Top 10 Green Articles on Twilight Earth for 2008

2008 has been a great year for Twilight Earth. This website was born about five months ago and in that time, I’ve made friends and contact throughout the Green Community, all over the world. So I thought I would take the opportunity to share with you the Top 10 Green Articles on Twilight Earth for 2008.

10. 2008 was the year of over-consumption and market collapse. McMansions for the Wal-Mart Nouveau Riche was one of the first articles I wrote, and I really enjoyed putting it together.

Excerpt: McMansions, even more than Hummers, typify a growing need to appear wealthy at the expense of Society and the Environment. It’s this Wal-Mart philosophy of buy big, buy cheap and replace often that has gotten us into so much trouble. More

9. The Bush family is an Oil family. So why should it be a suprise that George is going on an Oil deregulation spree? A List of Bush Midnight Regulations Against the Environment

Excerpt:Bush must owe people in the fossil fuel business some big favors, because he seems to be working at a fever pitch to pass Midnight Regulations against the Environment.

Midnight Regulations are last minute laws passed by an outgoing president in an attempt to pay off favors and keep a new administration from being able to change them. With barely 60 days to go until Barack Obama takes the White House, Bush is working methodically to weaken or reverse an array of regulations that protect America’s wilderness from logging or mining operations, and compel factory farms to clean up dangerous waste. More

8. This has become a popular feature here at Twilight Earth. Coming in at number eight is Photo Sunday – Haystack Rock, Oregon Coast

Excerpt: My son lives in Portland, and while out to visit him, we drove out to Oregon City. If you’ve never been there, its well worth the trip. The drive through the forests and hills is really breathtaking. More

7. Interestingly, more popular than my article about the first Mammalian Species to go extinct as a result of Man Made Global Warming, Green Pit Viper, Huntsman Spider, Dragon Millipede and Laotian Rock Rat Discovered (Pics) comes in at number seven.

Excerpt: The Green Pit Viper, Huntsman Spider, Dragon Millipede and Laotian Rock Rat are just a few of the more than 1000 new species discovered in the Greater Mekong in Past Decade. More

6. Of course, what was bigger than the Presidential Elections this year? President Elect Obama had a lot of people behind him, and one of the new demographics to support him, was people who care about protecting the environment. At number six, Presidential Debate Transcripts – October 7th, 2008

Excerpt: This is the Second of Three Presidential Debates between Senators Obama and McCain. The first Presidential Debate Transcripts can be found here. The VP Debate Transcripts can be found here.

Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain meet in Nashville for their second debate.

BROKAW: Good evening from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. I’m Tom Brokaw of NBC News. And welcome to this second presidential debate, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. More

5. Just this picture. Simple, stark. 1 pic is worth 6 billion words.

4. NASA Says that this should “Alarm You.” Does it? I will admit, the headline is a bit of a teaser:

Imagine something almost 4 times the size of Texas, or 55 times the size of Maryland or 335 times the size of Delaware.

I don’t know if people were relieved or disappointed when the found out that I wasn’t talking about a Meteor. More

3. Acid Rain Is So 80’s was another of my first ever articles. It’s pretty much a straight science type of piece, explaining how acid rain is formed and cycles from ground water to rain and back, and its impacts on plant life, buildings, and peoples health. Nice litte charts and graphs too!

Excerpt: Acid Rain was THE most talked about environmental threat in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Simply put, Acid rain develops when sulfur dioxide (SO₂ which comes from pre-catalytic converters and current industrial pollution) and nitrogen oxides (NO_x) react in the atmosphere with water, oxygen, and other atmospheric chemicals. The SO₂ and NO_x derive from combustion of fossil fuels, various industrial processes, and even certain natural biological reactions. Sunlight acts as a catalyst, and the result is a mild solution of sulfuric acid and nitric acid. More.

2. Sometimes you write something and you wonder “Why?” “How come THAT was so popular?” This was one of those moments. Fall Time Change 2008 – Daylight Savings Time Schedule. It doesn’t seem as if the title would bring in thousands of people, but perhaps it was because it also has the history of the Daylight Savings Program, and how it came to be. Interesting article and worth a read.

Excerpt: Benjamin Franklin, while a minister to France, first suggested the idea in an essay titled “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light.” The essay was first published in the Journal de Paris in April 1784. But it wasn’t for more than a century later that an Englishman, William Willett, suggested it again in 1907. More

1. A little thing I put together on the true meaning of fall, First Day Of Fall – 2008 was by far, the most popular article on Twilight Earth.

Excerpt: Fall has always been my favorite time of year. It’s hard to explain why, but I’ll give it a shot. To me, fall seems as if it is a time of slowing down. The slowing of our frenzied life of summer, when the eve’s begin to get cool. It’s a time for opening the window while you’re sleeping and listening to the crickets instead of the hum of the heater or the air conditioner. It’s a time of balance, where the world stands still for a moment, the moment between growth and death. It’s a maturing time, when the soil seems to hold a special loam and the richness of the leaves and even the air that we breath has a musky yet snappy smell, that tells you “time has passed and the world is about to sleep.” More

Thanks for stopping by, and here is to wishing you and yours, a blessed and prosperous 2009.

Adam Shake

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