Tips On Green Life Lessons For Kids?
I am looking to teach my kids some green life lessons so they know how to be functioning and useful members of an increasingly warming world. Any tips?
EarthTalk Q&A
I”ve heard so much about using Borax for green housecleaning
As mined minerals go, Borax (actually boron, oxygen and sodium) could be worse — and it has many relatively non-toxic uses, from cleaning to pest control to potentially treating cancer and aiding in the production of fuel cells.
I”ve heard that cars can be modified to run on water. How is this possible?
There are a number of online marketing offers of kits that will convert your car to “run on water,” but these should be viewed skeptically. These kits, which attach to the car”s engine, use electrolysis to split the water (H2O) into its component molecules
Amtrak or Bust: Why Isn’t Green Rail Travel Bigger in the U.S.?
In the spring of 2009, President Obama allocated $8 billion of his stimulus package toward development of more high-speed rail lines across the country, citing the need to reduce both greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on foreign oil.
To what extent does human population growth impact global warming
World population numbers in rapidly developing countries must stabilize if efforts to curb emissions aren’t to be erased by sheer numbers of more people.
If train travel is so much less polluting than driving or flying
It’s true that train travel is one of the lowest impact ways to get from point to point short of walking, jogging or bicycling. In the early part of the 20th century, with car and air travel both in their infancies
Is there any truth to the rumor about high levels of birth control chemicals being found
In 2008 the U.S. Geological Survey tested water in nine states across the country and found that 85 man-made chemicals — including birth control medications — were commonly slipping through municipal treatment systems and ending up in our tap water.
Excess Nutrients: Beware Run-Off From Fertilizers, Pesticides & Herbicides
When excess nutrients from all the fertilizer we use runs off into our waterways, they cause algae blooms sometimes big enough to make waterways impassable.
New Green Jobs With The Federal Government?
Dear EarthTalk: What kind of job opportunities might be opened up by the new federal emphasis on green projects?
Are Plans To Mine Uranium Near The Grand Canyon Still Underway?
Environmental leaders fear that uranium mining near the Grand Canyon could lead to the release of radioactivity and heavy metals like selenium into the Colorado River and its watershed, including within Grand Canyon National Park.