Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living
environmental impact, Tag
- Community solar farm close to 'finish line' Wed, 18 Oct 17, 7:27am
- Why one man got his first electric car at 80 Tue, 9 May 17, 10:39amHe's not much for new technology, but John Allason couldn't wait to get his hands on a fully electric car for his 80th birthday.
- Apple announces plans to make all products from recycled materials Fri, 21 Apr 17, 4:02amApple just announced plans to close the loop and make all of its products from recycled materials. We tend not to realize how damaging our electronics are for the environment - from mining materials to the toxic effects when...
- Colin Jackson points out solar farm site Mon, 17 Apr 17, 2:39pm
- Concerns about future summer blackouts as coal power stations close their doors Fri, 31 Mar 17, 4:28pmThe Australian Energy Market Operator must improve its management of the national grid to avoid blackouts and power shedding next summer, energy experts say.
- INFOGRAPHIC: The real environmental impact of the 2016 Rio Olympics Thu, 28 Jul 16, 2:45amThe 2016 Olympics in Rio will begin in just over a week and despite several ongoing catastrophes, the games will go on. In light of this monumental event, we thought we'd take a closer look at its environmental impact and...
- This one simple cellphone trick could save enough CO2 to power Singapore for a year Thu, 26 Nov 15, 7:30amThe average mobile made this year produced 35 kg of carbon emissions in manufacture, equal to 16 weeks of laundry. Sound small? Well 1.9 billion mobiles will be sold in 2015, approximately 60 per second. Their total carbon...
- “YES IN MY BACK YARD!” garden made from reused plastic bottles challenges throw-away culture Tue, 28 Apr 15, 4:30amYou wouldn’t think it, but these beautiful colorful flowers of the Scartell flowerbed are made from plastic waste. Italian artist and sustainability enthusiast Francesca De Marinis created this eco-flowerbed using discarded...
- Keystone XL to emit 1.37 billion tons of greenhouse gases, EPA finds Thu, 5 Feb 15, 12:09amIf President Obama was looking for any additional reasons to veto the senate's recent vote in favor of Keystone XL, the EPA just handed him 1.37 billion. That's the number of metric tons of additional greenhouse gases that...
- Safer sonar protects dolphins while providing better images Thu, 1 Jan 15, 3:00amThere's a new type of seismic imaging called Acoustic Zoom, and it's better than older forms of sonar for both dolphins and scientists alike. It works by emitting smaller amounts of energy over a longer period of time,...
- Scientists Caution China Against Bulldozing Over 700 Mountains Thu, 5 Jun 14, 8:00pmChina wants to bulldoze more than 700 mountains in order to make way for more buildings, but scientists are unsurprisingly concerned about the plan. Never before has mankind attempted mountaintop removal of this scale and...
- Economists Debate Whether the McDonald’s Hamburger is the Most Nutritious and Inexpensive Food in Human History Fri, 23 Aug 13, 1:00amFast food offers a cheap and calorie-rich option to fill your stomach, but can it be considered the "most bountiful food" of all time? The Freakonomics authors and radio broadcasters are asking just that question after receiving...
- Halliburton Admits to Destroying Evidence After Deepwater Horizon Disaster Mon, 29 Jul 13, 11:06pmAs if the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill weren’t a big enough mess, Halliburton has now pleaded guilty to charges of destroying evidence related to the disaster...
- 100 Million Roses Grown for Valentine’s Day Produce 9,000 Metric Tons of CO2 Wed, 13 Feb 13, 4:08amGalyna Andrushko / Shutterstock Roses may be red, but they’re definitely not green according to research from Scientific American. As millions of partners exchange bunches of red roses in the run up to Valentine’s...
- O2 to Sell New HTC Smartphone Without Chargers, Cut Four Olympic Swimming Pools Worth of E-Waste Fri, 5 Oct 12, 6:40amUK mobile network provider O2 just announced that they will not be releasing a charger with the new HTC smartphone. Why you ask? Well, their research has revealed that the UK “has more than 100m chargers lying in drawers,...