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Keeping with Denmark’s progressively green lifestyle, one hotel is offering a rather unique deal to its guests.
Located 15 minutes from the center of Copenhagen, the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers hotel is offering a free meal in exchange for electricity. How will this be done? Well, there will be two exercise bicycles installed at the hotel. [...]
Across the internet, you’ll find a world of information on environmental news, how to live green, how to calculate your carbon footprint, tips on saving energy, and so forth. More sites, programs, widgets and applications come out every single day. Obviously, you can’t keep track of them all. How do you decide which ones are [...]
You may be a person who lives the green lifestyle. You may recycle, buy organic and locally, and use a form of renewable energy source. You’ll only buy products that are natural and not tested on animals and you only use a car or public transportation if you absolutely have to—any other time you’ll walk [...]
How many of you enjoy walking? Maybe you do it for the exercise or maybe you like to walk so you can reduce your carbon footprint. Whatever the reason, if you live in the U.K., you might be interested in the website WalkIt.com.
The people of walkit.com have created an urban walking route planner. Yeah, you’ve [...]
A recent piece in the London Times entitled ‘After lunch we’ll save the planet’ documents a project that set out to calculate the carbon footprints of four families living in the U.K. It came up with some interesting results. The families consider themselves to be living generally Green lifestyles and are conspicuously upper middle class. [...]
The U.K.’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, or Defra for short, has a number of campaigns and programs focusing on environmental issues such as driving less, energy efficiency, saving water, recycling and climate change. Defra’s ACT ON CO2 project is one such campaign. Below are two current TV ads and links to their [...]
Humans are more wasteful than originally thought.
The Global Footprint Network recently put out a report stating that humans use resources equivalent to 1 ½ Earths to meet their needs, and Americans are the worst of all. If the entire world lived as recklessly as those in the US, humans would require 5 Earths to produce [...]
When it comes to your carbon footprint, there are many things people say you should do in order to lower it. Don’t drive or use a vehicle if you don’t have to. Don’t waste electricity or energy. Travel by air less. Stop deforestation. Apparently “conserve your water” should also be added to this list. It [...]
Transportation is constantly changing. New or improved versions of cars, trucks, vans and SUVs are constantly being manufactured. People carpool together or take the bus to save money; and possibly to also reduce their carbon footprint. For those that are more eco-minded, they walk or ride a bike wherever they need to go. Some people [...]
Nanotechnology has already sparked worries concerning its possible toxicity and unknown environmental impacts. Another recent concern about nanotech is that it may use far more energy than its tiny scale suggests. Nanotech is, in essence, technology that operates on the atomic or molecular level, or that which can be measured between one and 100 nanometers [...]
These days, everything you do has to be eco-friendly – flying eco-friendly; eating eco-friendly; dressing eco-friendly etc. Before you know it, there will be eco-friendly marriages and births (assuming no one has thought of it yet.) So why leave out vacations from that list? So, how do you go from point A to point B [...]
In the new environmental documentary “No Impact Man”, Colin Beavan tries to live his life as the title says – making absolutely no impact on the earth. The movie, though playing only in New York and Los Angeles, is one of the most awaited films of the year.
The film documents the life of Beavan, a [...]
We already know that airplanes emit a lot of CO2. But how much of an environmental impact does flying have when compared to other modes of transport? What about offsetting the carbon footprint of flying by participating in ecotourism or running planes on biodiesel?
Besides CO2, airplanes emit water vapor, nitrous oxides, sulfate, and soot. Since [...]
Many know of and love the program that is Google Earth: a virtual globe, map and geographic information center that allows people to view the world in 3D, live video footage, reviews and ratings on lodgings, restaurants and transportation, and even celestial bodies of the night sky. It also shows a collection of organizations spreading [...]
There are many carbon footprint calculators out there nowadays. I have tried a number of them but today I stumbled upon one that is a WWF produce in association with The Independent. And I have to say it’s easy, fast and really eye-opening. As it states on the website if you are “worried about your [...]
Have you ever wondered how we survived before super-markets came to be? And how did our parents go through life not knowing the joy of recycling tons of food packaging in color coded recycle bins? It must have been such a boring life for those who had their own kitchen garden and had to cook [...]
It is a common misconception that in order to help save the environment, you have to radically alter your current way of life so that it conforms to the new ethical standards of environmentalism. While it is true that driving cars and flying around in airplanes pollute the Earth and contribute to global warming, there [...]
