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Solar Power Could Change Everything You Know About Energy
The Grid is the great bane of renewable energy aspirations in the United States. An all pervasive electrical infrastructure links together power plants, homes, and anything else that contains a switch...
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Climate Change, Melting Glaciers, and the Future of Alaskan Tourism
The five-foot high tires were insufficient to prevent the specially designed bus from jostling about as it turned off the road and toward the Columbia Ice Field in Alberta, Canada. The massive carpet...
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The New Black Death: Oil Trains and Insufficient Safety Regulations
My house rumbles and shakes as the cargo trains thunder down the rail that is less that 500 yards away. Although the necessity of turning up the volume on my TV is not much more than a nuisance, the...
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A View From Inside the People’s Climate March
The historic People’s Climate March took place last weekend in New York City. I drove up from Washington, D.C. with a friend to join the masses marching, singing, and chanting. We drove along pristine...
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Mountain Top Removal Threatens Environmental and Human Welfare
The Appalachians, one of the world’s oldest mountain ranges, might be gone forever sooner than we expect. It is not erosion or tectonic activity that will be the culprit, but human action.Mountain Top...
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Ebola and America’s Fears
Mankind’s greatest enemy is not war or hunger but infectious disease. Throughout history it has cost countless deaths, and even in the twenty-first century our defenses against it remain limited. Above...
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As Hawaii’s Kilauea Erupts, Residents Prepare to Flee
The sky darkened as scalding ash and pumice rained down on the city. In some places, people were trapped in a mixture lacking air and moisture, preserved in time. On the other hand, superheated gases...
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The UN Validates Climate Change in New Report, Now It’s Up to Us
Recently the United Nations made a series of declarations regarding the validity of climate change, its causes, and necessary measures to mitigate it. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
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Comet 67P: Small in Size, Massive in its Implications
Stepping away from the Bedouin camp, I gingerly ventured into Israel’s Negev Desert. A sufficient number of yards out, the few lights emanating from the settlement had been reduced to a glow in the...
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Just How Bad is Our Culture of Plastic Obsession?
Plastic is an absolutely amazing material. It is durable, light, portable, and malleable. It can be made into virtually any product we can imagine. It can be recast, recycled, and reused. It plays a...
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It’s Time to Change the Problematic New Jersey Black Bear Hunt
Next Monday begins the week-long tradition of the New Jersey black bear hunt. During this process, between 250-300 bears of a population that tends to dance around a total of 3,400 north of Interstate...
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Leave the Leaves: Why Leaf Blowers are a Harmful and Pointless Practice
Due to the incredibly loud and incessant drone of the machines, I angrily slam my window shut and stomp back to my desk where I’m finally able to hear myself think and the gasoline-induced headache...
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Despite Some Benefits, Dams are an Obsolete Energy Source
They used to be hailed as engineering marvels, as the triumph of mankind’s will and ingenuity over the forces of nature. They were symbols of national pride and strength, and epitomized the age of...
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Prince William Speaks Out Against Animal Poaching
While climate change, habitat loss, and strains on food resources are all putting pressure on many forms of wildlife to survive, another human induced threat is direct action by way of poachers....
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Is the New York Fracking Moratorium a Good Thing?
Recently, Governor Andrew Cuomo officially announced that New York State will ban fracking. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process of extracting natural gas that involves injecting water,...
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Underground Cities, Brought to You by New York’s Lowline
In most cultures and throughout history, under the ground has been a place to which few have been interested to venture. It is a place of darkness and isolation, with morbid undertones. Underground is...
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Fracking is Shortsighted in Light of Temporary U.S. Oil Boom
One of the arguments in favor of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, is that it has largely enabled the recent oil boom in the United States. Vast stores of shale oil and natural gas are...
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Wave Goodbye to Your Takeout Containers: NYC Bans Styrofoam
On January 8, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration finished the work started by previous Mayor Michael Bloomberg by announcing that styrofoam containers will go by the wayside. This...
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Near Space is Choked With Debris That We Put There
The popular image of an asteroid field–a chaotic clutter of rocks so dense that the odds of successfully navigating one in a spacecraft are immensely slim–is something of a misnomer. In reality, most...
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Just Say No to Ice-Melting Salt This Winter
Now that winter is in full swing, we go to extensive measures to make sure that our roadways and sidewalks are passable and safe. As we plow and shovel, we also use salts to serve as ice melt. While...
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