All things green and planet saving.
Cruise ships, as it turns out, are helping to contribute to the pollution problem. The fuel they use dumps harmful chemicals into the air and is even worse than just everyday vehicles but an alternative is coming form an ironic source. Cruise ships of the future may run on waste fish parts.
Waste water, the stuff that you flush and let run down the drain, generally not thought off as something that’s worth anything but it turns out that it may hiding the secret for some renewable energy. Turns out that it has a lot of potential for useful applications and purple bacteria may help us make use of it.
Solar panels, great for getting nice, green energy. Also it turns out, great for keeping the surrounding lands nice and green too. Green goodness all around. A new study shows that solar panels help to increase grazing lands for some of our herd animals.
Flushable wet wipes really help to keep people clean but they’re not great for our pipes or the environment. As it stands, none sold in UK actually disintegrate when exposed to water. They stay as wet wipes and clog everything up.
So, cars that run on gas, not great for the environment. We’ve known this for a long time but most of us still . . . have cars that run on gas. Well if you’re in the market for a Volkswagen, good news, they’re committed to producing 50 million electric cars.
There’s a lot of yucky stuff in the air, we call it pollution. Generally speaking, it’s waste and not so great for us but that doesn’t mean that we can’t make use of it. Air-Ink is the black ink made from air pollution.
Cleaning products, we all use them (hopefully) and for most of us, when we’re done with a bottle, we just toss it in the trash. The problem is that the bottles are plastic waste and plastic waste ends up in the ocean. You can’t really reuse the bottles for anything else because they had chemicals, so what do you do? Put more cleaner in there of course. OceanSaver Pods are concentrated cleaning pods that you can drop into those empty…
Fossil fuels are not a sustainable energy source. We need things that will renew themselves over time. Sometimes there’s success in even the most outlandish of ideas like combining mushrooms and bacteria to create electricity.
You know the drill, you complain about the heat all summer but then as soon as the cold weather hits, you complain about that. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some way to store that delicious summer heat for when you really need it, like the dead of winter. Science thought so too! Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage (MOST) saves heat for a cold day.
What are we doing with our plastics? Throwing them in landfills and the oceans mostly is what it seems which isn’t the greatest solution for the waste problem that we have in modern life which is why we recycle. One group of scientists have pioneered a better way to recycle PET plastic waste into aerogels.
Socks. Most of us wear them because they help keep our feet warm. But they also end up in landfills and when they’re not made in a sustainable way, contribute to the overall pollution in the world. That’s not good. Shop for a better sock, a more sustainable sock with the Solosocks Share, the sustainable sock choice that also gives socks to the homeless.
In the effort to cut down on waste, many people stop buying things in single use wrappings for their kitchen, switching over to bulk which is great. You can do the same in the bathroom too! The Ethique Eco-Friendly Shampoo Bar is the bottleless shampoo solution for your hair washing needs.
Climate change is real. Big corporations are the leading culprits of it. Biking to work will help some but that’s not going to really slow this runaway train down to avoid disaster. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do anything though. Chooose is a subscription service that funds green projects for a better future.
Plastic in the ocean is a huge problem and you’re probably aware of things like plastic bags and soda rings that end up there but did you also know that your clothes are also a problem? As it turns out, washing our clothes also helps to shed plastic into our water supply.
Do you ever think about how much energy your favorite websites use to deliver the content that you love? Sure, you’re probably aware that websites consume energy just like everything else. After all, those servers don’t run on smiles and sunshine. But what if they did? The Low Tech Magazine runs their website with solar energy in an eco-friendly way.
