Rattan and Log Furniture for an Eco-friendly and Stylish Home
A stylish home doesn’t need furniture made with the latest innovations in technology and crafted from the newest synthetic materials made to look like the real thing. Furnishing with furniture made from synthetic materials may be a more affordable choice, but it’s not a healthy choice for our environment. If you’re wondering about what else [...]
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4 Simple yet Interesting Science Fair Projects on Alternative Energy
Alternative energy is the type of energy that comes from sources that makes use of renewable resources like water, wind, and sun. For your science fair project that involve alternative energy, you can study how wind mills work; determine what factors affect the storage and production of energy in solar cells; make a steam-powered boat; [...]
Green Movement Changes Meaning of Earth Day
April 22nd marked the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day and with a new anniversary comes a new meaning for the day. Started in 1970, Earth Day was originally conceived as a day in which the people of the world could come together and educate themselves about the needs of the planet. However, with [...]
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Green taxi services
Companies that offers Eco products and services should be ahead of the rest. They are thinking of the planet and providing their customers with a Green friendly service. Now the list of companies and businesses has expanded to include taxi’s. There are a variety of services available in different countries which offer to bring you [...]
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4 Interesting Ways to Help Educate Students on Environment and Renewable Energy in a Classroom Setting
Renewable energy involves the use of renewable sources such as sun, wind, water, and steam to produce energy. It is important to create awareness among people, especially kids, for the use of such energy sources to help save the environment. In a classroom setting, what teachers can do is help educate students by including topics [...]
Joule to Make Diesel at Solar Fuels Plant
Start-up Joule Unlimited plans to open a test facility later this year that will use micro-organisms, fed only sunlight and carbon dioxide, to make diesel fuel. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company, which changed its name from Joule Biotechnologies, said on Tuesday that it has secured $30 million to build the plant in Texas where it is [...]
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Starbucks shared planet
Its nice during the day to relax with a cup of coffee, you will often see people dashing about with cups of steaming hot coffee in their hand. Look closer at the label next time, if its Starbucks then you are witnessing an Eco-Friendly company at its best. Known for being the largest coffeehouse company [...]
LED VS Flourescent Tubes: Take the Survey
Here is something that should be debatable. While we all know that moving away from the CFL bulb era is evident, the question remains; which is better LED or fluorescent. For sure a lot of you have varying opinions but to see how these really weigh, a survey to see which has made more impact [...]
Take action this April 22nd
Today is a special day for our planet. Its Earth day 2010 where over 190 countries take notice and start taking action in the fight against global warming. Aside from all the special events taking place around the world today, take a brief interlude during the day and do some of the following small but [...]
Happy Earth Day 2010 But…
So today is Earth Day 2010. Now while we all know that this is the day that we all have to consider the harmful effects our actions have done on nature, it is also a time where we should start brainstorming ideas for a better tomorrow, not for us but for the next generation. We [...]
