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Climate Change, Conservation, Green living, Health, Nature, Pollution, Recycling, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Sep 18th, 2010,
In case you haven’t heard yet, this weekend is Clean Up The World Weekend! What is Clean Up The World Weekend? Simply put, it’s a weekend set aside for people to help clean up our world. More specifically, it’s a weekend for people to get together and clean up all the trash in our world. You can clean up the trash on a city block, in a park, at the beach, in a forest, in a parking lot, or anywhere else you can think of. Once collected, or even while collecting, be sure to separate the recyclables from actual trash….
Tags: clean up the world, Clean Up The World Weekend, Climate change, education, event, Go Green, help out, Pollution, trash, tree planting, volunteer, waste
Climate Change, Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Sep 7th, 2010,
How much can we “safely” pollute our environment? How many fossil fuels can we burn? How much of a poisonous substance does not threaten our health? That our knowledge has limitations does not mean we shouldn’t exaggerate the ecological threat. On the contrary, we should be even more careful about it, given that the situation is extremely unpredictable. The recent uncertainties about global warming signal not that things are not too serious, but that they are even more chaotic than we thought, and that natural and social factors are inextricably linked. The above quote is by Lacanian philosopher and Slovenian…
Tags: ecological, ecology, environmentalist, Slavoj, trash, Zizek
Climate Change, Recycling, Videos & Documentaries, Jul 14th, 2010,
The Payatas garbage dump in Quezon City, Philippines is legendary among dumpsites of the world, for its sheer size and also for the desperate living conditions of the many people who subsist by scavenging there. Payatas made headlines 10 years ago when hundreds of informal settlers perished under a mountain of trash that collapsed during a downpour, burying them alive. Recently, increased attention has been focused on the Payatas dump, the environmental role of its scavengers – or rather, ‘waste recyclers’ – and an innovative project to convert the waste to energy by harvesting methane. The methane project provides an…
Tags: alternative, dump, dumpsite, EcoWaste, energy, families, methane, Payatas, Philippines, power, Quezon, recycler, tragedy, trash
Climate Change, Green living, Weird Stuff, Jun 21st, 2010,
When you think of Italy, you probably think of great cities like Rome and Venice, or perhaps the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or even Pompeii. Recently, Rome became quite well known for another thing: the world’s first garbage hotel. Designed by German artist, H.A. Shult, the hotel was built to highlight the issue of garbage along Europe’s beaches. In fact, it’s actually made entirely from 12 metric tons of garbage collected from Europe’s beaches. Well, actually, part of that is a lie. The structure was actually made in a German factory—including the garbage wall panels. However, the 12 metric tons…
Tags: artist, beaches, Europe, garbage hotel, H.A. Shult, Italy, Pollution, problem, Rome, Save the Beach, trash
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 13th, 2010,
If you like your environmental news to be short, sparkly and easily digestible, then check out Planet 100 from Discovery’s planet green. It’s not exactly hard-hitting, deep or analytical, but it certainly caters to a short attention span, is humorous and the host – Sarah Backhouse, an experienced environmental journalist – is, well… not exactly hard on the eyes. Anyway, it’s only 100 seconds and packs a surprising amount into that limited span of time. Perfect for the post-MTV Nintendo generation. Check out the below video, which explains the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, to see what I mean. Well-done and…
Tags: Backhouse, discovery, news, Pacific, Planet 100, planet green, pretty, Sarah, trash, Vortex
Climate Change, Green living, Jun 2nd, 2010,
There is something that happens in many rural areas around the globe. It’s a fairly common thing and it can also be a fairly dangerous thing, both to your health and to the environment. What am I referring to? Backyard Trash Burning. Yes, in many rural areas—small towns or out in the country—people will burn their trash. Typically, the trash is burned in a burning barrel (usually a 55 gallon metal drum), though some will also burn their garbage in boxes, a wood stove, or even a small pit dug into the ground. Items that are burned consist of things…
Tags: backyard trash burning, damage, danger, disposal, environmental, fire, garbage, hazards, Health, heavy metals, open burning, pollutants, Pollution, recycle, reduce, reuse, trash, waste
Climate Change, Nature, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, May 26th, 2010,
Mount Everest has been in the news quite a bit lately and for good reasons: Jordan Romero, a 13-year-old boy, became the youngest person ever to climb to the summit. On the opposite end of the age spectrum, 50-year-old Apa Sherpa (also known as the Super Sherpa) broke his own record and has climbed Everest the most number of times (20 thus far). According to the Super Sherpa, Climate Change is having a notable impact on Mount Everest—to the point of making it even more dangerous to climb. Apa, who dedicated his latest ascent to the impact of Global Warming…
