Executives of the Boy Scouts of America in California have repeatedly conducted commercial logging on scout lands in environmentally sensitive areas, sometimes drawing sharp criticism from regulators and environmentalists
Well, at least we have Exxon and Pickens commercials on the air telling us how green they are. We have had an election campaign talking about alternative power. But China is actually building a huge wind power farm. Somehow I feel this is the next race the U.S. will lose. At least we are good at talking, right?
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Researchers a the University of Calgary found that the vast majority of bats found dead at a wind farm in Southwest Alberta suffered severe injuries to their respiratory systems consistent with a sudden drop in air pressure - called barotrauma.
American natural gas production is rising at a clip not seen in half a century, pushing down prices of the fuel and reversing conventional wisdom that domestic gas fields were in irreversible decline.
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
Max Robson, 22, constructed a prototype using rubbish collected from skips, tips and bins including an old bike frame and wheel bearings, the magneto from a Vespa, a battery from a Ford Fiesta and bits of wood. It is so simple, he says, it can be built by unskilled workers in less than a day anywhere in the world.
A coal plant in New South Wales, Australia is using solar energy to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Coal and solar generate electricity using the same turbines, under the same roof.
People from Cadiz, Galicia and Tarragona, Spain, are not very comfortable with the project. The objection: offshore wind farms may spoil the view. Certainly big wind turbines make the landscape uglier, not only in the mountains but also in the sea, at least if they are not well planned.
This new style of farming, which produces soils that store carbon dioxide, is currently being explored by scientists at the US Geological Survey and UC Davis in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The experimental process could bury up to 25 metric tons of CO2 each year.
Some people are just so dumb. Where do people get off on doing things like this? So lets say you want a monkey but being the exotic pet they are expensive to get your hands on. So you come up with this great idea to go and find one to steal.
