The state of the world continues to turn and winter is coming early to many places. What is this global warming/cooling/warming/cooling? For sure it will be a cycle and probably won’t come in this writers’ lifetime, but the responsibility is ours nonetheless. So our family is planning an Earth ship hybrid modern country home [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘environment’
April 22, 2008
Your Human Footprint
What effect does your individual life have on the planet? How many cups of coffee/tea do you consume each day- for the total sum of your existence? How much trash does an average person throw away? How many tears will you shed in the 2 billion 475 million, 5,076 seconds that you will [...]
April 21, 2008
Norway’s Doomsday Vault
Deep inside the Arctic circle is a giant vault that is being used to store up to 2 billion of the world’s agricultural seeds. This project is the brainchild of Professor Wangari Maatha, in collaboration with Monsanto and the Government of Norway. In theory, it was created as a safeguard for the diversity of the [...]
April 21, 2008
In Search of the “God” Atom
Scientists across the world are trying to find the one particle that is the source of our physical reality. It’s a multi-million dollar race with possibly devastating consequences.
Some locations:
A 17 mile long tunnel below the French- Swiss border
A 20 mile long machine in Beijing China
Fermi Laboratory- U.S.
To the normal person, quantum physics is beyond comprehension. [...]
