Education
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Books are awesome, but for those of us who are both avid readers and environmentally conscious, sitting down with our favorite read can sometimes bring us pangs of guilt. And no wonder, roughly 20 million trees are cut down every year to supply virgin paper for the books sold in ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Jacques Cousteau is probably the father of all modern ecological study and the great mouthpiece of 20th century conservationists. His death in 1997 left a void in the ocean and took a man from us who we knew growing up from his dozens of underwater documentaries and his collaborations with ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Many people find museums dry and boring, a place where dead things can be found alongside little cards which poorly describe the grandeur of the specimen sitting behind the glass. Not so with the new California Academy of Sciences, set to open in San Francisco in September this year. The ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
MIT has announced that they are instituting a major new project to study the various technologies of solar panels, solar thermal power, solar produced fuels, and even solar water heating, with the aim to report on the economics of harnessing the power of the sun for various purposes. The results ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Ever wonder where your cell phone came from? Or maybe your computer, your couch, your car, or even your cereal bowls? How about where they end up once you're done with them? Well if you've got 20 minutes on your hands (and if you don't, make the time!), check out ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Washing machines are versatile instruments, and they’ve been used in many applications which have nothing to do with getting your whites white. I’ve seen them converted into Sten guns in WWII and their timers connected to IEDs in Iraq, but 3 students from Cuiaba, Brazil, have come up with a ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Lead contamination is a huge problem in many parts of the world. From mining operations to industrial waste, it can leech into the ground water and soil, causing huge neurological issues with animals and humans. Emily Dellwig of Kansas, has developed a method of removing lead from soils using some ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Access to clean drinking water has been, and will be, a continuing concern for the inhabitants of many countries in the world. Even when water is available, sometimes in abundance, it can be unsuitable for drinking due to microbial contamination. This is often the case with river water in Belo ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Denmark may not be a big country, with only 5.6 million inhabitants, but there are more than 160,000 mopeds there, not to mention lawnmowers, chainsaws, and even cargo ships that transport goods. Each of these have a common thread: they all run on two-stroke engines. Michael Madsen and Jesper Rasmussen, ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
While there are some great sites out there that offer lots of ideas to help reduce our CO2 emissions, there aren't a lot that make the process fun, and therefore appealing to those not fully committed to changing their lifestyles. There is one site, however, that ties in our love ...
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