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Business, Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, May 13th, 2012,
Gold rushes in developing countries mean riches for a few and crumbs, death and ecocide for the poor and the environment. But never mind all that, there’s money to be made. Gold in Peru is booming. According to Australia’s 9MSN, Gold is now Peru’s number one export, with countries like Switzerland, Canada and the US as major buyers. The article also briefly mentions the conflicts and environmental damage caused by Peru’s goldmines without going into any detail. Here are some details: Gold mining is destroying the Peruvian Amazon rainforest through deforestation, digging, and mercury, oil and hydrocarbon contamination, which is…
Tags: amazon, gold, gold rush, mercury, mining, Peru
Business, Conservation, Apr 18th, 2012,
American billionaire and erstwhile presidential candidate Donald Trump is campaigning against wind energy in Scotland. Why? Because he thinks the presence of wind turbines will deter patrons of the golf resort he plans to construct on the Scottish coast in Aberdeenshire. In a submission to Scottish Parliament, Trump claimed that wind farms will end tourism in Scotland and ruin the environment. The business magnate, reality TV star and son of a real estate tycoon threatened to pull his golf resort project out of Scotland if the wind project went head, claiming that Scotland will “go broke”. A Scottish Government spokesman…
Tags: Donald, energy, golf, resort, Scotland, Trump, wind, wind farm
Business, Climate & Change, Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Mar 20th, 2012,
China may still be overwhelmingly dependent on fossil fuels for power (especially coal) but the country’s rapid economic boom and consequent insatiable hunger for energy is causing it to explore and exploit all avenues, including massive wind and solar projects. While the US is going natural gas crazy and despite plenty of solar possibilities, Australia is still in the thrall of cheap coal, China is embracing greener energy sources. Bear in mind China is still the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses and has a less-than-stellar record when it comes to toxic pollution. But the market is driving this still centrally…
Tags: australia, China, desert, energy, Gansu, Green, Solar, wind
Business, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Feb 15th, 2012,
American monologist Mike Daisey visited a factory in Shenzhen, China where Apple products are manufactured and then wrote a monologue about his experiences there, combined with details on the life of Apple’s late founder, Steve Jobs. Now, many Apple fans – and there are many, many Apple fans – speak of Steve Jobs as if he is a great philosopher, superman or even god, rather than a creative businessman who made a hell of a lot of money in the usual ways people make a hell of a lot of money. I mean he made products that people like, but…
Tags: Apple, China, Mike Daisey, monologist, Steve Jobs
Business, Climate & Change, Politics, Pollution, Dec 15th, 2011,
According to Yale University’s 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) Canada ranked as the 46th greenest country in the world, a shameful and sudden drop from #12 in 2008. Why? Mostly due to Canadian ‘tar sands’ or ‘oil sands’ in the province of Alberta, where huge petroleum reserves lie in the form of bitumen, a heavy black form of crude that is energy intensive, highly polluting and more greenhouse gas intensive than conventional oil extraction. And now Canada has pulled out of the Kyoto Treaty, citing that it would be too expensive. Canadian environment minister Peter Kent claims that it would…
Tags: Africa, Canada, energy, Germany, Solar
Business, Science & Technology, Sustainable living, sustainable living, Sep 16th, 2011,
A lot of effort, expense and time can go into planning a business event, whether it’s a large corporate affair or a small to medium business event. Travel expenses, display banners, promotional gifts and catering can all add up financially, but they can also be a major source of carbon emissions. In 2009, heating and lighting of venues, transport to and from events and promotional materials to name a few were responsible for emitting 60,000 tons of CO2 in the UK alone. However, with careful organisation and planning this could be reduced significantly. Reduce unnecessary transport. If possible arrange for…
Tags: carbon emissions, CO2 emissions from businesses, exhibition CO2 emissions, fair shows, infographic carbon emissions, infographic CO2 emissions, reduce carbon emissions, trade show carbon emissions
Business, green living, Science & Technology, Sustainable living, sustainable living, Aug 11th, 2011,
Working from home is becoming popular for office workers who have been shaken by the increasing fuel prices. What they don’t realize is that their home office is a powerhouse of carbon emissions, responsible for the greenhouse effect. Conserving energy and reducing waste when working from home can help to reduce the further damage that climate change is having on Earth. Recycling and Reducing Waste Although everyone should be practicing recycling in their home, it’s even more important for home workers to reduce their waste and increase their recycling habits. Printing should be avoided where possible to reduce waste of…
