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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. [...]
5 Tips For Eco-Friendly Fishing
If you talk to any environmentalist long enough, you are sure to get a warning about how food is going to run out. There is a growing concern [...]
Canning Your Organic Garden
Each year I enjoy the discovery and the ever changing garden-scape. But the icing on the cake is good wholesome food right from my backyard. For example, my neighbor gave me scores of carrot seedlings which I transplanted in the garden. And I planted a package of sugar snap peas. Later in the spring we [...]
Green Choice Awards For Environmental Nonprofits
About the 2009 Green Choice Awards
The awards were hosted by GreatNonprofits, the leading provider of user-generated ratings and reviews of nonprofits. Reviews appear on both GreatNonprofits.org as well as GuideStar.org, the premiere source for donor research on nonprofits. Nonprofits with the most positive reviews in their budget category are determined the winners of the 2009 Green Choice Awards.[...]
HGTV Green Home
The new 2009 Home and Garden TV (HGTV) Green Home has been built. The Green Home has many eco-friendly and green features from a Green “Living” Roof to Energy Star appliances. You can enter to win this home right here on our Green Earth Friend Weblog or go directly to HGTV Green Home Sweepstakes. [...]
