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Articles about greenhouse gases (0-50 of 384)
- How Electric Scooters Can Help The Environment
By: Billy Whitmire | - Over the past decade our country has attempted to make a lot of progress toward reducing greenhouse gases, and pollution. One of the better innovations is the development of a more efficient electric scooter. Today, they are easier to ride, hold a longer charge, and look great doing it. Listed below are some of the ways that electric scooters help the environment while transporting people safely, and comfortably.
Reduced Emissions
Noise Pollution
Oil Depend ...
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- Greenhouse Gases And Climate Change
By: Kevin long | - We all know that energy from the sun is required for sustaining life on earth. The outer atmosphere deflects approximately 30% of the sunlight that comes to the earth and this light is then scattered back in space. Remaining sunlight reaches the surface of the earth and gets reflected upwards in the form of slow moving energy known as infrared radiation. Greenhouse gases absorb the heat caused by the infrared radiation like CO2, water vapor, methane and ozone, due to which it becomes difficult f ...
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- Energy Saving Tips For An Eco-friendly Travel
By: Ranju Kumar | - Did you know that every time you travel you leave a carbon footprint that contributes to global warming? When you travel on a plane, drive a car or even turn on the lights in your hotel, remember that you will be emitting greenhouse gases and promoting climate change. Knowing this, should you stop traveling all together?
Of course not! According to many environmentalists, through travel, you can increase the awareness and appreciation of the earth. You just need to keep in mind t ...
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- Tips And Information Regarding R-22 Refrigerant Regulations
By: Daniel Stouffer | - The U.S. Clean Air Act is a congressional law that explains the EPA's task in protecting air quality and the ozone layer. This Act is maintained by the House of Representatives. Major amendments were passed in 1990 and several other changes were made after that with still more pending related to mandatory reporting of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.
Refrigerant gases are those used in climate control in commercial and business facilities such as warehouses, stores and office build ...
Tags: sustainability resource planning, refrigerant gases, HCFC, EPA, Section 608, verisae
- Solar Panel Building Basics
By: Stan Eric | - It can start off as weekend projects and a semi-serious hobby, but learning to build solar panels is something that will be beneficial to you in so many ways. It will save you money, and save the environment from being poisoned by greenhouse gases. It can also be a lot of fun.
Getting Your Feet Wet
If youre not too keen on spending hundreds of dollars on something that you are not sure you can get working, buy some used solar cells and recycle a few house ...
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- Stretch Hummer Limos
By: Jon Ellowitz | - What is a stretch hummer limousine, and what does it offer?
You see them in the news, in the tabloids, on TV shows-people having a great time, smiles beaming, as they walk proudly from their sleek stretch hummer limousines onto the red carpet.
Whether or not your reaction has been that could be me! you may want to learn more about these trendy machines and how you and your friends could take a ride in one.
First let's understand what a stretch hummer is in ...
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- What's My Carbon Footprint?
By: Dr. Ken Pollock | - According to the UK Carbon Trust a carbon footprint is "the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product".
Whenever you use energy created from fossil fuels such as oil or coal, you're generating carbon emissions, which increases the level of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere. Your carbon footprint is created by day-to-day corporate and personal activities such as driving, flying, heating or cool ...
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- Is Nuclear Power A Solution For Global Warning?
By: Dominic Donaldson | - It is a difficult argument as nuclear power has always been associated with potential danger but unlike other fossil fuels that release greenhouse gases nuclear power does not. Does this mean that nuclear power could potentially mitigate the effects of global warning? Here in this article we shall look at the advantages of nuclear power and whether it would have an impact on global warning at all.
The greenhouse gases within our atmosphere have an average lifetime of around 50 to ...
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- Ethanol-gasoline's Smart Younger Brother
By: Fei Lim | - With an ever increasing demand for useable energy, almost every compound imaginable has been studied for use to replace petroleum products. As oil wars are waged the world over and greenhouse gases threaten to destroy the ozone layer once and for all; it has become high time that we diverted our attention toward sustainable, renewable, and safe sources of useable energy. No substance may have more potential towards fulfilling our need for a renewable yet clean source of energy than ethanol.
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- Green Electricity
By: Dave Sabri | - Over sixty per cent of the UK's electricity is produced by coal and gas powered electricity plants. These power stations generate millions of tons of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide which are known to cause climate change.
