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July 18, 2012

Wine Cork Bathmats

A recent article on making your own awesome bathmats out of wine corks (you little alcoholic, you) discusses ways to use already interesting and yet somewhat unusable items in your home again in a new capacity. This is known as “up-cycling” where the item’s original use is abandoned because it can no longer perform that function, and the item is up-cycled into a new capacity, complete with a brand new function and everything. This is a great way to engage in ultra-local recycling, and it helps protect your environment and gives you a better perspective on the products that you buy and what you use for various materials. It also gives you some perspective on how quality of a material can actually affect its use later on. Low quality tends to be harmful to the environment AND non-reusable in other capacities AND an eyesore. So, it is important that you make smarter investments, rather than just bigger investments in the products that you buy.

Wine cork bathmats are meant to make use of extraneous materials which you may have lying about the house. Now, the principles in this nice corky bathmat apply to dozens of other materials in your home, including shelves, refrigerators, containers, craft paint, glue, odds and ends, tools, parts, car parts, screws and nails, and even dirt. All of these items or pieces of trash can actually be reused, and they do not have to go through the industrial recycling process in order to do this. You can engage in recycling or up-cycling within the confines of your property boundaries. This means that, as much as you may enjoy storing those odds and ends, you are really better off by putting them to practical use, and only giving away or recycling pieces which you cannot fit into your picture of a new, renovated home life and garden style.

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http://www.freshhomeideas.com/diy-projects/eco-friendly-projects/how-to-make-a-wine-cork-bath-mat

July 13, 2012May 30, 2012

Swimming Pool Balconies…So Cool!

For those of you who especially love fun and creative things, the concept of swimming pool balconies is both innovative and a little scary. This is where a swimming pool is on the outer part of an apartment balcony or a deck balcony, and the outer wall of the swimming pool is clear glass/plastic/fiber glass and you can see down into the city below while you are swimming around under the water. The reason why this wonderful idea can be a little scary is that if the outer wall is broken, the water (and everyone in it) would be swept out down a multitude of stories. In other words, it would result in a fatality. This is to be contrasted with normal balcony walls which people rarely attempt to break through and, should they break, would not necessarily carry any people with them to the ground below.

So, this fun and creative idea is both exciting and terrifying and we have to ask ourselves, is it worth the risk? How many people would rent or use an apartment with such characteristics? And, after one fatality, wouldn’t the value of the property plummet entirely?

Actually, in addition to the questions above, we should be also focusing on the safety and efficacy this construct has for the environment. The amount of continual force against the outer which is created by the extremely heavy weight of the water is something which could prove to be dangerous and even require specialized equipment to maintain. In addition to that, the maintenance of forty private swimming pools (as opposed to one communal pool for the all of the apartments) would require more energy and more chlorinated maintenance and filtration, which would use up even more energy than before. It is an energy economist’s nightmare. Furthermore, while the concept is stunning and almost fantastic to think about, if there should be a fatality which would ruin the reputation of the complex, then all of that material and building and power and fuel would have been for nothing. It would be wasted.

For now, let’s focus on things over which we have better control, such as maintenance of our current facilities. Envirosafe Solutions offers eco friendly rust converter and rust remover for any of your current problem areas. Call us today: (+61) 1300 88 90 70.

http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/41263/swimming-pool-balconies-bad-idea/

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08941920252866783

http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/070019

July 12, 2012May 30, 2012

Winter Preparation for Your Growing Things

When you are preparing your personal garden or even your farm crops for the next spring, you must prepare the plants and soil properly for the coming winter months. This is necessary because the winter freeze is required in order for many plants to bloom in the spring time, and often this freeze and subsequent flowering is necessary for fruiting of the plants. This is often true for agricultural settings, as well.

When the ground is warming up after it freezes in the winter, it can frequently crack and uproot smaller plants and flowers. This is why it may be important to insulate your dormant plants over the first freeze and to insulate the ground. This is so that, come spring time, there are not plate shifts in the ground, especially around your awakening plants.

In addition to ground protection, some of your plants can fall prey to critters which use them for food. They are most likely to be dug up after their ripening/blooming season, before the first freeze, and right before they send shoots up in the springtime.

