Archive for July, 2009

Best Veggie Burger Recipe Ever

Friday, July 31st, 2009

By eliminating your intake of meat, you can reduce the carbon impact of your food by 60%. (Read more about the low carbon diet.) The average American diet consumes far greater quantities of meat than the rest of the world, much of it coming from farms several hundred miles away. You can mitigate the footprint [...]

Saving Rainforests and the REDD Program

Friday, July 24th, 2009

An article published in Mongabay goes deep into the international issues surrounding REDD, or “reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation,” a program that seeks to make forests economically valuable as living entities. The shocking image to the right shows deforestation-induced erosion in Madagascar from October 2004. Without a plan to stop the deforestation of our [...]

US Could Be Losing the Race for Sustainable Earth

Monday, July 20th, 2009

40 years ago, man landed on the moon, but also landed the first solar panel on the moon as well. The Early Apollo Surface Experiments Package consisted of two solar panels, a communications system and some instruments to send data about the moon’s environment back to Earth. NASA’s space vehicles are heavily dependent on solar [...]

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