The rest of the electricity used in the UK comes mostly from nuclear power stations. These do not pollute the atmosphere, but there are hazardous waste products that are difficult to dispose of safely. With the decreasing stocks and rising prices of fossil ...
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- What California's Doing To Encourage Their Drivers To Help The Environment
By: Anthony Peck | - When you think of the Golden State, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Golden beaches? Tanned surfers? Chances are good that it's not a crowded city overflowing with people and smog, but as the population on the west coast continues to grow that picture is becoming the reality rather than the ambiguous threat it was twenty or thirty years ago. Greenhouse gases, smog, emissions testing-all of these things are taking their toll on California's environment. That's why the California governm ...
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- "let's Go For A Carbon Free Life": Potential Hazards Of Textile Industries
By: fibre2fashion | - The term 'Carbon Footprint' has become a topic of hot discussion all over the world. But what is carbon foot print? It can be described as the extent of damage caused to the environment due to some actions. It is the measure of severity of our activities on the environment, especially on the climate change. Many of the activities in our everyday life produce emissions, through the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heating etc. These activities have carbon footprint, producing large amount ...
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- The Power Of Carbon Trading In India
By: Nyima Galestain | - The Carbon trading is one of the fastest growing financial markets in the world. It is the most visible result of early regulatory efforts to mitigate climate change, and grew out of the Kyoto Protocol, which was adopted in 1997. The protocol requires that by 2012, developed countries will achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions of at least 5% against baseline levels of 1990. To help countries achieve that goal it established the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which promotes sustainable ...
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- Are Carbon Offsets Really Worth It?
By: Jamie Hanson | - Would offsets save the planet?
By buying carbon offsets you are paying off for the orangery gases discharged by you in the atmosphere. A plaster strip can help in curing a injury, but prevention is better than heal. Effecting ecological processes in your living will have more impact than the carbon offsets you are buying. It is indicated that the offset is equal to specific number of cars being kept away from the road. Commuting by public transport or riding a motorbike can keep your ...
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- Rising Water Due To Melting Ice
By: Aydan Corkern | - Every year more and more pollution is being put in the air and in the last few years it has done a lot of damage to the ice lands. Did you know that in 2003 the ice lands of Greenland, Alaska, and Antarctica has melted over 2 trillion tons of ice due to global warming? This is causing animals to lose their homes and food supply. It is also causing them to die and is causing them to become extinct. Satellites have shown how bad it is getting and how much damage is being done.
The ...
Tags: rising water, Antartica, glaciers, floods, greenhouse gases, pollution
- How To Deal With Dog Poop?
By: Laila Smith | - Waste disposal has become a global environmental issue affecting all nations and is a very significant problem in todays world. Some methods of waste disposal release air pollutants and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It is better to know the proper way how to dispose your dog poop in order to help the environment in its big problem and also for us to keep clean and safe. When storm water carries pet waste and other pollutants directly into waterways it will contaminate drinking wa ...
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- Free Power From Mother Nature Using Wind Turbine Generators
By: Chris Holloway | - Wind turbine generators are much less harmful to the environment than burning fossil fuels, but they do require average wind speeds of at least 21 km/h (13 mph). The largest of these windmills stands 150 feet tall with blades half the legend of a football field. Wind turbine generators are site specific. They require a sustained wind speed of 20 km/hour.
Wind generators are one of the most reliable forms of alternative power sources on the planet. They are made to manufacture pow ...
Tags: wind power, wind turbines, greenhouse gases, global warming, carbon emissions, trade leads, fuzing
- What Are Refrigerant Gases...why Organizations Should Care?
By: Daniel Stouffer | - Refrigerant gases are used in commercial facilities such as office buildings, hospitals and warehouses to maintain the climate and air quality. Refrigerant management includes maintaining the air conditioning (AC) or heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) units often used to maintain the environment in these buildings.
Refrigerant gases have been around for many years. These gases are basically condensed under pressure to obtain chilled air. Through the repetitive evapo ...
Tags: refrigerants, refrigerant gases, HFC, CFC, refrigerant management, refrigerant tracking, AC, HVAC
- Can We Strain Carbon Dioxide Out Of The Air?
