Posted on: 25 June, 2006
Author: Phil von Hake
SOLAR 2006 - July 7-13 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Downtown Denver, Colorado - is the annual conference of the American Solar Energy Society (www.ases.org). This year's theme is "Renewable Energy: Key to Climate Recovery," and features the world's best & brightest in climate change & renewable energy research . The Exhibit Hall (now in its FIFTH overflow area) is free & open to the public on Sunday July 9, along with a wide variety of presentations, workshops, videos, forums, and other special events. Visit www.solar2006.org for more information. Hello! If you are looking for stories to run during...
Continue ReadingPosted on: 24 June, 2006
Author: Sam Vaknin
Both now-discarded Lamarckism (the supposed inheritance of acquired characteristics) and Evolution Theory postulate that function determines form. Natural selection rewards those forms best suited to ... Both now-discarded Lamarckism (the supposed inheritance of acquired characteristics) and Evolution Theory postulate that function determines form. Natural selection rewards those forms best suited to carry out the function of survival ("survival of the fittest") in each and every habitat (through the mechanism of adaptive radiation). But whose survival is natural selection concerned with? Is it the survival of the individual? Of the species? Of the habitat or ecosystem? These three - individual, species,...
Continue ReadingPosted on: 24 June, 2006
Author: Adrian Herritt
What is the subject being talked about these days that is touching everyones purse? Thats right - oil - and the costs are soaring, and the big oil companies are making millions. Article Tags: Ethos Fuel Reformulator, Ethos Fuel, Fuel Reformulator Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com
Continue ReadingPosted on: 10 June, 2006
Author: Charles Stewart Richey
A foreign investment company, NYRI, plans to build deadly power lines along the Upper Delaware River. These power lines would disrupt, if not destroy the natural habitat of the American Bald Eagle. New York Regional Interconnect, Inc. (NYRI) plans to install 200 miles of 400-kilovolt 1200 megawatt DC power-transmission lines from the town of Marcy, NY near Utica, to the town of New Windsor in Orange County to supply power to New York City and Long Island. 73 miles of this line would be constructed along the railroad tracks on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River from Hancock, to...
Continue ReadingPosted on: 09 June, 2006
Author: Phil von Hake
The annual conference of the American Solar Energy Society is Americas largest and most prestigious annual gathering of sustainable energy professionals. Thousands of the world's top experts in Renewable Energy and Climate Change will attend SOLAR 2006, and thousands more will visit over 100 exhibitors in the sold-out exhibit hall, and participate in a wide variety of forums, technical sessions, workshops, tours, and special events in order to network and learn more about Renewable Energys crucial role in our future. www.solar2006.org Global Climate Change and its link to burning fossil fuels now appears in the news on a...
Continue ReadingPosted on: 18 April, 2006
Author: Michael Madigan
Computers contain many poisons, which are constantly released into the environment through dumping, damage and degradation. This article explains how you can safely and legally contain and reduce this pollution. You may be healthy right now.... but you're sitting in front of a big toxic timebomb when you compute. Your PC (personal computer) contains many of the most dangerous hemicals on earth, and they are building up continually at a location near you! Manufacturers have sealed the toxins inside, but the dumping of obsolete PCs over the years, and crushing them in landfills, will let dangerous substances seep out into...
Continue ReadingPosted on: 06 April, 2006
Author: Vladimir Cvetic
Bruce Campbell fans rejoice. We have just received information from Warner home Vdieo about the DVD release of The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr. this summer. The world's favorite western/sci-fi/comedy/action cult hit rides again! Here on 8 discs comes the complete series about Brisco (Bruce Campbell), a tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches who roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed his father... and in search of a mysterious orb possessing out-of-this world powers. Hot lead and cool anachronisms await Brisco as he and his sidekicks - including Comet, the intellectual equine who doesn't...
Continue ReadingPosted on: 24 March, 2006
Author: Richard Cussons
Aveda may provide you with your hair of skin care products but did you know the lengths they go to make sure they are kind to your and the earth? Aveda offers natural hair products, natural make up, skin care products, and other cosmetic products for men and women while being environmentally safe. As a manufacturer of plant-based hair, skin, body, aroma, make-up and lifestyle products, Aveda stakes its long-term business model on safe and all natural alternatives to the chemical laced products which many other beauty product companies use. All of the Aveda shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, make-up and...
Continue ReadingPosted on: 08 January, 2006
Author: Barbara Camie
Avian influenza (also known as bird flu, avian flu, influenzavirus A flu, type A flu, or genus A flu) is a flu due to a type of influenza virus that is hosted by birds, but may infect several species of mammals. H5N1 is a type of avian influenza virus (bird flu virus) that has mutated[1] through antigenic drift into dozens of highly pathogenic varieties, but all currently belonging to genotype Z of avian influenza virus H5N1. Genotype Z emerged through reassortment in 2002 from earlier highly pathogenic genotypes of H5N1[2] that first appeared in China in 1996 in birds and...
Continue ReadingPosted on: 03 January, 2006
Author: Robin Kettle
It is very concerning that the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act UK) does not appear to have addressed the areas of safe refuge in multi storey buildings for people with Learning Difficulties, should it be expectable to escort a LD person to such an area and then expect them to wait patiently until help arrives? OK we would hope or even expect that nobody would be left unaccompanied in such a situation but it should be remember that in an emergency, life or death situation many people think only of their own safety. A sad but true fact. In fact, anecdotal...
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