Bring on Enviropig?: Can Genetic Engineering Make Meat a More Sustainable Food?
Food safety advocates may shudder at the thought, but a team of scientists in Canada have come up with a new breed of pig that is intended to make meat a greener, more sustainable food. The Enviropig is engineered to have the same meat quality as your typically breeded Yorkshire pig, with all the ideal protein and fat content developed for the market. But in addition, it is also engineered to produce less toxic manure that releases fewer pollutants into the atmosphere, thereby making it a more environmentally sustainable option for large scale pig farmers.
Categories: Environmental Articles, Environmental Issues Tags: bring, engineering, enviropig, food, genetic, meat, sustainable
Wind Turbines – Make Your Own Electricity
What is your first impression of wind turbines? Do you imagine that the people who make them must be highly qualified technicians who have studied for donkey's years?
Categories: Global Warming Tags: alternative, climate change, energy, FUEL, Global Warming, health, home and family, other, science, Solar Power, sustainable, technology, uncategorised, wind power
Harnessing The Power Of The Sun To Make Solar Electricity
Free energy ... What a dream, eh? One of the biggest household burdens is the cost of energy. The cost of energy is often 40% of total domestic bills. So, free energy would assist every family that is not rich a great deal. However, free energy is a pipe dream, is it not? There is alternative energy, that is non fossil fuel based energy, like nuclear energy, but that is not low-cost either.
Categories: Global Warming Tags: alternative, climate change, energy, FUEL, Global Warming, health, home and family, other, science, Solar Power, sustainable, technology, uncategorised, wind power
Building A Greenhouse For Sustainable Living
Greenhouses. A wonderful and loved hobby for horticulturalists and avid gardeners but now, commercial greenhouses are staking a claim to the greenhouse enthusiasts. As our world becomes more sustainable, it only makes sense to build more greenhouses.
Categories: Environmental Articles Tags: agriculture, country, Economics, economy, environment, Environmental Articles, future, green living, growing your own produce, helping the poor, horticultural, horticulture, off the grid, sustainable
Learn How To Make Solar Panels For Your Home
Many people are fed up of the escalating cost of electricity, but they do not know what they can do about it. They have switched lights off; they have not turned lights on; they have unplugged devices on stand-by and they have turned the central heating down and the air con up and it has only saved them pennies. Yet still the electricity bills go up on a regular basis. It is very exasperating.
Categories: Global Warming Tags: alternative, climate change, energy, FUEL, Global Warming, health, home and family, other, science, Solar Power, sustainable, technology, uncategorised, wind power
