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Contributed by Mike Kitts
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 Mike Reynolds LONDON, England (CNN) -- CNN caught up
with Michael Reynolds, "biotect" of Earthships, in Taos, New Mexico.
What are your hopes for the future of Earthships?
It
started off as individual homes, now we have two or three communities
going. I hope to see in my lifetime to see towns and cities built this
way. If you're a huge developer and you want to build a small town you
have to put in millions of dollars of infrastructure before you begin.
I
could start building a city tomorrow. I could just take a pick-up
truck, a hammer, a shovel and a tire and start building a house that
takes care of itself that would be the first house of a city. The city
use of this is where I'm hoping it will go, and I think it will.
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Contributed by Chad Hartman
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 Solar Panels on Roof The Future of Solar Energy Home By Chad Hartman. Dreaming and fantasizing are the first step towards innovation. People all over the world and especially in America are dreaming of a green world where there will be only solar power energizing the needs of the entire country.
Experts feel that in five years, solar power will be cheap enough to compete with conventional electricity, even in UK, Africa, Australia and India. If that is the case more and more people will use solar energy in their homes. In a decade, the cost may have fallen so dramatically that solar cells could undercut oil, gas and coal. Technology is leaping ahead towards eco friendly, pollution free and a green future with the advent of solar energy homes. |
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Solar Eclipse How Often Are Solar & Lunar Eclipses? Eclipses of the sun and moon are not rare. There are between 4 and 7 eclipses each year. There were 4 solar eclipses and 3 lunar eclipses in 1982. This list has solar and lunar eclipses from 1999 to 2010, plus links to more info about eclipses.
Remember the first time you saw an eclipse of the sun or moon? Probably not, because unless you're real young, it was quite a while ago.
From time to time these eclipses capture media attention almost always when the eclipse is "total". Besides the obvious world of the five senses, there's a pretty good case to be made that eclipses also effect people in other ways, because there are most likely some very powerful unseen energies running between these huge celestial bodies (Sun, Earth, Moon). |
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Contributed by Dave Burd
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 CFL Light Bulb And Then There Was Light! By Dave Burd. And Then There Was Light! According to EnergyStar, if every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
For decades, greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide, and mercury) from power plants that produce electricity, much of which is used for lighting, has been raining down on much of the U.S. Replacing incandescent bulbs with energy efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) would dramatically reduce energy consumption and the volume of greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere.
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Green Living Green Your House
You've been meaning to do it - start a compost pile, buy recycled
paper, start a car-pool club to go to the office, but you've never
quite done it. Well, there's no better time than the present to begin
turning your environmental ideals into environmental action.
Here are
some ideas to help get you started. Even small changes will help the
battle to preserve our planet! |
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