of a few maladies!
I know that many of you have heard of these but they bear repeating for all of us who have not. Let’s just save some money.
Did you know that drinking two glasses of Gatorade can relieve headache pain almost immediately-without the unpleasant side effects caused by traditional pain relievers?
Did you know that Colgate Toothpaste makes an excellent salve for burns?
Before you head to the drugstore for a high-priced inhaler filled with mysterious chemicals, (more…)
Tags: aching muscles, alka seltzer, bees wasps hornets, bug killer, climate, colgate toothpaste, energy, environment, formula 409, go green, green, headache pain, home remedies, inhaler, listerine mouthwash, massage oil, maybelline, peppermints, skin blemishes, tablespoon horseradish, toenail fungus, unpleasant side effects, urinary tract infections, wasps, water, wind, yellow jackets
Posted in Family Living, Going Green, Green Living | 10 Comments »
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Bioreplication – Mother Nature’s Way Of Helping Us Help Her
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State University, working with Professor Carlo G. Pantano, graduate student Drew Patrick Pulsifer, and Professor Raúl José Martín-Palma of the Universidad Autónomia de Madrid, Spain, found that corneas of the blowfly was ideal for increasing power production for the next generation of solar cells. Blowflies have compound eyes that are roughly hemispherical, within each half sphere the surface is covered by macroscale hexagonal eyes with nanoscale features that allows the flies a 270° field of view. Mimicking this would allow solar cells to collect vast amounts of sunlight from a lot of different angles. This amounts to an extremely larger area and maximized efficiency while occupying the same footprint as a flat surfaced solar cell. (more…)
Tags: biological structure, biological tissues, biomimicry, blowfly, compound eyes, corneas, earth, engineering science, environment, Environmentalism, footprint, glass substrate, Kids and Teens, madrid spain, mimics, money, mother nature, moulds, nanoscale features, pantano, penn state university, problem solutions, pulsifer, School Time, solar cell, solar cells, Sustainability, Sustainable living
Posted in Going Green, Green Living, Technology | 19 Comments »
Monday, August 9th, 2010
The Potential For Perpetual Green Transportation Energy (While in Motion)
When Tajen (David) Chi’s son was a 4th grader, he pointed to a bus and said, “Father, that is the world’s largest electricity generator.” David asked his son why, and the boy replied that with the bus, the wheel is the rotor, the car frame is stator. He said teachers at school had taught the principle of the motor and generator; so he believed the bus would be able to produce very high power. Thus came the inspiration for the concept of inertial power generation and in 2006, the birth of Phemax Technologies Inc. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, Phemax is a small FREE (Fuelless Renewable Electric Energy), energy company. (more…)
Tags: car frame, centrifugal force, climate, coil system, electricity generator, energy, environment, go green, green, hydrogen fuel cell, inertial propulsion, linear force, linear motion, magnet coil, magnet system, mechanical energy, propulsion force, propulsion unit, stators, sustainable transportation, taipei taiwan, transmission mechanism, transportation applications, transportation device, transportation energy, water, wind
Posted in Going Green, Green Living, Technology | 9 Comments »
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Update On Forced Green’s Post ‘Texas At A Green Crossroads’ – The Earth Won!
Gov. Rick Perry’s lawsuit to block the EPA from demanding that the state begin to comply with the clean air act, met with defeat on June 30th when the EPA announced final disapproval of the flexible permit program that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ – all Perry appointees), had submitted for inclusion in its clean-air implementation plan. EPA has determined that this program does not meet several national Clean Air Act requirements that help to assure the protection of health and the environment.
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Tags: act requirements, air emissions, asphalt, Business, carbon footprint, center for public integrity, chemical plants, clean air act, Concrete, Construction and Maintenance, eco-friendly, environment, exxon mobil, exxon mobil corp, federal lawsuits, Going Green, harmful emissions, implementation plan, integrity analysis, line petition, lone star chapter, Middle East, Pavement, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, range war, rick perry, Sierra Club, Site Construction, state emissions, target, texas commission on environmental quality, toxic chemicals
Posted in Green Living, Outside the Box, peace | 2 Comments »
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
WKRG.com News
Now Is The Time For All Good Texans To Come To The Aid Of Their Environment! And The Rest Of The World Is Invited To Put In Their Two Cents.
For over a decade, environmentalists accused the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) of lax regulation and urged the EPA to step in. Now the EPA appears to be agreeing with them and has given Texas until June 30 to change its approach or lose its oversight authority at potentially dozens of large industrial sites.
Enough is enough. Please sign the petition in support of the EPA fixing Texas’ broken air pollution permitting system: http://www.environmenttexas.org/action/clean-air/perry-petition2
Gov. Rick Perry continues attempts to block the EPA from (more…)
Tags: air pollution, american lung association, chemical plants, clean air act, dangerous chemicals, earth, environment, environmental protection agency, Environmentalism, environmentalists, epa officials, greenhouse gases, industrial emissions, Kids and Teens, money, obama, oil refineries, oversight authority, permitting system, polluters, poster child, rick perry, School Time, Sustainability, Sustainable living, tceq, texas commission on environmental quality, texas refineries
Posted in Going Green, Green Living, Outside the Box | 11 Comments »