904 articles on "environment"

Solar Film - The Future of Renewable Energy?

Sun-powered electric options were once limited to large dark panels, but now consumers have a choice. In addition to panels of single or multi-crystal solar cells, solar film or thin film solar units are available in frames or in building materials s...

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How To Really Save Planet Earth: A Test About Al Gore

If you really want to bring the Earth back from the brink of disaster, who should you be listening to? A. Al Gore of "Live Earth" and "An Inconvenient Truth" B. Diane Sawyer of ABC's "Seven Ways to Help Save the World" C. Michael Brune of "Rain...

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The Structure of Power in Local Communities

The works of Max Weber (1946), Floyd Hunter (1953), C. Wright Mills (1956, 1958), and Robert A. Dahl (1956, 1961) provide a baseline for appreciating the community "power structure" literature. These authors helped develop the fundamental concepts of...

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Energy Efficiency and Cost Savings are yours with a new LPG Gas Boiler

Consumers around the world are becoming more concerned about the overall environment and what are things each homeowner might consider to be a part of leaving a greener world for our future inhabitants. The term 'greenhouse effect' is bante...

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Solar Ovens - Save More Than Money

Solar ovens are a simple and effective technology that can have a significant impact on the environment, as well as on people's lives. They allow us to cook food using only the energy from the sun, and this can have a range of benefits, from financia...

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The Basics Of Carbon Offsetting

In order to reduce global emissions we all must reduce as many carbon producing activities as possible, and offset the emissions we cannot eliminate by purchasing carbon credits. There are many motives attracting companies and individuals to the carb...

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The Gateway Project: Following the Norms of the Suburban Regime

The $392 million Gateway Complex opened at the beginning of the Cleveland Indians Spring, 1994 season, and was the most expensive developmental project ever initiated in downtown Cleveland. The Complex, which is almost identical to Baltimores Camden ...

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Spill King - The Most Effective and Efficient Spill Absorbent

Spill absorbents are necessary to successfully clean up the mess that is created by an oil spill on land. Similar to needing band aids and cotton balls in a first aid kit, you need spill absorbents in a clean-up kit in order to get the job done right...

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Choosing a Solar Thermal Collector

Solar Thermal Collectors form the head end or energy capturing end of a Solar Thermal water heating system. There are broadly two types of collector, Flat Plate Collectors and Evacuated Tube Collectors. When evaluating the two different technologies...

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Solar Deck - Review

Solar deck lighting is an energy efficient method of providing accent and safety for any outdoor deck location. These lights rely on energy derived from sunlight to charge batteries through miniature solar photo voltaic (PV) cells located on top of t...

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