A New Twist on Climate Change Climate change activity in a remote part of the world has serious implications for our delicate environment and the air we breathe. Permafrost-Eating Bacteria: A New Twist on Thawing Arctic and Global Warming by Thomas S. Bianchi, University of Florida
Read more →Who Is The World’s Number One Carbon Polluter? Canada, #1 Carbon Polluter (CO2) Huge emissions of CO2 are being produced by our neighbors to the north, Canada. That’s right Canada not a third world country, like Indonesia mentioned in a prior blog post. This pollution is unchecked
Read more →Indoor Air Quality Often Tied to Building Products: OSB vs Plywood How does moisture affect the performance of each of these building products and how can that moisture affect you and the quality of the air that you breathe? A big difference between OSB and plywood buildingn
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Air Pollution: Extra, Toxic, Hazards to the Air We Breathe Extra air pollution hazards reported in two news stories demonstrate little known threats to the air that we breathe. These toxins, methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) emitting from nature, and triggered by man, compound industrial influences. The two articles
Read more →Overshoot Day — Why is it Important? Overshoot Day August 13, 2015 August 13th was an important day for the environment. It was the “overshoot day”. The “overshoot day” is the point when humanity’s demand on renewable natural resources exceeds the annual supply that our planet can regenerate.
Read more →Air Pollution in the Miami Valley, Ohio Who’s got your back? Have you wondered, here in the Miami Valley, whose job it is to monitor the air we breath? RAPCA, The Regional Air Pollution Control Agency, is that agency. It is regional in that their jurisdiction covers
Read more →Asbestos in Children’s Toys Is Your Child Coloring with Asbestos? According to a recent article by Brian Bienkowski with Environmental Health news, some children’s crayons and play, crime lab kits contain cancer-causing, lung damaging asbestos fibers. A report, commissioned by the environmental nonprofit Environmental Working Group Action
Read more →Global Warming Demonstrated through Music From the New York Times… A Minnesota Quartet, tuned to temperature from the equator to the Arctic, performs Global Warming. The University of Minnesota’s environmental magazine Ensia has posted on the latest effort by a cello –playing undergraduate Daniel Crawford and the
Read more →Does Your Drinking Water Meet the Clean Water Rules? How’s Your Drinking Water? More than 117 million Americans draw their drinking water from streams that may not have been protected by the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act, enacted in 1972, granted the federal government broad
Read more →Climate Change in Pictures Is a picture worth a thousand words? NASA has developed 4 visualizations of some of the Earth’s key climate change indicators and how they have changed and are continuing to change. Proving a picture is worth a thousand words. These include: Sea Ice
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