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Amazing Facts About Oil
Ever had a burning desire to know more about oil? Well, Neatorama have written a great post listing a load of weird and wonderful oil facts bout the precious liquid some people call, black gold. Discover how much Saudi oil giant Aramco are really worth, what people did with worthless oil at the turn of the 20th century or what role dinosaurs really have in the production of fossil fuels:
Continue reading...4. July 2008
“Biofuels Behind World Food Crisis”- World Bank
Biofuels are responsible for a 75 percent increase in world food prices according to the findings of a World Bank report published in The Guardian newspaper on Friday. The bank said concern over climate change and increasing competition for cropland had prompted Europe and the US to encourage the use of biofuels, driving up the price of raw materials used in their production, such as wheat, soy, corn and palm oil.
Continue reading...9. June 2008
Africa Running Out of Natural Resources
According to the conservation organization WWF, African countries are slowly but surely draining the continent of its natural resources. The statement is part of a report issued by the organization on Africa's ecological footprint - it takes into account a country's land and sea surface that is used in meeting the peoples' consumption needs. The report entitled "Africa-Ecological Footprint and Human Well-being" was released along with a U.S.-based research body, the Global Footprint Network.
Continue reading...3. June 2008
Is it Time to Properly Fund Passenger Rail in the United States?
Image by Wili Hybrid Passenger Rail service was once a booming industry in the United States and was the main revenue source that spurred the rapid growth of rail transport throughout the late 18th Century and early 19th Century. However, as the price of cheap fuel [...]
Continue reading...28. May 2008
Clean Coal is a Lie. Environmentalists Fight Back With Cartoon
Image by Rastafabi Ah, coal. If you live in the United States you’ve been subjected to an advertising blitz in preparation for the upcoming elections assuring you that clean coal is the answer to all of our problems. The four dollar gasoline will go away [...]
Continue reading...28. May 2008
Amazon Selling for $50Bn, Brazilians Not Happy
Image from Keepps Johan Eliasch, Gordon Brown’s deforestation advisor took a step towards joining the ranks of American politicians who don’t know what a national border and sovereignty means by claiming that the entirety of the Amazon rain forest could, and should, be purchased in order to protect [...]
Continue reading...27. May 2008
$22 Million Creation Musuem Expanding, Focusing On Kids
By Ben Ray Image from John Scalzi The Creation Museum, an international abomination laying just a few miles from the Cincinnati-Northern KentuckyAirport, is only one year old, but it’s already had enough success that it’s planning to expand over the next year. Ken Ham, who founded “Answers in Genesis,” [...]
Continue reading...26. May 2008
Iraq’s Depleted Uranium Shells Could Kill 500,000
Image from Christiaan Briggs In the wake of the first Gulf War, the American Press was enamored with military technology in a way that they never had been before, trumpeting the ability of the modern Roman Legions to put a single bomb through a single window anywhere in [...]
Continue reading...23. May 2008
The Ethics Of Smart Pills
Opinion piece by Ben Ray The real breakfast of champions. Image from Betacells We human beings have finally reached that point in our development where science is going to begin making a giant difference to how we interact with the world.
Continue reading...20. May 2008
EarthFirst!
One of the best things about the environmental community is exactly that–the sense of community felt by all of those participating in it. Obviously this has diminished some since green became cool, and massive corporations like Shell began their greenwashing campaigns, but the reality is that most [...]
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