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Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Matt OConnor @ Tuesday, 13th February 2007 @ 5:48 PM

If you are looking for a way to save on your fuel costs, it's time for you to take a look at the different fuel alternatives available for you. Petroleum prices have been steadily growing with oil getting more expensive in the world market. Before you find yourself worrying about the rising prices, it's very welcome news that there are some alternatives that you can consider to alleviate your fuels expenses. One of the more promising fuel alternatives available today is biodiese... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Mac Bartine @ Wednesday, 31st January 2007 @ 3:19 PM

There's no doubt about it: if you're a patriot, you should feel great about recycling. Think about it. Recycling saves trillions of kilowatts of energy every year. It conserves our natural resources. It makes our country's air, water and soil cleaner by limiting pollution, and it stimulates our economy by creating new jobs. Politicians and pundits from both the Left and the Right strongly agree that we should decrease our dependence on foreign oil. So recycling m... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Keith Londrie @ Tuesday, 2nd January 2007 @ 7:09 PM

As our knowledge grows so great that an Eyclopedia now must have 30 plus volumes, as our understanding of the planet around the us expands, all the while the need for electrical sources also expense, most universally in the form of the battery. Most applications from batteries are for smaller less important items such as a Walkman, CD player, and such. It seems in today's economy, that the battery is an all important item. Everywhere you look you will find an item that requires a battery... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Jason Uvios @ Saturday, 23rd December 2006 @ 3:58 PM

Endless exposure to environmental pollution makes us contemplate a world that will be untainted and quiet and free of all kinds of impurities. Well, this is not impossible to achieve if we become a little careful about our environment and start using such products that cause less pollution in the world. Biodiesel is one such product that helps to keep the environment clean and uncontaminated. This clean diesel fuel is produced from 100% natural, 100% renewable vegetable sources. The vege... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Jason Uvios @ Saturday, 23rd December 2006 @ 3:37 PM

The nature has paid the price for extraordinary expansion of human civilization; the non-renewable energy resources of the world have been nearly exhausted. Now scientists all over the world are trying to work out a solution to make up the energy shortage that the human civilization is going to face in the coming years. Among many other products under development, the scientists have invested great hopes in the potentials of wind powered electricity generators. This is a system that harne... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Matt OConnor @ Friday, 15th December 2006 @ 6:25 PM

With the increasing interest in biodiesel as an alternative fuel for diesel engine cars, further studies are being made in order to discover a means to process such alternative fuels in amounts that will be able to compete with current petroleum based fuels. Unfortunately, biodiesel supply still falls below the increasing demand for it. Partly responsible for this is the insufficient supply of straight and waste vegetable oil needed to convert into biodiesel. And because vegetabl... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Matt OConnor @ Monday, 4th December 2006 @ 12:01 PM

Biodiesel has been getting its share of interest among people in the search for alternative fuels. The cost of oils has been steadily going up in the worldwide market and many think it is time to find alternative sources to tone down in some way the rising costs of using gas and other petroleum-derived fuels. One of the alternatives found to have promise is the production of biodiesel. Biodiesel refers to a type of processed fuel that can be derived from biological sources. It can be read... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Victor Epand @ Sunday, 12th November 2006 @ 4:26 PM

In one respect, possibly the best person to do a preliminary assessment of a cow protection program is an accountant, because of his or her training to evaluate performance in terms of names, dates and numbers. These factors reveal a lot about the quality of cow protection, even before the project is visited. Let's evaluate the Mother Cow program by a set of standards (abbreviated here) that I posted a year ago. The point here is not to attack Mother Cow, but rather by revealing pos... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Gary Tooth @ Tuesday, 19th September 2006 @ 1:12 PM

We don't need scientists to tell us we require 'air' to survive. The air we breathe has a gas called oxygen and without it there would be no life period. Humans, plants and animals all need oxygen to survive but although oxygen is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless, there are a lot of pollutants in the air which are not. Worse still, there are a whole bunch of impurities indoors as well as outdoors, which is why ionic air purifiers have become all the rage these days. But jus... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Brian Hawkins @ Saturday, 2nd September 2006 @ 2:16 AM

There is over one hundred thousand troops serving our country in Iraq to protect our freedom. Its been five years since that horrible September eleven day that shock our country. We all can remember that day and where we were when it happen. But do you remember the feeling that you had that you wanted to help in any way possible to these victims? Well our US soldiers still need your help in any way possible. Its time for American to remember what our US soldiers are doing to help our country and... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Karen Singer @ Friday, 1st September 2006 @ 11:00 PM

The first week of school has already started, the holidays are right around the corner and many organizations are gearing up to raise much needed funds through fundraisers. Here is an easy guide to get you started and help you reach your organizations goals. 1. Be Organized - Determine your why, when and how much? Why are you trying to raise money? For example: is the fundraiser to raise money for school equipment, a field trip, or to offset some of the cost for gra... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Roger Munns @ Wednesday, 26th July 2006 @ 11:29 PM

When Prince Albert of Monaco visited the North Pole in April this year he declared that it was as part of an effort to push the environmental issue up the agenda with other world leaders. Now he has established a foundation as part of his personal commitment for 'the protection of the environment and sustainable development' - and in the process show that far from his North Pole visit being a publicity stunt it was the beginning of a campaign to highlight the dangers of global w... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Robert Elias Najemy @ Friday, 23rd June 2006 @ 1:10 AM

We live in troubled times where our peace and safety are often in danger. Most feel helpless and unable to affect the unfolding events in our present world. And yet many are uniting their minds, energy and actions in order to create a peaceful and safe world with dignity for all. Some groups work politically while others spiritually or socially. Some focus on the poor or refuges, others on human rights, some on the politicians themselves who seem to be making the decisions. Durin... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Kathryn Wozniak @ Friday, 19th May 2006 @ 5:21 PM

Did you know that many of the products we use routinely to clean our homes contain toxic chemicals? I didn’t until I started reading about it. Did you know that our government allows this? These include glass cleaners, scouring powders, general purpose cleaners, toilet cleaners, carpet spot removers, oven cleaners and degreasing products. Some of the ingredients in these products, such as chlorine, solvents, caustics, chemical disinfectants and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), have b... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Ivar Rudi @ Friday, 5th May 2006 @ 3:00 AM

The alcoholic anonymous groups are out there to help people that realize that they have a problem with the drinking that they are doing. If you find that you are in need of a little help with the drinking you are going to want to say to yourself that you need help and then contact one of the alcoholic anonymous groups in your area. If you try to go to a alcoholic anonymous group with out facing the fact that you have a drinking problem you are not going to be able to receive the help that they... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Ivar Rudi @ Friday, 5th May 2006 @ 2:57 AM

There are many different groups of people that have been part of the alcoholic anonymous organizations. These are organizations that people are going to go for help when they do not want people to know they are going. That is why they are called the alcoholic anonymous groups. It is all because they do not want others to know that they are trying to get help for a problem they are having. There are many reasons that you may be going to an alcoholic anonymous meeting for some help. You may t... more...

Environment » Causes and Organizations | By Jeanette Joy Fisher @ Saturday, 22nd April 2006 @ 6:11 AM

As Earth Day 2006 passes, there seems to be good news on the environmental scene, which should come as welcome change to anyone concerned about the state of our Earth. That's in stark contrast to the first Earth Day, back in 1970. Earth Day 2006 saw lakes in New England beginning to rebound from their sorry condition after being bombarded by acid rain for decades. The acid rain itself has decreased, as well, and the sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides that comprise most of our air po... more...