Share and Voice: Green Up The Slopes

One of the key reasons I decided to attend UMD (besides the quality education program) was to live in a place where snowboarding is one of winters best past times. The other day I was just sitting around with not much to do and I realized I missed the winter just a little bit but more of all I miss snowboarding. Then I started to think about snowboarding and if by any chance there has been a push towards making snowboarding more beneficial to the environment. I stumbled upon Arbor, a surf, skate, and snowboard company committed to providing environmentally friendly products. Many snowboard manufactures use a combination of wood cores, stainless steel edges, fiberglass, resin and occasionally Kevlar. Arbor does not use any fiberglass, stainless steel edges, or Kevlar in production. Most of the boards they manufacture are made out of a variety of wood. Some a combination of poplar, solid bamboo, and paulownia. I know some may think "well, it doesn't seem like they are environmentally friendly if they may be harvesting trees to produce snowboards," but Arbor is not marketing a product made of chemicals that harm the environment like steel, fiberglass and Kevlar. I feel that Arbor is starting a big push towards going green in extreme sports and others will follow. Good thing I'm about due for a new snowboard!

Check out there site if your a fan of boarding! Arbor Snowboarding

Share and Voice: A Green Greenhouse

Hey Everyone!

I have always been interested in identifying different types of plants. I think I have acquired that knowledge because my ma happens to be a floral designer so I suppose it makes sense. Now I'm not the one to really further my education into becoming a plant taxonomist because its really just a small side hobby for me. It's really just nice to have this green piece of life by you which also happens to be beneficial by reducing CO2. Well I guess the main point of this post is that while I was sitting at my desk with my bonsai ficus tree (I encourage everyone to get one) and jade plant perched on the window sill, I was wondering if there "green homes" for them. By green homes (I'm sure you guessed it!) I mean green greenhouses. I'm not sure how many of you also own a couple different plant but this greenhouse I found would be a cool little home to make sure your plants get the right amount of sunlight. I found this miniature green house made entirely out of recycled plastic so you get to support the environment in two ways. The greenhouse was created by Daniel Schipper and is posted on his blog. Check it out --> Folding Greenhouse.

Enjoy!

Share and Voice: Do The Green Thing

Hey Everybody!

So I came across this sort of whacky/funny site that delivers short films representing ways to be greener. Some of the ideas they have are pretty clever and others are like HUH?....either way it provided me with some entertainment about being green. There are different sections to the site with a variety of videos on each section so be sure to do some searching. Check it out! Do The Green Thing

HERES MY FAVORITE! (I don't need to explain what its about)


Plug Out Boy feat. Green Monday from Green Thing on Vimeo.

Hope you guys enjoyed it!

Share and Voice: A Unique Way To Reuse Plastic

In America we are very fortunate to have access to practically any good or need that we want. Unfortunately it isn't the same for other countries. However, these people find other ways to obtain the goods or needs they so dearly want. Ways that many Americans don't think about using because we just simply don't need to, we have other means of acquiring that good or need. So it made me think about how some kids in the poorest countries reuses plastic to acquire the on certain good that he/she wants.

For The Love Of The Game



I have played soccer all my life and still do so it's kind of a bummer for kids that want to play the game but can't because they lack the ball. I did this post because it's a different and neat way that plastic bags have been reused. I'm glad to say that I have donated soccer balls to kids in Africa so that they can enjoy the same luxury as I can...to have a real soccer ball at their feet.

Links:
Worldvision - a site designated for helping out the poorest kids to keep there soccer dreams alive. Just in case any of you are soccer fans.

Share and Voice: Cleaning The Heights

Apa Sherpa has to be one of the most ambitious trash cleaners in the world. I don't think many of us will be able to say we've gone to such heights to keep the world a little cleaner. It's good to see that people do what they can to make our planet a little greener. Check out the short article.

Climber to break record with Mt. Everest Clean-up Climb

Share and Voice: green.tv

Hey everyone!

