Environmental issues

HVAC Contractor: Commercial Refrigeration

Commercial Refrigeration: What is it? Refrigeration is best described, as a process, by the removal of heat from a space or substance, thereby cooling it. This process does not refer to the active cooling of a space or substance, but to the extraction of heat, which creates cold. (Artificially creating cold temperatures is formally called More >

Surviving And Preaching in a Post-Oil World

The recent events in Kazakhstan are a wake up call for devotees everywhere. I live in the US, which has a history of religious tolerance and respect for human rights, but in recent years, since 9/11/01 to be specific, there has been a systematic attempt by this federal government to dismantle basic civil rights even More >

Surviving And Preaching in a Post-Oil World

The recent events in Kazakhstan are a wake up call for devotees everywhere. I live in the US, which has a history of religious tolerance and respect for human rights, but in recent years, since 9/11/01 to be specific, there has been a systematic attempt by this federal government to dismantle basic civil rights even More >

Mayor Cracks Down on Climate Change.

Our ever lovable Lord Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has warned that climate change could threaten our cosy way of life and our capitals status as a leading world city thus he wishes to implement a strategy to cope with it, including measures such as urban greening, flood risk management and cooler buildings. Johnsons’ strategy, More >

Vision Care Alert for Ultraviolet Radiation

The sun is a large body which emits harmful short-wavelength ultraviolet radiation. This, in turn, is absorbed by the ozone layer in the stratosphere. Unfortunately, the protection afforded by the ozone layer is being reduced by the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which break down the ozone molecules. In the human body, harmful free radicals are More >

The Coming Boom in Enhanced Oil Recovery

While a cult of Peak Oil adherents fret about the end of the hydrocarbon age, we’ve been focusing on trends that will provide buffering to the upcoming declines in oil production. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that Peak Oil won’t happen, however the dreaded peak may turn into a downward sloping plateau supported More >

Man-made Climate Change – Fact or Fiction?

In the past dozen years or so a major controversy has developed through out the world about changes that are supposedly taking place with the earth’s climate. There is a large body of opinion that believes the earth’s temperature is getting warmer due to the increase in greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide (CO2), caused by More >

Lying About Lying About Climate Change

Alan Caruba, in a piece titled The High Cost of Climate Lies, which is available at http://www.usadaily.com/article.cfm?articleID=132147 tries to counter the claim that human action is responsible in some measure for climate change. He cites a number of scientists who are critical of this claim. One of them is Dr. Vincent Gray, a New Zealand-based More >

Love Your Earth: Take Immediate Steps to preserve it

With the advent of technology and increase in use of natural resources there a lot of problems that the earth is facing today. Today there are a lot of issues which need our attention immediately. Some of the major issues are global warming and hole in the ozone layer. Today if we were to think More >

Oil Spikes Due to Fundamentals, not Speculation

Wouldn’t it be nice if those recent oil spikes were entirely due to speculators/investors, and these greedy hedge and pension funds are simply creating an “oil bubble” that will burst sooner or later? According to Iraq’s Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani :   “There is more oil in the market than consumers want. What is driving More >