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When I was younger and keenly aware that the planet was on the brink, I used to think the solution was easy. Simply get away from the mess. Find a place far away from the crush and the filth and just ...
There's a big debate going on in Australia at the moment over the future of Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) and some interesting issues coming to light as a resultUluru is a sandstone formation stand...
In a first for the USA, the California Air Resources Board yesterday put in place regulations that will eliminate the generation of over 14 tons of VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) a day by 2014. The ...
Some of you would know I've been working with Energy Matters for quite a while -
it's an Australian based renewable energy company specialising in solar power.
We've just launched our n...
My father told me a story when I was a kid of how prisoners in the WWII POW camp where my grandfather was held captive (Oflag II B, Arnswalde) used to grow their own veggies. Human urine was used as f...
A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists on the value of GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) crops is the first to evaluate in detail the overall yield effect of these crops after more than 20 ...
Gone are the days of the traditional rubber tire; that is with the rubber coming from a tree. Well over 90% of all tires are made from synthetic material - and they have certainly proved to be an envi...
According to an article on CNN, during the existence of "modern" humans, we've relied on over 10,000 different plant species for food. Nowadays, we only have 150 species under cultivation. Of those, j...
Littering many waterways are bits and pieces of those awful, cheap styrofoam coolers that never seem to last more than a season - if you're lucky. Polystyrene (styrofoam) is derived from crude oil. It...
Noise pollution holds a special interest for me as a particularly underrated environmental threat. We've become so accustomed to noise that I think we don't realize what it does to us, both emotionall...
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