A Bit From The Green Glossary For Everyday People:
Eco-footprint - Measures how much land and water area a human requires to produce the resources he consumes and to absorb his wastes. It compares human demand with planet Earth’s ecological capacity to regenerate. Estimating how much of the Earth (or how many planet Earths) it would take to support humanity if everybody lived a given lifestyle. Example: For 2005, humanity’s total ecological footprint was estimated at 1.3 planet Earths - in other words, humanity uses ecological services 1.3 times as fast as Earth can renew them. If you want to calculate your own eco-footprint, try this site …
I’m actually out of town on a family “rescue mission,” but I’ll be returning shortly. In the meantime, please enjoy the following solar video by GreenInsights
Cool-N-Save can instantly save you up to 30% on your Air Conditioning costs!
Unless you are getting rain, which I am NOT, the temperatures have been hitting the high 90’s or low 100’s. I know that the air conditioning is really working hard to keep your place cool. So, I would like to introduce
the following to you to help reduce that cost!
Cool-n-Save is an amazing new, patented product, that is actually based on the same scientific Principles that large corporations have used to save themselves money for years. (more…)
Hydrokinetic power is renewable and does not release airborne pollutants or greenhouse gases. Also, unlike wind and solar power, hydrokinetic energy can provide continuous power that utilities can depend on any time of day. Achieved from flowing water from rivers, ocean currents, tidal streams and artificial waterways such as canals. The flowing water currents drive rotors in turbines to generate electricity, just as breezes drive rotors on wind farms. (more…)
At the Merhoff home Mary gets her three little sleepy ones up, dressed, fed, then off to another full day of school and extra curricular activities. Which makes it very hard for this working mom to go all the way to Pratt, 30 miles away for grocery shopping. So she is very excited about Dillons the Greensburg grocery store about to re-open.
Greensburg had a population of 1,500 people before the storm, between 700 and 800 are already back. Steve Hewitt believes to get to the population back to pre-storm levels, the business incubator, schools, hospital, and streetscape needs to be completed. For people to see the reality of Greensburg coming back will motivate them to return with their business’ and residents. (more…)
The Barefoot College in northern India teaches women skills to bring solar power to their villages and to manage the energy system in rural areas.
The students are mostly women. Some are grandmothers. Hundreds have come here from villages across India and a dozen other countries to learn how to install and maintain solar energy systems in rural areas. (more…)
Despite all the talk about carbon capture, carbon footprints and carbon trading, carbon dioxide only causes nine to 26% of the greenhouse effect. That means that the majority of warming results from gases with a much lower media profile than the paparazzi-trailed starlet of global warming, CO2. In honor of last weeks’ report in the Journal of Geophysical Research, which identified a brand new greenhouse gas, we count down the gases that bring us bikini weather in Antarctica and beachfront property in Montana.
10. Sulfuryl Fluoride: The new kid on the block, MIT scientists identified this chemical as a greenhouse gas on March 11th, 2009. Used as a fumigant, Dow Chemicals produces sulfuryl fluoride to kill termites. The chemical, which is highly inert, has a lifetime of up to 40 years, and traps 4,800 times more heat per molecule than CO2. The chemical only exists in 1.5 parts per trillion in the atmosphere, but according to the recent Journal of Geophysical Research, that number is going up by 5 percent a year. (more…)
Eco-footprint - Measures how much land and water area a human requires to produce the resources he consumes and to absorb his wastes. It compares human demand with planet Earth’s ecological capacity to regenerate. Estimating how much of the Earth (or how many planet Earths) it would take to support humanity if everybody lived a given lifestyle. Example: For 2005, humanity’s total ecological footprint was estimated at 1.3 planet Earths - in other words, humanity uses ecological services 1.3 times as fast as Earth can renew them. If you want to calculate your own eco-footprint, try this site … 
Unless you are getting rain, which I am NOT, the temperatures have been hitting the high 90’s or low 100’s. I know that the air conditioning is really working hard to keep your place cool. So, I would like to introduce
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Hydrokinetic power is renewable and does not release airborne pollutants or greenhouse gases. Also, unlike wind and solar power, hydrokinetic energy can provide continuous power that utilities can depend on any time of day. Achieved from flowing water from rivers, ocean currents, tidal streams and artificial waterways such as canals. The flowing water currents drive rotors in turbines to generate electricity, just as breezes drive rotors on wind farms. 
At the Merhoff home Mary gets her three little sleepy ones up, dressed, fed, then off to another full day of school and extra curricular activities. Which makes it very hard for this working mom to go all the way to Pratt, 30 miles away for grocery shopping. So she is very excited about Dillons the Greensburg grocery store about to re-open.
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Despite all the talk about carbon capture, carbon footprints and carbon trading, 
