A healthy environment to live in is admirable for anyone to strive for. Who wants to live in a pea soup of air and sess pit of water ways?
But as Kermit the frog says, it isn't easy being green. As public demand for environmentally sound products increases entrepreneurs are happy to pitch their wares as eco-friendly solutions

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With rising fuel costs, Solar Power is expected to become mainstream in the next 2 to 5 years in the United States. Solar energy is the cleanest of all energy resources. Solar power has made huge jumps in the past few months.

Solar power is extremely cheap but the solar panels are the expensive part. As demand increases and

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It's fun to see native birds like these great blue herons thriving in a disappearing habitat and making the best of introduced vegetation. In this case the higher foliage of the exotic pine may be more protection from intrusion by humans and predators like raccoons. The number of nesting pairs and possible chicks indicates tha

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John Coleman has published quite the post on his blog regarding global warming. He is bold enough to call it a scam and a fraud and doesn't hold back when it comes to talking about Al Gore and what he has done to perpetuate the myth of global warming. As a meteorologist, John Coleman as a bit more more experience with global

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A plastic bag got stuck in a tree outside my building at work 71 days ago and it's still there. And it bugs me to no end. I turned this little annoyance into a contest. The person who guesses when the bag makes it out of its branchy clutches gets a little prize. People so far have guessed way too early. I believe it'll be the

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A clutch of 3 Great Blue Heron chicks have been a study in environmental adaptation and survival as they have hatched and grown since February, living in a Australian Pine tree non-native to Florida but pervasive along the sea shore.
A determined state and county program is removing the trees even as the Great Blue Heron succ

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My previous post was about world environment day, where the theme was kicking the CO2 habit. We all know the general examples, but do we know how much we can cut back on? Here are the tips straight from the UN on how to start! 1. Stop using an electric alarm clock! Using a wind-up clock instead saves 48 grams of CO2 a day. 2.

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Do you drink bottled water? Are you bothered by how much you're spending each month on it? Are the environmental effects of so much plastic in landfills finally getting to you? Here's how and why my husband and I kicked the bottled water habit. Since we switched, we estimate we've saved $500. Our only regret is that we didn't kick the hab

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Put a sweater on your house. One of the most important energy-saving elements of your home is insulation. Insulating your ceiling and walls will cut your energy bills and make your house more comfortable throughout the year.

You should consider solar energy. Solar power is obviously a wonderful environmental option because i

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Shall we devote a few minutes of our precious time to a mission both noble and humanitarian? Seeing as this is a program instituted through the Jane Goodall Institute, we all know it brings great value to the Environment and natural causes. I am proud to bring about awareness of a program called Roots & Shoots.

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We’ve heard it over and over. Oil is going to run out some day, and the government isn’t doing much about it! An article over at the Environmental News Network says that a poll with over 15,000 respondents said that majority believed that oil is running out. I agree! Especially with the oil prices rising! Even if some people cl

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This is for Friends of the Earth Netherlands where they are going to be planting trees around the world in order to promote the fact of illegal dumping. The earth’s forests are in trouble. Eighty per cent of all ancient forests worldwide have been destroyed. This threatens plants and animal species and worsens the poverty of people who are de

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For those of you who take pride in having hundreds (or thousands, or millions) of connections on Facebook, MySpace, or wherever, but wish your "friends" spent more time tackling the tough issues, this is your lucky day. The new social networking s

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Yesterday, Treehugger alerted us to the newest ethical social network, Razoo. These are online havens specifically for those who wish to do good in the world, be it through encouraging greener lives, raising awareness and money for charity or simply

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There are so many ways that we human beings have failed to look after our environment. What about the birds, fish, animals and earth, what have we done to them. Here are a few things we have not been responsible about in Canada.

* Wild salmon are being threatened by our fish farming practices.
* Sturgeon endangered, the flow of

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Hailed as one of the possible solutions to the fossil fuel emission problem, clean coal is coal whose sulfur dioxide is removed and whose carbon dioxide can be recovered easily. It’s still a subject for debate, though, since the technology is theoretical. Here are a few facts about this new type of energy. I’m all for alternate

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With global warming still in the fore and still a big issue, a lot of people are still uninformed properly about it! A lot of places are getting warm, forcing quite a number of people to head off to the beach or fan themselves endlessly. Many are still under the assumption that greenhouse gases, which contribute to making the p

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Plastic pollution is having much more of a dramatic negative impact on life in the oceans than you might've imagined. The massive North Pacific Subtropical Gyre is a swirling vortex comprised mostly of plastic debris that's roughly twice the size of Texas!

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