Tags: alternative energy home office, eco-friendly office, eco-friendly stationary, green your home office, how to turn you home office green, power saving home office, working from home green
Business, Pollution, Science & Technology, Sustainable living, Jul 8th, 2011,
All around us we see giant trucks every day. They are each hauling something different, but they also have 2 things in common. First, our society needs these trucks and the goods they are hauling to keep up our day to day lives. And second, for every mile these trucks drive they leave behind them a carbon footprint. The transport industry is one of the biggest contributors to CO2 emissions around the world. While every sector is working to make its own improvements, when it comes to reducing the damage of commercial trucking, it seems that collaborative partnerships are turning…
Tags: carbon offset, green efforts in the transport industry, green transport strategies, TerraPass, transport industry, transport marketplace, uShip, uShip.com
Business, Climate & Change, Science & Technology, Sustainable living, Jul 5th, 2011,
Solar power has been around for decades, but is still rarely seen in commercial settings in the UK. The tide may be about to turn as the economic climate continues to look challenging for most businesses, requiring considerable cost saving measures and alternative revenue streams to keep many companies viable. Commercial solar could be the answer for many small to large business owners to curtail expenditure and even turn additional profit from producing electricity. The Advantages of Commercial Solar For UK Businesses Commercial solar power makes economic sense on several levels for UK businesses. The main advantage is the level…
Tags: commercial solar, commercial solar system, ecoexperts, the eco experts, uk businesses, uk eco experts
Business, Politics, Sustainable living, Apr 8th, 2011,
Many of us who use Apple computers have a hard time imagining using any another machine. Likewise, most iPhone users probably loathe the thought of switching to a “normal” mobile phone. My own MacBook is 4 ½ years old and held together by Duck Tape, but still works a charm. And I’ve no intention of bloody going back to a clunky PC either. But there are some ethical points about Apple that bother me, despite their clean, forward-thinking image. For one, the company’s constant upgrading of its products promotes excessive consumption and has elicited accusations of purposefully withholding technology. Apple…
Tags: Apple, China, iphone, mobile phones
Business, Sustainable living, Oct 5th, 2010,
A new wave of electric cars is coming to Europe in the form of futuristic bubble cars including, improbably, a two-wheeled model, which has a chassis designed along the lines of the Segway. You know, that annoying upright electric thingamajig that President Bush fell off. The new, cute, teensy vehicles are designed for the urban environment – easy to park and charge, and come with a host of high tech features such as radar, body heat scanners and automated driving based on GPS. That’s right – cars that drive themselves, talk to each other and scan your body. Run to…
Tags: bubble, car, electric, Kia, Pop, Renault, Twizy
Business, Sustainable living, Oct 1st, 2010,
Since the human species has more or less successfully extricated itself from the food chain, death just isn’t eco-friendly anymore. The old ‘food for worms’ adage is no longer apt, since worms apparently don’t really fancy formaldehyde. Humans don’t like it in their drinking water either, oddly enough. It seems that these days dying green can be even harder than living green. The modern funeral involves deforestation (in the form of expensive hardwood coffins), chemical pollution of groundwater and both toxic and greenhouse gas emissions from cremation. According to an article in The Economist, an Australian study found that cremation…
Tags: biodegradable, body, burial, co2, coffin, funeral, Green
Business, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Sep 27th, 2010,
In Germany, fair trade cafés and fair trade boutiques, known as ‘world shops’ are growing in popularity. There are over 30 world shops in the Berlin-Brandenburg area alone. Fair trade doesn’t just mean coffee or chocolate. There are around 1,000 fair trade products available in the country. Germany’s ‘Fair Trade Week’ highlights the benefits of socially responsible goods, including better wages for producers in poor countries, which in turn means that consumers and businesses must be willing to pay higher prices. FA!R 2010 (September 23-25), a fair trade expo, took place in Dortmund during Fair Trade Week and included some…
Tags: coffee, fair trade, France, German, Germany, goods, UK, world shops
Business, Climate & Change, Conservation, green living, Nature, Recycling, Sustainable living, Weird & Wonderful, Sep 23rd, 2010,
