Homeowners eager for green ways to keep their houses cool in the summer and warm in the winter may soon have an alternative to the pink fiberglass insulation they have used for decades. Troy, N.Y.,-based Ecovative Design is testing the ability of its Greensulate—a sustainable building material made from mushroom fibers, rice hulls and recycled [...]
Image via WikipediaCarbon dioxide spewed by human activities has made ocean water so acidic that it is eating away at the shells and skeletons of starfish, coral, clams and other sea creatures, scientists said on Thursday.
Marine researchers knew that ocean acidification, as it’s called, was occurring in deep water far from land. What they called [...]
It’s pretty much common knowledge that plastic bags take 1000 years to decompose, if they do at all, but that fact just wasn’t good enough for 16-year-old Daniel Burd. He’s found a way to make plastic bags decompose in about three months by his estimation.
The Waterloo, Ontario, high school junior figured that something must [...]
Image via WikipediaThe current bamboo flowering cycle has wrought much misery on the people of Mizoram, in India with humans and rats fighting over what little there is.
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The bamboo seeds trigger an exponential growth in the rat population
Flowering trees don’t always signal prosperity. At least not in Mizoram. For the blossoming bamboo — the [...]
Image via WikipediaBreathing in air pollution from traffic fumes can raise the risk of potentially deadly blood clots, a US study says.
Exhaust fumes contain small particulates
Exposure to small particulates – tiny chemicals caused by burning fossil fuels – is known to increase the chances of heart disease and stroke.
But the Harvard School of Public [...]
The disastrous hurricanes of recent years have become the poster children of global warming.
But Roger A. Pielke Jr., an environmental policy expert at the University of Colorado at Boulder, wondered whether the billions of dollars of damage was caused by more intense storms or more coastal development.
Is warming a clear danger for Tahoe?
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Reducing hurricane damage
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A US scientist has devised a carbon filter to clear the atmosphere of carbon emissions, albeit at a fabulous cost.
Here’s a simple solution to global warming: vacuum carbon dioxide out of the air.
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Klaus Lackner, a physicist at Columbia University, said placing enough carbon filters around the planet could reel the world’s atmosphere back toward the [...]
Living by “green” principles can be extremely satisfying, but how do you do it? Surely, it’s not by purchasing more “green” products, because buying and using more “things” is all part of the problem.
This Lifehack article has got a great point, though, that a better guide to Green Living might well be David Allen’s [...]
Electricity supply in developed countries is straining to cope with demand, an International Energy Agency (IEA) report suggests.
California’s power outages in 2001 may have been a sign of things to come
In a report called ‘Saving Electricity In A Hurry’, the agency predicts there will be outages like those experienced in the United States, Japan and [...]