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The Green Theme
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This blog focuses on alternative sources of energy and the issues around clean energy. Also covered are green products for you and your home as well as new technology.
Recent Posts
Polar Bears in Beijing against Tar Sands
Polar Bears against Tar Sands Just around the time of Prime Minister Harper’s visit to Beijing last week, some brave protesters from Greenpeace China showed their views of what the world thinks of the Canadian government’s stance on the T...
Monster internet server farms gobble energy
Consider when you turn to Google or some other search engine and enter in something – your computer is getting that information from a server somewhere …out there… on a server farm. Yes, that’s right, a wide open area in som...
Las Vegas is losing at the water game
Las Vegas has been on the edge of running out of water for the past few years. Pat Mulroy, the person in charge of the Southern Nevada Water Authority has some grandiose plans for piping in water or trading water rights. One of the things that str...
The case against bottled water
Before you head out the door, take your water with you! It’s cheaper and better than buying bottled water. These plastic bottles themselves requires tons of water and oil to make and they’re hard to recycle. In 2005, approximately 18 ...
2010 – Year of the Inuit
The Inuit in Canada’s Arctic are facing new challenges to their environment: oil and gas drilling, new highways, more shipping, less fresh water and melting permafrost. From 1948 to 2005, the Arctic warmed by 2 degrees, compared to the rest o...
Ship Logs a vital source of ocean climate data
Dr. Dennis Wheeler Captain Cook and Lord Nelson may be known for their dramatic sea voyages and their victorious battles, but who could have predicted that their ships log books would the most important part of their legacies? Environmental History i...

