Creating Plastic Free Lunches This School Year
No commentsAs the new school year gets underway, many people will be making lunches for their children, on a daily basis. Along with all this lunch making comes the question of what the best way to pack it up is. While many people reach for a box of plastic bags, it may not be the best [...]
The Circle of Green Marketing Life
No commentsA greener lifestyle has been a growing trend over the past couple years — but is it a wave of the future or the latest resurgence of a cyclical concern? Some consumers have noticed that, over the years, there has been a noticeable rise and fall to the presence of “environmentally safe” products on store [...]
Could Houston Increase Recycling Through Single Stream Technology?
No commentsCan Houston really increase its recycling rate by 200% within the next year? It’s possible, according to local blog Turning Houston Green. Especially if Greenstar Recycling has anything to do with it. The single stream recycling plant played a big part in the recent tree-planting effort — a part of the Keep Houston Beautiful campaign [...]
E-Waste Recycling on the Road to Getting Easier
No commentsIt hasn’t been an easy process in the past for Utah residents trying to properly dispose of e-waste. E-recycling charges are often included in the price of electronics, but then citizens are often charged again when they try to drop unwanted appliances off — a bothersome (and pricey) burden that leaves people giving up on [...]
Fashion Manufacturing Goes Green
No commentsReusable bags are quickly taking their place in the world of high fashion; in turn, the fashion world is attempting to meet them halfway with a shifting trend toward eco-friendly fabrics and a general greenification of the manufacturing process. Natural and organic fabrics have already made their way into the mainstream, but this week Treehugger [...]
Sea Shepherd Steps Up Its Game With Flying Robots
No commentsWith tons of debris and toxic degrading plastic bags masquerading as fish in the ocean, whales have enough to worry about without being hunted. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is dedicated to addressing that problem — for years, the whale preservationist group has engaged in an increasingly publicized (and even televised) David versus Goliath fight [...]
Reusable Bags and the Future of Fashion
1 comment so farNot so long ago, it was rare that a simple shopping bag could be considered a fashion statement. Aside from the iconic “brown bags” of Bloomingdale’s, any and all status symbols are usually contained inside the shopping bags. Now, however, all of that is changing with the rise of the reusable shopping bag.
Ted Mininni, [...]
New Japanese Robot Takes Recycling to the Next Level
No commentsWho doesn’t love robots? Whirring around and making our lives more comfortable, they are easily the most anticipated feature of the future. But robots who recycle? That’s just icing on the cake that students at Osaka University, in conjunction with Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Co, are ready to deliver:
Osaka University and Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Co. [...]
Hey, It’s Earth Day! Now What About Earth Minute?
No commentsIt’s here, it’s finally here! It’s April 22nd, which is finally and officially the Earth Day 2009 we’ve all been waiting for.
Apparently some people don’t have the time or energy for a full-on Earth Day — for them, there is the oh-so-convenient Earth Minute which is apparently makings its debut on May 20.
On May [...]
Paul Rudd Goes Green for Sesame Street Earth-a-Thon
No commentsA beloved icon once said, “It’s not easy being green.” Perhaps this is the case, but actor Paul Rudd sure is giving it the old college try, donning a giant globe costume and piling on the charm as Mr. Earth himself on the Sesame Street special Going Green. Rudd is notorious for his unabashedly awkward [...]
