Wind is caused by the uneven heating of the Earth by the sun and the fact that temperatures will always be trying to reach an equilibrium (heat is always moving to a cooler area). Read the full story

I just thought this needed to be posted!  We should all be thinking about fires now while it is still cool.  Get out with the scythe, tractor, mower, whipper snipper etc. etc. and clean up the areas around buildings.  The results of this competition may save lives! Read the full story

Fireworks are used at every major celebration all around the world and it’s probably a bit of a downer to start analyzing just how bad they can be for the environment.  Read the full story

A pocket sized portable fuel cell recharger can charge your mobile phones and other devices while on the move – and this is all done by the power of Hydrogen!

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Jennifer Tomkinson at The Green Times has a great article on the use of ethanol as a replacement for regular petrol. Read the full story

It seems to me that the horrors man has wreaked on the environment are, largely, rooted in ‘bad habits’.  Read the full story

The Rainforest Action Network is launching a new campaign called Change Chevron.   Chevron has a brand new CEO, John Watson, and RAN is urging him to stop the destruction in Ecuador and turn the company around. Read the full story

Did you know you can save money and help the planet by doing four simple things:

1. By switching to GreenPower you can reduce your household carbon emissions to zero.

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I have traveled quite a bit over the years for work and for holidays, study and cultural exchange. Note that I have probably planted enough trees in my life to balance this activity’s carbon spew quite nicely. Read the full story

In February of 2008 a study in Science by Timothy Searchinger of Princeton University found that counting the indirect greenhouse gas emissions from land use changed, ethanol is actually worse for the environment than petrol. Read the full story

I just caught the tail-end of a television programme in which a man was showing how he had tapped into geothermal energy to power his house.  He said that all he had to do was drill low enough to draw up the heat and that the infrastructure would pay for itself within five years.  Read the full story