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My Green Home. Top Story - May 2021.
For my Wave Makers challenge, I chose to break down my home and our “green” habits. Allow me to begin by saying that we, my household and I, are not a 100% super green, eco-friendly home. We aren't, but the title isn't a lie either. More or less, we live by the ideology that if we don't need it, we don't use it and that if it's not safe enough to be recycled or broken down, then we don't need to be using it at all. With this in mind, we still have wasteful tendencies to an extent, but we try to make a difference in our choices to help out our beautiful planet.
By Rain Dayze5 years ago in Earth
Over The Last Thirty Years, Our World Has Been Transformed Into a Science Fiction Movie
Anyone who doubts today that in thirty years, we will be living in a world that we cannot even begin to imagine today only has to look back thirty years.
By René Junge5 years ago in Earth
Waves of Plastic
The stress and chaos of everyday life can be overwhelming. For some, a vacation is just what they need to de-stress and take a break from reality. My vacation would consist of sitting on the soft silky sand on a beach in Maine, watching the ocean waves crash against the rocks and flow up on the shore, washing over my feet with a margarita in hand. However, with the amount of pollution that is taking over our Oceans, soon they will be just another landfill if we don’t do something.
By Shanz R. Smith5 years ago in Earth
Skin and Skins
This morning there is a very bright, but waning, moon and clear skies and the sun is in its twilight rising. The forest is brilliantly bathed in a supernatural blue light and, though there is still a chill on the air, the earth is breathing its life to us and envigorating us. The smell and sounds of the waking forest are wonderful. My ecstatic little wife is dancing and prancing about camp behind the 1980 F250 which has become our refuge while we work and pay our remote land and home. She wears no shoes and nothing but her favorite tie-dye shirt if she can.
By Turtle Tank5 years ago in Earth
Vocal Earth is a victory for the planet
The fact that you are reading this article in a community called Earth on Vocal is massive news. Finally, the world is starting to take the climate emergency seriously.
By Mark Campbell5 years ago in Earth
Nature in the time of Pandemic
March 3rd, 2020. Early morning in the life of a growing Pandemic. Startled by a shower of wood chips, I yelled “What?” and looked up. A flicker couple, resplendent in their red mustaches and mottled feathers made a quick get-away from our towering silver maple. They had been scoping out the tree for weeks. Their distinctive call, a loud, rolling rattle with its piercing tone had disrupted the quiet in our little neighborhood. Flitting among the branches, they made a comforting, wick-a, wick-a murmur that seemed to say, “I’m here, love.”
By Gerry Pare'5 years ago in Earth
Benagil Cave
The action of man causes profound changes in the environment, that consequently affect the balance of processes created by nature and which, in turn, stimulate the emergence of natural causes, such as earthquakes, outbreaks of volcanic eruptions, and the formation of very heavy rains;
By Suitys5 years ago in Earth
A Gorgeous Bird With Plumage Full of Eyes
You may have guessed from the title that we are speaking about the peacock. To be sure, the male peafowl has a train that is world famous. Have you ever wondered, though, what purpose is served by such extravagant plumage and if there is more to this creature than its beauty?
By Raquel Recinos5 years ago in Earth
A Labor of Hercules
A Labor for Hercules When speaking of cleaning our oceans, the old advice of “an ounce of prevention” applies. Had government and the press effectively interceded at a critical moment, not only would Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” have resulted in the banning of DDT, but it would have stopped the dumping of over 25,000 barrels of DDT tainted toxic waste off the coast between Los Angeles and Catalina Island by a major manufacturer of DDT back in the 1970’s. And that is just the ones they know about.
By Cleve Taylor 5 years ago in Earth
Great Monsters of the Deep Sea
Great Monsters of the Deep Sea A monster suddenly ascends from the sea, snatches the boat, and drags the sailors down to a watery grave. This story line provides the plot for legends that have persisted through the ages. But do monsters that large really exist?
By Raquel Recinos5 years ago in Earth
Five Ways My Family Is Reducing Our Carbon Footprint This Year
Climate Change is a crisis we all have to worry about. It will be the single most impactful element in every corner of our life. One of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis is our individual carbon footprint. What is our carbon footprint? In simple terms, it is the amount of energy we consume and expel that directly impacts the health of the Earth and contributes to the climate change issues we are experiencing today.
By Jennifer Gulbrandsen5 years ago in Earth
The Guide
I stand silently at the water’s edge. All around there is the deep blue stillness that comes with first light. The green water, quietly whisking over shallow rock, pulls away my overcoat of anxiety and stress, leaving only exposed comfort.
By Robb Hassell5 years ago in Earth