Asteroids, Garbage, Earth and the New Green
Written on December 31, 2007 – 12:08 pm | by jaygaulardcom |
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Huge Asteroid Headed for Earth–Too Close for Comfort
It is headed our way, and it’s a big one, but the chances of hitting Earth are 1-in-3030, and it won’t be in the neighborhood until 2048. Naturally, a rock of that size would do significant damage to the planet. The asteroid is 130 meters across–that’s about 142 yards or 1-1/2 football fields, if you’re American.
Continent-sized floating garbage patch threatens food chain
In one of the few places on Earth where people can rarely be found, the human race has well and truly made its mark. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean lies a floating garbage patch twice the size of Britain. A place where the water is filled with six times as much plastic as plankton, a plastic-plankton soup that is entering the food chain.
Planet Earth 2007: Top 10 Science Revelations
From the damning climate report by the IPCC to projections of an impending peak in global oil production, 2007 was full of startling findings and prognostications about the blue marble we call home.
Advertising firm JWT predicts that one of the top trends of 2008 will see blue replacing green as the color of environmentalism, social conscience, and all-round niceness.
How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree
If you had a real Christmas tree this year how are you planning to get rid of it? Here is a short guide on how to properly dispose of your Christmas tree.
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Tags: asteroid, earth, Environment, garbage, green, Recycling, Science
2 Responses to “Asteroids, Garbage, Earth and the New Green”
By Stevie Boy on Jan 1, 2008 | Reply
I was reading in Smithsonian magazine that in a few thousand years, that archeologists will stumble across our generation’s layer of existence, and it will be a couple inches of plastic. That is not a good thing.
By jaygaulardcom on Jan 4, 2008 | Reply
That is NOT a good thing. We are like locusts…so what do we do?