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Jul 14, 2010
Fundraisers, as stressful as they are, can be fun if you just know how to organize. But before you decide to dive headfirst into the project, you need to make sure that youll be dedicated to your cause.
Jul 14, 2010
Solar garden lights are a rapid, easy, and efficient answer to a garden lighting problem. Solar mechanical lights can be put along your yard or landscaping and moved at will, needs little installation or commitment.
Jul 14, 2010
Making landmark and historic buildings energy efficient is often difficult due to restrictions on alterations that can be made. What measures are Buckingham Palace taking to make this British landmark greener and how are they working.
Jul 14, 2010
As a nation we are using more energy than ever so it makes sense that we should be turning to environmentally friendly energy sources like wind turbines. Using wind turbines can be a cost-effective way of providing clean and renewable energy for your home or business.
Jul 14, 2010
Ever since the law of gravity decreed that water must not run uphill, trees have played the role of recreant. In tree trunks the sap rises seemingly in direct defiance of this edict. And since science insists on finding some rational explanation when well-defined laws of Nature appear to be violated, she has persistently tried to explain the hidden forces that cause the upward flow of this vital fluid in living plants.
Jul 14, 2010
The most beautiful gardens you have ever seen, gardens of great country estates where paid gardeners tend the plants, bring comparatively little pleasure to their owners. If the owner of a garden feels that his garden is perfect he will not be a gardener long. Dallas Lore Sharp once wrote an essay on seed catalogs. The modern seed catalog is itself a thing of wonder and beauty; but, oh, the marvels that it promises; oh, the dreams of appetite and art that it inspires.
Jul 14, 2010
The methods that the gardener pursues are the fundamental beginnings of scientific research. The principles that he discovers for combatting destructive agents are the very principles underlying forest and wild life protection. Thus the planting and tending of a garden is the expression of Nature Instinct found in varying degrees in every human being.
Jul 14, 2010
The cruising boat of a scientific expedidition in British Columbia swept around a bend in the channel and members of the party crowded forward with mingled exclamations of surprise and curiosity. The port of Simoon Sound lay directly aheada cluster of shanties built on rafts moored close to a rocky precipice.
Jul 13, 2010
Don't let the phone calls you make when you are traveling to a different country cost you an arm and a leg. Quad Band World Phones are not as expensive as you might think.
Jul 13, 2010
This article provides detailed calculations in support of the claim by CO2 Tropical Trees that the average fast growing tropical tree sequesters 22.6 kg or 50 lbs of carbon per year. Several different approaches to carbon calculations are discussed, citing a number of scientific papers on the subject. It concludes that funding the planting of tropical trees is a viable method of removing carbon from the atmosphere in the fight against climate change.
Jul 12, 2010
The idea of the "home of the future" usually contrasts with the idea of environmental responsibility. The perception of technology being detrimental to ecologicial stability is slowly being replaced with the advent of smart technologies such as Suspended Particle Device or SPD glass.
Jul 12, 2010
In this article I investigate how to make Make Solar Panel At Home.Looking in detail at how this technology can help enormously lower your power bills.
Jul 11, 2010
Whats in a name? One answer to this well-known query may be found in the host of names given to the caterpillars or larvae of a large family of moths. There are various common, general and local names applied to these insects, among which we find "spanworms," "measuring worms," "inchworms," "measurers," "loopers" and "surveyors."
Jul 11, 2010
Perhaps if the alewife had been differently named, poets would have sung of its beauty and made epics of its travels. Better than a poem, however, is the experience of lifting one of these fish from the water and holding it to the light for a moment before releasing it to continue on its strange journey.
Jul 11, 2010
The water in the bay of Pattens Pond Stream was calm and shining under the morning sun. The birches on the near shore still showed that grace of line, and across the bay, pine and cedar and fir dotted the slope with dark shades that accentuated the delicacy of spring tints. From shore to shore stretched a white line of waiting gulls.
Jul 11, 2010
As I watched the alewives battle up the bay of Pattens Pond Stream against all the odds, I wondered whether either virtue, as humanly considered, had anything to do with an alewife's endeavor.
Jul 11, 2010
An old willow, leafless still, stood beside the rapids a little way beyond the bridge. How many springs had its bare branches reached over the migrant alewife parents as they went up towards the ponds, and how many summers had its leaves shaded the migrant alewife young as they came down towards the sea? The tree looked so large and lasting.
