Plastic water bottles aren’t great for sustainability reasons even if they’re easy to work with while your out for a jog. Or in this case a while marathon. Instead of the ubiquitous water bottle at the London Marathon, there will Ooho Seaweed Capsules to quench runners’ thirst.
Changing your personal habits is a popular reaction to climate change issues but scientist aren’t so sure that our small lifestyle changes will be even close to enough to make a real difference. What is clear is that companies and governments making mass changes will. So the advice? Keep fighting for policy changes and accountability for corporations but make the changes that you can and encourage others as well.
Plastic is a huge problem. We use so much of it! And it sticks around forever. In landfills, blowing through the nature and into our waterways. Wouldn’t it be great if it could just. . . dissolve? Well that’s what Solutum has claimed to develop, a plastic that dissolves, safely, in water.
The changing climate won’t just impact the weather. With the warmer temperatures, the world is going to be looking at many disappearing coastlines, many of which people, you know, live along. Rather than just waiting for everything to sink, New York City is looking at a radical plan to prepare for it and it may outline how the rest of the world handles the same problems.
Your local park is important and as the climate warms up, you should fight to keep it. Green spaces are crucial, especially in urban environments, in the fight against climate change. They have a ton of social and health benefits for people but they also have some pretty good benefits for the planet.
It’s going to take a lot to make the sort of changes we need to disrupt climate change, everyone knows that, right? Well, maybe that’s not exactly true. Maybe a small push, at just the right time, might be good too. Researchers have proposed a new theory, that smaller changes enacted at critical points might help to turn back the clock on the changing world.
Alternative energy farms are getting a lot of flack on the ground as they’re big and interrupt wildlife which is why we’re putting them in the ocean. Dutch engineers are putting a new spin on them by building solar islands that follow the sun, like a sun flower!
Everyone wants privacy when they’re browsing and enjoying the wonders of the world wide web. But increasingly we’re all being watched and restricted by our service providers. That’s not cool. With PacketStream you can stay private while helping others do the same and I’m not sure it’s a great idea.
