Have an Eco Holiday
Most places in our planet is filled with dirt , pollution, garbages and dump. Sometimes you just need to escape and stay where it is serene and eco friendly.
According to research, there are a number of places to visit which are eco friendly.
According to Travel Leisure Magazine, they have mentioned the top places in America to visit if you thrive for enviromental friendly sites.
1. San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences, which has a living roof with plantings that attract birds and butterflies.
2. Nationals Park, Washington, which has a green roof and a site that’s friendly to pedestrians, bikers and subway riders.
3. The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns Restaurant, Pocantico Hills, N.Y., a historic farm and gourmet restaurant that aims to teach people about food.
4. The 5.4.7 Arts Center, Greensburg, Kan., a new energy-efficient attraction in a town that was devastated by a tornado.
5. New York City’s High Line, a park being created on an abandoned elevated rail line in Manhattan.
6. World Birding Center, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Mission, Texas, a green building amid the park’s nine protected habitats on the Mexican border.
7. The Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure, which the magazine says is the first garage certified as environmentally efficient by the U.S: Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environment Design program.
8. Sears Tower, Chicago, which the magazine says is exploring how it can become more energy efficient.
9. Cavallo Point, The Lodge at the Golden Gate, a luxury lodge complex on a former military site at Fort Baker, Calif., along the coast.
Also in Sri Langka, they also have eco friendly hotels.
“The hotels have their own sewage treatment and disposal plant. Water is taken from wells and returned to the ground by using treated waste water for the irrigation of the gardens. Inconspicuous designs that enables visitors to appreciate the constantly changing beauty of nature deep in the Sri Lanka”
So have an eco holiday everyone.
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Summer swim wear for a healthy enviornment
We have reached July, the warmest summer month of the year and as millions of people head of for vacation to swim at pools or down at the beach then it would be a good idea to change your summer wardrobe to an more eco friendly taste, if your a big swimmer then go through yours or your family’s outfits and see if they are the greener choice or not, if not then look no further. The popularity of green friendly clothes has really increased and with the clothes comes swim wear in time for summer!
Lalesso is a good place to start, this popular collection is improving and updating all the time, a fun bright collection on shorts, bikins, tops all your essential swim wear needs for a trip to the beach.
Niksters contains some amazing Eco bikinis, all made from sustainable soy, organic cotton and a range of selections of natural fibres. The large selection of style’s also comes with stones, pearls, shells and other popular hand selected delights which aside from being a treat for the eyes are also green friendly. 5% of sales in Niksters goes to charities including an organization helping endangered sea turtles. All above should be some positive reasons to make the change today and swim in style.
There is style to include all shapes, sizes and interests for everyone this summer, not to forget men with a popular range of eco friendly shorts and some funky designs to choose from, start your green friendly shopping now and swim in style!!
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The Green Cafe
Just around the block in a crowded road in our place holds a small sanctuary filled with green thoughts. Physically the place is very attractive due to it’s high appearance of green. When people step inside, you could almost feel like your in a garden. The area is clean, serene and Eco friendly. That’s why stepping inside the café feels like walking into an organized diner in the middle of a rain forest. It’s a shot at nature confined in four walls.
“Elicon Cafe used glass panels substitute concrete slabs. This is to allow and maximize the use of natural sunlight from outside to brighten up the café. The area is constructed in such a way where it is properly ventilated and a natural mist-cooling system is adapted. ”
Even if the place is jam packed with students and outsiders, the room still feels fresh. The cafe has been placing a lot plants and inviting people to go green. There are also message board which includes the process of biogas.
Elicon Cafe has also been recycling through their mosaic. Their mosaic is composed of broken plates, shells and glasses all patched to one to create a beautiful scenery. The cafe is filled with green ideas and green projects.
Aside from the cafe, you can also lounge and play board games. The cafe also serves good foods from their best chefs.
If you happen to pass buy Elicon, why not trade their gelato ice cream for just 250 pesos. Made exclusively by the owner.
