Save Money with a Biodiesel Kit
With the rising gas prices of today many people have begun to look for an alternative way to put fuel in their cars. A biodiesel kit fits the bill for many people who have started making this oil saving fuel in their own backyards. And why not make your own fuel, the hit to wallets [...]
Ways To Keep Mosquitos Under Control Naturally
Mosquitoes are not just annoying. They carry a host of diseases ranging from West Nile Virus to Malaria. For many years, the answer to mosquito control was to spray and spray some more. However, there are ways of combating those pesky mosquitoes without having to poison yourself or your environment.
Donate Your Boxes After You Move
You have moved into your dream home, or your next stop on the property ladder, unpacked all of your boxes, and put everything in its place. Your house looks great, with one big exception, that huge pile of broken down cardboard boxes in the corner of the basement. What do you do with this unsightly [...]
Bamboo to the Rescue
A growing world population of 6.3 billion needs the materials of life: food, clean water, shelter, clothes, and transportation. What can humans do to co-create a healthy planet? How do we restore and maintain balance between ourselves and our Earth?
Global Warming – The Kyoto Dilemma
Former Vice President and Nobel Prize peace winner Al Gore made a comment at the ASIAN Summit earlier this month in Bali, Indonesia that USA is the worst nation in causing the global warming. USA is the only industrialized nation now refuses to join the Kyoto summit to restraint carbon dioxide emission. President Bush refuses [...]
Is There Hope For The Environment?
According to the Energy Information Administration, world energy consumption is expected to grow 44% in the next 2 decades. The biggest increase in energy use will come from economically developing countries like China, India, Russia and Brazil. As a result, global carbon dioxide pollution – especially from burning oil and coal – is expected to [...]
The History Of An Exotic, Romantic Flower: The Orchid
Most of us regard the orchid as a beautiful, exotic and romantic flower. Most are also unaware of their spectacular history and the passionate efforts which have gone into finding, cataloguing and creating the orchids which we enjoy today.
Food And Water Is A World Crisis
For those of us who have plenty of water at our disposal everyday, it can be hard to imagine what it would be like to not have enough. Actually, there are millions of people in some places of the world who do not have an adequate supply of even remotely clean water to use. Some [...]
Biofuel As A Sustainable Power Source
The energy crisis has already prompted a war; that is if you believe conspiracy theorists and the media. There might be some truth to this matter, at least if we take a closer look at the dynamics of supply and demand of fuel all over the world.
Venus – A Runaway Greenhouse Effect?
The Earth and Venus are near each other in the Solar System, and are similar in size, density, and composition. Based on our understanding of the origin of the Solar System, we would expect that their initial atmospheres would have been rather similar. Yet the present atmospheres of the two planets could hardly be much [...]