Check it out at: http://www.earthportal.org
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The Earth Portal is a comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a means for the global scientific community to come together to produce the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable information resource on the environment, and to engage civil society in a public dialogue [...]
This in from Maryanne…
Just in time for Earth Day, the nature.org carbon calculator is now live at
http://nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/
More information about the The Nature Conservancy’s calculator including key messages, a Q&A and other marketing tools are available on the Global Climate Change Initiative intranet site.
Starting April 17th the sundance channel is offering programs about eco-friendly topics. The producer of the first series is David Meltzer and his is called “Big Ideas” Robert Redford’s Sundance Channel Refers to the new programming block as “the green” it is a weekly block of programming beginning with the documentary series “Big ideas [...]
well we’re off to the start of another record high temperature year here in Nashville. I just checked Ch 2’s forcast and they say we broke the record today set 100 years ago. A sunny 85 degrees for March. Start making that bio-diesel Brenda…good luck to Mother Earth…oh…and us.
There’s a “conveyer belt” current that circles our planet and greatly effects temperature. England for example, sits about as far north as places in northern Quebec, Canada but does not suffer the extreme northern climate that Canadians experience. The reason is this warm ocean current and the fact that it comes close to shore near [...]
Tennessee is uniquely located geographically with the Mississippi River at Memphis, a major interstate hub in Nashville and proximity to Atlanta from Chattanooga. The Cumberland Plateau, between Cookeville and Knoxville, is also home to a native switchgrass which will be used to provide biofuel for a new refinery near Crossville, TN in the next year or two.
Governor Bredesen [...]
The Kevlins and I want to plan a solar electric project and if the economics are there, install it at their campsite at Avalon Farm. I’m going to capture most of the specifics here so we can start a new thread focusing on this project.
The first thing anyone who wants to install a system must do, [...]
I’m attaching some info about me that you requested. It’s what I put on my profile on wordpress but i’m not sure the avalonfarm bloggers ever see that anyway:
My educational background in biology, chemistry and environmental engineering, has provided me great opportunities to pursue some very interesting hobbies.
I’ve been interested in all kinds of alternative [...]
Wave farms show energy potential
By Jason Margolis
Proponents of clean energy have long seen the oceans as a great hope for the future. Ocean waves carry tremendous power, and could, in theory at least, provide much of the world’s electricity.
But while other sources of renewable energy - such as wind and solar - have been widely [...]
I found an interesting link to a chat room with the White House the other day that you should check out: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20070223.html The part of President Bushes energy plan to “reduce dependence on foreign oil by 20% in 10 years” may not be as agressive as some of us would like; however, it is finally a start. [...]
