Archive for May, 2010
Using Solar Electric Panels for Extra Battery Power in Vehicles
Monday, May 31st, 2010It is not new technology, but solar electric panels have become more efficient and are being used in several different applications, even in vehicles as a power source. Although solar electric panels can be used to directly power small electric type vehicles, larger vehicles such as RVs can employ them to charge batteries that are [...]
Increasing Use of Solar Power
Monday, May 31st, 2010The benefit of solar power over other sources of energy has motivated the commercial and domestic establishment for solar power installation and technological advancement. Various governments are providing subsidies and grants for the purchase and installation of solar kits and equipment thus promoting it as the future of reliable clean energy source. There is little [...]
Forestry Companies and Environmental Groups Agree Over Boreal
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Often at odds with one another, Canadian forestry companies and environmental groups put their grudges aside to sign the largest ever conservation agreement. The agreement aims to conserve vast swathes of the Canadian boreal forest, the woodland caribou who live there and depend on it and to ensure that companies who are party to the [...]
Eco-Gifting It Is The Right Thing To Do
Saturday, May 8th, 2010The ecological and environmental hazards threatening the earth at present have reaching the boiling point. Air, earth and water are under attack from toxic industrial, and commercial waste materials as well as consumer produced toxins. Efforts to cut back in consumer waste products have yielded some smart eco friendly gifts. Eco-gifts might be household cleansers [...]
Ford Of Canada Has It Backwards
Saturday, May 1st, 2010Ford of Canada weathered the recession without the need of a bailout, but their latest announcement seems like the typical American car company policy that nearly sunk their domestic rivals. Ford is announcing that they are offering to Canadian consumers the opportunity to retire their 2003 model year vehicles or older, in exchange for up [...]