New tech can recover 160 BILLION gallons of water annually!
Here’s another number that will get your attention… Around 39% of all fresh water usage in the USA is consumed by power plants! And most of that is lost to the atmosphere as steam. This new technology can return most of that water vapor to the rivers and lakes from which it was taken! And […]
Plastic pollution: it’s not just bags at the checkout, what about the plastic clogging supermarket aisles?
I recently opened a packet of crackers. OK… ‘specialty’ crackers. They were packed in a cardboard outer. On opening the box, I see a plastic sleeve. Open the sleeve and there are the contents sitting in a clam-shell style plastic tray. In total, there were exactly 16 crackers. They weighed 80 grams. The packaging weighed […]
There’s a floating patch of garbage out there… and you’re probably eating it!
What do 745 blue whales, 12,219 Tyrannosaurus Rexes, and 20,853 hippopotamuses have in common? They weigh the same as the amount of visible (remember that word) plastic garbage floating in the North Pacific Ocean right now. Now try to wrap your head around that information. To say that it’s massive would be a terrible, terrible […]
Entrepreneurs creating treasure from trash…
ABC Science environment reporter Nick Kilvert On a single stretch of beach on Cape York Peninsula, on Australia’s north-eastern tip, volunteers spend four days collecting more than 7 tonnes of trash. The haul includes 1,000 cigarette lighters, 2,280 toothbrushes, 3,320 plastic drink bottles, 5,500 thongs (flip-flops) and miles of fishing nets. A year ago they collected […]
Light pollution is affecting your health!
The world is brighter and that’s bad news for most of us… The comprehensive World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness has appeared in Science Advances. Written by a group of distinguished scientists lead by Italian Fabio Falchi, it is a noteworthy accomplishment. The first atlas appeared in 2001, but was based on a less […]
The case of the disappearing night:
Or why it’s getting harder to see those stars… Change is often imperceptible. It happens day by day so that we don’t see apparent differences. But over the past 1,460 nights, while you’ve been sleeping, the world has become 8.8% brighter. That brightness is from two sources: Over the past four years, the amount of […]
I didn’t always hate glitter…
Once upon a time, I actually thought glitter was innocent and sparkly and pretty. And then I started raising a house full of girls. Four to be exact. Glitter nail polish; glitter hair spray; glitter slime; presents wrapped in glittery paper; glitter craft ideas; and a nine year old who wants her room painted with […]
Stranger than fiction…
Stranger than fiction, weirder than weird! There are so many fascinating facts and just as many false beliefs rattling around in all of our brains. For your entertainment – as well as mine, I decided to collate a few of the one’s where I would have said ‘no way’! How many of these did you already […]
2015 ‘shattered’ global temperature records!
Less than a week ago I wrote that we’re in record breaking mode. Every month for the past five months has seen a new record for global temperatures. The World Meteorological Organisation has now released the results for the whole 2015 year. The news is not good… “Today the Earth is already 1°C hotter than at the […]
The Road to Hell is Paved, not with Good Intentions, but with Coffee Pods
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. That’s exactly what John Sylvan, inventor of the K-cup of the coffee-in-a-pod system and co-founder of Keurig, did. Or so he thought. He designed the single-serve coffee pod. It makes coffee preparation convenient and fast, with no waste. His invention proved to […]
