Friday, January 4th, 2008
I have been running into this quite a bit lately. I linked to the first story I saw about it in Digg. I guess a lot of other people are kind of disturbed about the whole thing too. In my 34 years on this planet, I have learned that there are a bunch of people out there who do a very good job of hiding things from the average Joe. The problem with this is that poor old average Joe has no idea he is doing anything wrong. What Joe needs to learn is that every single time he goes to the store, whatever he buys ends up in the dirt or in the ocean…and that’s that. We are all quite guilty.
I did a Google search for Floating Garbage and this is what I found. It is simply disgusting. Going through life, I hear about all the terrible things we are doing to this planet, but this just tops the cake. I can’t believe that all the other animals that we live with have to put up with this. Take a look:
- Trashed - Across the Pacific Ocean, Plastics, Plastics, Everywhere
- Oceans of Garbage
- Are There Really ‘Continents’ of Floating Garbage?
- The plastic killing fields
- Floating toxic plastic garbage island twice the size of Texas
Wow. I am not sure that anyone can even point fingers here. It’s the cover-up that gets to me. I think I have enough faith in humanity to assume that if the majority of us knew about this, we would’ve done something about it by now.
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Solar panels to go in 30% of Japanese houses by 2030
Under the government-mandated target, the number of solar-powered households would increase to 14 million from the current 400,000 and the capacity of such generation would expand 30-fold from the current 1.3 million kilowatts.
Top 5 Unusually Green Vehicles of 2007
As demand for environmental alternatives grows, some green-thinking automotive designers have gone above and beyond simple hybrid or energy-efficient cars to develop radically creative green vehicles in many senses of the word. Here are five of the most interesting, innovative, strange and downright bizarre green concept vehicles developed in 2007.
Where Does All the Carbon Dioxide End Up?
We imagine most of you, upon reading the post’s title, will have already (and accurately) guessed the short answer: the atmosphere and the oceans (for the most part). But, to delve further into the matter, where exactly in the atmosphere or the oceans does it all go?
How Denmark Kicked Its Foreign Oil Habit
With rising gas cost at the pump, violence in the Middle East and the upcoming Presidential Election, it’s no wonder that politicians are saying they have plans to make the United States independent of foreign oil. But can it be done? Here’s a country that has kicked the foreign oil habit: Denmark.
Are There Really Continents of Floating Garbage?
Are there really ‘continents’, or massive floating garbage patches residing in the pacific ocean? Apparently, there are and these unsightly patches are reportedly killing marine life and releasing poisons that enter the human food chain. One plastic patch is estimated to weigh over 3 million tons and covers an area twice the size of Texas!
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