Articles tagged “Green Glossary”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Green Glossary: Carbon Tax By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Sep 10 2008 The Carbon Tax Center defines it as such: "A carbon tax is a tax on the carbon content of fuels—effectively a tax on the carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. Thus, carbon tax is shorthand for carbon dioxide tax or CO2 tax." + READ MORE

Green Glossary: ANWR By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 9 2008 ANWR is an abbreviation for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a 19 million-plus acre National Wildlife Refuge in the Alaska North Slope region. ANWR is located just east of Prudhoe Bay?North America's largest oil field, which accounts for 17 percent of U.S. domestic oil production. Due to the belief that a vast amount of crude oil may be found on this land, ANWR has been the source of steady controversy since the 1950s. The ANWR was established in 1960 but a 1998 analysis conducted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that there are about 7 billion barrels of profitable oil in the northern sector alone. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Watershed By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 8 2008 Scientist geographer John Wesley Powell defines a watershed as "that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community." + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Superfund By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 8 2008 No, this ain't some new Wall Street money-making scam designed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Sadly, it's worse. Superfund is "a term used for the monies available to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to clean up abandoned or inactive hazardous waste sites." + READ MORE

Greensburg Glossary: Pesticides By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 30 2008 Pesticides are substances that protect plants against molds, fungi, and insects. Some of the many symptoms of pesticide poisoning include: altered personality, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, dizziness, headaches, hyperactivity in children, wheezing cough, liver damage, kidney damage, constipation/diarrhea,... + READ MORE

Greensburg Glossary: Recycle-a-Bicycle By Team Planet Green IN Tech & Transport Jul 30 2008 We all know cars are the scourge of the earth and that bicycles are the most efficient form of transportation (more about that below).When Worldwatch Institute compared energy used per passenger-mile (calories), they found that a bicycle "needed only 35 calories, whereas a car expended a whopping 1,860. + READ MORE

Greensburg Glossary: Biodegradable By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jul 29 2008 Put on your technical cap and digest the definition for biodegradable from the Natural Resources Defense Council: "Waste material composed primarily of naturally-occurring constituent parts, able to be broken down and absorbed into the ecosystem. Wood, for example, is biodegradable, for example, while plastics are not." + READ MORE

Greensburg Glossary: Solar Energy By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 29 2008 Simply put, solar energy is the light and heat provided by the sun, sitting up there some 93 million miles away. In contrast, renewable energy resources ? such as wind and solar energy ? are constantly replenished and will never run out. ?Applications for solar power are broad and include areas like architecture,... + READ MORE

Greensburg Glossary: Fossil Fuel By Team Planet Green IN Tech & Transport Jul 27 2008 Strictly defined, fossil fuel is oil, coal and natural gas that originates from decayed plants and animals. Most scientists believe it’s time for humans to address their addiction to fuel derived from decayed plants and animals and help fossil fuels go the way of the dinosaur. + READ MORE

Greensburg Glossary: Organic Food By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 27 2008 Organic food, as defined by the National Organic Program, is produced "according to certain production standards, meaning they are grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, human waste, or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without ionizing radiation or food additives."According... + READ MORE

Greensburg Glossary: Scrap Tires By Team Planet Green IN Tech & Transport Jul 25 2008 Tires? While the earliest version were bands of iron or steel, today's rubber tires can present a bit of a problem for the planet--especially once they are scrapped. Sure, there are laws dictating how old rubber tires can be properly disposed of, but the pervasiveness of America's car culture can make it difficult to + READ MORE

Greensburg Glossary: Vegan By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 23 2008 A vegan doesn't eat meat, chicken, fish, eggs, dairy products, or any other animal-derived food.In addition, more than 10 times as many people could be fed by using the same land currently reserved for grazing and a main reason global rain forests are disappearing is to make way to raise doomed cattle.Going vegan give... + READ MORE

Greensburg Glossary: Hybrid By Team Planet Green IN Tech & Transport Jul 21 2008 In environmental vernacular, the word "hybrid" is typically used to describe a car that operates via electricity and gasoline.Treehugger.com says: "These vehicles extend the functionality of traditional internal combustion engines by combining them with a battery-powered electric motor, which takes some of the work off... + READ MORE