904 articles on "environment"

How Pond Aeration Can Reduce Pond Weeds

Around the United States and other countries in the last few years, a great number of new housing developments have sprung up to house the ever-increasing population. These developments increase the amount of nutrients and sediments that wash into wa...

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Solar Film Cells

There has been a lot of buzz lately about solar film, also called flexible or foldable, solar panels. This is an emerging technology and could completely revolutionize renewable energy. Thin film solar most often uses CIGS (copper indium gallium (di)...

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Green Your Pet Care: What to do about waste?

For those who are working toward getting green, solutions often boil down to "moderation". One pet per person in your household is ideal. That way the person doesn't become overwhelmed by having to care for too many animals, and the pet is livin...

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Solar Ovens and RV's - A Match Made in Heaven

A solar oven and an RV is a match made in heaven. My wife and I have been full-timing for about three years now and are still learning new lessons about adapting to this unusual lifestyle. A major environmental adjustment, that took some getting used...

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Offshore Wind

While I was at Singapore a few months back at the Renewable Energy Finance meet, Rex Reksniss of RECharge ( http://www.rechargenews.com/ ) asked me about trends in offshore wind exploitation in India. I told him I did not expect anything to happen in...

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Alternative Energy

With energy resources dwindling fast and global warming changing climates across the globe, more people look towards renewable energies for reducing their carbon footprint. However, even the most environmentally passionate person cannot pursue such e...

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Make a Statement - Wear Organic Clothing

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more then three million cases of severe pesticide poisoning occur every year. Of these, over 300,000 die with 99% of the cases being from third world countries. To put that in perspective, one farmer...

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Environmental Design: A User-Centric Approach to Reducing Environmental Impact

Continuing with the theme of user-centric design, this article identifies and analyses another area of waste management in which design can help towards tackling the path to a greener and more sustainable environment. With our developing understand...

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Costs And Benefits Between Solar And Wind Energy

The costs and benefits between solar and wind energy are very subjective. There are necessarily three factors that determine the economics: capitol costs, operating and maintenance costs and fuel costs. These must be taken into consideration when com...

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Make Your Own Biodiesel

2. Straight vegetable oil Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, you can make it in your kitchen and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies sell you. Your diesel motor will run better and last longer on your home-ma...

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