Where do fossil fuels come from?

With fossil fuels - their costs and their toll on the environment - controlling our lives, GreenDustries thought it would behoove us to take a look at the major forms of fossil fuels and where they come from and the delicate balance of nature that falls in between.

There are three major forms of fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. All three were formed many hundreds of millions of years ago before the time of the dinosaurs – hence the name fossil fuels, according to the website energyquest.ca.gov. Read more [...]

2011
05/25
CATEGORY
Natural Energy
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Nuclear Energy

Nuclear energy was a boon to the development of towns and industries decades ago but now, it seems, with cleaner, alternative energies waiting in the wings to take control, nuclear power plants are looking more like dinosaurs lost in a landscape in which they can't survive. Read more [...]
2011
05/11
CATEGORY
Energy
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The melting glacier problem

GreenDustries understood before any one the need for environmentally responsible products to deliver and allow food to be eaten in an enjoyable, clean, practical, eco friendly manner. Consumers are feeling good that they are contributing to a cleaner planet while eating their favorite foods in a fun clean way. GreenDustries packaging provide a new and pleasant consumption experience. A BNA blog posted in December discussed a report released by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) urging countries to increase efforts to combat climate change and cited the rate at which glaciers are melting as the most critical piece of evidence so far to back up its position. UNEP, according to the blog post, said that the different rates of glacial melting, and the fact that some areas are experiencing small expansion of glaciers, underscores the multiple factors at work in determining the rate at which glaciers melt. Read more [...]
2011
05/10
CATEGORY
Climate Change
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Why not to get your fuel energy someplace else?

If you think it’s good to use trees for fuel, think again. Recently Dogwood Alliance released a paper, “Don’t Log the Forests for the Fuel” which exposed the false environmental and economic benefits of tree-based biofuels. Read more [...]
2011
05/02
CATEGORY
Biodiversity
Energy
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Evolution, Creation or both?

Evolution, Creation or both? Some food for thought, some time it can be funny to see the controversy between evolutionists and creationists many of intelligent people. Read more [...]
2011
04/18
CATEGORY
Human Evolution
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Collisions of understanding

Collisions of understanding. Author and scientist Ken Croswell writes about galaxy collisions in a recent blog on kencroswell.com in which he theorizes that such collisions “seem to be agents of cosmic socialism.” A new study, he says, finds that these collisions cause galactic regions rich in oxygen, iron, and even gold to mix with those that are impoverished, thereby making the rich poorer and the poor richer.” “In astronomy, any element heavier than helium is called a metal, so while your chemist friends certainly don't consider oxygen a metal, astronomers do,” says Croswell... Read more [...]
2011
04/09
CATEGORY
GreenDustries and the Environment
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Fine-tuning the cosmos

Fine-tuning the cosmos. Throughout enlightened Spirituality sites we found some existential thinking on the formation and existence of the universe and while this has nothing to do with food service packaging, we at GreenDustries feel that understanding the various levels and means of how we came to be provides a necessary foundation to where we’re heading. Read more [...]
2011
04/04
CATEGORY
Human Evolution
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Endangered Forests

GreenDustries is thrilled with the new policy at Georgia-Pacific that increases protection for millions of acres of the South’s natural hardwood forests. It lets us know that others in industry, like us, believe we must rein in the pillaging of forests to save tomorrow’s forests today – and it is a giant leap in the battle toward understanding of the important role forests play in our planet’s environment.

What the new policy means is that Georgia-Pacific will not purchase trees from Endangered Forests and Special Areas, or from new pine plantations established at the expense of natural hardwood forests. The policy statement was developed in consultation with environmental groups Dogwood Alliance, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Rainforest Action Network.

While GP’s new forest policy applies to all of its operations, as a first step in implementing its commitment on Endangered Forests and Special Areas, GP worked with the environmental groups and scientists to identify 11 Endangered Forests and Special Areas totaling 600,000 acres in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Eco-Region, as well as 90 million acres of natural hardwood forests in the Southern region. Endangered Forests and Special Areas in other regions are to be mapped in a similar process, over the coming years.

According to the Dogwood Alliance website: “No other U.S. company has demonstrated this level of initiative in mapping unique forests across such a broad region,” said Debbie Hammel, NRDC Senior Resource Specialist... Read more [...]

2011
03/23
CATEGORY
Fast Food Packaging
Flora
The Environment
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