Climate Change Provides Investment Opportunities

Experts are predicting that climate change is going to reshape investment returns and investment opportunities over the next few years. With eleven of the last 12 years ranking as the warmest on record, people have to face up to the fact that global warming is happening and will have an effect on everyone. While people are facing up to the realities of global warming investment opportunities are going to be popping up all over the place. This is because new technologies and going to be developed in a bid to slow down global warming and people will have no choice but to use these new tools. In... Read more »

Soil Testing Benefits Of a Pre-Sideress Soil Nitrate Test (PSNT)

Nitrogen is, of course, an essential plant nutrient - but it also can negatively affect both growth and quality of a crop and so must be carefully managed. Crops take up nitrogen that is released to the soil as a direct result of several catalysts, including atmospheric deposition … soil organic matter mineralization … crop residue decomposition … and animal manure and/or inorganic fertilizer applications. A deficiency in nitrogen causes severe damage to crop yields - and can even cause a catastrophic, total crop failure. However, an excess of nitrogen may lead to excessive vegetative growth, lodging, delayed maturity,... Read more »

Thinking Green and Buying Gifts

Gift shopping is not often an environmentally friendly process. You can drive all around town, trying to find a gift that is just right, or you buy it online and deal with often excessive packaging. It’s not easy to get under control. While some of this really cannot easily be contained, there are some things you can do to consider the environment even as you give great gifts. Some people will be more open to gifts that are obviously environmentally friendly. You may be shopping for someone who would be delighted with some stylish cloth shopping bags so that they don’t need... Read more »

Troublesome Times On The Apalachicola River!

To those of us who’ve spent early evenings mesmerized by astoundingly beautiful purple and gold sunsets over Apalachicola Bay in Northwest Florida, the drought in Georgia and Alabama is becoming a personal matter. Even though I live 400 miles from this blissful bay between Apalachicola and St. George Island, I dream that some day I’ll be a resident of the area and fish to my heart’s content! I hope the bay will continue to be the wonderful place it now. While attending the annual Oyster Spat Festival on St. George Island in the early part of October, I learned what a spat was and the trouble Apalachicola oysters were facing due to water shortages in Georgia.... Read more »

Planning Your Wild Birds’ Winter Menu

Feeding wild birds in winter is an enjoyable past time, makes our feathered friends happy, and keeps them coming back to our feeders. So what should be on their menu to help them through the cold days of winter? Before we answer that, let’s get something out of the way. By attracting birds to our feeders, are we making them too dependent on a free source of food, and weakening their ability to find food on their own? Do we actually put birds at greater risk because of cats and flying into windows? Studies have shown that feeding wild birds... Read more »

Mother Cow Report Card

In one respect, possibly the best person to do a preliminary assessment of a cow protection program is an accountant, because of his or her training to evaluate performance in terms of names, dates and numbers. These factors reveal a lot about the quality of cow protection, even before the project is visited. Let’s evaluate the Mother Cow program by a set of standards (abbreviated here) that I posted a year ago. The point here is not to attack Mother Cow, but rather by revealing positive standards of cow protection to promote the defense of Dharma in all cow protection programs.... Read more »

Saying Farewell To The World’s Exotic Birds

A lot of fuss has been made over the continual destruction of the rainforest and the amount of damage that is caused by illegal logging. But what does that really mean? Consider that there are thousands of animal, plant and bird species that live in the rainforests of the world, and that even today, scientists speculate that we still don’t have a full understanding of exactly how many species actually exist. Unfortunately, it now appears that we may never know. At the current rate of rainforest and habitat destruction, it is estimated that around half of the known species of exotic... Read more »

Recycling Is A Way Of Life

Recycling has become a necessary way of life. It is just as easy to throw out to trash materials that can just as easily be recycled. The question is, who is going to be the one that does it? The answer is simple enough. Just hold up a mirror in front of your face. That is the person in charge of recycling in your household. What gets recycled? There are four basic recyclable materials. These are paper, glass, aluminum, and plastic. Let’s look at paper first. Most recycling centers accept all paper products. Put all your newspapers into a daily collection bin. You can start by... Read more »

Rainforests: Way More Than Just Monkeys And Parrots

Rainforests are the dynamic engine of the Earth’s biosphere; they fix carbon from the atmosphere, and the aspiration of plants in the rain forests produce nearly 10% of the oxygen we need to live (over 70% of the oxygen is generated by algae and plankton on the world′s oceans). They act as filters, pulling pollutants out of the air and fixing minerals into the soil, and help stem the tide of soil erosion; they are dynamic, and vividly alive, and critical to the life expectancy of our planet. The biological diversity of tropical rain forests is staggering. Of the roughly... Read more »

How We Can Change Our Lifestyles To Preserve The Rainforest

We should all be concerned with saving the rainforest, and we can do our part by making small changes to our lifestyles. If everyone chose to do so, the results would be amazing. Trees offer us beauty and shade of those hot summer afternoons. Trees also help reduce the effects of carbon dioxide. Planting more trees is a very easy way you can help the to preserve the rainforest. You can help reduce the amount of waste by recycling, especially recycling paper. The number one reason why rainforests are being destroyed is to provide more wood for paper. Another reason is for building homes and businesses. There are plenty of other types of... Read more »