All Entries in the "Green News" Category
Going Green Could Be as Easy as Switching Your Utility Company
We are all looking for ways to better our environment and our financial situations, and many to turn their homes for solutions. Our homes can run up high energy costs which increase our carbon footprint while decreasing our monthly checking accounts. To reduce energy consumption, many household are choosing solar or geothermal technologies while others [...]
Papacy Is Ready to Join the Green Wheel Current
There are numerous important people in the world, like celebrities, politicians, and so on, but we shouldn’t forget about the people representing the Church, like the Pope. He has always been a role model and this is why it is an important step that he is going to get a green car. Mercedes-Benz is creating [...]
Peru Is Killing the Forest in Search of Gold
We would all think that the gold fever is a thing of the past, but as we know, history has the tendency of repeating itself. It seems like this time the miners of Peru have been hit by this ‘disease’ because of the rising price of gold. Massive deforestation is going on around certain parts [...]
An Effective Drainage System Will Make a Difference in City Ecology
The effects of global warming can be seen on a daily basis. For example there are the great floods that occurred in 2008 and 2009 in the UK. These point to the fact that the sewer systems are old and they cannot handle the new situations anymore. Useful alternatives for the old systems are the [...]
2011 – The International Year of the Forests
The UN general assembly has declared 2011 the International Year of the Forests. The campaign comes with an impressive logo focused on showing the importance of each essential element we take advantage of from the international ecosystem. The campaign logo covers everything from the air purifying effect of the forests to the healing powers of [...]
UN Alarmed by Bee Disappearance
When Einstein launched the theory that from the moment the honey bees will disappear the human species has only four years before becoming extinct, the world laughed. Nowadays the UN is sounding the alarm concerned about this exact problem. The smaller and smaller number of bees already threatens to aggravate the world food crisis considering [...]
Nature Crushes Japan and Sets it on the Road to Nuclear Disaster
The “Land of the Rising Sun” is facing the wrath of nature. It has now been compounded with a dangerous emergency that has never been seen before. Japan is staring in the face of a major radioactive leak. The Fukushima nuclear plant has reported radiation levels that are 15,000 times higher than the accepted levels [...]
North Pacific Fishing Carefully Monitored for the Ecosystem’s Sake
Drag fishing in the high seas has been an issue of concern for the marine ecologists for quite some time. The technique of dragging heavy fishing nets along the ocean floor to trap fish results in the destruction and harming of the fine marine ecological balance. Drag fishing can result in damage to the sea [...]
US Military Ready to Help Energy Storage
The U.S Department of Defense has teamed up with the Department of Energy for a great green idea, which will develop energy storage. It may sound odd for many but the U.S military is already involved in many environmental initiatives. Nowadays these two Departments have shown a real green signal that they are ready to [...]
Is Facebook Ready to Step down for Earth Hour 2011?
The annual initiative called The Earth Hour 2011 will be celebrated from 20.30 to 21.30 p.m on 26 March this year. In order to join the green initiative, four largest cities in the world, as well as iconic buildings will switch off their lights for one hour to demonstrate the need for action against climate [...]
