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What's your Ecotype?
http://whatsyourecotype.blogspot.com
What's Your Ecotype? is a blog dedicated to eco-taintment; increasing awareness and participation in sustainable activities using non-judgemental posts to educate and inform readers about Earth's ecological, social and economic components of Earth.
- Author: Ian Parnell
- Listed in: Green Science
- Tags: climate change Ecology sustainable fisheries agriculture natural resource management
Recent Posts
Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) VII: IAPV, Nosema ceranae, and CCD
Is Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) caused by new or re-emerging pathogens? This is one hypothesis put forward by US researchers in 2007 and two candidates, the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) and the microsporidian parasite Nosema ceranae, have r...
Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) VI: The Global Status of CCD
What is the global status of honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder? Where is it occurring? Is it getting better or worse? Is its range increasing, or decreasing? Such questions might seem easy to answer given the worldwide concern about CCD; however, th...
Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) V: Trends in Reporting and Research
What ever happened to Colony Collapse Disorder? Since the IAPV breakthrough of 2008 the press has been relatively quiet on this subject. The journalistic stampede that accompanied CCD`s emergence in 2006 has calmed down to an occasional stray article...
Measuring Environmental Performance: One Number Is Not Enough
In his article ‘Saving the Planet by Numbers’, David MacKay offers the quantitatively minded enviro-skeptic a new energy standard for comparing the relative performance of green actions and technologies to each other and the status quo. (MacKay, ...
Washing Our Car With Rain Barrel Water: How Many Buckets?
It rained hard last night and our rain barrel was full by morning. Since the garden was nicely watered, I decided to use some of that dewy fresh rain water to wash our car. I wanted to try out something I'd read about being able to wash a car using o...
Do Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) Really Reduce Emissions?
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) are touted as a technology for reducing vehicle related emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants that affect human health. However, do they really achieve net improvements in emissions or just shift th...