Sometimes, if you are a fan of planting and growing bulb plants, such as onions, tulips and daffodils, you may dig up your bulbs and store your dormant bulbs in the wintertime or you may store bulbs in the winter before you plant them for the first time. When storing these, you may wish to dip them into appropriate plant-friendly drying powder and store them in breathable hanging bags, each bag according to the type of bulb, which should be hung and stored in a cool dry place. Small amounts can be hung in a basement, as long as it is well ventilated.

Often, natural feeders, such as birds or mice, can easily pick up seed from the earth, which is why it must be buried deep enough for proper protection, but not so deep that they cannot find sunlight and oxygen when they need them.

In warmer climates, especially where there is high humidity, various types of mold and bacteria can become rampant, especially before the ground freezes.

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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08941920252866783

http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/070019

July 11, 2012May 30, 2012

When Will It End, Already?

If you have devoted your entire life to ecological sustainability, then at some point you may find yourself frustrated with what seems like slow progression. Eco friendly solutions evolve and become more advanced and more effective, but many green supporters seek an end to their efforts. At this point, we must ask ourselves, “When will we achieve total self sufficiency on this earth?”

Even if we used nothing but alternative fuel all of the time and maintained nothing but completely sustainable products, we would not necessarily be satisfied with the results, since humans by nature seek to improve ourselves in all things. If not fuel and outsourcing, we may strive to improve our communal relationships or private sustainability or even return to the ever advertised subject of population control.

On the other hand, earth sustainability will always be an important subject for those who wish to have independent lifestyles and maintain human luxury without too much consumption. As we find new ways to live in luxury and be modern, we must also find new ways to reduce pollution and maintain self sufficiency, or “earth sufficiency” if you will.

As for the subject of the end of the “green movement,” it may be replaced with space travel (would it be called “star hopping”?) or with ozone rebuilding (the “blue movement”). The name may change and the movement may change and evolve, but the motivation for our efforts will be the same. After all, we would all like to maintain our current standard of living, find solutions to destructive problems, and continue as we have, rather than tear everything down and start over from scratch. We may be open to change, but we are probably not open to THAT much change!

Ecology and the understanding thereof is also instrumental in learning about and developing peace between nations, governments and cultural living situations. It fosters the concept that growth is more productive than destruction and that rebuilding is more productive than war.

Envirosafe Solutions is a part of this growth process because we offer eco friendly laundry solutions, both liquid and powder detergent, as well as many other earth friendly products. Call us today: (+61) 1300 88 90 70.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08941920252866783

http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/070019

July 10, 2012May 30, 2012

Sustainable Meat: Fact or Fiction

Meat is necessary for human living for several reasons. Even if you are a vegetarian, chicken eggs provide necessary nutrients which really can only be found in meat. Animals effectively keep farms and grazing land fertilized, disabling the need for synthetic fertilizer. All of this is poignant to the fact that animals are a sustainable source of food, and if not that, they are still a sustainable source of eco friendly and reliable fertilizer. What are the correct steps to take when evaluating the sustainability of meat and of a ranch? Even agriculture benefits heavily from animal fertilizer, so it seems to be best to raise meat for the manure benefits alone, if not also for food. How do you determine this and what are all the factors in play here?

First of all, an obvious factor is that an animal can either be raised for meat or for its manure capabilities, but it is quite a stretch of the imagination to attempt to implement a cycle where it accomplishes both tasks. At some point, a cow or chicken raised for meat will have to be slaughtered and then its manure producing capabilities are cut off. It makes more sense to pick one or the other and go with it.

Second, animals raised to produce manure still have to be fed, and grazing may not be available all year round, so grain and feed will have to be imported, which is both economically and ecologically expensive. It is of course best to have local feed available for your animals, but it is not always possible.

Thirdly, animals raised for meat also have to be fed, and this is usually imported from a great distance so while meat itself is sustainable, non-sustainable resources may be being used for production of this meat. Grass fed meat is becoming more and more popular, but industrially produced meat is still the majority of the beef and chicken on the market today.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/opinion/the-myth-of-sustainable-meat.html?_r=1

July 9, 2012May 30, 2012

Sustainable Gifts

When you give a gift, it is always best to think of being considerate and thoughtful to the other person. Sustainable or eco friendly gifts are a perfect way to say that you care and that you know that they care, as well. What can you do to give a greener, more earth friendly gift?

