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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Environment' (6)

How to Save The World

How to Save The World I just watched this doc**entary. Quite interesting and proactive.…

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Added by Catherine Gentry on May 3, 2010 at 7:29pm — 2 Comments

So I was watching this video from the TED conference [It's a Think Tank], and I saw an idea for sand dune homes. Apparently you can actually make sandstone with bacteria and sand. The idea became this: Build a sandstone wall across the Sahara to create homes for the retreating natives, and to prevent the expansion of the desert with a wind breaker. Wind breakers stop the sand storms from… Continue

Added by Nicolas Dykstra on March 29, 2010 at 1:35am — 1 Comment

Eco-Tip #3 - USE LESS HOT WATER

Hello :)

Please excuse the delay in tips over the last week but life has been very busy indeed.

Aaaanyway.... Less excuses and more tips:)

Using less hot water... Yes, this is not hard at all. Set your water heater at 120 degrees to save energy, and wrap it in an insulating blanket if it is more than 5 years old. Buy low-flow

showerheads to save hot water and about 350 pounds of carbon dioxide

yearly. Wash your clothes in warm or cold water to reduce your use… Continue

Added by Ethan Gray on March 25, 2010 at 12:52pm — 3 Comments

Eco-Tip #2 - CHANGE YOUR LIGHTBULBS

Hello everyone :)

Okay sorry this second tip has taken a while but here it is. Hopefully it will get more feedback than the last one. I encourage any ideas, questions or discussions that you would like to bring up. Anything is much appreciated :)

Now back to tip number 2!

CHANGING YOUR LIGHTBULBS

Wherever practical, replace regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL's). Replacing just one 60-watt incandescent

light bulb with… Continue

Added by Ethan Gray on March 16, 2010 at 4:00pm — 4 Comments

Listen..... Just a quote

"I was trying to get people to see that you can't just grow for

ever and hope that the environment will take care of itself. We could

go over the cliff. You would hope not. You would hope that people

see what needs to be done. It's not rocket science. It's not

difficult. It's not even all that costly. It's actually about

the way you think about the world." -Tim… Continue

Added by Ethan Gray on March 10, 2010 at 11:35am — 4 Comments

HOME - Amazing Video

This video is well worth taking the time to watch. Set aside some time, turn your phone off and be prepared to be amazed and awed by the beauty and fragility of our planet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

Please tell me what you think of the video :-)

Added by Deborah Cazden on March 8, 2010 at 2:28am — 1 Comment