Articles about Environment
Okay Monkey Put Down The Fruit and Raise Your Arms
“I’ll get you, ya varmin”! Vermin - the scourge, tramps & vagabonds of the animal kingdom. This is the stereotypical view of vermin who are inconsequently considered a menace. In South Africa (SA) vermin paints a more disturbing picture. It is not overly ...
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Will Soy Candles be the Leader to Light the Future?
Ahhhh, the scent and sight of a burning paraffin wax candle and the appealing ambiance that it floats throughout a room! One may think that this scenario is innocence in its purest sense. There is, after all, that cozy feeling which makes one give thought...
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Tsunami the next big wave:the grandaddy of them all
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Finnish Cottage Tradition
Finnish Cottage Tradition
The origin of the log structure is uncertain. It is probable that it began in northern Europe sometime in the Bronze Age (c. 3,500 B.C.). By the time Europeans began to settle in America, there was a long tradition of usin...
Affordable Renewable Energy for Everyone
Have you ever wanted to power your home or office with renewable energy, but thought it was too expensive? Or you didn't want to deal with installing and maintaining equipment?
Now there is a way that everyone can use solar, wind, and other renewa...
Wind Farms and Corruption
There is only one reason that wind turbines will be built in the West Country.
Our Press has failed to tell its readers of the corruption which stares us in the face, but is not seen as such. For example; The target to be met is to produce 10% of ...
SOBERING DISCIPLINARY WARNING
The transition from 2004 to 2005 has been electrifying. The international ramifications of the deaths of so many people, and the wrecked livelihoods of multitudes of survivors, has brought about an international outpouring of concern and aid in the wake o...
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Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Mudslides: Extreme Events - What do they Mean?
In lieu of recent, tumultuous occurrences, people are more compelled than ever to discover the mystery of these modern-day, earth-changing events.
One ...
Computer e-waste recycling now fueled by lack of Australian legislation.
Motivated by the lack of Australian government legislation and limited options available concerning the disposal of computer e-waste, IT Recyclers has initiated a much needed computer recycling service aimed primarily at Sydney business who wish to play a...
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Use Natural Cleaners to remove the Toxic Risk from your home
Maybe you live in a nice house smelling of alpine meadows with a sparkling bathroom, lovely clean and polished surfaces.
What if someone were to come into your lovely shining home and mix up a cocktail of unknown chemicals for you and your family t...
Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Tsunamis
Tsunami - a seismic sea wave - means in Japanese "harbor-wave". It is also misleadingly called "tidal wave". It is an ocean wave caused by an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on the Richter scale (or greater) that occurs less than 50 kilome...
Nagging Doubts
There's always that nagging doubt isn't there? The nagging doubt that they just won't get it.
I went to the Post Office yesterday, the small local one round the corner, to draw a relatively large amount of money out of my account. Whilst in th...
Straw as real estate building material
In the famous kid’s fairy tale ‘The Three Little Pigs’ one of the pigs built a house of straw that made him almost pay with his life. The pig was blamed in the tale for choosing the wrong building material. But his material was definitely the right one. ...
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Real estate construction revolution – Epilogue
Despite numerous advantages of eco-houses along with vast research experience and positive attitude of physicians and ecologists, they can hardly take their firm place in our life. The reason for it may be in the fact that the value of the natural materi...
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Mega firmament in real estate
Most of the cities in the world prefer developing high-rise construction. Almost all the big cities consist of various multi-storied edifices. This very feature of employing areas is believed to be reasonable as it saves a lot of space for parks and recr...
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Pruning and Training Trees and Shrubs
PRUNING AND TRAINING GARDEN SHRUBS A Pre-SCADA System Assessment Do You Ken John Peel?
"The Art and Science of Pruning"
By Alan Jolliffe
Pruning is the art of training plants. Pruning is not an end in itself. Pruning is a stimulus for desirable plant growth.
Introduction. Can bamboo flooring really help save the worlds’ environment?
Probably not on its own, but its an excellent example of how consumers can vote with their buying dollars to sway market demand to bring more environmentally friendly products into the marketplace.
Bamboo flooring is a rising trend in home floo...A SCADA System Assessment
By Randy Dennison
Introduction
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a process control system that enables a site operator to monitor and control processes distributed among various remote sites...Do You Ken John Peel?
My daughter Abi turned thirteen recently and as head of the family she thinks it's about time her parents became vegetarians. She has been a convert, with occasional lapses, for around two years. I'm certainly not ...Maps of Time and Tide.
Maps, for centuries have been the business of cartographers with mariners traditionally being able to make their own, in uncharted waters. Yes, the expression is still used in various contexts. I suppose that given the nature of open seas, one had lit...