Eco-houses are on their way

  Construction of environmentally friendly houses is a new trend in modern architecture, which benefits both to art and energy efficiency. Multiple definitions might be provided to enclose main purposes and peculiarities of such housebuilding, but the prime idea is finding a way to live in harmony with nature. To give some details, there are [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When is Green Technology Most Useful?

It’s a term that’s being bandied about regularly these days, and if you want to be perceived asdoing your bit for the environment, it goes without saying that you must be interested in allthings green as well. Green technology is all the rage today – if you’re not going green, you’reviewed as a villain by [...]

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, [...]

Natural Gas to hydrates for transport and back to gas

A while back I wrote a post HERE and HERE on collecting natural gas hydrates from the sea floor.  I was not really in favor of the idea because of the possible/probable dangers.  For good or bad like drilling at 5000ft for oil, extracting these frozen naturals gasses is going to happen so might as [...]

Savor your shrimp as it may be your last, Oil is the new seaweed

I have been wanting to write about the disaster in the Gulf Of Mexico but whenever I tried to learn about the impacts of the oil, the more irritated I got. So now that I am in a more objective emotional state of mind I will try to asses the future term impacts.  This is [...]