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  • Why is Recycling Important

    Before you read this article, let’s take a look at how much knowledge you currently have about recycling. Read the three bullet points below and see if you know which of these facts about recycling aluminum cans is true? Recycling ONE aluminum can saves about the amount of energy to listen to your iPod for…

  • Should We Recycle? by Eric

    Reduce reuse recycle — words every American is familiar with.  For the past several decades, America has been obsessed with recycling.  Yet for the most part, recycling goes unquestioned; it’s assumed to be an environmental, social, and economic benefit.  But is recycling really that helpful?  Does the stuff we throw in the blue bin just…

  • Dealing With Global Warming and its Skeptics

    I’m sure by now that we have all heard of climate change. As a well established consensus in the scientific community, one would expect the conclusions on the subject to be uniform. However, there is a lot of incorrect information out there about climate change that misleads people to different perspectives. This misinformation is caused by…

  • Wind Power and its Impact on the Environment

    With the world becoming more and more interested in renewable energy sources, wind power too has gotten more and more attention as an extremely viable source for electricity generation.  In fact, in 2013, Spain reported that wind farms produced more electricity than any other form of energy production, including coal and nuclear power stations.  This…

  • What Goes in Our Cars: An Analysis of Biofuels

    A biofuel is a form of fuel that is yielded through modern biological techniques, for instance: agriculture. Let’s break it down. The term is made up of two syllables: bio and fuel. The first refers to the process of biological carbon fixation, which explains how inorganic carbon (in the form of things such as CO²) is transformed…

  • Hydro-fracking: Environmental Destruction or Fuel Beneficiary?

             [1]           What originated a matter of 65 years ago during the petroleum industry is now ruining wells around the world. As it started to be a minor source of fuel generation, it became one of the most popular methods for fuel generation, but now created an…

  • Lets Talk About… Nuclear Waste Storage

    What is Nuclear Energy? When you hear nuclear energy, you probably think “that stuff that makes bombs” or “isn’t that in the ugly plant Homer Simpson works in?”  National Geographic tells us that nuclear energy is “the energy in the nucleus, or core, of an atom”.  When you consider the impact of nuclear bombs, that is a…

  • Has Nuclear Fusion Taken The Forefront in Sustainable Energy?

    The Background and Its Current State If someone were to tell you that nuclear fusion would ever take the helm for sustainable energy, you would look at them like they were crazy. Even now, the concept that the process of nuclear fusion can yield sustainable energy in the technologically advanced world we live in is…

  • The New, Improved, and Smarter Electric Grid

      Smart Grid Overview: The Smart Grid is a system that is being put in place that will eventually make our electric system in the United States, more efficient, less expensive, and better prepared to deal with power outages. But these are only a few of the benefits of the Smart Grid. The Smart Grid…

  • The Keystone XL Pipeline: Good or Bad?

    What is the Keystone Pipeline? Is that different from the Keystone XL Pipeline? The Keystone Pipeline is an oil pipeline that runs from Canada through the United States, commissioned in 2010. The entire pipeline is comprised of four phases, the first three phases are currently in use, and the fourth is awaiting approval from the…

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