Amanda Timmons
- Mar 31, 2016
New Research Offers Much-Needed Hope For Our Oceans
They say you can have your cake and eat it too. But what happens when you run out of cake? Or, in this case, fish? We won't have to deal with this potential scenario of we take action. Very interesting article from the Huffington Post. Earth’s fisheries are in bad shape — populations of some stocks, including tuna and mackerel, declined 74 percent between 1970 and 2010. A new study, however, offers a glimmer of hope of what we could expect in the not-so-distant future if glob
Amanda Timmons
- Mar 28, 2016
Manmade Earthquakes Are Putting Even More Of The Country At Risk
And we thought all we have to deal with are tornadoes. Now, we have earthquakes. Article taken from Huffington Post. Millions of Americans live in areas that could be affected by manmade earthquakes in the next year, according a new assessment from the U.S. Geological Survey. The oil and gas industry’s wastewater disposal methods are putting about 7 million people at risk, the federal agency announced Monday in an earthquake hazard report. It’s common for companies to dispos
Amanda Timmons, LEED AP
- Mar 15, 2016
Pollution Causes Heat Island Effect on Ice Sheets
This article , originally posted in HuffPost Science, shows examples of heat island effect causing a positive feedback loop of melting snow and ice in Greenland. This is a suggested supplemental reading for the LEED Green Associate class and/or Continuing Education. Greenland's Ice Sheet Is Filthy, And That's A Problem Scientists have long known that Greenland's surface is neither green nor snowy white like you'll find on a world map. Rather, many of the country's massive ic