Keep it simple. It is when we go all out that we tend to spend more money, buy more non-renewable materials, and care less about what we are buying. Think of something thoughtful, tasteful and useful which they might enjoy or appreciate.

Tell them about it. Sometimes, eco friendly materials look as if they are not sustainable. Either way, your friend will appreciate the gift all the more if you tell them that it is “green” and perhaps the value would be enhanced if you describe the eco friendly materials which you used in it.

Stay away from purely biodegradable. Unless you are giving something which is meant to be temporary in nature, such as flowers, try to stick with reclaimed materials or sustainable materials. If something is heavily biodegradable, such as paper objects, then consider whether it will lose its function before your friend is finished enjoying it. Heavy duty paper products, with excellent craftsmanship, such as origami pieces, tend to be appropriate since they last a long while before losing their value.

Create reclaimed works of art. Not only is a handmade piece of art truly meaningful and about the person to whom you are giving it, but if you used reclaimed materials, throw away material from your home or yard area, and make it look attractive, then you giving them a little piece of your own life.

One of the best ways to spread your eco friendly lifestyle to others is to show it in your actions, such as sustainable giving and leading with a good strong example of how easy and simple and enjoyable this can be. Many people believe that living eco friendly means denying yourself some of the good things in life, and your example can prove otherwise. Envirosafe Solutions seeks to set an example in business and in giving by offering a 30 day money back guarantee on all of our products. Call us today: (+61) 1300 88 90 70.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2461400?uid=3739920&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=47698855025237

July 6, 2012May 30, 2012

Solar Powered Auto Vent Fan

Today, the world is in a period of transition, particularly between ecological solutions and previous methods of fuel and transportation. Hybrid vehicles may save on petrol, but are not necessarily more cost efficient. Eco friendly cars may use less petrol, thus helping the earth, but their production often requires materials to be shipped and transported from all parts of the world, which does not really reduce emissions a great deal. While the balance between eco and non-eco friendly methods seems to be shifting, it may only be changing shape, instead of increasing eco friendly practices. Car buyers want to save money, but they also want to help the environment and even now it still does not seem to be possible to do both at the same time.

This solar powered auto vent allows you to keep your interior cool while avoiding taking up extra battery power. Whether or not your vehicle is electric or rechargeable, this is certainly convenient to have. This is especially true for older models which are harmful for the environment and which are not very cost efficient either. A solar powered vent fan comes in handy when airflow is needed during hot summer days and either your car air conditioning system does not work or it takes up too much power from your vehicle. It saves you money, it saves you power which might otherwise be obtained from petrol based fuels, and it is convenient if you do not have a working cooling system in your car.

Solar powered radios, windshield wipers, and other functions are dependent upon the weather and cannot even be fully exploited during a hot cloudy day. A solar powered vent fan is really only useful when the day is especially sunny and uncomfortable. Solar power has certainly come a long way since the days of huge metallic semi-spheres performing the function of what today takes up just a small flat space on your roof.

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July 2, 2012May 30, 2012

Pesticides and the Useful Honeybee

Pesticides help protect plants and agricultural fields from creatures which intend to eat them, scavenge among them, dig them up, or do any other damage. Pests include rabbits, gophers, squirrels, mites, caterpillars, larvae of various moths and flies, and many other bugs which eat and destroy plants all of the time. Pesticides are extraordinarily useful when dealing with these creatures, because you can protect entire farm crops from feeders, and you can keep your living (and the produce of others) safe until ready for harvesting. Unfortunately, pesticides also wipe out positive creatures, like ladybugs and honeybees, and the honeybee is especially being affected by pesticides.

Honeybees pollinate flowering plants by traveling back and forth between plants, carrying the flower pollen on the hairs of their back legs. They pollinate flowers naturally and automatically with their back legs while they are obtaining nectar from the flower. Different crops attract honeybees to various degrees, but the honeybee is necessary for plant pollination and for diversification. Honeybees strengthen any local eco system, because they contribute to the sustainability of the plant life in the area. When pesticides destroy both the positive and the negative critters, this can have a long-term detrimental effect on the eco system, especially in local farms where produce and local economies are sustained. Without the honeybee, the natural cycle of earth life is interrupted.

