INTRODUCTION The world has never been short of wind. For thousands of years, it has turned windmills, flown kites, cooled houses and filled sails. Now, technological advances are breathing new life into our use of wind power as a clean, renewable, cost-effective means of generating electricity. ...

Nuclear Energy: A Solution for the World's Energy Crisis. "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." Marie Curie, the discoverer of radium and Nobel Prize winner spoke these words many years ago. Years later, the United States along with the global community ...

There are many energy forms that are in use in the world today. One form of energy we use is carbon. Carbon is used to form fossil fuels after it is burned as a compound. Using carbon compounds to create fossil fuels do have a downside though. They cause the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. C...

The greenhouse effect, nuclear contamination, toxic chemicals, oil spills, air pollution, water pollution: these are all issues that affect every single living being on this planet we call home. The environment and issues pertaining to the environment apply directly to the entire world. Greenpea...

The Chernobyl Disaster: Economic, Environmental, and Social Impacts in Europe I. Introduction The nuclear power plant disaster in the town of Chernobyl in 1986 came to have major impact on the environment and the population of the European continent. Due to the lack of security and f...

PLANNING AHEAD: The International Effects of Technology Nuclear technology has been around since the middle of the Twentieth Century; masterminded under intense global military pressures, nuclear technology raises many questions about the value of a technology that has the capability to render t...

Global Warming Human kind has entered a brand new relationship with the earth. The constant and increasing pressures we are exerting threaten our planets ability to sustain life itself. Change-in the way we think , and in the way we live-is need...

Emissions from the tailpipe of the car in front of you, smoke dispersing from a smokestack and forming a black haze around the horizon, or the strange black tint in the water left over from an oil spill years ago. These are all types of pollution and are all caused by one common entity: fossil f...

 Nuclear Disasters Today in our energy hungry world, the reliance on nuclear power is getting larger and larger. Nuclear power is on top of the list of forms of power available to generate electricity in the quantities, forms and reliability needed as we head t...

GreenPeace Greenpeace was born in 1971 when members of the Don't Make a Wave Committee in Vancouver, renamed their organization to better state their purpose: to make a green and peaceful world. In 1971, the United States was carrying out atmospheric nuclear tests on a small island called...

Greenpeace History The year 1996 is a year of celebration for greenpeace. They are celebrating their 25th year anniversary. Everything startde in 1969; Members were part of the ''Don't make a wave'' committee in vancouver. This committee was founded by Jim Bohlen. ...

Animal testing Everything startde in 1969; Members were part of the ''Don't make a wave'' committee in vancouver. This committee was founded by Jim Bohlen. He was a forty-three year old American and was a composite-materials researcher. Another founder of the c...

Dawn of a New Lawn by Andy Wasowski is, interestingly, a critical view of a seemingly harmless' topic and activity, that of gardening and landscaping. Indeed, the appropriate title Wasowski uses in his article illustrates that the "dawn" he is referring to is criticism that he discusses ...