Promote more green this season and for the following years, we might end up regretting.
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Green Tips To Celebrate July 4th
Many in the United States look forward to the fourth of July holiday festivities the most. It has the perfect party atmosphere — warm weather, good food, good company offering the warmness of familiarity and friendship, and then there’s the fourth of July revelry with all the fireworks.
In preparation for this year’s celebration this Saturday, we hope you have come prepared to commemorate the festivities with a little note and care for Mother Nature.
Here are just some of the simple things we suggest you do to celebrate tradition while contributing to help keep the environment green —
- We’re pretty sure you’re going to have a wonderful barbeque party and cleaning up should be the least of your worries. Most families use disposables on occasions like this. Keep in mind to use PAPER disposables and stay away from plastic cups, plates and utensils.
- Recycle decorations. Look into the attic to see if there are some old materials you can make use of for prettifying the place. Or if you really plan on making new ones, make sure to store them away carefully after the party so that you can re-use this for next year.
- Speaking of recycling, make the after-party fun by organizing a recycling activity together with your family or even your neighbors. Have little kids collect used beer cans and bottles around the area and the old ones pile up the trash as a way to clean up. Reward everyone with a sumptuous serving of cake or ice cream after that.
Happy Independence!
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Opening the door to a greener life!
In West Sussex England it was announced that local eco friendly residents opened their homes to visitors so that they could show of their greener lifestyle and how they have reduced their carbon footprints! The owners of the 10 homes on show to the public have had installed a variety of eco-systems including insulation, wood-burning stoves and solar panels. Others have various water saving devices and many popular methods of reducing their use of electricity by maximizing daylight, this is a very clever idea which through little time and effort if more people did this with their homes we really could be on the way to success with the battle against global warming.
This two day weekend event was organized by the local towns group, the group was challenged to respond to the important issue of climate change and what better way that to proudly show of and give some amazing examples of people who live the right way eco friendly, green pride!
Most of these properties where considered “ordinary and oldish” and had been made energy- efficient in ways that ranged from cheap and effective to engineered and ambitious. This popular much publicized event should really get home owners thinking of their everyday living standard’s and what they can do to follow this route of living green under your roof.
Experts say for making a move to the greener lifestyle in your home that one of the first area’s you should really work on is the overall air quality, pollution in the home is a serious issue, test out your air, get some good quality environmental friendly air purifiers and be on your way to a greener happier home that maybe you could start showing of to your neighbours and spread the word that eco is best!
For more advice about where to start when making the change try out total move.
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First Carbon Neutral Beauty Range Launches in UK
Good news for all eco-concious beauty addicts: The first carbon neutral beauty company in the UK has been launched by celebrity hair colourist Louise Galvin!
With over 20 years’ experience, Galvin’s in depth knowledge of coloured hair has led her to create her revolutionary ‘Sacred Locks’ haircare line. If you’ve not heard of Galvin, you definitely would have heard of her clients – Sophie Dahl and Patsy Kensit are just two of the A-listers who head up her client list.
As well as offsetting any carbon emissions caused via production by investing in the Carbon Neutral Company, the range is completely natural. Using only natural or naturally-derived ingredients like essential oils, natural extracts and vegetable-derived moisturising and conditioning agents, you can say goodbye to using harmful sulphates, parabens, slicone, petrochemicals, synthetic fragrances and polymers in your hair with this fabulous new haircare line.
Before I’d looked into these products, I didn’t actually realise how many chemicals were actually in the existing products I’ve been using for years on my hair. It’s crazy to think that we coat our hair in all these synthetic, un-natural ingredients which could actually be doing our hair more harm than good in the long run.
It’s great to see a brand that isn’t just looking after our hair by using natural ingredients, but also standing up to become carbon neutral. I mean, not even The Body Shop has taken that step yet!
