“Big Water” in China April 21, 2007

The most interesting article that I read in the May 2007 edition of Vanity Fair was entitled “The Rise of Big Water”  by Charles C. Mann.   This article was about “Big Water”  and how their is some debate over whether water should be controlled by the government or businesses.    “Big Water” is a collective term [...]

Celebrate Earth Day…the EPA way!! April 21, 2007

Eath day is almost here. April 22, the day when people are reminded each year how important it is to be aware of how their living habits effect the Earth. Earth Day was first celebrated in on April 22, 1970 . There are many other historic dates and informationabout Earth Day that you can learn about [...]

Vanity Fair’s “Green Issue” April 19, 2007

  A friend of mine  showed me the new issue of Vanity Fair for May 2007.  She thought that I would be interested because it is their second annual green issue.  This magazine is full of articles about the enviornment.  And guess who is on the cover?  The one and only Leonardo DiCaprio, if you have [...]

Watch out for toxic cleaners!!! April 18, 2007

When I was looking through the Chicago Tribune this morning, I read a headline that read, “Make a Green Sweep this spring…”  I decided to read the article and then thought I should blog about this.  Barbara Mahany, the author of the article, came across the results of a study from William Nazaroff, a professor [...]

Copper Moon? March 3, 2007

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 [...]

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 [...]

Drinking Water Quality… February 3, 2007

        Mr. McKinley’s Quetico question about the drinking water quality kind of got me interested in drinking water quality.  I never gone  to Quetico but based on Mr. Draski’s advise, I would probably drink the water there.   If water looks clean, I would drink it.  I cam across this article about the need to increase water [...]

My water log February 3, 2007

Water is definatley something that I take for granted.   I know that I use alot of water but I don’t really have much of an idea how much water I actually use.  I decided that I was going to keep track of how much water I tend to use in a typical day and then [...]