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It’s 2009 and who hasn’t heard of green transportation ?Although the green movement using transportation can be traced back to the horse and buggy days, and certainly the Amish community travel about as green as can be, it can be reasonably stated that the modern era of the greening of transportation began in the mid [...]

Hunted to the verge of extinction by the turn of the 20th century, sea otters were considered too far gone to ever recover. They had numbered in the millions before then, but continuous and unmerciful hunting for their fur almost led to their extinction. Which is why saving endangered species is so crucial. At the turn [...]

I have an admission to make. I actually have a roll of paper towels in my place. Granted, they are the 100% recycled kind, but I am still guilty of something I do not really believe in. My roll is almost ½ way gone, and truth be told, I believe I purchased them in early [...]

The internal combustion engine has been with us in a practical form since about the late 1800’s, or thereabouts. After that, almost our entire industrial culture has been built around it in some form or another, most recognizable as a means of transportation for the supply of goods, as a personal way to travel, [...]

Since this is my first article as a contributor to Mind Petals I thought I would start with an attempt to outline a concept around which most of my writing is likely to center – spirituality. What I will give is my opinion and understanding of what spirituality is and how it differs from and [...]

The 40th anniversary of Woodstock has come and gone, and the 50th anniversary is 10 years down the road. Peace, love music and drugs were the mainstay of the original music festival in 1969, but something else came out of that, something that was about as cosmic as the festival was itself, and it is [...]

That’s a question for the ages, isn’t it? All this talk now about nuclear power being great and then again, nuclear power being not so great. Is it a green technology or a spawn of Satan? Is it a world beating new age way to make friendly power, or a dangerous source of energy production [...]

Something insidious is happening just below ground, affecting potentially millions of people in the United States. Reported health problems, polluted drinking water and other safety hazards, have been documented using a process called gas fracking (or fracing as the actual patent for this technique is spelled), and it appears to be an accepted technique [...]

We are lucky to live in this age of enlightenment. Where visionaries can see the future, and instead of waiting around for it to show up, they take matters into their own hands and try to change it for the better. The biggest case in point with all of this is the new White House [...]

Plastic is here and here to stay, I’m afraid, and so we will have to deal with it. As much of a scourge it is to the environment, it has many good and positive uses, particularly in the medical industry where using plastics have no doubt stopped the spread of disease and have saved countless [...]