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photo: eugene When most of us think of the Galapagos Islands, we think of Mother Nature, herself. It is here, 600 miles from mainland Ecuador, where Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution. And today, the Galapagos Archipelago continues to support 5,000 different species of plants and animals. The Archipelago is 430 kilometers long and [...] The people of West Marin are serious about their environmental conservation. Rich in history, the area was developed, built-up, and re-developed for over a hundred years. But in 1971 that came to a halt. The Master Plan developed for West Marin in 1964 promised a different future for the region. It included coastal resorts, airstrips, [...] In 1964, a report produced by the Tennessee Department of Public Health stated that the Chattanooga Creek was “without a doubt, the most grossly polluted stream in the Chattanooga area.†In 1969, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare determined that Chattanooga, Tennessee had the poorest air quality in the nation. This was due, in [...] I initially intended to write about solar power in outer space. It makes sense to put an array of solar cells between the earth and the sun where they can receive direct sunlight unattenuated by the earth’s atmosphere, clouds, smog, dust, etc. But there are two major problems to be solved: How do we get [...] Hydrogen is a bright star on our horizon. It may become the fuel of choice to store the energy from clean sources to replace gasoline and perhaps even coal. The goal of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Program is for hydrogen to produce ten percent of our total energy by the year 2030. Hydrogen [...] |
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