Recycling & Sustainability Sustainability is the ability to maintain a certain status or process in existing systems. The most frequent use of the term “sustainability” is connected to biological or human systems in the context of ecolog...
Environmental Management Environmental resource management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment itself....
Renewable Energy Renewable energy is generally defined as energy that comes from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves and geothermal heat....
Climate Change Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, o...
What are GM foods? What's in the name? It's a bit like Shrek, just as the word 'ogre' had villagers running for their pitchforks, the word 'GM' has normally sane people making placards and burning crops. Sooooo........let's all ...
Using Bacteria for Good From an early age, we're told to wash our hands, not lick the dog, put the milk back in the frige and so on. Why? Because of BACTERIA! We're told that bugs, germs AKA 'bacteria' are bad for us, will make us s...
Amazing Facts about Bacteria There's some facts in life you're just glad you learnt...like, don't put your mouth under the hand-dryer! 1. Do you use the hand-dryer to save paper towels? Well, drying your hands on a paper towel reduces the...
What are Bacteria Here it is - every type of life on this planet classified and named. The 'tree of life' is made up of Bacteria, Archeaa and Eucaryota. Archaea and Bacteria are similar in that they're microbial (very small). Ba...