By: Shawn Wilson | - While worries about the stock market, the auto industry, and just about everything to do with the economy are making the front pages of every daily newspaper, worries about global warming have never left the front of our minds. According to most scientists, the Earth is getting warmer, and the environment is already suffering for it. And those same scientists mostly agree that the problem has been created by the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.
While reducing carbon emission ...
Tags: carbon dioxide, carbon footprint, reducing greenhouse gases, green, global warming
- Save Money With Green Homes
By: Nestor Santtia | - Are you interested in a green home? Did you know you can actually save money due to lower energy costs? There are multiple factors that go into the design, construction, or remodeling of a green property to make it efficient and eco-friendly. First and foremost, the property needs to be energy efficient. Obviously, an energy-efficient home is a greener home, because energy efficiency is one way to lower the harmful impact of greenhouse gas in the environment. But the benefits don't stop ther ...
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- How To Place A Heater In A Greenhouse
By: Jeremy Ranson | - Temperature changes during the day can influence the life of plants. And during the night, it could genuinely dribble to a low glassy that may not be strong for plants. Thus, to keep the temperature at a fitting height for a successful workshop advance, greenhouse heaters are desirable. In choosing the right greenhouse radiator, you must consider not only the capability of having a good temperature during cold, rime nights, but also the expenses to be incurred in installing and running it.
Tags: home, garden, greenhouse, heater, space heaters
- Three Steps To An Eco-friendly Workplace
By: Christopher Carter | - According to timeforchange.org, a carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). Carbon dioxide is a so called greenhouse gas causing global warming, reports this Swiss-based organization.
Global warming is a controversial topic with strong arguments on both sides, says Mark Bassil, vice president co-founder of modular office furniture syste ...
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- What Happens When Hydrogen Burns
By: Todd Ash | - Hydrogen burns readily in presence of oxygen, releasing considerable energy as heat and producing only water as exhaust.
When hydrogen burns in air (which is mostly nitrogen), some oxides of nitrogen (NOx, contributors to smog and acid rain) can be formed, but much fewer pollutants are formed than when normal hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline and diesel are burned. Because no carbon is involved, using hydrogen fuel does not contribute to global warming.
Hydrogen ...
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- What Is A Carbon Footprint? Why Is It Important To Offset Your Carbon Footprint?
By: J.Mclean | - Our carbon footprint is the direct effect our actions and lifestyle have on the environment in terms of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. CO2 increases greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. We all contribute to global warming every day.
Carbon Footprints are made up of two parts, the direct or primary footprint and the indirect or secondary footprint. The primary footprint is a measure of our direct emissions of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels. These are probably the big ...
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- The Power Of A Carbon Bomb
By: markcb | - The world's wetlands contain approximately 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, namely carbon dioxide and methane which is equal to one fifth of the entire earth's store of carbon.
If the world's wetlands are destroyed they could release this powerful carbon bomb and unleash a climatic catastrophe upon the planet. As if we weren't in bad enough shape as it is. Climate change and development are destroying large areas of wetland, and as they are drained, or built upon, their huge ...
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- The 4 Most Powerful Greenhouse Gases
By: Bea Scott | - With global warming still in the fore and still a big issue, a lot of people are still uninformed properly about it! A lot of places are getting warm, forcing quite a number of people to head off to the beach or fan themselves endlessly. Many are still under the assumption that greenhouse gases, which contribute to making the planet warm, should really go. What they dont know is that the primary purpose of those gases is to prevent heat from escaping into space, preventing the world from turn ...
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- Glamour For Monaco Prince At 50
By: Monaco | - The rich and celebrities fill Monte Carlo every evening to socialise and play the tables at her fabled casino, but as Prince Albert of Monaco turns 50 he is often spending his evenings on matters of State and the wider world.
And as the prince reaches his half century, his reputation and the respect he commands is deservedly a more serious one among his fellow world leaders than that the celebrity magazines portrayed before he became Monaco's sovereign.
For far from ...
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- Answers To 5 Common Questions About Climate Change
By: Chris Robertson | - With an Academy Award for "An Inconvenient Truth" and a Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore is arguably the most public face associated with environmental issues today. Yet with all of the discussion surrounding climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, renewable energy, and fuel conservation, many people don't understand the basics. These and other catchphrases are often used as shorthand when discussing the results of scientific studies, but those studies are frequently written in such a schola ...
