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We can recycle plastic | Energy Bulletin

2011-10-17T12:30:00.000-07:00

We can recycle plastic | Energy BulletinPlastics are made in a wide variety of ways for different purposes. Because of those differences, it has been difficult to recycle plastics efficiently until now.

Recycle, Reuse, Renew

2011-08-29T11:50:00.000-07:00

Recycle, Reuse, Renew

The Whale

2011-06-08T14:51:00.000-07:00

The Whale....If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, tail, torso, and a line tugging

About Recycled Paper and Well Managed Forests

2010-12-07T20:31:00.000-08:00

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } THINKING GREEN Printing and packaging have one of the biggest environmental impacts of any industry. No matter which materials are used or how they are manufactured there is no escaping the fact that our industry uses a great deal of natural resources and energy in manufacturing its products. Even the use of recycled papers have the additional

Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog on Global Warming

2010-06-22T00:04:00.000-07:00

Peak Oil and Climate Change

2009-11-27T23:19:00.000-08:00

Maryland, my Maryland - Lacrimosa

2009-04-09T14:45:00.000-07:00

"Do you not fear Death and all your Sins laid bare?"- Davy Jones, Pirates II"Things fall apart and the center cannot hold." - William Butler Yeats, the Second ComingLACRIMOSADespite the New Age notion that technology is out to kill US, it seems, yet again, that Yankee know-how is providing solutions to the

Maryland, my Maryland - Prestissimo

2009-04-08T14:44:00.000-07:00

"Ideas are like jackrabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."- John Steinbeck"They're conquering the world with arithmetic."- Frances Flegenheimer, The Cotton ClubPrestissimoAt the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a group of researchers has managed to

Maryland, my Maryland - Allegro

2009-04-08T14:43:00.000-07:00

"As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."- (Abraham Lincoln)"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."- (Archimedes)ALLEGROPolitics and Ethos. Probably the most political

Alternative Channel TV

2009-01-28T09:11:00.000-08:00

I just got this link in my email from who-knows-where but it looks pretty interesting if you're greening up your life and community, which you must be, since you wouldn't be here if you weren't::Alternative TV Note: Make sure the 'language' button in the upper left corner is set to English. Otherwise, if you're as well-educated as I am, you won't understand it.

Kansas and the Ogallala Aquifier

2008-07-17T13:34:00.000-07:00

KANSASHot Campaigns:Save Kansas for KansansThe Kansas Chapter of the Sierra Club is asking for volunteers to become part of their “legislative tree” to keep pressure on Kansas lawmakers on environmental issues. Join the tree at:http://kansas.sierraclub.org/JoinTheTree.htmIn Progress – Ogallala

The Great Lakes

2008-07-14T15:44:00.000-07:00

MICHIGANThe Great Lakes surrounding Michigan and seven other Upper Mid-West States hold 95% of all surface water in the United States. That fact alone makes environmental issues in the area of singular and critical importance for the region and for the country in general. Note: links load slowly.Hot Campaigns:There are actually too many hot campaigns related to the Great Lakes region to list

In a hole in the ground lived a Hobbit

2008-04-05T14:59:00.000-07:00

News and photos of this home in Wales have been circulating the Internet for the last few months. Built by Simon Dale and his family, the structure uses recycled materials for construction, solar panels for electricity, and is designed to be as harmless to the Earth as Bilbo's Bag End. And they built this house with only a few tools like a chain saw, hammer, 1" chisel, and the help of