If you're packing your child's lunch, you know how much packaging goes into their noontime meal each day. You also know that that amount of packaging each day, five days a week, adds up to a lot of trash!
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Right now in the United States, there is a huge push for people to use alternative fuels as opposed to gasoline. There are many reasons for this push. Generally, it's because alternative fuels are kinder to the environment and can help to combat the ever-growing problem of global warming.
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What is global Warming?: Global warming is the process of a gradual increase in the earths atmospheric and ground temperatures throughout the entire planet. Studies have shown that global temperature has risen by 1 degree Fahrenheit over the last century. Day-to-day activities by humans since the beginning of the industrial era have resulted in the increased emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere, causing a trend of warming at a distressing pace.
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The Age of Stupid is the latest and quite possibly the most powerful of the new genre of films aimed at helping to wake up the citizens of Planet Earth to the crucial urgency of reversing global warming. It follows in the loud and ominous footsteps of its predecessors–An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore and The Eleventh Hour, narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Traditionally, rainwater was collected, or harvested, in large below ground tanks, or cisterns. These tanks have a reputation for being difficult to store and maintain as well as not realistic in residential applications. Today, however, many companies are developing a wider variety of options, including tanks sized for residential homes.
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Dams have been around for a century now. Beavers used it, although not for energy and now humans employ it as source for that ingredient in survival: power.
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With so much talk about environmental damage, dwindling fossil fuels, and sky rocketing oil and energy prices it is now clear that we must look for alternative energy resources that will be able to supply our endless needs without the possibility of it being exhausted.
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For years companies and individuals have been trying to find a way to use natural resources in order to run things like cars and "power" but to no avail, until recently! I have actually seen one of these cars in action, my neighbor has one, and they are pretty cool. Okay given they are usually a little "different" looking, but still, who wouldn't want to drive in a car that runs on water?!? I think that aspect alone is enough for me to be interested in something like this! The great thing about these water hybrids is that the water is an alternative source of "fuel" and as we all know, especially lately with the energy crisis and all that, gas is super expensive!
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To provide needed help to the environment one can proceed to plant a tree. Sound very simple and can be. However if you want to have a real impact there may be a better way.
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Austin takes its trees pretty seriously. This spring the Austin City Council considered rules for how developers can both treat existing trees on a property and quotas for planting future trees. This effort comes through the city's Watershed Protection Department and would represent the first major change to Austin's tree rules in 25 years.
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