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- Want Tax Credits? Energy Conservation Efforts For Commercial Properties
By: Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop | - Tax credits for eco-friendly commercial projects
The Environmental Protection Agency has reported that commercial buildings account for nearly one-fifth of the entire amount of greenhouse gas released into the atmosphere on an annual basis. There are a few different views on the role of the government in controlling or limiting the impact that commercial buildings have on the environment.
While some believe that the government should have an active role in this is ...
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- Going Green And Branding Your Business Online
By: Stephanie Ciccarelli | - One of the best ways to be found as a voice actor for freelance opportunities in this day and age is through search on the Internet.
The ways of the past are no barrier to success for savvy voice over entrepreneurs of the new Google Era. Google has brought more to our fingertips than any other web portal on the Internet, corralling relevant websites and taming the Wild West of the World Wide Web.
The voice over market was worth over $8.8 billion worldwide in 2005!< ...
Tags: global warming, greenhouse gases, kyoto accord, kyoto, voice overs, voice acting, advertising, voice
- Global Warming-how It Could Spark World War Iii
By: Ba Kiwanuka | - These Days global warming is a very hot topic and little wonder, seeing as the earth grows hotter with each passing year.
For a long time now the effect of man's industrialization and technological progress has quietly yet continuously eked away at the delicate balance of the planet's atmosphere and ecosystem, but within the last 30 or so years the pace of this damage has markedly accelerated!
DOWNPLAYING GLOBAL WARMING
In much the same way that big ...
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- Greener Houses Can Offset Greenhouse Gases
By: Arther Pen | - In a recent interview on British TV, Chancellor Gordon Brown called on households to do more to cut greenhouse gases, in effect, by making homes better insulated and more fuel-efficient. The climate change bill ambitiously seeks to cut emissions by 60% by the year 2050. Is this viable in today's "me" society? Or over time will we slowly turn into a "them" society? Is this compatible with capitalism? And just how easy is it to turn an existing house into a green one? Guy Alexander Bell, editor of ...
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- Is Global Warming Caused By Greenhouse Gases Or By The Sun?
By: Per Strandberg | - Most scientists believe that the current global warming is caused by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases and that the most important of these gases is Carbon Dioxide or CO2.
They also believe that the Sun's influence for this warming is very small. We now know that the irradiance or "heat transfer" from the Sun to the Earth has varied relative little during recent decades. Therefore the conclusion that most scientists have done is that the resent warming must be man-made, this ...
Tags: global, warming, temperature, greenhouse, gases, cosmic, radiation
- An Introduction To Greenhouse Gardening
By: Paul P. Duxbury | - Greenhouses come in a wide variety of different styles and types. Each is suited to a special need or want and degree of seriousness for greenhouse gardening. For the beginning greenhouse gardener there are smaller versions available that come in the form of portable greenhouses, a hobby greenhouse, or mini greenhouses. There is also the option to build your greenhouse from scratch with a foundation.
What exactly is a greenhouse? A greenhouse is a structure that creates a protecte ...
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- The Air We Breathe
By: Gary Tooth | - We don't need scientists to tell us we require 'air' to survive. The air we breathe has a gas called oxygen and without it there would be no life period. Humans, plants and animals all need oxygen to survive but although oxygen is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless, there are a lot of pollutants in the air which are not. Worse still, there are a whole bunch of impurities indoors as well as outdoors, which is why ionic air purifiers have become all the rage these days. But just how bad is ba ...
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- Climate Change The Coming Crisis
By: Jonathon Hardcastle | - While many contend that there are different reasons behind the changing of our climate, few can deny that our planet is going through a period of immense changes. While some may discredit the science, global warming is one of the main hypothesis for why our planet is heating up. In this article, we'll try to explain some of the science behind global warming so that you can understand the problem more clearly.
According to numerous scientific studies, our planet's surface temperatu ...
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- An Overview Of The Effects Of Global Warming
By: Scott Byers | - It is important to understand the significance that global warming has on not only our earth, but our daily lives as well. It's also important to understand the effects of global warming that our children and grandchildren will experience in the years to come if things continue the way they are now.
First, it's important to understand that Global Warming is also known as the Greenhouse effect. Instead of a plastic or glass shield, the earth has around it a series of atmospheri ...
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