Reuse/Recycling

As substitute teacher for an ISD in Texas, in Title One Schools; after breakfast, I asked children to give me their clean zip lock bags. They are wonderful to reuse around the home and keep the bags out of the landfills! Additionally when saving scraps for composting bin, I store kitchen food scraps in these bags until they are full, then transfer them to the compost bin. For you avid gardeners, regarding the compost bin, I pick up leaves I find around the neighborhood left by others who put bagged leaves by the street to be picked up and hauled away to the landfills. Decomposed leaf matter is great for any type of flower or vegetable bed, saves money too, and stress on the back from carrying bags of compost into the garden in spring.

WHAT WE CAN GET FROM SOLAR ENERGY

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There are numerous advantages that solar energy offers however; most people hesitate to use this kind of energy. One main reason that some people does not want to use solar energy is the lack of idea on what we can get and the benefits that it offers us.

Some people have tried to get acquainted with solar energy and failed to use this kind of system

knowing that it would be an expensive investment. On the other hand, you control the flexibility of your expenses and create long term savings for you and your family.

Some of the opportunities that solar energy offers are as follows:

1. Lesser electric consumption.

Solar energy can provide you with a simple amount of energy that can be used to brighten the basic corners of your house. In full context, it can also provide you with a minimum amount of energy that is needed to warm water and heat the house when its too cold.

2. Huge savings for the environment.

Taking advantage of the sources available at your doorstep not only reduces global warming effects but also make use of the sun’s energy that never runs out. This can craft large amount of savings for the entire family. Not only that you can spend more of the necessary things that calls for your family, but it also caters different investments that even your kids can appreciate.

3. Enjoying nature is an more convenient way

It can be hazardous and disadvantageous at times if you rely your electricity to electric company. Since you are in control of your own power source, wou will nere run out of energy when you are using solar power system.

If you are concerned about the ever increasing and unpredictable energy bills, the effect of unanticipated blackouts, power outages and future energy shortages, now is a great time to explore and plan your strategy to transition to solar energy.  Moving to an energy solution is a multi-stepped process and will take some time and careful planning. Explore and discover your choice.

 

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  From a Howard Hughes' Plane

  to a motor-yacht 

This is an interesting little story of how to truly reuse and recycle instead of sending something as big as an airplane to a landfill. From a plane to a boat...the story of the Cosmic Muffin.

Last week I went to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for a family reunion and found out that our neighbor is the owner of the famous Cosmic Muffin plane-boat and has it docked two houses away from my family's home. At the reunion my uncle asked who wanted to go see the neighbor's plane-boat. At first I had NO interest, and then he said the plane was originally owned by Howard Hughes. Since The Aviator is my all-time favorite Leonardo DiCaprio film then I said, "Okay, I'm So In!"

The plane-boat started its improbable journey as a Boeing 307 Stratoliner originally owned by industrialist and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes who acquired the plane in 1939 as part of his purchase of TWA. The 307 was the world’s first commercial pressurized aircraft that was a variant of the B-17 Flying Fortress. Only ten were built in the late 1930s as production was discontinued by government order at the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. One 307 has survived fully intact and has undergone a complete restoration by Boeing in Seattle for its owner, the National Air & Space Museum.

Destined for the scrap heap, the 307 was rescued by Fort Lauderdale Realtor and pilot Kenneth W. London in 1969. Unable to make the plane airworthy again, he cut the wings and tail off, trucked the remaining fuselage to a nearby marina and spent the next four years converting the four-engined airliner into a sleek and uniquely sensational motor yacht. Launched in July 1974, the Londonaire was seen throughout south Florida to the delight of spectators and the media. The “plane-boat” featured twin V-8 inboards incorporating the original aircraft cockpit controls that were used to fly the plane, propelling the vessel over 20 mph. Electrical, plumbing, sanitation and air conditioning systems were installed along with a new interior that included restored chairs and bar.

The boat was bought by Dave Drimmer in 1981 as a live aboard and extensively remodeled and rebuilt after he discovered the original hull was barely keeping the plane fuselage afloat. He later named it the Cosmic Muffin after publication of Jimmy Buffett’s novel "Where is Joe Merchant?"

