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Both the environmentalists working with Greenpeace and other nature enthusiasts worldwide are now busy celebrating the fact that paper giant APP (i.e. Asia Pulp & Paper) has finally agreed to cut its ties with deforestation.
It is Greenpeace's belief that the company's decision to begin paying closer atten... |
5 February 2013
16:31 GMT |
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This week witnessed the official opening of the world's first restaurant set up in a limestone mine. People who choose to enjoy a quiet lunch or a pleasant dinner in this location can brag about the fact that they got to taste some very delicious dishes whilst being 80 meters (about 262 feet) below the eart... |
12 September 2012
07:34 GMT |
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Earlier this year, during the Rio+20 Earth Summit, UN-Habitat (i.e. an UN agency dealing with promoting sustainable urban development) launched its “I'm a City Changer” campaign.
The end goal for this campaign is that of greening up cities all throughout the world, simply by convincing more citizen... |
4 September 2012
10:35 GMT |
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We just stumbled upon this video showing how the very laptop one uses on a daily basis without giving any second thoughts to how it was manufactured and how it came to belong to them is to be held responsible for considerable damage done to the environment.
Of course, this only need be the case if the company ... |
21 August 2012
07:43 GMT |
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Founded back in September 2008, the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG) is an organization whose main focus is on promoting the use of biofuels in aviation, and on improving on the efficiency of these environmentally-friendly energy sources.
To put it bluntly: as far as the members of this group (members ... |
21 August 2012
04:48 GMT |
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In a letter sent to the UK Government by the country's Material Security Working Group, the latter asks that the national bar is raised when it comes to dealing with and managing existing raw materials.
As the business and environmental organizations that signed this letter explain, but for a stricter control ... |
20 August 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Recent news informs us that this year's October 16th and 18th will see the inauguration of the Ecoislands Global Summit, which – as the name more than suggests – is aimed at providing island communities worldwide with the support they need in order to go all-green and become self-sustainable.
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20 August 2012
04:49 GMT |
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Together with sister Shedonna Alexander, Cee Lo Green recently decided that the children growing up in school districts which have not been dealt a very good hand financially wise need also benefit from a so-called 'green education.'
More precisely, they need to be taught about the importance of environm... |
16 August 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Thanks to Bill Gates and his decision to give away significant amounts of money for the purpose of green-oriented research, the people living in developing countries might soon be presented with environmentally-friendly toilets. What will make these innovative toilets so very special is the fact that they will be a... |
16 August 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Most marketing campaigns aimed at fostering green-oriented behaviors for customers worldwide typically work on the assumption that people are more likely to choose an environmentally-friendly product when presented with financial incentives (i.e. self-interest takes center stage, whereas self-transcending reasons fa... |
13 August 2012
07:15 GMT |
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Researchers working with the Arizona State University recently released the results of a study investigating how the expansion of urban areas will affect regional temperatures.
Their findings are quite worrying: by the year 2050, people living in Arizona's Sun Corridor are bound to witness an increase of 4 deg... |
13 August 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Noticing how considerable amounts of oyster are merely discarded on the fields as waste, supposedly because they are not fit for consumption, Martine Lelu decided to take matters into her own hands and work out a way to make the most out of these natural resources which simply get thrown out by the food industry.
T... |
7 August 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Starting with the 5th of August, and up until the 10th of the same month, the city of Portland, Oregon, will house a meeting organized by the Ecological Society of America in order to discuss current threats to our remaining ecosystems and potential solutions to the problems identified.
Entitled “Life on Eart... |
6 August 2012
10:35 GMT |
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A group of people from Greece recently decided that, given the ongoing economic crisis, it might not be such a bad idea to switch to sustainable development and create an isolated society which only consumes what it produces. Thus, their diet is as organic as it gets, and they do not in the least depend on the nati... |
4 August 2012
07:03 GMT |
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The US Department of Energy recently announced that investments of up to $43 million (€35,09 million) are to be made on improving existing energy storage technologies, the end goal being that of optimizing the country's current power management.
More precisely, it is expected that both the national grid a... |
4 August 2012
03:51 GMT |
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Just recently, the University of California, Berkeley opened its brand-new Li Ka Shing biomedical center. Because of its green-oriented features, the building now managed to snatch a LEED Gold Certification.
For those unaware, LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, which means that the scien... |
3 August 2012
04:32 GMT |
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According to a new Greenpeace Australia Pacific report, local communities in Papua New Guinea have lost most of the forests they need in order to make a living to various foreign logging companies and landholders.
