Environment

What's Better For Food Waste, Landfill Or Garbage Disposal?

Assuming you don't have the space for a smelly compost heap but want to be as environmentally responsible as possible, what’s the most responsible way to dispose of a banana peel, or any other food waste? A new study about the impact of various food w ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2011 - 11:47am

Making Plastic From Beef- It's Better Than The Other Way Around

University of Alberta researcher David Bressler has an idea for the future of recycling. Using throwaway parts of beef carcasses that were sidelined from the value-added production process after Mad-cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE) dam ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2011 - 3:58pm

What is corruption in Global perspective

If one amasses wealth at the expense of innocent people circumventing the law to their advantage because masses do not have resources or knowhow or infrastructure or man power to make money through of web of legal or illegal channels its corruption in econ ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 19 2011 - 6:52am

Defining Dallas: Symptoms of Pond Mortality

The drought continues and our ponds shrink at Trinity River Audubon Center.  I'm torn between fascination about the process and worried for the life and diversity that we've worked so hard to nurture.   The floodplain ponds will come back with th ...

Blog Post - Mel. White - Aug 22 2011 - 2:42pm

Defining Dallas: Drought and the Forest

We got a tenth of an inch of rain yesterday-- such a microscopic amount.  The pond levels are down five feet from normal.  It's much less than the water level drop in areas like Lake Travis in Austin, but that's still drastic. I've been moni ...

Blog Post - Mel. White - Aug 25 2011 - 2:04pm

Organic Food- What It Means And The List Of Artificial Ingredients Allowed

Given an aggressive public relations campaign designed to obscure facts about the organic food industry, we are clarifying what an 'organic' label means and does not mean. To be certified 'organic' a producer needs to prepare documentat ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2012 - 6:46am

The Science Is Settled: No Nutritional Difference Between Free-Range And Caged Chicken Eggs

One of the stranger claims of anti-science hippies is that there is not only a difference between 'organic' food (and apparently 'inorganic' food, whatever that could be) in structure- and if you believe that, go read Huffington Post, I ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 26 2011 - 7:22pm

Gibson Guitars And The Lacey Act Misused

The Lacey Act is one of few government regulations I have praised for its effectiveness.  Few government regulations are actually designed to help anyone, they are either designed to hobble someone in order to artificially level the playing field or they a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 22 2012 - 6:16pm

Geobacter Bacteria: Microbes That Generate Electricity While Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste

Geobacter can clean up uranium but a new study documenting how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals could mean a big benefit for contaminated sites in the future. Identifying the Geobacters' conductive ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2011 - 3:40pm

Environmentalists: Save More Species By Accepting Science

Unfortunate subsets of some militant environmental groups believe that anyone who uses the land, including quite responsibly, is an enemy.    ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2012 - 12:11am