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Environmental Wake-Up Call: Getting Back To Our Roots

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It’s something that needs to be discussed, and yet so many people remain silent. Mental health knows no boundaries and can affect people from all walks of life. It would seem that despite all of our technological advances and potential, we’ve lost sight of ourselves and planet earth. We don’t regard ourselves as highly as the machines we seek; we are close to the point of becoming utterly reliant on them.

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Biofuels Found Worse than Gasoline

So much for corn ethanol making your car a greener vehicle. A new study of biofuels by University of Michigan Energy Institute (UMEI) scientists find that it’s actually more damaging to the climate than gasoline. Their paper published in the journal, Climactic Change this week adds fresh fuel to the continuing argument over it’s benefits.…
September 4, 2016
Callie

Climate Change Predicted 200 Years Ago

Okay, that’s exaggerated a tad. Technically, it’s only been 171 years –  but the causes of climate change were studied and noted earlier than that. Since the conclusions were not published until 1844, we’ll have to go with the official date of the predictions. It’s most unfortunate that no one was paying much attention. They were far…
September 18, 2015
Amber

8 Times More Trees

The new guestimate is that there are over 3 trillion trees on Earth. You think they counted them all? Who would fund that kind of project? Granted this is far better than 400 billion trees left standing, but it’s really nothing to get overly excited about. It’s not enough trees, and very few of them…
September 9, 2015
Tammy Clayton