Solar Man's Blog Posts Tagged 'earth' (15)

In December 1968 we got the first real view of that stable, secure place. Apollo 8 was orbiting the moon, the astronauts busy photographing possible landing zones for the missions that would follow. On the fourth orbit, Commander Frank Borman decided to roll the craft away from the moon and tilt its windows…

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Economic and environmental catastrophes unavoidable unless rich countries cut consumption and…

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Flow: The musical watermill played (like a musical piano) and powered by the Tyne river (in the United Kingdom)

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Had Enough Global Warming and its Effects Yet? Fracked Out? Earth Day 2012 is rapidly approaching.

You're traveling through yet another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are based on scientific fact. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Climate Change Zone!" Another is "You unlock this door with the key of scientific fact. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of…

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Remember when concern for the health of the Planet was considered a "movement".....the "Ecology Movement".....and after that, it was called, "The Environmental Movement." What a long strange trip it's been.....We've come full circle, and it's an EVEN a much smaller circle… Continue

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As the world's population soars to nearly 7 billion, we here at HuffPost Green thought it time to investigate some of the… Continue

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Nuclear power has never lived up to the promises of its backers. Their latest claim -- that nuclear energy represents an easy answer to global warming -- has as much validity as that old industry chestnut of producing energy “too cheap to meter.” Let’s not be duped again.



Four decades ago, when I served as national coordinator for the first Earth Day, millions of Americans mobilized on behalf of the environment. This year, we know that the centerpiece of a healthy environment is… Continue

Maybe every Earth Day, we should each check ourselves...check your carbon footprint:…











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JUAN GONZALEZ: Bolivia is hosting a people’s summit on climate change next week that could draw up to 10,000 participants from 100 countries around the world. The conference will focus on those most affected by global warming—indigenous and poor communities, particularly in the Global South— and highlight their demands for climate justice in advance of the United Nations climate summit to be held in Mexico at the end of this year.



Meanwhile, here in the United States, the Senate is… Continue

Anderson: On this first day of a new century we humbly beg forgiveness and dedicate these last forests of our once beautiful nation to the hope that they will one day return and grace our foul earth. Until that day may God bless these gardens and the brave men who care for them.





Freeman Lowell: It calls back a time when there were flowers all over the Earth... and there were valleys. And there were plains of tall green grass that you could… Continue