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Survival Is Adaptation

I’ve seen an interesting documentary recently, it’s called Earth: Biography. It’s a visually stunning tale of our planet — how it came to be, how the volcanoes operate, what are the tectonic plates, how ice affects our climate and so on. The documentary employs computer animation to visualize some of the hypotheses it presents, but [...]

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Are E-books Green?

The concept of an e-book makes sense – you have the ability to read hundreds of books, magazines and newspapers on a digital reader, all while saving the more than 20 million trees that are cut down per year to produce books in the U.S. But you are also using energy which is surely generated [...]

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Is it safe?…Is it safe?

My wife and I have shared a car for the past four years. It’s a streak I’m proud of, one that depends on a number of factors and that requires a fearless attitude toward walking/biking in the rain. But as we’ve both graduated grad school and now settle into careers, it looks like the streak [...]

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Energy Saver: The Drying Rack

I believe that small, consistent, wide spread shifts in behavior are one way to achieve long-term and meaningful change. While politicians and leading figures contribute in large ways to helping our Earth become more fit and fit to live on, change is also in the hands of all global citizens. With this in mind, one [...]

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Book Review: Living Like Ed

Ed Begley, Jr. is best known to me as a character actor employed consistently in Christopher Guest movies (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, etc.) and as the man who portrayed the completely hairless Stan Sitwell on Arrested Development. But he’s had a long, successful acting career and has been a leading environmentalist for decades. [...]

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Old and New in Environmental Issues: Kites, Wind and Oil Tankers

People have been harnessing wind with kites for thousands of years. Depending on whether the stress is made on design or propelling power, kites can be categorized as either recreational or practical. In some parts of ancient China launching a kite meant making a distress signal that could lead to the saving of a person’s [...]

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