The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) reports that the tech industry collected and recycled about 200 million pounds of discarded consumer electronics last year, and that this could double in 2010.
E-waste is a significant environmental hazard. Since there are a lot of unused desktops and laptops stashed in homes and offices, it could get worse.
Author Randy Sarafan [...]
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Zany ways to recycle used electronics
February 26th, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
Travel-sized necessities go Green
February 22nd, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
To satisfy consumer demand, manufacturers have created small, travel-size versions of our favorite products. At the same time, Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles per hour! It’s an environmental scourge – harmful to wildlife, threatening our oceans and marine life, and scientists believe it will take hundreds of years to degrade.
Los Angeles-based Minimus recently [...]
Categories: green gifts
Tags: biodegradable, eco-friendly, environmental, green, plastic, recyclable, sustainable, Wildlife
Tetley: 100% Rainforest Certified by 2016
February 22nd, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
The world’s second largest tea company, Tetley Tea, announced it will source all its tea from Rainforest Alliance certified farms by 2016.
The Rainforest Alliance currently has 215,000 acres of Rainforest Alliance-certified farms in Kenya, Tanzania, Argentina, India and Indonesia. This New York based non-profit certifies farms around the world that meet the specific environmental, social and economic standards of [...]
Categories: Exciting New Developments Tags: conservation, environmental, Rainforest, sustainable, Wildlife
What is permaculture and why is it important?
February 3rd, 2010
Posted by: spores101
What is perma-culture? Why is it important?
As defined, “permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies.” Breaking this down further, permaculture is the act of creating independently functioning natural systems that can produce substantial amounts of food while maintaining a natural balance [...]
Categories: Sustainable activism Tags: agriculture, algea bloom, biodiversity, biodynamics, bioremediation, environmental, gardening, gardens, Nature, nitrogen, organic, Permaculture, phosphorous, symbiotic
Portland’s Potential Vertical Green
February 1st, 2010
Posted by: victoria
From today’s New York Times:
“As part of a $133 million renovation, the General Services Administration is planning to cultivate “vegetated fins” that will grow more than 200 feet high on the western facade of the main federal building here, a vertical garden that changes with the seasons and nurtures plants that yield energy savings.”
Interesting article, [...]
Categories: Exciting New Developments Green Building Tags: energy, environment, environmental, Green Building, innovation, stimulus, urban development
Spongy Glass – an environmental and technological breakthrough
January 17th, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
Cleaning up pollutants and spills in waterways is no easy feat. A new discovery by Dr. Paul Edmiston called “Osorb” may well be the breakthrough that makes the difference.
Called spongy glass, as this new material swells up to eight times its dry weight, it soaks up liquids, binding with gasoline, chlorinated solvents and pollutants. Since it won’t bind to [...]
Environmental diversity threatened by U.S. border security
January 2nd, 2010
Posted by: envirothink
With the new year, it’s time to address some of the topics I’d side-stepped in 2009.
The following is an area of great concern to many and part of a continuing controvrsy mired in illegal immegration.
Thanks to former President George Bush, one of this country’s greatest hazards to the environment is rapidly taking shape.
Called the Great [...]
Copenhagen Summit severly limits NGO participation
December 15th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
With the eyes of the world on Copenhagen and the U.N. Climate Change Conference, it seems that organizers will be limiting who can get inside during the last most critical decision-making sessions.
While 45,000 people are registered, today and tomorrow only 7,000 civilian observers will be allowed entrance, with those numbers reduced to 1,000 on Thursday [...]
Categories: COP15 Tags: Carbon, Climate Change, co2, COP15, Copenhagen, Emissions, environmental, fossil fuels
One child’s voice speaks out to Copenhagen
December 7th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
As delegates from 192 nations around the world begin meetings in Copenhagen today, they would do well to remember the words of a child.In 1992, then 12-year old Severen Suzuki of the Environmental Organization (ECO) of Canada addressed the delegates of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.
In a passionate speech, she presented [...]
Minnesota begins pilot program to recycle old holiday lights
November 25th, 2009
Posted by: envirothink
The Recycling Association of Minnesota has launched its Recycle Your Holidays light strand collection program. Now strands of older holiday lights can be placed curbside in recycling bins and business drop offs throughout the state.
Select retailers are accepting drop-off of these lights until January 10, 2010. Stores are also offering $5 coupons for every strand recycled at their [...]