November 2009
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Wave Power
Wave power is the transport of energy by ocean surface waves and capture of that energy to do useful work: electricity generation, water desalination, or pumping of water.
Waves are generated by wind passing over the surface of the sea. As long as the waves… Read More…
Variations of Culture Due to Climate
The evolution of humans is a major event in the Earth’s biotic history. Most accounts of human origins take this ecological dominance as a sign of a qualitatively new and superior form of adaptation that led to the unique human adaptive complex: tool making, language,… Read More…
Passive Solar Design of Buildings
Passive solar buildings aim to maintain interior thermal comfort throughout the sun’s daily and annual cycles whilst reducing the requirement for active heating and cooling systems.
This development in Western Australia is environmentally sensitive with such features as excellent passive solar design and shared solar… Read More…
Green Economics
Green economics means a direct focus on meeting human and environmental need.
Green economics is the economics of the real world (world of work, human needs, Earth’s materials) and how they mesh together most harmoniously.
The industrial (or capitalist) definition of wealth has always been… Read More…
Greenhouse Effect
From the cosmic viewpoint, the fact that Earth has an average surface temperature suitable for our sort of life (to maintain liquid water), cannot be explained by simply suggesting that our planet orbits at just the right distance from the sun. Our moderate temperatures are… Read More…