Ecologically speaking, the more organic, diversified and native local plants are, the better they survive and support surrounding eco systems. Agriculture, while following along those patterns generally, slightly imposes things upon the local eco system which were previously not there. This is, of course, necessary in order to maintain food production, but it is better to then retain all of the sustaining helpers, as well, such as the honeybee.

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http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2012/04/11/whats-the-buzz-study-links-pesticide-with-honeybee-collapse/

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/neonicotinoids-colony-collapse/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

June 29, 2012May 29, 2012

Green Interior Decorating Ideas

Eco friendly interior decorating is all the rage now, not only in corporate offices and global businesses, but also throughout middle to upper class households and many households in poorer areas. The idea of saving the earth is popular, especially with sympathetic individuals who can see the potential in using alternative fuel and in saving costs on resources like electricity and heating and cooling.

Make sure you choose the right materials. Green materials, like bamboo, do not necessarily make for proper ecologically friendly decorating. Bamboo flooring must be treated multiple times with extremely harsh and corrosive chemicals in order to remain viable for many years. Investments in privately owned wind generators do not save money for at least a decade, unless batteries are part of the system, in order to store acquired energy for later use.

Think about additional pressures on the environment. Many products which are shipped overseas are transported through the use of petroleum based fuel, not to mention shipped in great quantities from what are sometimes ethically questionable outsourced manufacturers. Whatever you do for your environment and your home decorating, make sure that you can trace even the raw materials to the correct source and that all of these are ecologically viable.

Keep it simple. In many cases, beautiful interior decorating can be achieved and you may wish to use several different themes throughout your home. Unfortunately, multiple textures, colors and themes can become too busy, before you even add dishes, tablecloths, paintings, and window frames. Keep it minimalist, and you will find that your new eco friendly interior decorating is both bold and tasteful.

Make things functional. Many designers have made eco friendly wares and even aesthetic art functional through the use of dual-function systems, storage systems, mobility features, and convertibility features. Use these to your advantage, so that you can eliminate power sucking household appliances, while also brining aesthetic appeal to your home.

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http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40469669?uid=3739920&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=47698855025237

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June 26, 2012May 29, 2012

Green Resolutions for the New Year

Every year, people from all around the world make New Year’s resolutions to help them kick start a better time and more growth in their lives. What could be better than setting goals to help improve our beautiful planet? Here are some good suggestions:

1. Take better care of your own health

Making sure that your food items, clothing items, and chemicals that you buy are eco friendly will improve your health. When you are not regularly exposed to harsh cleaning products and synthetic clothing, your skin and tissues are able to breathe much better.

2. Reduce the pollution around your yard and garage

When you use alternative fuels in your gas tanks and clean your garage with safe, biodegradable cleaning products, then you are breathing less pollution and exposing your plants and children to less pollution.

3. Teach your offspring about how they can help keep our planet clean

Children are very conscious of their surroundings and any instruction they receive on the welfare of the planet will be greeted with open arms. Help them to understand how recycling, biodegradable materials, and organic farming are all part of staying healthy and preserving our beautiful environment.

4. Try out new eco friendly products

Get your whole family involved with this one. Schedule time out of your week to buy and try out new environmentally friendly products in order to determine quality and efficacy. When your children find green products which are also effective, they can see how it is possible to have the best of both worlds. Be sure to compare and contrast to get the best product. Once a month, you can plan field trips for the whole family to visit eco friendly companies or manufacturing plants to see how this is done.

5. Be inventive

Sometimes, plenty of biodegradable materials are right in front of you, but they all seem to be disposable or of a temporary nature. Look around your home, office and yard for some ideas for how to use sustainable materials in your decorating, home repair, furniture construction, etc. Think outside of the box.

6. Plant or invest in a garden

This can be in your own back yard, or it can even be a community garden. With this, you can start producing your own food and you can learn hands on how to change out soil and nutrients after harvesting and preparing for a new batch. This will give you a new appreciation for local farmers and you may wish to buy locally in the future.

