Environment
Oil war in Ecuador
by Dave On Fire
Few people in Europe and North America will remember what Bill Clinton called "the end of the last and longest running source of armed international conflict in the Western hemisphere", when in May 1999 Ecuador and Peru formally put an end to a centuries-old dispute over huge swathes of rainforest territory; around half of what Ecuador thought was Ecuadorian. As late as summer 1998 the Peruvia...read more
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Good
With the scientific community in agreement that there is a global climate shift and human activit...read more
Harm
Energy, who needs it! One of the biggest needs in our country is being blocked by an organization...read more
Climate Change
- Global warming: Help bring about change locally
- Best trees to plant to fight global warming
- The relationship between global warming and global cooling
- Does modern warfare contribute to global warming
- Computers impact on climate change and how to reduce it
- Global warming: How to reduce your impact at the office
- Is the US right to back out of the Kyoto treaty?
Environment (Other)
- Environmentalism - a Marxist ideology?
- Overpopulation in America
- Will technology spare the earth?

- The truth revealed about the Exxon Valdez oil spill
- Essays: Sustainable communities
- Book reviews: The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
- Transition towns: A brighter, greener and more prosperous future
Environmental Awareness
- The best sponges to use
- China's growing environmental crisis
- The Unesco World Heritage conservation program
- Reflections: Al Gore's Environmental Warning as an idea that's time has come
- Best ways to go green
- What is World Water Day?
- The dangers that threaten the ancient American forests
Trash & Recycling
- Easy green tips: Paper, plastic or neither?
- Rubber sidewalks: An environmentally friendly alternative to recycling tires
- Simple ways that you and your community can help the re-cycling process
- How to best recycle plastics
- Exploding trash on Independence Day: A celebration gone wrong
- The health dangers of reusing plastic bottles and bags
- Environmentally friendly guide to disposing food waste
by Joe Trella
There seems to be a movement that is gaining traction in the environmental advocacy world. The newest "fad" is the idea of carb...read more
As early as 1978, Professor Bragi rnason was pursuing the idea of using hydrogen as a clean, renewable energy source to power e...read more
How would you describe your cell phone? Handy, cute, multi-functional, indispensable? What about environmentally harmful? ...read more
Researchers led by James Dumesic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have produced 2,5 dimethylfuran (DMF), a potential new ...read more




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