Environment Links and News for June 2008
Posted by Pixelhead
Stumbled upon Freegan.info. These guys seem very hardcore. Our current and future environmental crisis will with out a doubt take some hardcore efforts on all of our parts.
Bizarre but True Facts about the Earth from Boomj.com.
Nicole has a post that offers Tips to Save Gas.
Below is a Cool time lapse video that shows how a Wind Turbine is Constructed.
I came across a Washington post article that gives some resources for stopping junk mail from showing up in your snail mail. One of the resources from the article was 41pounds.org, which is an organization that will stop your junk mail for 5 years for a one time fee of $41. A third of the fee is given back to charitable organizations that can be picked out when making the donation. 41pounds also has a blog, from where I learned about the effort to make June 8 World Ocean Day. Sounds like a great idea to me.
From there, I went and signed the petition Help Make a Difference Ocean Planet. I also made a post about the World Ocean Day event as June 8th will have passed when this post is published.
SEQL.org post 100 Ways to Save the Environment.
Here is an interesting article. Want to Help the Environment? Eat Insects. This could very well be the wave of the future, even if we don’t eat insects as our main course, we could still synthesize a lot of stuff from them such as protein. Hmm I wonder what a “Spicy Mexican Grasshopper” tastes like?
Dumblittleman has 10 Super Creative Uses for Everyday Things That You Already Have. Instead of buying new things, using what you have is a good way to be environmentally conscious.
Via a Digg shout, I learned about GE’s press realease about Co2 being a POSSIBLE Factor for climate Change. Check out the site Coal-is-Dirty.com to learn all about the environmental impact of the coal industry.
Via Spostareduro’s Plurk timeline( she invited and I joined Plurk and plurked her comment as well- will be examining Plurk a bit latter) about a petition to support the Climate Security Act.
From TreeHugger.com, Turbo Prop Airplanes are making a comeback, since they use only 65% of the fuel of traditional aircraft.
LifeHackery gives us 12 tips for reusing wooden pallets.
From Stumbleupon- DWP drops 400,000 balls onto Ivanhoe Reservoir to protect the reservoir from sunlight. The total number of the black plastic balls is to reach 3 million. So what is to happen to the plastic balls when the plastic begins to degrade?
From my blog comments, I found out about Mileagemaker.com which is a site that sells hydrogen generators for your cars or trucks which can help to increase your gas mileage. Sounds like a product that is very timely. Check out the Hydrogen Fuel Cell video, which describes the technology.
A Co-Op America email alert notified me to sign a petition to which encourages our representatives to Support the Coal Plant Moratorium, which is a bill that slows down the building of Coal power plants.
Via Digg, I came across a video link that encourages people to sign another petition which again seeks to increase the speed of Electric Vehicles from 25mph to 45 mph. I think I signed this petition last month. hmm. But at any rate, this time I came across one of the sites that is sponsoring the petition, Environmentalmotors.com, which is a nice looking site, but really needs some SEO work. I guess they have not heard of title tags…hmm…might have to give them some free SEO advice. If you didn’t sign the petition last month, stop in and sign it this month. Thanks.
If you have any environmentally related links to share for next months environment review post, please leave a comment, or send me a message via one of the Social Networks.
Written by Pixelhead on June 16th, 2008 with
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#1. June 16th, 2008, at 3:30 PM.
Thank you for the plug. I hope others too will get inspired and visit my blog and benefit.
Quite an exhaustive blog this time around. Interesting if somewhat time consuming.