A BRIDGE ACROSS THE AMERICAS

CENTRAL AMERICA – YUCATAN TO PANAMA

dark green = current reserves, light green = developing reserves
scale: one pixel = five kilometers

Editor’s Note: Saving and restoring forest reserves and wildlife habitat is better done when these areas are connected. The concept of wildlife corridors has been around for about 20 [...]

Trees Water & People: Planting Trees, Protecting Watersheds, and more…

With fuel-efficient stoves alone, the rate
of deforestation can be cut by half

Editor’s Note: For an organization that has only existed since 1998, Trees Water & People (TWP), a non-profit organization based in Ft. Collins, Colorado, has already left some very big footprints. Founded by [...]

THE CLEANEST AND COOLEST CHOICE?

One kilogram of uranium fuel yields 20,000 times
more energy than one kilogram of coal
(photo: US EPA)

Editor’s Note: Using electricity does not pollute. Using electric motors, electric heaters and electric lights all result in zero air pollution. The problem with electricity is how to make it, because making [...]

How Much Electricity Would the Pumps Require?

NORTHERN WATERS SAVE THE SEA

Canals (in red) move water to the Aral Basin

Why Save the Aral Sea?
To spend somewhere between 25-50 billion dollars to refill the Aral Sea and turn the Aral Basin into a cornucopia of fishing, agriculture, forestry – a new example to the world of the [...]

VANISHING GLACIERS ON AFRICA’S HIGHEST MOUNTAIN

Mt. Kilimanjaro’s glaciers are melting away

Editor’s Note: Did human-built cars and generators and heaters make the gas that warmed the air and melted the ice? Or is it just a coincidence of geologic and climatological fluctuations that we arrive at this tipping point? Or is it a [...]