Education in the USA

While watching the movie “an inconvenient truth” I thought about, why American people react how they react, and why politicians are able to say things like “I do not believe in global warming”, without coming across as ridiculous to the population. And why they still vote Georg Bush, when they could have a president who [...]

Are we good citizens?

We all know that the Planet is going through an important ecology crisis. Just to give you some concrete examples :
- global average temperatures have increased from 13.7oC to 14.3oC in the last 100 years
- frequency of extreme weather (floods, droughts, storms) is increasing
- populations, ranges, migration patterns, and seasonal & reproductive behaviour of animals [...]

Office Towers Use Ice to keep buildings Cool this summer

http://www.comcast.net/news/science/index.jsp?cat=SCIENCE&fn=/2007/07/16/715370.html
New York City – USA uses Innovation to keep office buildings and apartments cool while also saving on electrical consumption and costs!
This could prove to be a more efficient and cost effective means on staying cool for large metropolitan cities!!!
- Ashley

Kyoto’s Protocol

While we where doing our study case about «Droughts in Australia », I founded some information that said that Australia along with the United States refuses to sign Kyoto’s Protocol, and it fills me with a big curiosity of “why?”.
The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement made under the United Nations Framework Convention on [...]

A Change of Values is required in North America

There seems to be a dichotomy with respect to behaviours of individuals in North America that have an impact on the environment. According to Linda Derksen and John Gartrell, western societies have a concern for the environment , but on the other hand some chose to maintain behaviours which are as harmful to the environment. [...]