Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary that his attempts to educate the nation about the crisis of global warming. He goes to schools, to science conventions, and all types of places both casual and professional to deliver the news that global warming is overtaking the planet. The film came out in 2006, [...]
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Plastic Planet
By admin in DocumentationsPlastic Planet is an Austrian documentary film about the plastic industry and how it operates. It is in the style of a Michael Moore type documentary where one man goes out to uncover the truth about a mysterious corporation, the same narrator and interviewer being present in nearly every scene. The film debuted in early [...]
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Refeed the World
By admin in DocumentationsRefeeed the World is a movie made in the late 2000’s that shows the unethical and dangerous practices of agricultural and energy based businesses and how they are harming the planet in order to increase business. What happens in the movie? Viewers of this movie are exposed to many different images including rainforest being cut [...]
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Geothermal energy
By admin in Renewable EnergyObtaining geothermal energy is the process of taking the heat that comes from within the earth and harnessing that power in order to create electricity. It is not the most popular form of alternative energy available as it is still being worked on heavily, but as research continues, so will developments in this field and [...]
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Wind energy
By admin in Ecological lifeWind energy is energy that is created by the wind. It is usually harnessed by systems of heavy duty industrial metal pinwheels arranged in a conglomeration known as a wind farm. When the wind hits the pinwheels they begin to spin, and due to their rotary nature, they can spin long after the wind is [...]
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Solar energy
By admin in Renewable EnergySolar energy is one of the best methods of harnessing non coal or oil related electricity and can be done easily from home after the solar panels are correctly installed. This is the process of taking energy supplied by the sun’s heat and then converting that into power that can be used by anyone that [...]
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Hydroelectricity
By admin in Renewable EnergyHydroelectricity is electricity that comes from the harvesting of energy created by water. The electricity is generated when the paddles placed in a continuous stream of water are pushed by the water, creating kinetic energy which is then stored away to be used by people that subscribe for an electric bill each month. It is [...]
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Sustainable Cultivation
By admin in Ecological lifeSustainable cultivation can mean many different things depending on who is using the term. People will use the word on their products to show the public that they are conscious of the environment in the hopes that they will get more business this way, yet some are reluctant to actually go through with this fully [...]
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Biological products
By admin in Ecological lifeThese medicinal products are leading the field in medical research currently. They are useful because what they are specifically designed to do is to replicate the cells and antibodies which exist in the human body. These can aid in creating vaccines and cures to common ailments as well as in temporary replacement of missing tissues [...]
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Fair Trade Goods
By admin in Ecological lifeThese goods are products that are purchased with the idea of fair trade in mind. Fair trade is an organized movement that is tailored towards improving conditions for developing countries in the global market. It attempts to make trade conditions fair so that no one country has a monopoly on any export and each country’s [...]