So it’s a week later and who remembers Earth Hour? Cynics will nod in self-congratulations at the fact that according to a Gulf News poll, more than 60 percent of readers did not switch off the light during Earth Hour. Altogether 4035 people answered the question: ‘Did you switch off the lights during Earth Hour?’ [...]
As I don’t have a car, TV, DVD player, radio or CD player I rely entirely on my laptop, iPhone and iTunes- which is great. But I’ve noticed that while I have a huge access to media, it’s all derived one way or another from my conscious search for it, be it news, music or films. Rarely do [...]
www.thecarboncult.com is now offsetting some carbon. I signed up the site with the 350 challenge. For every blogger that signs up and posts the nifty badge there on the right Brighterplanet.com will offset 350 pounds (158kgs) of CO2 in my name. Or yours if you sign up too. Apparently ‘that’s like flicking off 100 light [...]
Illegal trade in wildlife products like ivory and rhino horn must be treated as a serious crime in order to end the devastating poaching of protected species, the head of UN wildlife trade regulator CITES said last week. “This is serious crime, and you need serious resources and serious penalties” to address it, said CITES [...]
South African authorities have been rounding up thousands of escaped crocodiles since Friday after floods gave them an escape route from a crocodile farm. Authorities attempted to reassure the public everything was under control. “A large number” of 15,000 reptiles at the Rakwena Crocodile Farm in the far north of the country had escaped last Sunday [...]
Brazil will undertake the massive task of cataloging the trees of the Amazon, in an effort to better monitor and protect the world’s largest tropical forest, the environment ministry announced Friday. The planned tree census, set to take four years, “will allow us to have a broad panorama of the quality and the conditions in [...]
Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem — one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative company TerraCycle in Trenton, New Jersey, says there’s no such thing as trash, even when you’re talking about the contents of ashtrays. In a program started [...]