Did you know that by making simple changes to a greener lifestyle, you could save hundreds—or even thousands—of dollars per year? From holiday gift wrapping to house cleaning and work transportation, you’d be amazed at the savings that can pile up, simply from going green! Despite the problems the environment faces and the ever-growing trend of “going green”, there are people out there who still only think of themselves. They don’t care about changing their life to help the planet; they’d rather change the planet to help themselves. Fortunately, there are ways to help both–without harming the planet. So, if…
Tags: Go Green, Going Green, help the planet, save money, Shift Your Habit, switch to the green lifestyle, tips to save money while going green
Business, Politics, Pollution, Sep 22nd, 2010,
Scottish oil exploration and extraction firm Cairn Energy has struck oil in the Arctic only weeks after they’d found gas. Cairn Energy has been drilling off the coast of Greenland in waters up to 500 meters deep since only a couple of months ago. They have since faced opposition from environmental groups like the WWF and Greenpeace, the later of which successfully stopped their operations for a few hours by occupying an oil rig and suspending themselves from tents. Along with the Royal Bank of Scotland, Cairn were also one of the focuses of protest by activists during Edinburgh climate…
Tags: arctic, Cairn, energy, greenland, Greenpeace, oil
Business, Politics, Sep 16th, 2010,
On Tuesday Italian police seized Mafia-linked assets worth an unprecedented €1.5 billion from a Sicilian businessman known as the ‘Lord of the Winds’. The seizure of holdings from 43 mainly renewable energy companies included land, sports cars and bank accounts. It signifies a shift in operations for Italy’s mafia; from the illegal dumping of toxic waste to the laundering of money through solar and wind power projects. According to members of the Italian press, this transition has been going on for years. From a France 24 report: Throughout Italy, organised crime has invested heavily in renewable energies and in waste…
Tags: crime, energy, Italian, Italy, mafia, organized, power, renewable, Sicilian, Solar, subsidies, wind
Business, Climate & Change, Politics, Sep 15th, 2010,
The UK’s top business lobby group CBI released a major report on Monday regarding climate change. The report stressed that both the British government and climate scientists need to improve their communication skills if they want businesses to adapt to a changing climate and that businesses themselves should include ‘climate risks’ as part of their corporate reports. From a report in the Guardian: In particular, the report recommends that the existing UK Climate Projections should be repackaged so that they can be easily understood by non-climate specialists and that the government’s upcoming Climate Change Risk Assessment should feature specific recommendations…
Tags: Caroline, changing, climate, climate change, environment, inevitable, secretary, Spelman, UK
Business, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Sep 14th, 2010,
Xinjiang autonomous region is China’s frontier land for renewable energy. China has poured cash into wind energy projects in Xinjiang, fuelling a boom in the country’s largest and most western region. Because of the Chinese government’s investment in renewables, like the wind farms of Xinjiang, China has recently been named the best place to invest in green energy. But for many people in Xinjiang, particularly the Muslim Uyghur community who make up its largest ethnic group, the ‘wind rush’ is just another stage of colonization by the People’s Republic of China. Uyghers have for the most part not benefitted from…
Tags: boom, China, energy, Muslim, Uyghur, wind, Xinjiang
Business, Sustainable living, Sep 9th, 2010,
Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, located south of Glasgow, Scotland, is set to get a lot bigger. Whitelee wind farm on Eaglesham Moor will add 75 new turbines by 2012, for a total of 215, enabling it to power an impressive 300,000 homes. From a BBC News report: Whitelee wind farm is already the largest onshore wind farm in Europe and this extension pushing the overall capacity to 539MW will make it one of the largest in the world. –Simon Christian, UK director of ScottishPower Renewables The new turbines will be supplied by the firm Alstom, a multinational specializing in…
Tags: Alstom, Europe, Scotland, turbines, Whitelee, wind farm
Business, Politics, Pollution, Uncategorized, Sep 7th, 2010,
The European Union (EU) established the REACH system (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals) and the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) an integrated system for Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals and establishing a European agency for these products. This system requires companies that manufacture and import chemicals to assess the risks arising from their use and take the necessary measures to manage any risk to be identified. The burden of proof with regard to the safety of chemicals manufactured or sold is on the industry. The regulation aims to ensure a high level of protection of human health…
Tags: alogen, bfr, environment, Europe, government, Pollution, research, TOXIC
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