Archive for the 'environment' Category

01 Dec

Doomsday Seed Vault

Have you ever heard about the seed vault that resides just a few miles from the North Pole?
Since it’s opening in February 2008, millions of seeds have been deposited into it.  It has the capacity to hold 4.5 million seeds.
It is located on a small Norwegian island named Spitsbergen, and it was built to preserve [...]

06 Nov

Waste Water Tomatoes

A visit to the water treatment plant yielded a very surprising find.
My son is taking an ecology class and they recently took a field trip to study the workings in this plant and how it affects the environment.
Other than the extreme stench that one must deal with  while there, he enjoyed seeing how it all [...]

13 Oct

Poop Goes Green

We have all heard about cow manure and how much methane gas it produces.
Until now there has been no way to capture this gas and use it - it was wasted into the atmosphere - contributing to the greenhouse effect on the planet.
Listening to NPR, as I enjoy doing, they were talking with a dairy [...]

24 Jul

Nature’s Clothes Dryer

Is hanging clothes out to dry a new concept?
Well, according to the evening news it is becoming all the rage in the name of “going green”.
The woman talking about it acted as if she invented the idea and her friends were just as enthusiastic about her new discovery.
Well, have I got news for them.
My grandmother, [...]

20 Jul

Carbon 350

A big topic on NPR lately has been about Carbon 350.
I had never heard of it, and after catching just the end of the discussion on the radio, I looked more into it online.
350 represents the amount of parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
350 is the amount that we need to keep [...]

© 2009 Lets Jump Together

flowery-blog | Design: NET-TEC Diät of Kachelofenbau. Coding: Kinderwagen of günstige Kurzreisen.