‘Environment’ Archives
Ecorotic Ratings Make Good Vibes’ Toys Unique
There are a range of green products in the market nowadays; if you think of a product, chances are, there is an eco-friendly version of it. Now the same can be said for San Francisco-based Good Vibrations, an adult store that has adopted “ecorotic” ratings, which inform consumers about how environmentally friendly an adult-themed product [...]
Tips on Solar Power for Home
The time has arrived for the world to wake up to the alarming scenario of energy crisis. This is no more a situation of single dimension; the other dimensions of it being depletion of the conventional energy sources, global warming, severity in climatic changes and their effects being manifold. Check out some of the methods of harnessing the [...]
Amazon loggers captured a young tribe girl and burned her alive
Loggers in Brazil have reportedly burned a young tribe girl alive in an effort to scare the local indigenous population from its land. The girl, who the Telegraph report was around the age of eight, came from one of Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes. The gruesome murder is said to have happened in October or November last year. Apparently the [...]
Green Video Games Teaching Kids
It’s not always easy to get through to kids; engaging them in conversation about the environment can be tedious, especially if they are twitching from video game withdrawal and anxious to return to their XBOX. Luckily, there are games out there that appeal to kids while conveying important environmental messages. It may sound like a long [...]
How Green is Your Sofa?
Well, if you’ve had your sofa for any amount of time the probable answer is that your sofa isn’t very green. The worst component on a sofa for not being green is the filling used to make sofa cushions. The vast majority are filled with polyurethane foam – which is a petrol-based product. So, for a start, that’s not very environmentally [...]
Conflict between Wildlife and Wind Farms
Wind power is a great form of energy; there’s no doubt about that. However, there have been recent threats to the wildlife population that have collided with these green efforts. This upcoming January 2012, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will publish new guidelines for wind farms. Some of these guidelines will be aimed at wind-farm [...]
Is Motoring Sustainable?
You read a lot these days about low emission cars made by Honda, Toyota and other big manufacturers, and environmentally-friendly driving etc., but is driving sustainable at all? Is it possible to live as nature intended us to in some ways at least, i.e. in complete harmony with the environment – whist simultaneously moving around the planet in [...]
Island Nations can fight Climate Genocide with Carbon Debt Carbon Credit Analysis
At the 2011 Durban Climate Conference the US, with the help of its climate criminal lackeys Australia and Canada, again succeeded in preventing requisite international climate change action. It was reported that Island States had again pleaded with other representatives to avert “climate genocide” but their pleas fell on deaf ears at Durban, [...]
Five Hazardous Waste Disposal Methods Explained
How concerned are you with what you leave behind? With eco-friendliness and a green attitude becoming prominent in today’s day and age, there are still many individuals, as well as corporate entities that appear wholly unfazed by the amount of waste they leave behind. What is more, they deliberately choose to remain uninformed on the [...]
Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol
Just hours after returning from COP17 in South Africa, Peter Kent, Canada’s environment minister, announced that the country would use their legal right and become the first country to quit the Kyoto Protocol. Kent claimed that the Kyoto protocol “will not work” when China and USA is not participating and that the global climate change [...]
