Happy Earth Day 2010!
Happy Earth Day 2010 to everyone! Earth Day, Apr. 22, a day to celebrate the environment. The first Earth Day was organized in 1970 to promote the ideas of ecology, encourage respect for life on earth, and highlight growing concern over pollution of the soil, air, and water.
Green Spring Cleaning
Green cleaning is a term that describes a growing trend in favor of using cleaning methods with environmentally-friendly ingredients and chemicals to preserve human health and environmental quality. Green cleaning techniques and products avoid the use of chemically-reactive and toxic cleaning products which contain various toxic chemicals, some of which emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) causing respiratory and dermatological problems among other adverse effects.
Colony Collapse Disorder: As Goes The Honey Bees, So Goes The Human Race
Honey bees have been dying out for the past couple of decades due to Colony Collapse Disorder as well as the so called normal maladies that face bees in the forms of parasites and pests such as Varroa and Tracheal Mites, Small Hive Beetles (SHB) and Wax Moths; as well as diseases such as Nosema, [...]
Europe Offers To Cut Emissions 95% by 2050
Europe offers to cut emissions 95% by 2050 if a deal is reached at Copenhagen soon. That would be truly amazing and would send a message to the rest of the world. This is what will happen if the pact is sealed, signed and delivered in Copenhagen six weeks from now.
Chinese Companies Emit More CO2 Than Great Britain
Three Companies in China emitted more Carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2008 than the whole of Great Britain, says the Greenpeace report of Huaneng, Datang and Guodian which are the top three firms in China. The report says that inefficient plants and China’s dependency on coal, makes tackling climate change very difficult.[...]
The John Chapman Project: Growing Trees From Seeds
I started working on a new project to try to save and plant the seeds from the fruit I eat. It started out as a simple concept, but quickly blossomed into something more. [...]
