Over the past decade, the number of people on Earth shot up by more than 13 percent, to nearly 6.8 billion people. To make room for all the hungry, breeding, CO2-emitting bodies on our small planet, we’ve ravaged Earth’s surface with staggering feats of deforestation, irrigation and urbanization — and NASA satellites have captured it [...]
May
31
2009
31
2009
May
28
2009
28
2009
Nature Heals… so why am I at the computer?
By chance, a small hospital in Pennsylvania became the setting of a remarkable experiment. Scientist Roger Ulrich noticed some surgery patients recovered in a room with a view of leafy trees, while others recovered in an identical room, except its windows faced a brick wall.
Ulrich decided to test whether the view made any difference in the outcome for patients. He looked back at records on gall bladder surgery over a period of 10 years. The results proved enlightening.
May
18
2009
18
2009
Solar Rocks
We should be drilling up instead of down. Sungevity makes this opportunity very appealing to the average home owner. They take the guess-work and paper-work out of the process which equals bucket loads of savings in time and money. Anyone can take advantage of the energy right over their head.
Check them out: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/18/BUDD17LDEH.DTL