But enough of my opinion, here’s what the rest of the world have been saying about Louise Galvin’s Sacred Locks:
“There are very few haircare ranges that deliver a luxury experience. With their rich, creamy textures, non-synthetic scents and beautifully decorated bottles, Louise Galvin’s Sacred Locks is one of them. That the products make your hair look and feel great too, almost seems like a bonus.” Anna-Marie Solowij VOGUE
“Mane maintenance that is glamorous and pure. A way to have healthy hair and a healthy environment,” Ilse Crawford STYLE GURU
“The wonderfully natural Sacred Locks Products are like heaven for my hair.” Sophie Dahl
Although based in London at her father’s famous Daniel Galvin salon, her products are available internationally both through various stockists and her website. Check out her range online for more details on how to get eco-friendly, luscious locks completely guilt free.
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Greenpeace Guide Ranks Gadgets’ Eco-Consciousness
Establishing itself in 2006, the Greenpeace Guide recently released its ranking for the following TV, cell phone, gaming console and PC manufacturers. The rank is based on how the companies dutifully enforce consciousness and practice regarding e-wastes and toxic chemicals, among other things.
Of the 17 companies, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Lenovo have failed in the rankings as these companies seemed to have failed at eliminating PVC and BFRs from their products even in 2009. Nintendo though earned the lowest, which is where it has been in the previous years.
The rankings are after the cut…
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Animal Rights Tee Shirt Expecting Violent Reactions
They were meant to be for a good cause but as far as EcoGear Canada is concerned, they are bracing for violent reactions for the cause. The cause is of course this Animal Right’s Tee Shirt, a garment that is expected to cause a stir for animal rights and animal cruelty.
“It was a statement that we had to make. We as a species cause so much pain and suffering to other species that something had to be said about the issues.” Said Robert Hii, founder of the Ecogear brand in Canada.
In a slight departure from the company’s series of Special tee shirts, which have dedicated beneficiaries for each particular shirt, this one is being launched as a fundraising tool for animals rights groups in North America and the company has made a selection of animal rights groups in California, Florida, Texas, New York and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. The selected groups were groups that the company had actively supported in previous campaigns.
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You also are…what you work on!
If you are a laptop lover and use it constantly for work, fun, conversations, shopping whatever your need it for you should be glad to know that nowadays even computer lovers can go green in their working lives online with a big selection of eco friendly laptops for the green conscious! Greenpeace have constantly pushed suppliers like Apple Macintosh to be more eco considerate in there laptop and computer building choices and they have gone ahead and designed green!!
This new macbook consumes less than a quarter of a single lightbulb when it is running! The inside contains tiny chips that consume a lot less power and even the packaging is environment friendly making it a popular choice for green thinkers!
There is also a selection of eco friendly Mac laptop bags to keep your new green friendly laptop in good health when your out and about, made of 100% recycled nylon the plastic components are also recyclable making this a good and safe choice to keep your Mac in.
If however Mac is not your thing you could try Asus who have a range of popular notebooks that will also appeal to eco lovers! Aside from the cases being Bamboo it is also lined with cardboard, there are no paints or harmful sprays, even all the plastic inside it is labelled and recyclable, it really goes to show that a lot of big company’s are finally getting the message and giving consumers what they ask for in every area. For more eco laptop shopping check out Apple or Asus.
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Old TV Sets Piling Up, Where To Recycle?
Because American households have switched to digital television among other things, the Electronics Waste Management In the United States report (PDF) by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reported that around 99.1 Million TV sets could be piling up in many homes today. As this is the case, municipalities have asked many manufacturers to set up a recycling program for electronics, in order to help curb this dilemma.
While the response to this so far has been really favorable for states that do have these rules in place, what about those that have yet to set up the program?
In 2007, some 27 million TV sets have actually been disposed. This detail comes from Take Back My TV which also says that only 18% of those is recycled.
For those who are a looking to get rid of old TV sets or even any other type of equipment including cellphone and computers, you may want to read this article from the latest Consumers Magazine: Where to Recycle Electronics, Free.
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