Linda is still taking care of a family emergency, so I’m stepping in to keep things moving here at Forcedgreen until she returns and I’m about to tell you about Stormageddon.
The other night I watched Stormageddon on NatGeo. It is set to repeat itself on June 4 at 4:00 p.m. (eastern time most likely). I would highly recommend you take the time to watch this profound documentary!
Historic snows and bitter cold across North America. Massive floods in Australia and Pakistan. Deadly mudslides in Brazil. Epic drought and wildfires in Russia. 2010 was one of the most destructive years in history. Now, Explorer presents the dramatic images of this catastrophic weather year — and introduces the people who risked their lives to capture them on film. – Explorer, Stormageddon, National Geographic Channel
Stormageddon is unlike any program you’ve seen to date.
This documentary goes above and beyond the idea of “global warming” digging deep into the reasons why weather and climate changes are escalating at what many find an alarming pace.
CO2, Methane, Water Vapor and More Explored on Stormageddon
70 foot tall walls of water, Alabama’s “perfect storm” and the most recent series of tornados (double the highest record to date) are just a few of the moments explored in the topic of climate change and the impact of global warming.
You’ll be surprised, perhaps, to learn that while CO2 plays a part, it is by far only one tiny aspect of what is going on and why things are happening more and more frequently.
It is with hope that Linda returns soon (she’s so much better at this than I am), but in the meantime do not miss Stormageddon – this one’s a definite “must watch” for every planetary citizen!
Unlike internal combustion engines, which are essentially a series of controlled explosionsof gasoline and oxygen, fuel cells use electrochemical reactions to directly create electricity.
Inside a fuel cell, the fuel is separated from oxygen by a thin membrane called an electrolyte. The electrolyte membrane only allows protons, or charged hydrogen atoms, to pass through it. In order for the fuel (i.e. hydrogen), to get the oxygen, it has to drop off its electrons at the anode and become converted to protons. The protons travel through the membrane and react with oxygen and electrons at the cathode. To get to the cathode, the electrons have to travel through an exterior circuit, producing an electrical current. (more…)
If you do not think that there is a movement beginning, you are wrong!
A little town very close to me here in deep East Texas, Lindale, has decided
they need to develop some opportunities to grow the city. They are now working
with Decker Energy International, Inc., a Florida based privately held company,
to assist them in building a 35-50 megawatt wood-fired biomass power plant.
This plant will have 25 full time jobs. Along with more jobs to build it. Yeah!
The proposed site is 43 acres that is currently owned by the Lindale Economic
Development Corporation (LEDC) which will also be part of the Lindale
Industrial Park. This project will cost the city about $130 million. (more…)
It’s become almost a reflex to bash aviation’s role in climate change. Passenger
planes are big, they emit stuff into the atmosphere, so they must be bad. It’s
true, but it’s not quite that simple.
Last week, climate and atmospheric scientists from the US and Europe presented
research to a group of aviation types gathered at the Royal Society of London.
Much of their focus was on nitrogen oxide (NOx), and what they found is that
simply dismissing NOx as just another nasty greenhouse gas is not only bad
science, but could also be unwise policy. (more…)
Those incredibly destructive little creatures have the potential to benefit
humans in the production of biofuels. Or more precisely, the bacteria in
their stomachs. Termites process the wood they ingest in a series of stomachs,
each with a distinct set of bacteria. Those bugs within bugs release enzymes
that break down cellulose, the sugar chains in wood, into acetate, a fatty
acid that provides the termite’s energy. Scientists with the Joint Genome
Institute at the U.S. Department of Energy, hope to develop a process to
harness the power of these bacteria on an industrial scale to break cellulose
down into ethanol and provide biofuel without using food crops as a source. (more…)
WASTED is a 30 minute show on the Planet Green Channel. The host (Annabelle Guriwitch
and Holter Graham), go into peoples homes and teach them how to cut down on their
waste thereby lowering their ecological footprint.
They developed an internationally recognized, ecological footprint calculator that
measures factors like waste, energy and fuel consumption and translates that data into
land size.
For example, in the episode I watched, a couple in an 1300 sq. ft. apartment in New
York City, calculated like this. Their living space is 0.03 acres, which should be
their footprint. However, their eco-footprint = 49.8 acres, 1600 times the size of
their property. (more…)
Forced Green can be translated in a variety of ways. Are you green enough for the planet?
Are you green enough with your dollars? Or is your life being viewed as green with envy?
Everyone has a different view or has a different journey in life that sooner or later, green is an integral part.
Let’s take are you green enough for the planet. The planet is suffering at this point in time with pollution of every kind from air, water, land and space. We have been shown how humans activity has affected the planet from melting ice bergs, to the climate heating up, along with the landfills creating so much methane we should be figuring out a way to use it.
More and more people are doing just that….
Figuring out ways to “go green”. From using the sun in a variety of ways such as solar panels. Or cleaning up the water for drinking purposes. Or making refinery’s clean up their act by enforcing the clean air act.
Either way, we are all in the process of greening ourselves in an effort to co-habitate with this planet we call Earth.
WHAT…..