Provided that Greenpeace's information is accurate, this situation has been going on for as long ... |
30 July 2012
10:52 GMT |
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The Sandia National Laboratories were recently commissioned by the US Department of Energy to look into the possibility of improving the overall efficiency of offshore wind technology.
Thus, the latter agreed to invest $4,1 million (about €3,32 million / ₤2,6 million) in a five-year project aimed at designing ... |
30 July 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Many of our previous articles have dealt with the negative aspects of using fossil fuels in order to satisfy our society's energy needs. As well as this, we have constantly tried to show that renewable power sources are the way to go.
Therefore, we should now like to present you with a video which summarizes t... |
30 July 2012
09:03 GMT |
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Throughout the course of this day, UK's Climate Change Minister is expected to officially open Scotland's first marine energy park.
It is expected that by harvesting tidal power in the Pentland Firth and Orkney areas, local communities will benefit from a much-needed economic boost and the country's ... |
30 July 2012
05:18 GMT |
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We have just stumbled upon this most interesting video showing how, where there's a green will, there is also a green way.
The house's owners say that the rather crazy design they chose for their future home was inspired by the fictional character Peter Pan and by his adventures in Neverland.
Hence the ... |
28 July 2012
07:02 GMT |
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A new report made public by Cambium LLP, a company which specializes in offering business consultancy to organizations wishing to improve on their ecological footprint, states that the UK government needs to make major investments in the IT field if it is to meet its carbon reduction standards.
Thus, if this countr... |
27 July 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Just last year, Manchester United was internationally acclaimed for its green-oriented energy use policies.
As well as this, the professional football club snatched a couple of environmental certifications for having lowered its carbon emissions and for proper waste management.
However, up until yesterday, the c... |
26 July 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Accomplished writer JK Rowling, whose “Harry Potter” series made a bestseller and delighted children around the world, has now decided that it was high time to provide her kids with something we all dreamed of having at one point in our youth: a suspended playground.
Thus, the author announced that Davi... |
26 July 2012
07:03 GMT |
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Just recently, representatives of the US Department of the Interior and Department of Energy made it public news that several areas of public lands might soon be used for green purposes.
Thus, it is expected that considerable amounts of money will go into developing and implementing solar energy projects.
The Fin... |
26 July 2012
05:06 GMT |
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Autotroph, a company that specializes in sustainable design, recently took to transforming abandoned tobacco barns in Maryland, US, into households intended for people who wish to settle down in this region.
From an environmental standpoint, what interests us is that, while preserving the barns' architectural ... |
24 July 2012
09:17 GMT |
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It is no news that, throughout the centuries, human society has been steadily growing and expanding, gradually taking over more and more portions of land. Professor Emeritus Al Bartlett from the University of Colorado Boulder now argues that, given what natural resources we still have at our disposal, the environme... |
24 July 2012
03:42 GMT |
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Chevron Energy Solutions, a company specializing in aiding local businesses and households push for and achieve sustainable development, recently entered a partnership with the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, California.
Because of this collaboration, said jail now has its energy demands met by means of a microg... |
23 July 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Not long ago, we reported on how scientists working with the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) developed a way of harvesting infrared light for the purpose of producing electricity from solar power with maximum efficiency. It now seems that further steps are taken down that road. The journal ACS Nano re... |
21 July 2012
04:13 GMT |
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Just recently, we reported on how China and Africa were taking into consideration the possibility of aiding one-another as far as sustainable development and environmental protection are concerned.
Back then, we also explained that the World Wildlife Fund wishes that the collaboration between these two countries pr... |
20 July 2012
10:51 GMT |
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While most studies and debates focus on how climate change and global warming impact on various natural ecosystems, it seems that one very important consequence of said global phenomena keeps getting forgotten. We are referring to how these changes in the natural world almost always end up affecting the traditional... |
18 July 2012
10:28 GMT |
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It was just made public that Element Power, a global renewable energy company, and Great Britain's National Grid reached an agreement according to which up to 40 onshore wind farms in Ireland are to be connected to UK's electricity grid.
This basically means that electricity coming all the way from mid-Ir... |
17 July 2012
09:40 GMT |
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This week, Beijing is expected to house a meeting between representatives of China and Africa, whose end goal is that of establishing commercial relations between these two countries.
