The moon will have an unusual copper tint on Saturday night. Why, you may ask. Well, it is because there will be a lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse is when the sun, the moon, and the Earth are all lined up, and the moon travels into the cone of the shadow that is casted by [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Copper Moon?
March 3, 2007
Join the Fight to Help Stop, Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining!!
March 3, 2007
Hollywood celebrities Woody Harrelson, Daryl Hannah, and Leonardo DiCaprio are only three of 4732 people (as of 5:31 today) who have joined the fight to stop mountaintop removal coal mining. What is mountaintop removal coal mining you might ask. Well according to http://www.ilovemountains.org/, a website dedicated to stopping it, “Mountaintop removal is a radical [...]
Green Roofs… is it worth it?
March 2, 2007
In class when were brainstorming ideas for our symposium project green house roofs were a possible topic. I decided to further research the idea and find out why they are beneficial.
I found and article that talked about how experiments were conducted. The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the University of Central Florida conducted [...]
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Movies about the Environment
March 2, 2007
A friend of mine has a rather large obsession with Leonardo DiCaprio and talks about him basically all of the time. I did not really know that much about him, other than the fact that he is an extremely good looking actor, but my friend told me a ton about him and his environmental stances. Leonardo is [...]
