Environment Sustainability Development

The chaotic weather that typifies the direct impacts of climate change can lead to weather that is far too wet just as well as weather that is far too dry. There is no longer a happy medium. As a result of this and unsustainable development practices, many areas are facing the threat of [...]

For many, the idea of climate change was an intellectual curiosity and yet another worrisome warning from people you wouldn’t invite to parties. However, in the span of just a few years, there has been a dramatic shift in how people perceive climate change in North America. It may be disappearing polar bears [...]

Meeting the technological challenges and analyzing the ramifications of climate change is a very important job. While those who actually make policy are reliant upon scientific advisors to help them craft useful and efficient policy that will be acceptable to a voting populace. However, it is a small army of graduate students and [...]

Thankfully, the discussion about climate change and the challenge of preventing it isn’t all doom and gloom. There are some legitimate opportunities to make some real money at a time where it may get scarce for a great many people. The wants and desires of people change according to the amount of discretionary [...]

While active geothermal energy that produces steam for electric production is restricted to unique environments where magma reaches near the crust, passive geothermal heating can be used anywhere. It works by using the heat of the Earth to lower the amount of heating required in your home or business. This is possible because [...]

Sustainability isn’t just about avoiding the worst of climate change. Its also about keeping people healthy by monitoring and adjusting the diet, getting plenty of sleep and generally keeping disease at bay with vigor. One way to keep the body strong is to try and remove as many toxins as possible while keeping [...]

For a solution to be truly sustainable, it must protect economic prosperity, environmental consideration and human interests. This means that the most useful solutions that will actually work the first time are most likely accomplished when the concerned parties come to an agreement that compromises without becoming irrelevant. That’s a tall order when [...]

Part of any plan to manage the massive resource of several different forest types must be a procedure for mitigating the effects of climate change. A poor plan can easily be seen in South-eastern Alaska’s once mighty Sitka Spruce populations that formed a temperate rain forest. Forest ownership laws allowed people from out-of-state [...]

As people living in alpine areas throughout the world have noticed, the glaciers are melting. They have, in fact, been melting at a much slower rate for many centuries. It was not, however, until the industrial revolution that the pace of melting began to increase. From glaciers with a long recorded history, [...]

Most people agree that something must be done about climate change. Getting some of the biggest polluters on Earth to do something about it has been the challenge so far. It’s hard to know how to judge whether this is about to change or not. However, increasing international pressure and domestic social [...]