Jul 11, 2010
Caterpillars are often miscalled "worms," but to be technically and scientifically correct we should call them "larvae." The caterpillar or larval stage is the period in life during which an insect feeds and increases in size.
Jul 11, 2010
The region around St. Louis suffered the maximum effects of the Great December storm of the early 1920s. Trains were forced to stop running because there were no signals to guide them and the tracks were littered with ice-covered debris. More than 5,000 passengers were stranded in the St. Louis Union Station for forty-eight hours.
Jul 11, 2010
An ice storm made history in New England in February, 1898, when the formation of ice was so astonishing that a plaster cast was taken of one of the ice-encased wires of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and is now exhibited in the Bell Historical Museum, in New York. The wire, with its coating of ice, weighed 3.2 pounds to the linear foot.
Jul 11, 2010
An ice storm is a cold-weather rainstorm, in which the falling water turns to a coating of ice on striking terrestrial objects. The deposit thus formed is smooth and transparent, unless mixed with a previous deposit of snow, and is quite different in appearance from the rough or feathery "rime" often deposited in cold weather by drifting fog, especially in the mountains. The ice formed in the storms is called "glaze" by American meteorologists, and "sleet"
Jul 11, 2010
The screams of Sky-King warned me again as I came to pay my second call to their nest even before I recognized the landmarks about the place. This time the bald eagles mate was not brooding. She stood beside the nest, as though she had dropped some task at my approach. I studied Sky-King this time through my glasses, before he decided to leave his lookout on the dead spruce. At each angry scream, the golden scimitar of his beak parted.
Jul 11, 2010
Deep in the northern wilderness, in a mixed forest of pine and oak, where here and there the bleached spar of a dead spruce thrust its barren tip up into the summer sky, there stands an ancient oak tree that is taller by many yards than its neighbors. In a high crotch there is a great platform of sticks, some of them as long as an Indian's bow and as thick as a man's wrist, woven together as carefully and firmly as the twigs in the nest of a catbird.
Jul 11, 2010
Pussy willows, the fluffy, silver-coated flower buds of that graceful shrub, now ornament the low grounds and stream borders. In our northern U.S. states the month of March is the time when we hear the earliest of our frogs, the wood frog, the spring peeper, and the chorus-lover. Farther south these amphibians may have come out earlier.
Jul 11, 2010
It was early fall. The days were chilly, and the rains cold. For Mother 'Possum who had come from the warm, sunny South, it must have seemed as cold as the North Pole would to us. We tucked a lot of cotton wool into her box, thinking she would use it for a blanket, but Mother 'Possum had never heard of such a thing. She kicked it as far as she could.
Jul 11, 2010
In 1845 Spencer Fullerton Baird was chosen to become Professor of Natural History at Dickinson College and began the strenuous life of research that characterized his whole later career. He corresponded with naturalists and amateurs in this country and Europe, amassed enormous collections, and in vacation times made expeditions in various directions from the Great Lakes to Virginia and Ohio.
Jul 11, 2010
The planting of wild flower gardens is becoming very popular in the United States. When this is done from seed or from roots, and not at the expense of exterminating rare species from some other locality, it is to be encouraged. Few nurserymen supplying wild plants, however, are propagating any material in their nurseries or using care to leave sufficient plants to maintain a normal supply.
Jul 11, 2010
In the midst of the Rocky Mountain region is located a great mountain-encircled basin the Uinta Basin. One of the first United States Army expeditions to enter and traverse the Basinits route following approximately the course of the White Riversaw the fantastic rock formations carved by the elements during ages long past. The visitors named the territory near the lower course of the stream "The Goblin City," a very appropriate name, although it describes only a part of the carved forms.
Jul 11, 2010
Darwin has admitted that he failed, as Sedgwick did, while they were on a walking tour in Wales, to notice the plain evidences of the passage over that country of the Great Glacier.
Jul 11, 2010
Darwins belief that local conditions had made one kind of plant vary until it became several kinds, in the case of the Galapagos Islands, was strengthened when he began to study the history of common domestic animals, horses, dogs, and cats, and of plants like wheat and barley, and the garden flowers.
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