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Everyone Needs to Know Which Transport Is the Greenest
If the last year has taught us anything, it is that a proactive change on reducing global emissions through travel is effective. Since industrialisation, our planet has warmed by roughly 1.2°C. Due to lockdown and COVID-19 policies over the last year, there has been a significant drop in travel and subsequently fuel consumption and emissions. While lockdown didn’t have a dramatic effect on lowering the temperature of our planet, a temporary suspension on usual human activity like international travel, for example, did reduce CO2 emissions. We experienced a record fall in fossil fuel emissions in 2020 by seven per cent.
By Alicia Walker5 years ago in Earth
Planting A Garden Amidst A Pandemic
What will gardening do to aid in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic? Gardening has long been promoted as a therapeutic leisure hobby with many personal benefits. Gardening may be a positive family-inclusive hobby to follow at this period, as many people are working at home and children are studying at home.
By Jen Hensey5 years ago in Earth
10 Things Will Help
As the daughter of an environmental scientist, I grew up a little differently. When the world first began to care about Climate Change and the damage that was being done to our planet, when everyone got excited about Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, and when conscious consumerism first entered popular usage, I was confused. Was this not common knowledge?
By Diana McLaren5 years ago in Earth
Beware: Aggressive Elk
The sign said to beware of aggressive elk. I had been warned. I just didn't expect to see them there in the middle of downtown, sprawled across the median, through the street, and over toward the concrete parking lot. They congregated in small clusters, like teenagers loitering at a strip mall. Some seemed to be showing off. Others looked on lazily from the grass.
By Robyn Reisch5 years ago in Earth
Those Beautiful Damn Clouds…
Deep clouds heave under such a weight and yet not a drop do they offer. For days, I’ve wandered amongst the dry red sands of the Australian outback. My meagre bottled water supply abandoned me within hours of becoming stranded. All alone I’ve trekked in search for a sign of another human being, or at the very least, a few drops of dew at dawn light in this arid land. Yet morning dew evades my parched soul, and I am alone.
By Karen Eastland 5 years ago in Earth
Re-Ocean
Technology today is not subpar but it’s not where it’s potential lies. That doesn’t mean we can’t save the life blood of our planet just as efficiently with modern tech and new methods which is what my idea for innovation and this article is based on. The plastic in the ocean poses a threat to many things such as ocean life, sanitary ecosystems both in water and on land, and it just not do anything for the earth cosmetically. (Used plastic doesn’t make for a good accessory). My ideas identify a few institutional voids in a few industries, repurposing recycled plastics and combining them with new innovations such as anti microbial surfaces and self and automated cleaning tools. The potential for growth that these innovations present is unlimited and would hypothetically span far into the future. The potential for new jobs and integration of industries to make our home planet always the sanctuary it was intended to be such sanitation systems installers and supervisors etc. The main issues that people usually come across are costly recycling techniques, speed of supply as far as actually obtaining the recycled material and lack of uses. In this situation as the ol’ saying goes “Nothing goes to waste” because the imagination is infinite. So during the aftermath of the pandemic the lack of employees for all industries is evident. Meaning one of the most important elements to a recovery will be suffering the Public Sanitation Department this doesn’t have to happen and we call also help stop the spread of infectious disease with stalls and portable walls made with recycled materials and anti microbial technology. Don’t know if’ve been to a public restroom near your local city hall even is disgusting, I’ve seen things in public restrooms that I’ve never saw in my own home after Taco Tuesday. So more sanitary material will help keep down on the things that lurk (insert look emoji). These plastics can be used in the design of new toilet seats which is something we often overlook when thinking of making the bathroom cleaner than with use of the high end cleaning products. They should should be pliable and be able to be turned into useful self cleaning tools as well as self cleaning storage boxes. The potential for these products is thru the roof. With the decline of employment and increase in space travel innovations this may be the time for people to start learning how to survive in space causing again another void in the public sanitation department. Therefore using recycled materials to build auto cleaning systems would all but eliminate the need for an attendant but open up opportunity for someone to also learn engineering and expand their skill set before it’s done by computer literally. Floor wash systems, self washing walls, and retrofitted casings for a plethora of new and existing devices. All of these ideas would eliminate a major portion of the plastic that’s hurting our plant just floating away, proceeds could be used to aid the plastic extraction process as well. The potential is limitless. The application for recycled materials in planetary exploration is pivotal in wide diversity of exploration machinery and excavation technology. Expensive housing components can be replaced with recycled material. The same could be said for ocean exploration and salt water recycling plant. This process can be an entire industry countless jobs and institutional voids can be filled with right attitude and understanding for advancement of all of humanity. This is a major stepping stone in the reform of all old systems that no longer benefit advancing societies and cultures which should be allowed to flow unrestricted like the Ocean. This is the call to RE-OCEAN
By Ned Guilford5 years ago in Earth
A day at the Bat Cave
Growing up a “River-rat” on the Tennessee River and Lake Chickamauga in south east Tennessee. being out on the water enjoying nature runs deep in my blood. My wife Lauren grew up, and our sons Brett and Bradley where growing up “City-Slickers” they’ve never really been into going out and doing things in nature or playing in dirty lake water. They will occasionally play in a pool or go for a bike ride. But they have never really had the opportunities or know how to get much more into nature than that. Now living in North Carolina less than a 10 minute drive from Lake Hickory, 45 minutes from Lake Norman, and 20 minutes from Lake Rhodhiss not to mention dozens of mountain rivers and streams within an hours drive. It breaks my heart that my family has never really got to enjoy the great outdoors like I did when I was a child. I decided about two years ago that it was my responsibility as a father to introduce my family to mother nature weather they liked it or not.
By Paul whiddon 5 years ago in Earth
TikTok's (not-)Meat is (not-)Bad?
I need to face the facts: eating meat regularly isn’t helping the planet. Perhaps I can close my eyes to the animal cruelty and the horrors of the meat industry, but one cannot deny climate change. I mean, one can, I think right-wing politicians have proved that much. But one really shouldn’t and I’m not going to. While I wait for corporations to grow a conscience (don’t worry, I’ve got myself a comfy chair) and actually make an effort to clean the mess they’re making, quite literally, I’m looking for small ways I can contribute.
By Amanda Fernandes5 years ago in Earth
Dad, What is a Fish?
As parents, you want your kids to be safe and live a long healthy life. They are more than your DNA, they become the purpose of your life. You are willing to go to any lengths for their happiness. It is in your hands what kind of future they will inherit. One where they can enjoy seafood or one where they read about it in books.
By Zameer Hussain5 years ago in Earth
A little goes a long way:
In high school, (many, many years ago), I had an English teacher who would always try to talk with us about the importance of recycling and doing our part to save the earth. Sadly, at that time, the only thing I heard him saying was: "DON'T USE HAIRSPRAY!" And, to a teenage girl, that's like telling a person not to breathe. Now, in hindsight, I completely see how ridiculous I was being. If I'm being completely honest, recycling was not something that we talked about or practiced in my household growing up.
By LaTia Russell5 years ago in Earth
