Solar-powered doll house, solar hot dog cooker, solar heater, and water purifier are ideas of science fair projects that are in relation to solar energy.
The sun’s energy has been an environment-friendly energy resource that can be used in our homes and in our day-to-day activities. This has also became a favorite topic for students for their science fair projects because of the learning it can give about its concept and the awareness that it can be a good source of energy that is free for everybody and does not cause …

Many kids are naturally curious about the Earth and taking care of the environment. You can do good green habits as a family. You can make small, simple, easy habit changes that all add up to a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

Here is 10 ways to teach your kids how to be green:

Keep your kids busy with activities that don’t promote consumption or waste: walks on the beach, bike rides to a public playground, bus trips to a …

We all want to help the environment, but many times we are too busy with our daily lives to make changes that we think are needed to develop a more sustainable lifestyle and a more environmentally friendly culture.
Therefore, you can make small, simple, easy habit changes that all add up to a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

Eco Habit Tip 1: Drive Less. Driving less doesn’t mean you have to stay home. Try combining driving with alternative modes of transportation:
- If you live close to school, walk or bike. If you …

THE KEYS TO CLIMATE CONTROL ARE IN YOUR HANDS !

You can improve the overall fuel-efficiency of your car as much as 30% by simple vehicle maintenance and attention to your style of driving.
Here are some tips on fuel-efficient driving that will not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants, but could save you hundreds of dollars a year in fuel costs.

Driving tips:

1. Drive sensibly
Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration and braking) wastes gas. It can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds and by 5 percent around …

Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Oceanographer
Born: 11 June 1910 / Died: 25 June 1997
Birthplace: Saint-André de Cubzac, France
Best known as: Underwater explorer and filmmaker
Jacques Cousteau was the most famous undersea explorer in the world, known by his dozens of books and films from the 1950s until his death in 1997. The co-inventor of the aqualung (an underwater breathing apparatus) in 1943, Cousteau also pioneered techniques in underwater photography and explored the oceans of the world aboard his vessel Calypso. His filmmaking career included three Oscars, frequent television specials and the series, …

The risk of a fatal heatwave in the UK within ten years is high, but overall global warming may mean fewer deaths due to temperature, a report says.

 A seriously hot summer between now and 2017 could claim more than 6,000 lives, the Department of Health report warns.
But it also stresses that milder winters mean deaths during this time of year – which far outstrip heat-related mortality – will continue to decline.
The report is to help health services prepare for climate change effects.
A panel of scientific experts commissioned by the Department …

If Valentines Day is an essential day for you or the one you love; then you can show a bit of love for the environment by carefully considering what you buy.

Here are a few distinctive gift ideas that make a positive ecological impact:

Give Organic Flowers
Conventionally grown flowers are often dangerous to the environment and the workers involved with growing them. An option to giving cut flowers is seeking out locally grown live houseplants. There are plenty of flowering varieties available, and they are beautiful, …

Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, Americans throw away a million extra tons [900,000 metric tons] of garbage each week, including holiday wrapping and packaging.

Many of today’s products are available in environmentally friendly versions. There are staplers that do not use staples, remote controlled toys that do not use batteries, clothes made from natural products and even eco-computers that are made with gentler chemicals and make fewer emissions. It is easy to choose an environmentally friendly gift.

However, the most environmentally friendly gifts are made from creative ideas rather than material …

Global warming is the next big impact that will bring about a change in the weather patterns. By definition, Global Warming is the increase in average temperature that gradually warms the Earth’s atmosphere. It is a phenomenon, which has been on the rise but in the last century, the increase in the levels have been alarming.

Global warming is a dramatically urgent and serious problem.
The good news is we don’t have to wait for technical solutions to reduce the impact of these …

A recent BBC Horizon documentary (transcript) raised the issue of ‘global dimming’ and argued that this ‘killer’ phenomena’s newly-recognised existence would lead to huge re-assessments of future global warming. As part of the hyperbole, the process of global dimming was linked very clearly to the famines in Ethiopia in the 1980s and the implication was left that worse was to come. Media reports with headlines like “Fossil Fuel Curbs May Speed Global Warming” swiftly followed. So what’s the real story?
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