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Solar Panel Systems Installation Maintenance Tips
All over the world, people are slowly moving towards solar panels for their electricity needs. Whether it is your home or office, it makes a lot of sense to go for solar panels as they not only help in cutting down your electricity bills, it is also environmentally friendly. People use solar panels for the generation of electricity for a wide array of reasons.
By Mark Stover5 years ago in Earth
How I Enslaved Hundreds to Do My Dirty Work In Saving the Planet
Compost is organic material that can be added to soil to help plants grow. Food scraps and yard waste together currently make up more than 30 percent of what we throw away and could be composted instead. Making compost keeps these materials out of landfills where they take up space and release methane, a potent greenhouse gas.--Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website
By Denise Shelton5 years ago in Earth
Why floods occur
Flooding of land and buildings causes enormous damage in many countries across the world, incurring vast expense as well as causing loss of life. Floods that occurred in England in 2007 led to 180,000 insurance claims, against which 3 billion pounds sterling was paid out (according to the review by Sir Michael Pitt). The 2010 floods in Pakistan affected 20 million people and there were at least 2,000 deaths. In Australia in 2010-11, according to the BBC, the area affected was as large as that of France and Germany combined.
By John Welford5 years ago in Earth
A Grand Old Dame
A single ship on the horizon? Nay, I would claim many thousands and be so bold as to claim that an even greater number of the souls aboard ships, boats, yachts, schooners, canoes, kayaks and all manner of water craft have lived because of me. You may consider that an arrogant statement voiced in the vernacular of earlier times, and you would be correct on both counts.
By Katy Doran-McNamara5 years ago in Earth
Can we fix climate change?
On St. Patrick's Day I went with my father to have dinner. We saw one of my father's friends at the restaurant and one of the topics we had was about climate change. He was saying that electric cars are worse than gas cars, and that we can't fix climate change so we might as well just give up (I'm paraphrasing). I was shocked! Why give up? That to me is cowardice. What are we supposed to do, give up and not even try? Tell our kids, grand kids and great grandkids "sorry we fucked things up, tough luck for you?" Or should we try and heal this planet?
By Robert Kegel5 years ago in Earth
The Long View
The Long View Mankind, even as cave dwellers, was motivationally incapable of keeping the caves clean. Now, as world citizens, we as a species are probably incapable of cleaning up our oceans and landmass of earth's litter and cast offs. Even space is getting filled with earth's flotsam and jetsam. Space debris is a real and growing problem.
By Cleve Taylor 5 years ago in Earth
Earth
Earth is a squashed sphere Earth is not a perfect sphere. As Earth spins, gravity points toward the center of our planet (assuming for explanation's sake that Earth is a perfect sphere), and a centrifugal force pushes outward. But since this gravity-opposing force acts perpendicular to the axis of Earth, and Earth's axis is tilted, centrifugal force at the equator is not exactly opposed to gravity. This imbalance adds up at the equator, where gravity pushes extra masses of water and earth into a bulge, or "spare tire" around our planet.
By Firoz Alam5 years ago in Earth
4 Interesting Facts About Planet Earth
Earth day observed on April 22 every year marks the anniversary of the modern environmental movement in 1970. The first Earth Day was an American movement started by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson. Later in 1990, Denis Hayes took it international and organized events in 141 nations. Today, all over the world, we celebrate Earth Day. Have you ever wondered about how the planet Earth holds us stable in perfect harmony, withstanding the mess we do it? Let’s think about some of the interesting things about our patient Mother Earth.
By Anitha Sankaran5 years ago in Earth
History of Earth Day
April 22 is called Earth Day because it both commemorates and celebrates the observance of the anniversary of our discovery of planet Earth. At this time, by all accounts, there is general agreement that Earth is far superior to the planet from which we came, as we shall recount below. Meanwhile, several companies on Earth celebrate it as a holiday, as mine does, or draw significant attention to it with feats of Interweb and mobile legerdemain.
By Bill Petro5 years ago in Earth