New Year’s resolutions do not have to be filled with pressure and a need to use huge amounts of self discipline. You can take a relaxed attitude toward your individual learning style and you are far more likely to retain what you have learned.

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June 21, 2012May 29, 2012

Check Up On Your Eco Solutions Team

Many large companies have eco solutions teams to help them keep their operations earth friendly and to reduce waste and their impact upon the environment. However, there are many ways in which even that move may not fully pan out into the full potential that it could be. What are some ways to round off your company’s eco solutions team and what do we mean by telling you to check up on them?

Not all divisions of your company are synergizing. With every company, you will find that there are divisions or sections of the business which are not quite as in sync with the rest of the business as you believe they should be. When this happens, organize an education of each division by their comrades so that everyone understands their own jobs and the responsibilities of others, and everyone is working together, instead of apart.

Especially make sure that the accounting department and the eco solutions teams are working together and are aware of each other’s initiatives. This is especially important regarding any tax breaks or cost reduction or financial incentives which are being handed out by your local or federal government at this time. If the account department is aware of your eco friendly efforts, then more money can be saved, more of our wonderful planet can be sustained, and more revenue can remain within your business.

Make sure that your eco solutions team is modern. This is especially important if new incentives have recently been introduced or if new technology is renovating how companies, especially large international companies, are reducing cost, reducing fuel and emissions, and increasing self sufficiency. One of the most important reasons to remain self sufficient is to maintain a durable competitive advantage over your competition, i.e. other businesses in your industry and competing industry markets.

Use discretion. Keep an eye on your eco solutions team’s progress and planning for new agendas. This is not to say that you should require notification about every small step, but talk to individual employees, especially management, about current projects once a week, and make sure that you are being kept in the loop on a fairly regular basis.

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http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40469669?uid=3739920&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=47698855025237

http://www.businessandsociety.be/assets/ee902e549915b8586e8a8daa338e073e.pdf

June 20, 2012May 29, 2012

Brazilian Forestation and Agriculture

Deforestation occurs when a wooded area is so overworked by lumber mills, work groups, and development that the trees or forested area does not return to its natural state and is unable to achieve equilibrium and regain its previous growth or even intermediate growth. Brazil is finding that, while many of its parts are becoming deforested, they are becoming so because of the need to continue and grow agricultural endeavors. While Brazil’s economy is booming off the local agricultural prosperity, this deforestation is causing concern among many native and foreign citizens. Which is best, to preserve Brazilian rainforests or to preserve the country’s agricultural integrity?

This is a decision which affects any city developer or wildlife preserve or fundamentalist. The process of balancing human endeavors with natural organic growth and the resulting wildlife fluctuations is something which is decided constantly, from day to day, and any decision made will affect focus groups in different ways. What can be hoped to be achieved when humans themselves almost seem to get in the way of this precious preservation of our natural resources? What can be done about this and what is a good mentality to adopt when dealing with these decisions?

Rather than shakily attempting to achieve some sort of arbitrary balance between the two worlds, it may be a good idea to simply attempt to merge them. Many shopping malls have been built around a famous tree or endanger plant, many resorts build guard rails which separate visitors from the local wildlife, and many native plants fruit the best under agricultural conditions. It is a merging of the two worlds, taking the best of each, and blending them successfully together which will achieve the highest amount of adaptability from animals, humans, and wildlife. It is this mentality “both,” rather than “either/or” which can make new ecological developments possible.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/18/world/americas/eco-brazil-forest-code/index.html

June 19, 2012May 29, 2012

Bamboo Cathedrals: Green Fine Art

The bamboo cathedral in question is, in fact, not a cathedral, although the shape is similar and thus it acquired the name. It is a cacao bar manufacturer in Indonesia, the first chocolate bar maker of its kind in that country, and the entire operation uses only 50% of non-renewable energy. In fact, the owner pulled in an old factory grinder that used to grind cacao beans and he now uses it for his cacao beans. The 50% of renewable energy comes from vegetable oil, and he is looking to install some type of solar rooftop device which will power the plant entirely and take his entire operation off of the grid. Talk about renewable resources.

