The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

At the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows and the wind smells slow-and-sour when it blows and no birds ever sing excepting old crows… is the Street of the Lifted Lorax. And deep in the Grickle-grass, some people say, if you look deep enough you can still see, today, where the Lorax once [...]

Book or Kindle?

How Many Trees Will the Kindle Save? The festive season during late 2011 could have been called the gadget season as tablet computer owners increased from 10% to 19% of the US population from mid December 2011 to early January 2012. The same figures applied to owners of eBook readers – Amazon don’t and won’t [...]

So can’t we just pipe the oil to where we need it?

  You can do whatever you want but you might want to step back and make sure it’s a good idea. The US is probably going to build a pipeline from Canada down to the gulf of mexico.  As you can imagine this is a source of concern for people living anywhere near this pipe. [...]

Update from the Republic of Khakassia Abakan Siberia

The first session of working group concerning the lands protection and restoration The Republican Development Council at the Head of the Republic of Khakassia was established in 2010 in order to assist the development of social and economic potential of our republic and to improve the well-being of citizens. The Head of the Republic of [...]

Green Vacation

  Planning a Green Vacation Everybody wants to do their part for the environment, but at the same time, we don’t want to stop living and doing the things we like and want to do out of fear of damaging the environment. Travel is one particularly sensitive issue for anyone who is eco-friendly, because there [...]

Two pronged attack Energy Efficiency and Conservation

The total energy efficiency of the United States is less than 50% and the total amount of energy produced by oil and coal together is almost 75%. Now let’s pretend we would like to put less carbon into the atmosphere and as a given oil and coal happen to be the sources that put most [...]

Circa 1940

The first great depression

Cap and Trade Infographic

I have been meaning to write an article on cap and trade in the United States but it can be hard for people to understand and without other major polluting countries having similar programs, the whole thing seemed somewhat pointless. In the US, however, the program will have an effect on our poor sad economy [...]

Greenwashing

  Everywhere we go recently it seems as though there is a brand new eco-friendly “green” versions of old products.  I have mentioned a few of these silly thing like the 57 watt light bulb as a new energy efficient version of the 60 watt. I have been coming across even more ludicrous examples, many of them outright lies.  Often you can see [...]

Sky Farms

Sky farms – The new Green farm? Sky farms are quite literally multilevel agricultural farms, much like skyscrapers. These sky farms are springing up all over the world, and the economics of sky farming are already showing positive results. Sky farming is basically a form of hydroponic farming. It includes significant potential for organic farming, [...]