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I read an article a while back that I have been meaning to share. It describes how many Coke cans are sold every year and suggests that if they went with a ‘naked’ design, i.e., no paint on the can, then naked can help to reduce air and water pollution occurred in its coloring process. It [...] Came across an article tonight about e-waste and what happens to a lot of ‘recycled’ electronics. At the end of the article is a link to a PBS Frontline/World video about e-waste in Ghana and China. I highly suggest you read the article and watch the video. In an earlier post I talked about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. I came across a serires of videos that a group at VBS.TV put together that details their journey of sailing from California to the garbage patch and talking with researchers/scientists along the way about the patch. The videos give you a much better [...] So I ran across this image yesterday about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. I have read about this a few other times but this is the first time that I paid attention to the size of the garbage patch. According to the details in the image, the garbage patch is about 1.76 million square kilometers [...] AZ Central has an article about ASU, Whole Foods and Nordstroms sending their scraps to a farm in town that turns it into compost. Pretty cool. They need to create a program for all the landscapers and private residents too. Here is a cool video that came in second in the U@50 AARP video contest. Remember last year, around the time Dennis and Stacey got married, that I heard a story on NPR about working in Antarctica. Remember how I looked into this and did some research. Remember how clueless I was about how cold it would be. Well, if I had gone forward with this, below the fold is [...] Earthrise 40 years ago this week the iconic picture of ‘Earthrise’ was taken from the first people ‘to lose complete contact with their own planet, not being able to see or radio Earth for the duration of their journey behind the Moon’. There is a good story about this [...] From the article: In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the register. There was an advertising awareness campaign. And then something happened that was bigger than the sum of these parts. Within weeks, plastic bag use dropped 94 percent. Within a year, nearly [...] Ran across this via AMERICAblog – The Independent and the British public have gotten over 100 Members of Parliament (MPs) to campaign against wasteful packaging. The Independent reported the following stats on the amount of waste packaging creates and costs: That this House notes with concern the excessive levels of packaging used by manufacturers and [...] |
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