As far as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is concerned, this Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is also a good opportunity for ... |
17 July 2012
07:28 GMT |
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The online journal PloS ONE just published a new study which focuses on present days global fisheries and on what can be done to help boost their economic value, while at the same time keeping an all-attentive eye on the well-being of marine ecosystems. Apparently, high officials around the world tend to invoke lac... |
14 July 2012
04:16 GMT |
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Just recently, several members of the Nottingham University Boat Club established a new Guinness World Record by rowing indoors for 24 hours without stopping, thus generating enough electricity to power a house for a day.
More precisely, they successfully converted their overall kinetic energy into 12.4 kWh.
Howe... |
11 July 2012
10:48 GMT |
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While green-heads, national governments and energy companies around the world argue over how renewable power sources are the way to go if we are to put a leash on climate change and global warming, one researcher claims that, before going all green, there should one intermediary phase: natural gas.
Entitled “... |
11 July 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Rumor has it that the Japanese government recently decided that investing in green energy sources might help boost national economy, as well as diminish the country's ecological footprint to some extent.
Therefore, about $628 billion (roughly 510 €billion) are expected to go into the Japanese green energy... |
11 July 2012
05:53 GMT |
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It recently became public news that Enel Green Power, an Italian company that is in the business of producing and selling green electricity, has begun work on Mexico's first wind farm.
Seeing how this particular country is presumed to be extremely “rich” when it comes to wind power, it should come ... |
10 July 2012
08:12 GMT |
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The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement was endorsed just recently, as a result of an on-going collaboration between Canada's Forest Industry and various environmental groups.
More precisely, 21 companies in the business of trading wood and 9 green organizations have decided that it is high time to develop wiser ... |
10 July 2012
02:50 GMT |
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The International Energy Association has recently decided to look into the future of renewable energy sources, and its findings are quite encouraging: over the next five years, green power generation is likely to increase by nearly 40%.
It is noteworthy that emerging markets are presumed to be the ones that will bo... |
7 July 2012
06:42 GMT |
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A team of students from Universiti Sains Malaysia decided to take green driving one step further and developed an electric vehicle made from plywood. While most electric cars are environmentally-friendly because they require no fossil fuels in order to run and therefore do not release carbon gas emissions, this Asi... |
7 July 2012
05:48 GMT |
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Centrica and Warwick Energy, two companies which are in the business of energy production and trading, have just been granted permission to build two new offshore wind farms near the Norfolk northern coast.
What is interesting is that these two companies submitted not two, but three such projects for approval.
Ho... |
6 July 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Movie star Leonardo DiCaprio recently announced his decision to partner up with Fisker automotive, a company that specializes in designing and manufacturing environmentally-friendly luxury cars.
Apparently, the actor hopes that, by using his popularity, he can convince other people that a green lifestyle is the way... |
5 July 2012
04:46 GMT |
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Just today, the Centre Valbio research facility, located at the edge of Madagascar's rainforest, was officially inaugurated.
Its construction, which lasted for about ten years, involved using only green materials found in the nearby regions.
As well as this, the center is powered by means of renewable energy... |
3 July 2012
10:22 GMT |
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Although it has less than one thousand residents, a community near Senegal's capital city, Dakar, shows great willingness to invest time, energy and even some money in leading an environmentally friendly lifestyle.
Thus, while world leaders gathered at various international conferences keep talking about the i... |
3 July 2012
09:45 GMT |
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Up until recently, the people working at the Green School on the Indonesian island of Bali had to walk up to eight miles to get to the nearest ATM machine if they wanted to cash in on their wages. However, thanks to a revolutionary idea, they can now do just that with the help of an environmentally friendly ATM, lo... |
2 July 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Just yesterday, during an event suggestively entitled “The Foundations of a Blue Economy,” the Center for American Progress (CAP) made a case of how important oceans are for the US economy and pinned down ways of making better use of this natural resource.
Apparently, for the time being, most citizens a... |
28 June 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Just yesterday, news brought to us by representatives of the Obama administration informed us about the fact that 36 states, local governments and school districts agreed to enter the Better Buildings Challenge launched by the American president.
The decision was made public in Denver, Colorado, where nearly 300 lo... |
27 June 2012
09:00 GMT |
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Recent studies made public by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) indicate that, as a result of massive deforestations, Indonesia is presently the world's third greenhouse gas emitter.
Apparently, this is because once the trees are cut down, the lands can no longer do their job in ... |
25 June 2012
09:55 GMT |
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Marishane, a South African student from the University of Cape Town, won the Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award for inventing DryBath, a shower gel that supposedly cleans people without any use for water. Apparently, DryBath is both non-toxic and biodegradable, so it poses no threats to the environment. ... |
21 June 2012
09:05 GMT |
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