While many boats over the years have pridefully claimed to be distinctive and unique, the Cosmic Muffin can truly be considered an historic one-of-a-kind amalgam of a rare aircraft and novel vessel. No other watercraft, before or since, has ever been constructed from a land-based airplane, especially one with such a rich legacy as an historic aircraft owned by a true legend, Howard Hughes.

If interested, you can read the complete history, view pictures and a video at PlaneBoats.com.

 

               Howard Hughes                                                       Dave Drimmer

According to a recent study by the marketing consulting firm Frank About Women, one-quarter of all products in a woman’s shopping cart are environmentally friendly. (Note: this is data from the USA, unfortunately our shopping carts here in Australia have no current way of achieving such lofty green levels.)

 

The study also shows, according to an article in Ad Week, that “women are less likely than men to scoff at ecological concerns.” Most importantly, “if they feel they are getting a comparable product with green benefits, 69% are game to buy it.”

 

Another study, being released this week at the Good and Green Marketing Conference, will reportedly show that 80% of adult women in the USA believe very strongly that individuals can affect the environment, but that almost 60% believe that they are personally not doing enough to protect it.

Continue Reading Is Green the “New Black” for Women Shoppers?

So the beginnings of the global environmentalist movement chose to tell us to recycle paper. In the light of fields of rainforest being burnt on our television news screens, it was decreed that this had to stop. We had to keep these forests, and we had to make an attempt to protect our home planet.

But wait, was that *burning* rainforests? Were all the loggers we see taking the freshly cut trees off to paper mills? Were they burning the trees and reconstituting the ashes?

Of course not. The simple fact is, if you have a sheet of paper, if may have come from a tree, but it's not come from prime Brazilian hardwood. That land is primarily cleared for farming. But that doesn't make a nice simple association that people can be expected to grasp, and didn't get nearly as much publicity as it should have done.

I am Richard ROBINSON an independent eco activist from Erode district a small town in the state of Tamil Nadu INDIA, since my infancy I found myself attached deeply towards nature and species this further led me to learn while I walked, without knowing those scientific facts and terminologies, I started from mimicking to the black bird’s ringing, which I lately studied as Asian Koel (Eudynamys Scolopacea) and the imitation I did was bird Ringing and birding, And along with my friends we started to plant trees, further after years in 2004 and likeminded naturalists we formed a non profit organization named JEEVAKARUNYA TRUST, with a motto to Train and implement youth In Sustainable Development work promoting environmental, ecological and humanitarian values and importance,

 

And now, still learning educating and training the younger generation’s to involve individually and collectively in all eco-development activities and decision makings  I have individually conducted hundreds of seminars and converted them to eco-actions,

24 hour x 7 days Snake Rescues along with a trained team,

Free seminars, slid shows and movie for the all local and surrounded educational institutions,

Conservation based weed removal action for Tribal livelihood development trainings

Clean renewable energy solar lamp implementation to rural and tribal those not accessed with power,

And many innovative initiatives like craft from the plant lantana camera which is considered as a weed destroying native forest and farm lands, GREEN CROSS eco action clubs, and more to bring a change in the un-mind full living of the most populace   even though we find very tuff and hard to move every step without any support, I believe that we can make it, I also swear that what ever happens I am not going to quit my duty towards nature, of conserving the only home at least in this 11 hour... 

 

 

Greenbuild 2009 International Conference and Expo is being held in Phoenix, Arizona from November 11th - 13th.

Former Vice President Al Gore will be the opening Keynote speaker tonight, November 11th at the Greenbuild conference. You can watch his speech and other keynote speakers live or as archived video later here at GreenbuildExpo.org.

Hi everyone i'm Michaela a nature lover that wants to do something for our planet. For plastic users we know that it is not biodegradable. We must learn how to recycle it...in that simple way we can contribute on saving the Earth. Well for me being a swimming pool solar heating contractor I make sure that some of my old equipment that can be use in the future is secured, with that there would be no need for me to buy another new equipment.