Who Doesn't Like Taking Quizzes?

Here is just some fun stuff for you to do. I went to planetgreen.discovery.com/games-quizzes/ and found some pretty interesting quizzes.

I took the "Are you a green beauty?" quiz and didn't do too well on it. My score was 2/10. I did it just for fun to see what I got, but apparently I know a lot less than I thought I did about the chemicals in make up.

I did learn a lot though from my wrong answers. If you get an answer wrong, they explain what the right answer is and the harmful side effects. As you answer correctly, they add in more little facts about that answer.

To take up some more time before my next class, I took the "What's Your Clothing Footprint?" With this one, I got 4/10. I was a little more knowledgeable, but still didn't know what I thought I did.

There are others, so check them out and let me know what quiz you took and your score!

iPod Powered by Our Heart?

While I was checking out Treehugger today, I came across an interesting article about iPods and our heartbeats.

According to some scientists at the American Chemistry Society, we might see this type of technology in the next five years. How cool would that be to power our iPods with our own hear beat? I think we would save a lot of energy then.

Lead scientist, Zhong Lin Wang, Ph.D of Georgia Institute of Technology, and other researchers have made a break through after working on creating this technology for six years now. They have created a small flexible chip that generates electricity when squeezed between two fingers. Soon this will change to generate electricity from our pulse.

"This development represents a milestone toward producing portable electronics that can be powered by body movements without the use of batteries or electrical outlets," said lead scientist Zhong Lin Wang, Ph.D. "Our nanogenerators are poised to change lives in the future. Their potential is only limited by one's imagination." Zhong also said that the faster this comes out into the market, the better our lives will be without all the batteries and chargers.

The way this works is by zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires. These wires are piezoelectrixc, which means that they create electricity through any body movement, inlcuding blood flow through the body. Nanowires can also generate electricity by wind and even rolling tires.

What do you think about this? Would you want and iPod that is powered by your heart beat?

Lights out!

Tonight from 8:30 to 9:30 turn out your lights to be a part of Earth hour and conserve energy.

This will be the 4th year for Earth hour, which started in Australia in 2007 by the World Wildlife Fund. So far 128 countries have participated. To find out more you can go to www.earthhour.org.

Are you going to join in tonight?

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"Green" Taxes?

How would you feel about a "green" tax? This tax would be put on products that don't help improve the environmental impact. It would make people pay for everything that goes into making the product; the whole process from resources, to production, to distribution, to disposal.

So how would you feel about this? Denmark already does this to help lessen their impact on the Earth. They tax more on vehicles that use gasoline, instead of electric cars; this also means they tax more on gas. I talk more on this topic in one of my previous posts in October of 2010.

Do you think that the U.S. should do the same? Would you support and vote for a "green tax?"

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

I felt like I had to post something today, since it is a "green" day. But other than that, I don't know what to say, except to be safe tonight.


Alright, I also wanted to say that I am done with finals, so I have plenty of time to keep up with my blogs.

Would you bath in cancer?

I don't think so. And I wouldn't either. Here's yet another one of Annie Leonard's videos about our cosmetics.

http://storyofstuff.org/cosmetics/



Here is a website where you can check out what's in your shampoos, body washes, etc. Go to www.cosmeticsdatabase.com. It will tell you what is in your products and give it a rating of how safe or dangerous it is.

Let me know what you found out about your products. Will you keep using them?

E-waste

Here is a video about our electronics:
http://storyofstuff.org/electronics/