Posted on 30 November 2009
Treehugger has reported a disturbing story about Nick Griffin, a member of the extremely right wing British National Party. Griffin will be representing the European Union as part of their delegation to the climate talks at Copenhagen. He is there as the group’s ‘skeptic’, touting his opinion that “Climate change is being used to impose [...]
Posted on 27 November 2009
Golf Phenom Tiger Woods has, according to reports, been seriously injured in a car accident near East Lake, Fla. Quoting a report from the Florida Highway Patrol, several local media outlets have said that Tiger Woods pulled out of his driveway at around 2 in the morning, hit a fire hydrant, and then hit a [...]
Posted on 27 November 2009
Some people argue that fake trees are better for the environment because you aren’t taking away a tree from it’s natural habitat. The problem with that thinking is that the majority of the mass produced plastic trees are made from a petroleum by-product and are not biodegradable. PVC (the plastic these trees are made from) [...]
Posted on 25 November 2009
Fashonistas are going to love Kind, an awesome new online boutique that specializes in eco friendly goods. Kind has a great range of products for sale from sustainable fashions, vintage finds, beautiful vegan friendly shoes to non toxic nail polish. And with a whole host of great contributing designers like Bodkin and Linea Cart, every [...]
Posted on 25 November 2009
The Rock Resorts, a luxury hotel chain based in the United States, has recently partnered up with Clean the World Inc. in helping collect barley-used soap and shampoo and providing the much needed supplies to people in homeless shelters in the Colorado area as well as impoverished countries around the world. Every year, close to [...]
Posted on 25 November 2009
Set on a cliff top plateau on the Bukit Peninsula is one of the most beautiful luxury hotels in Bali, the Alila Villas Uluwatu, Bali’s first hotel to get the highest level of Green Globe certification for Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) Designed by the award winning Singapore architectural firm, WOHA they have created an amazing [...]
Posted on 25 November 2009
Designer Harc Lee has designed this ultra-slick looking, and more eco-friendly Coca Cola can. Abandoning Coke’s legendary red and white stripes in favor of plain ol’ aluminum. The silver can is created without using any paints or dyes,which would significantly reduce pollution and energy use associated with producing and recycling soda cans. Another bonus of [...]
Posted on 24 November 2009
Hundreds of icebergs have split off Antarctic ice shelves and are drifting toward New Zealand. This could be hazardous to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday. The closest one measuring about 30 yards tall, was 160 miles southeast of New Zealand’s Stewart Island. Navigation warnings for the area south of the country [...]
Posted on 23 November 2009
Over 1,000 emails and over 2,000 other documents were stolen last Thursday from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in the U.K. The files were posted on a Russian file-sharing server, and university officials confirmed over the weekend that their computer had been attacked and said the documents appeared to be genuine. In [...]
Posted on 20 November 2009
Climate Depot has posted a story on their site about how a computer hacker broke into computers at Hadley CRU, Britain’s top institute for climate change, and released confidential emails that show top scientists manipulating global warming data. The hacker, who is now believed to be an insider who’s now blown the whistle, uncovered over [...]