Archive for 'Green Living'
Paper Bags or Plastic Bags? Everything You Need to Know
This excellent analysis of plastic or paper bags by TreeHugger as they impact our environment should be commended for its in-depth coverage of the data. As many will know the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation on World Environment Day in 2009 commenced a global campaign to Ban the Plastic Bag our initiative later endorsed by the United [...]
Posted: March 2nd, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: deforestation, plastic bags, plastic pollution, StoplasticBags
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All aboard, please take your seats and fasten your seatbelts. There is a 25% chance this plane will crash.
By Bob Williamson – Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
The reality of that welcome to us would be our reply, “I’m not getting on this flight!”
Yet we are all in fact on that flight with climate change and the plane has taken off.
Much has been promoted in the media lately that climate change science is somehow conspiring to [...]
Posted: February 27th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: activism, Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, finite resources, glacial melt, global warming, icesheet loss, methane, natural systems, resource depletion, stop climate change, Tipping Points
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The Bloom Box (VIDEO): An Energy Plant In A Box To Power Your Home
Two of these blocks can power an American home, while one will suffice for a European home. A stack of 64 can power a small business. What is this magical box and where can you get one?
It’s the Bloom Box, essentially a power plant in a box, and it claims to be the latest breakthrough [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under General, Green Living, Technologies.
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All day every day rainforests are cleared for palm oil
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Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: Amazon Rainforest, habitat loss, Palm Oil, Rainforest destruction, species extinction
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Does your breakfast cause rainforest destruction?
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Posted: February 22nd, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: activism, activists, Amazon Rainforest, habitat loss, Palm Oil, species extinction
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A waste packaging initiative – a small step forward.
Jay Kilby of think2100.com has taken the initiative to launch a petition to ask consumers to take a stand on pushing for environmental product stewardship of unnecessary waste packaging. As all who know of the environmental educational messages of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation over the last few years, waste packaging has been a major focus [...]
Posted: February 20th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, Green Living.
Tags: activism, Extended producer responsibility, landfill, paper waste, plastic pollution, plastics, reducing waste, waste packaging, ZERO Waste
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Build-Your-Own Electric Car
Some central Texans are tired of waiting for auto manufacturers to build all-electric cars. Instead, they’re taking matters into their own hands. Video courtesy of Fox News
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Posted: February 20th, 2010 under General, Green Living, Technologies.
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Posted: February 10th, 2010 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Green Living, World News.
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Serving Size Snafu
William Neuman talks about how the F.D.A. and food companies make labels for serving sizes that bear little reality to the way people eat. It reveals how we can be easily mislead. With over consumption on the rise in the developed and fast developing world, it’s a timely reminder to us all.
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Posted: February 6th, 2010 under Foundation News, General, Green Living.
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Consumption in a finite world of resources. – How can we sustain a future that isn’t FINITE?
Sustainability is a word that is bandied about a lot these days. But how, unless we change some of the present practices can, indeed all we do, be sustained in a world of finite constraints?
Below you’ll read some of the facts and make your own mind up. The interview that you can listen to here [...]
Posted: February 6th, 2010 under Foundation News, General, Green Living.
Tags: activist, Climate Change, finite resources, resource depletion
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