Columbian Exchange - What Americas Got?

Food-wise the Americas got primarily domesticated animals , cereals and such staple foods as coffee, sugarcane and bananas.

Horses - actually were not not introduced to the Americas by Columbus and the Europeans who followed, horses were brought back to the New World!  That's probably why the American Mustang populated the prairies so fast or in reality re-populated.

Columbian Exchange - What's Europe's Deal?

In the effect of  what was later labeled as The Columbian Biological Exchange Europe got primarily new vegetables and fruit.

Potatoes, tomatoes, corn, tobacco, pineapples and cacao and chocolate.

How Columbus Affected Ecology?

Columbus sailed the ocean blue …

90% of the “New Continents” population wiped out by foreign diseases.  Whole nations, or the “savage people”, as the “superior, civilized, peaceful” Spaniards liked to see it, gone forever, sometimes without a trace, sometimes with just empty ruins repossessed by “Mother Nature” to witness the first phase of the Columbian Exchange.

To Hybrid or Not To Hybrid?

Have you heard about the 57 mpg car?  Yes, it’s a Honda!  If you still don’t know what I’m talking about, here is the news.

Hybrid Cars or Traditional?

When hybrid cars first came out they carried the hope that they would be the ultimate panacea for what was viewed as the future chronic oil shortage.  As it turned out, they neither met the expectations, nor are we running out of oil.

Are We Running Out of Oil?

We “all” know it that the day will come, rather sooner than later, that we will run out of fossil fuels.  But, again, will we really?