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byGLENFORD ROBINSON
Why should all houses build from now on be built to withstand the shakes of the most violent of earthquakes? All of a sudden we are having very large earthquakes. In fact, we have earthquakes on a daily basis, sometimes 50 per day or 20,000 a year according to the United States Geological Survey [...]

by JUNE SMITH
When we talk about renewable energy we are referring to power that delivers energy from resources that will not be depleted because of our use of them. Renewable energy is an alternative to non-renewable fossil fuel energy for reasons other than the factor of non-depletion.
One basic benefit of renewable energy, and the reason [...]

by K. N. SINGER
Sometimes called the “Plastic Continent” and sometimes called the “Pacific Garbage Patch”, it amounts to the same thing – an island of floating garbage, most of which is plastic, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. But there’s a reason that some environmentalists are referring to it as a “Continent” — this [...]

byWOODROW WILSON
We hear a lot about carbon dioxide these days: It’s a greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is altering our climate. Global warming is looming … or is it global cooling? Nobody is quite sure. Whatever it is, we have to tax carbon dioxide; we have to regulate carbon dioxide; we have to [...]

by KC JACKSON
World warming Global warming is basically the increase in the temperatures of the Earth’s atmosphere, land masses and oceans. About 40 percent of the discharges of carbon dioxide, which contribute to greenhouse gases and global warming, come from coal burning.
Though due to the global warming affect there has been many seasonal alterations, [...]

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by J. A. (JERRY) HUNSINGER
The Northern Hemisphere of this planet is in a normal warming cycle. It began to manifest itself as the preceding cycle, the Mini-Ice Age (1300-1800), wound down about the mid-19th century. Nothing in global climate happens overnight. Each cycle is of about 500-years duration. With that assumption, we can say that [...]

By : Amy Nutt
Moving from one home to another can seem overwhelming. There are so many things to consider, from shutting down one set of utilities and getting started with the next, painting, rearranging, trying to get adjusted to a new neighborhood and if you have children, getting them settled into their new school. [...]

by JOEL VANCE
Ask your self this question: Are you tired of income opportunities that bait you?
I do not have to wait for the answer. Of course you are. You have seen the internet ads that promise you the world with no effort. As you and I know these get rich quick schemes do not work.
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) was conceived of by the French engineer Jacques D’Arsonval in 1881. However, at the time of this writing the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii is home to the only operating experimental OTEC plant on the face of the earth. OTEC is a potential alternative energy source that…