Subdivision in Broussard, LA Fights for City Water Rights

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Louisiana has been in the news a lot in recent years, first with Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and more recently because of all the Mississippi flooding they've been forced to deal with. Another type of water crisis is occurring within one subdivision in Broussard, LA. In this unannexed

Ways To Be Green

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A carbon footprint is a measure of how everyday activities have an impact on the environment, hence a footprint. They are gaged in terms of how much green house gases are produced and measured in units of carbon dioxide.

What Does The Term Carbon Offset Mean Exactly?

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The term carbon offset means that you attempt to mitigate or reduce the effects of your emission of greenhouse gases by trying to do other activities which may have an equivalent value. For example, you might attempt to mitigate your carbon footprint or amount of carbon dioxide that you are responsi

Life Without Fossil Fuels

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Can you imagine what life would be like without the use of fossil fuels? Let me start by explaining a little about what fossil fuels are. In general, Fossil fuels are layers of plants and animals which have died millions of years ago, compressed and buried deep into the earth, through time to form s

Scrap Aluminum Metals For Cash - A Good Way For Profit

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Did you know that you can make money by selling trash? Did you know that you can do this by selling different scrap aluminum types? Believe it or not, there are numerous types of aluminum found in the world today. These are not only used for construction but the most known ones are what can be found

Zander Srodes

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Zander Srodes is an environmentalist and social entrepreneur most famous for founding Turtle Talks, a project that aims to increase the awareness of the endangerment of sea turtle species around the world. Starting out as a small activity book for children, Turtle Talks has grown into a powerful for

The Impact of the World Food Demand in Africa - Addressing the Land Property Issue

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It is important that African countries legislate urgently on the mode of acquisition of land and address concerns on what such land purchases are meant for. If we continue to maintain the antiquated status quo where purchases of large tracts of land are not queried, sooner than later the allure of e

Going Green Without Going Broke

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Here's good news for small businesses that care about the environment but are afraid that going green will break the bank. Take a close look at the steps you can take that can help put your business on the path to greener practices.

Transforming Cow Effluent Into Electricity

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What comes out the cow's back-end is now producing electricity.Does this mean the New Zealand government will not tax it in the future?

Catching Lost Water By Rainwater Harvesting And Construction Of Small Dams

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Despite the current wasteful, top-down system of providing water through massive, centralised projects, crucial options do remain available to thwart Pakistan's ominous water crisis: the construction of small dams, coupled with a vast step-up in the usage of rainwater harvesting. The high-risk

Environmental Certifications: An Overview

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In a society that is increasingly aware of the environmental impact of business as usual, environmental certifications are becoming ever more popular as organizations attempt to develop measures for sustainability and eco-friendliness. With over 600 environmental certifications worldwide (approximat

Is the Home Filtration of Tap Water Drinkable

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I can tell you that I thought that the water from my tap was the cleanest there was and that all these different companies claiming to provide clean water were shady marketers preying on innocent people.It did not take long for me to see that there really are some concerns about the quality water be

PBDEs and PCBs in Breast Milk from California First-Time Mothers

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The objective of this study was to estimate depuration rates of PBDEs and PCBs using serial samples of breast milk.

Low-Dose Arsenic: In Search of a Risk Threshold

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Concerns are rising regarding the health effects of low-levels of arsenic that persist in our daily food supply. Is there a safety threshold?

Plastic? Paper? Reusable Bags?

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Billions of plastic bags are consumed each year. Less than 1% of plastic bags get recycled. The rest of the bags end up in landfills, lakes and rivers polluting our earth.

Going "Green" With Alternative Energy

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The amount of development in green technologies today is mind boggling. Alternative energy in particular is getting a lot of attention and receiving support worth billions of dollars from government grants, corporate investments and venture capitalists.

If You Go Green, Will It Really Matter?

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For many people, making changes in their lives to help the environment just seems futile. With billions of human beings on the planet, how could it matter? They aren't taking into account one thing that would help them: the happiness factor.

Is A Biodiesel Plant Worth Investing In?

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If you are interested in diversifying your portfolio, you may want to take a look at biodiesel production. This is a new technology that is being pursured by small companies while the large companies look on. You could invest in one of these small companies and do very well when the biodiesel produc

Go Green Movement

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Leaders of different nations from the highest level down to the local officials have always been encouraging people to live a clean and green environment and to be more concern on energy saving, or the so called "green movement". To have a healthy people is to live a clean and green enviro

Why Bird Ecology and Conservation Are Important

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What makes bird ecology and conservation important? Ecology is defined as the study of animals and the environment the animals live in. Bird conservation focuses on studying birds that are dying off due to a lack of natural resources. Bird ecology and conservation is an attempt to protect the birds