Architect Luciano Pia took the concept of an urban jungle to the next level by creating 25 Verde, an apartment building in Turin, Italy, that looks like a forest. The complex has five floors and 63 residential units. It’s constructed with steel and columns shaped like tree trunks, giving it the look of a modern-day […]
Architect creates an apartment complex that looks like an ‘urban jungle’ to protect residents from noise and pollution — Positive Outlooks
There isn’t a norm for how we should live our lives! The norm should be people helping each other and making others feel important! How you make …
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Professor Donald A. Brown Since this essay by Penn State’s Associate Professor Donald A. Brown is placed on a publicly funded university web server, I’m repeating this in entirety here for discussion. Be sure to see what I found at the end. Why Ethics Requires Acknowledging Links Between Tornadoes and Climate Change Despite Scientific Uncertainty. […]
Climate craziness of the week: “ethics requires” linking tornadoes to climate change — Watts Up With That?
Evidence of more than 100,000 formerly or currently active volcanic vents permeate the Earth’s sea floor (Kelley, 2017).
Active volcanoes spew 380°C sulfuric acid and “metal-laden acidic fluids” into the bottom waters of the world ocean on a daily basis. Literal ocean acidification is thus a natural phenomenon.
The carbon dioxide concentrations present in these acidic floods reach “astounding” levels, dwarfing the potential for us to even begin to appreciate the impact this explosive geothermal activity has on the Earth’s carbon cycle.
Geothermal heating warms up the last 2000 m of the global ocean “by about 0.3°C to 0.5°C” (Emile-Gaey and Madec, 2009). The heat fluxes are systemically positive, span “the entire seafloor,” and the circulation is largely horizontal at…
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