Tag: science
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Not Made to Measure
Read more: Not Made to MeasureI never had a head for numbers until I realized that our lives were ruled by them.
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The Hidden Cost of Cheap Clothing
Read more: The Hidden Cost of Cheap ClothingAs I write this, I am wearing another woman’s pants. I’m wearing a second woman’s shirt. This isn’t some Fergus Brown-style fantasy but an effort to reduce my waste footprint while still trying to look stylish. Some of you probably find it a bit creepy to consider wearing someone else’s clothes. As my germaphobic workmate…
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7 Environmental TED Talks to Educate, Energize and Entertain You
Read more: 7 Environmental TED Talks to Educate, Energize and Entertain YouIt’s usually around the third drink that it happens. You’re in a bar, talking about a problem you’re having – whether it’s with your garage door-opener or the stubbornness of the human mind – when suddenly, you’re interrupted by your companion who breathlessly blurts out: “Oh, ooh! I saw this amazing thing in a TED…
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The Devastating Environmental Impact of the Space Program
Read more: The Devastating Environmental Impact of the Space ProgramIn our rush to explore space, we made a huge mess of our environment. But it’s the space agencies that are now helping us clean it up.
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Meet the Tiny Desert Slime that Holds our Topsoil Together. For Now.
Read more: Meet the Tiny Desert Slime that Holds our Topsoil Together. For Now.If your eyes were microscopes and you had really good sunblock, you could lie down in the Arizona Desert and watch tiny microbes build colonies of millions around you. These greeblies, called cyanobacteria, colonize the very top layer of soil and need little more than sunshine to survive. In their wake, they leave a trail…
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Three ‘Green’ Alternatives that Aren’t So Simple – and Three that Are!
Read more: Three ‘Green’ Alternatives that Aren’t So Simple – and Three that Are!You’re planning a holiday and you’re excited. You have plotted your route around festivals and natural wonders you want to see and now, it’s time to book your flights. At the bottom of the web form, the airliner asks if you’d like to offset the carbon created by your trip. It costs you $3.25. “Sure,”…
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The Big Fish in Sustainable Seafood
Read more: The Big Fish in Sustainable SeafoodSo here we are, my husband and I, standing in a busy Asian supermarket on a Saturday morning and I have two cuts of frozen fish in my hands. My husband and I are discussing which one to buy and we’re considering type of fish, cut, price and how far it’s traveled to our plate.…
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A Mixtape for Planet Earth
Read more: A Mixtape for Planet EarthStill on a high at the end of a successful green film festival and pumped by the news that the US Government is taking real action on climate change, I have made a mixtape for the Earth of my favorite environmental tunes. These are songs that turned me into an environmentalist. I hope you love…
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Hands at Ten and Two, How I Fell in Love with Bush Driving
Read more: Hands at Ten and Two, How I Fell in Love with Bush DrivingI’m a city girl. I love live music, good coffee and public transport. I don’t like driving in the city – there are too many people with too many destinations and too much else on their mind. In the country, it’s different. Though I have often traveled with my loved ones, driving is a solitary activity. It’s just…
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Can we bring extinct species back? Should we?
Read more: Can we bring extinct species back? Should we?In the deep freeze at the San Diego Zoo, genetic material from a small, nondescript Hawaiian bird waits for a day – sometime very soon – when science will use it to improve biodiversity. What’s the catch? The honeycreeper, called the po’ouli, is thought to be extinct and scientists will have to use cloning techniques…
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