Green.tv is a video sharing website that allows companies, organizations, and people to post there video's concerning the environment. The main reason I did this post is because there is a video "Harvesting Rain," talking about a community in eastern Kenya that does not have a water system to support the community. Due to this the community has gathered together to build a system that helps them harvest rain.We talked briefly discussed harvesting rain water in class and this video shows how one community makes the most of the rain. I think its incredible how something as simple as water can bring a community together. Especially in a poor community like that of one in Kenya where many people might not think there is much they can do to change the way they live but as that community has shown, if people work together they can improve the wealth for everyone.

Share and Voice: eSolar

I stumbled upon this website while looking at different means to benefit the environment. This is quite amazing. I don't know if anyone has heard of this yet but for those who haven't eSolar is a solar powered base energy that uses mirror to reflect the sun ray's into a tower that uses the sun rays to boil a body of water and create steam. The steam powers a turbine and produces solar power. eSolar has been thought of and put into production by the Idealab Company.

Share and Voice: Greener Dock Systems

When I make my back home for the summer I work for a guy who owns PowerBlock, Worlds Best Dumbbells (they are incredibly awesome and hes a genius for inventing them). I have been working side by side with him since the summer of 2005. Back home, in Alexandria, there is a chain of three major lakes so dock systems are a hot buy for those having a lake home. A couple years ago my boss, Carl, his son, and I build a prototype DDD (double decker dock) and it turned out in great form. Check out the pictures. The two different ones you see we completed. This upcoming summer we are planning to start constructing a new prototype DDD that is more safe to the environment (aluminum is used to build the DDD and unfortunately there is not a more durable, lightweight, luminous looking metal available to use), but plans are to use less aluminum by building the floor out of a different product, and to acquire environmentally safe floating tanks that help transport the DDD across the water, and the main goal is to install a wind turbine to DDD. It's all a work in progress and if things go as planned it will allow people on lake homes to use wind power to provide some clean power to their homes. Of course it won't be a large enough turbine to power the whole house but its always good to start little and then think big.

So if you've ever around Alexandria,MN on Lake Carlos or Darling you may see one or two of these systems.

Share and Voice: Environmental Answers

Take a peak at this video...got me thinking. This video really made me glad to hear that we have certain and positive answers to energy sources that are reducing fossil fuel emissions. This video gives you an idea of a number of sources that are becoming more popular day by day. More than anything I would like to see fields of wind power turbines. I don't totally agree with them being placed in open waters but if the best wind currents are in that region and it will greatly help our environment I am okay with that. I hope Siemens AG continue to bring their innovations into production. Enjoy.

Answers For The Environment

Video linked with Siemens.

Share and Voice: Tidal Power

Hey Everyone,

I found this article about a new form of power that Scotland is working on. It talks about the using a tidal wave turbine to capture energy from waves! So far a corporation in Scotland has completed what seems to be the prototype to hopefully determine if they can expand production on this idea. Of course if this does work I'm guessing that this power will not be able to be transferred farther into the cities but if it helps in power the cities near the ocean shore....just another step towards a renewable energy source. Surf's Up To Energy!

Check it out at http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2537/84/

I found this article on another blog called ecogeek.

Welcome to Noah's Greenlicious Environmental Blog!

Hey! Welcome to my Greenlicious Environment!

Hi! Welcome to my Greenlicious blog! My name is Noah, I am majoring in Healtcare Management at UMD. I created this blog for my Environmental Health class and it is going to be used to talk about environmental issues as well as a place for NON-PAPER ASSIGNMENTS!

There are 5 possible types of posts on my blog. They include:

1. Advocacy Project
2. Eye Openers
3. Reflections
4. Reviews
5. Share and Voice

If you notice at the bottom of this post, the categories will be listed as labels. This post is has been labeled with all five kinds of posts. (Use the "label actions" feature in the edit posts tab to add the labels.) You will also see the number of each kind of post in my Labels Gadget at the top of the page. (Place labels gadget below blog header but above blog text). All post titles from now on will begin with one of the categories above.

The members of my web group are:

1. Shannon: Keepin' It Green With Shannon
   
2. Brenda: Brenda's Environmental Health
   
3. Sarah: Sarah H's Safe Environment
   
4. Samantha: Running with the Wild
   
5. Valerie: The Spring Girl
   

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Thanks for checking it out! Continute to think GREEN!