The operation is in Indonesia and, when watching the video, it seems as if the building is not exactly air-tight, so it begs the question of how much rain the area receives and whether or not there are inner paneling which can be sealed up in times of wetness. The CNN report did not cover that, but the building does seem to offer well ventilated areas and plenty of dry sunshine to warm and help the grinding process stay consistent. The video may have also been showing the building during construction, which would have definitely shown air in between the basket-weaving effect of the bamboo walls.

The owner of the cacao bar company discusses with the CNN reporter how his operation is as eco friendly as possible, and how he used new and innovative ideas and simply implemented them, even though his company is the first of its particular kind in Indonesia. Apparently, cacao is shipped out as a raw material or as a finely ground powder. His company completes the bars on site, so that more local resources are used and his products are as high quality as possible.

Envirosafe Solutions offers eco friendly chemical cleaning and rust removing solutions, not to mention eco friendly lubricant and fuel treatments. Our entire operation is a eco friendly as we can make it, and all of our products come with a 30 day money back guarantee, so that you can test them out and make sure that we live up to our high standards of production. Call us today: (+61) 1300 88 90 70.

http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/eco.solutions/

June 18, 2012May 29, 2012

Are Wooden Skyscrapers Safe?

Are wooden skyscrapers safe? This will almost be the newest global question, since a brand new cacao factory in Indonesia built its very first headquarters made entirely out of bamboo, and half powered by plant oil. In the near future, they will be using solar paneling to take their manufactured bars completely off the grid. Their bamboo structure is very strong and resilient, and they have no reason to think that will not last for many years into the future. So how possible is construction with bamboo instead of steel? Can bamboo really replace such a high commodity quality, light and affordable commodity such as steel? This is an excellent question.

The foundations of skyscrapers must be poured deep, since so much leverage is required to counterbalance the top end. A certain amount of flexibility is required in the structure in order to make it wind resistant. Just as grass bends before the wind, instead of breaking, so skyscrapers have a certain amount of flexibility built into their structure to give them or rather allow them movement if they need it.

Michael Green, an engineer consulted about the feasibility of using bamboo instead of steel, confirmed the definite possibilities which are here. For example, he listed bamboo as being very strong and the larger bamboo plants are quite tough and resilient, being very difficult to break. It is like having a large number of long wood fibers clumped together. It may be easier to shape and cut than steel, but it is extremely difficult to break, while maintaining the flexibility of movement which is so necessary for tall buildings like skyscrapers. Bamboo is considered to be the construction material of the future because of how fast it grows and how sustainable it is. While plans for much larger buildings are being drawn up in Vancouver, so far the largest bamboo building today is only five stories high. However, new innovations and ideas for making this the new steel of the future are already in play.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/15/tech/eco-wood-skyscrapers/index.html

June 15, 2012May 29, 2012

Alaska and Oil

The debate continues in the United States over what to do about potential oil and gas production in Alaska. This is a steep endeavor in the first, due to leasing so much land which is currently protected for the sake of several species of wildlife, and due to how expensive laying so much pipe line would be. Fortunately, neither side has gained a permanent upper hand as of yet, since this is such a sensitive issue and has the potential for benefitting both humans and wildlife in the future. What are the two issues at stake here, and how can the decision be best agreed upon?

To begin with, if Alaska does indeed possess vast amounts of oil and gas resources, then this would be a worthy investment, especially considering U.S. issues with oil production, shipment and prices that are affecting them today. However, one must also consider the enormous expense of laying all of that pipe line, and whether or not the resources would be better than the money spent, if the two would balance each other out, or if more money would put into the endeavor than benefits received from it. Unfortunately, this information is not as readily accessible, since it requires engineering and the work of private oil prospecting companies to determine the actual cost of production and shipment.

On the other side of the issue lies the preservation of an incredibly vast expanse of Alaskan wildlife, water areas, and natural beauty which is considered one of the last frontiers for exploration and preservation available in the U.S. today. Some of the biggest oil drilling and rigging operations exist in Texas, the second largest state in the U.S., and these have had little impact on the immediate environment surrounding the drilling operations, but this is a different eco system, altogether. Much of Texas’ resources lie in dry plains and desert-like conditions, and this contributes to the hardiness of the local eco system regarding these drilling operations.

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