Tags: broken records, Climate change, dangerous, global warming, Himalayas, Jordan Romero, Mount Everest, Nepal, Super Sherpa, trash
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 23rd, 2010,
There is far too much trash in our oceans and one marine animal is an unfortunate example of this. A young, male Gray Whale was found stranded along the shore of West Seattle. At least 50 gallons of stomach content were sorted through and while some of it was actually food, the rest were items that no living creature should even attempt to eat or digest. The garbage found amongst those stomach contents included: a golf ball, duct tape, sweat pants, pieces of plastic, surgical gloves, small towels, and over 20 plastic bags! The only good news about the situation…
Tags: death, garbage, gray whale, Pollution, stomach contents, stranded, trash, West Seattle
Climate Change, Green living, Recycling, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 10th, 2010,
Everywhere you go, you can find cigarette butts lying around somewhere. They’re on the sidewalk, on the streets, strewn across parking lots and even throughout parks, beaches, and our own backyards. It doesn’t matter if there’s a trash can or other cigarette disposal bin nearby, people flick them wherever they feel like it and it doesn’t do anyone any bit of good. Fortunately, one company has come up with an interesting solution for this problem. Since it’s highly unlikely that we will see thousands (or millions) of people quit smoking cold turkey and also unlikely that they’ll stop carelessly flicking…
Tags: biodegrade, cigarettes, filters, Green Butts, litter, natural, organic, Pollution, problem, seeds, solution, trash
Climate Change, Green living, Pollution, Recycling, Weird Stuff, Mar 17th, 2010,
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 the University of Southampton, goes even further: “It’s the size of North America. But although the patch itself is extremely large, it’s only one very clear representation of the much bigger worldwide problem.” Plastic waste spells death for a million birds and 100,000…
Tags: garbage, great, ocean, Pacific, Patch, plastic, Plastiki, Rothschild, Telegraph, trash
Climate Change, Green living, Pollution, Recycling, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 25th, 2010,
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 the North Atlantic Ocean – is comparable to the better-known Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The researchers carried out 6,100 tows in areas of the Caribbean and the North Atlantic – off the coast of the US. More than half of these expeditions revealed floating…
Tags: AP, Atlantic, BBC, garbage, great, north, ocean, Pacific, Patch, plastic, poison, pollutants, rubbish, sea, trash
Climate Change, Nature, Feb 11th, 2010,
A series of rainstorms in Southern California have resulted in debris-lined beaches strewn with ‘mangled shopping carts, bicycle tires, tennis shoes and thousands of plastic cups and bottles’, the Los Angeles Times reports. Beaches in LA and Orange County were particularly hard hit, especially those located near river mouths. Stormy weather can cause refuse to gather in waterways such as the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers, which is then deposited on beaches. Since this is a common and regular occurrence in Southern California, many residents are practical and take the trash in stride. Surfers still surf and typically eco-minded…
Tags: Associated Press, beach, California, Los Angeles, ocean, plastic, river, SoCal, Southern, storm, trash, weather
Green living, Videos & Documentaries, Jan 9th, 2010,
The Caribbean island nation of Haiti is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. There is little industry in Haiti and the majority of Haitian people – mostly subsistence farmers – survive on about $2 a day. In addition to poverty and political and economic instability, Haiti suffers from environmental hardships including soil erosion, flooding and deforestation. Tropical storms and hurricanes also periodically batter the country. In such impoverished and disadvantaged conditions, commonplace things can take on entirely new meanings. Take trash: the organization SOIL or Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods is a self-described ‘non-profit organization dedicated…
Tags: CNN, Haiti, report, SOIL, trash, video, waste
Green living, Recycling, Dec 9th, 2009,
In a small city in East Texas, Dan Phillips builds charming rustic houses for low-income people. That’s remarkable enough in itself, but what’s really amazing is what he builds them out of: 80% waste material. These energy efficient, earth friendly’ homes are unique and eye-catching. Perhaps every detail isn’t done in the best of taste – bones adorn several parts of the houses’ interiors and exteriors – but a lot of Phillips’ work is downright beautiful in a ‘junkyard meets the enchanted forest’ kind of way. And beauty is in the eye of the beholder anyway, right? Dan Phillips’ company,…
Tags: Dan Phillips, houses, New York Times, Phillips, Phoenix Commotion, Texas, trash
