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Spring is finally here and gardens will soon be in full bloom. One main part of garden work in general is composting. I’m sure you’ve heard that composting is also good for the environment, but how much do you actually know about it? If you already do composting, great! However, if you are new to [...]
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, that stew of broken down plastic trash that lies in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is getting bigger.
An article in Tuesday’s Telegraph cites various estimates of the Patch’s size, which may have doubled over the past ten years:
Dr Simon Boxall, a physical oceanographer at the National Oceanography Centre at [...]
How many of you get a nice breath of smog-filled, polluted air every time you step outside?
Well, if you live in the UK, you’re in luck. The National Trust is distributing free jars of fresh air to London workers. Yes, that’s right: jars of fresh air. Care for a nice garden or walk through the [...]
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Am I blind because I do not see?
Africa. . . a land of enormous beauty, of warm people, of colorful traditions, of enormous diversity, and of devastating poverty. [...]
Plastics kill 1.5 million marine animals each year.
That’s the message of the latest PSA video for the Surfrider Foundation. For those of you unfamiliar with their work, this is a group dedicated to helping the ocean and beaches. More specifically, they focus on a number of initiatives, including clean water, beach preservation and the protection [...]
Recycling is a big part of our everyday lives. The recycling trucks here only collect aluminum and glass. However, downtown there is a recycling site where we take our newspapers, cardboard and plastics. There is the exception of plastic bags, which are not accepted at the recycling site (though people will throw them into the [...]
Imagine living in a home made of recycled waste plastic. Sure, it’s been done before, but Affresol takes it to a whole new level.
Backed by Welsh Assembly Government money, this “modular house construction company” launched a series of eco-friendly homes and four-ton modular, portable buildings. The awesome thing about these structures is not only do [...]
Not to be outdone by its fellow large expanse of sea and longtime nemesis, the larger Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean can now claim a colossal plastic garbage patch of its own.
According to reports from the BBC and AP, the Atlantic ‘Rubbish Patch’ – located within the latitudes of 22 and 38 degrees N in [...]
I came across this video on DigInfo’s Youtube Channel. It’s shot during the 2009 Eco-Products exhibition. It’s about a quiet spectacular machine that is supposed to make toilet paper from recycled, shredded paper. The machine is called White Goat (!?) and has all it needs to recycle paper right within itself. You simply put shredded [...]
In an effort to partake in more sustainable and green practices, this year’s Olympic medals are made from e-waste.
E-waste is another term for electronic waste. It includes everything from laptops to televisions to mp3 players and so forth. The medal making process started with the extracting of gold, silver and copper in 2006, by the [...]
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