Environmental tidbits

Remote Alaskan Village Turns To Wind & Solar Power

Scallop shells can be used to clean up polluted water, three teenagers in Halifax, Nova Scotia have discovered. James Beaton-Johnson, Elias Fares and Amy Trottier began their award-winning research as Grade 12 students.

...The students at J.L. Ilsley high school began experimenting with scallop shells immersed in dirty dish water. The water cleared in 24 hours. The students then used their inexpensive, user-friendly method to improve the water quality on the MacIntosh Run, a river flowing through their school property. They discovered the shells' shape and chemical makeup neutralizes pH and also helps filter out coliform bacteria, sediment and heavy metals.

...Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly was so impressed with the students' research that he offered them summer jobs testing their method on the municipal water system. Their method successfully cleaned the water.  Global Village News article

I recently read of another scientific discovery by a teenaged girl, but now I've forgotten what it was. Of course, somebody's going to have to find a way to make bundles off the discoveries or they won't go anywhere. Or, like too many discoveries, a competitive corporate giant will buy the idea and squelch it, or maybe just destroy the work and ruin the researcher.

There, your hopes are dashed.

If you're looking for hope, you've come to the wrong place. Hope is what sustains the worst of the world's horrors. Without hope, you'd have no fear. Without hope, you'd take risks and do whatever it might take to accomplish and change things. Hope makes you sit and wait.

Abandon hope.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.