A Beginners Guide to Sustainable Gardening

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): “Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and wellbeing depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment.” Sustainable farming or gardening makes efficient use of all materials being used including land, water, seeds, and products grown. By practicing sustainable behaviors…

WHY SHOULD WE CONTINUE TO USE COAL AS AN ENERGY RESOURCE?

WHY SHOULD WE CONTINUE TO USE COAL AS AN ENERGY RESOURCE? In the world today, there are many talks of the use of natural resources in our everyday life. There are four major natural resources we use for energy; clean coal, solar photovoltaics, natural gas, and nuclear energy. Today we will look at the use…

Tractor clearing snow kills pregnant NY woman; baby delivered by C-section

Jenna Neal 2/13/14 Blog              Tractor clearing snow kills pregnant NY woman; baby delivered by C-section By Haimy Assefa and Ray Sanchez, CNN               A pregnant woman was killed Thursday after being struck by a tractor that was clearing snow in a parking lot. The woman was pronounced dead at the hospital,…

PHOTO ESSAY

Jenna Neal 4-21-14 Photo Essay   WHY DRIVE WHEN YOU CAN CATCH A FREE RIDE DON’T MAKE IT A HASSLE JUST HOP ON THE CHATHAM SHUTTLE      

Why We Need Captain Planet

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcJI87u3DoQ If any of that introduction sounds familiar to you that means two things. Firstly that your childhood was amazing and secondly that as a child you watched a show called Captain Planet. If this isn’t ringing any nostalgic bells more explanation might needed. The year was 1990 and amidst the grunge fashion…

Disney Friends For Change: Massive Media Campaign

The Walt Disney Company is a multinational corporation that has a mass appeal among children and people of all ages from all different parts of the world. However, Disney, as it is more commonly referred to, is not only the created of entertainment content through movies, a television channel, series etc. but is also creator of…

Hydraulic Fracturing

Hydraulic fracturing mostly known as “Fracking”is defined by Mindy Lubber, as being a method developed to improve the permeability of a reservoir by pumping fluids such as water, carbon dioxide, nitrogen or propane, at a level pure enough to cause the creation of cracks or fractures in the rock. The opening of natural fractures out…

Electronic Readers and Their Inefficiency at Greening the Publishing Industry

Introduction We live in a disposable culture. As soon as we purchase a new phone, television, or computer we become envious of the newly released “updated” version. Additionally, each person within a household can often be found to have their own, personal electronic devises. This means multiple devices of the same function within an individual…

ALCOSAN Polluting our three rivers!

ALCOSAN Polluting our three rivers!   Living in Pittsburgh my entire life I have grown up walking and traveling by the three rivers, the Allegheny, Ohio, and Monongahela. I have seen people boat and swim when the weather becomes nice, and I have even watched Pirate games and fireworks on and by these rivers. However,…