Monthly Archives: March 2010
Another university goes greener: Harvard
We’ve already looked at several universities that are undergoing green transformations, like Yale, and Cambridge. This is fantastic news: students that get to learn about sustainability and witness it all around them will help to further spread it during their [...]
The first carrot-mob in Latin America
The first carrot-mob of Latin America took place last Saturday, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This event, which originated in the United States, seeks to support environmentally responsible producers, calling on people to buy what they sell. The carrot-mob was organized [...]
The Climate World Cup: a game to fight against climate change
Businesses and companies around the world are great greenhouse gas emitters. The Climate World Cup aims at engaging them in reducing their emissions and taking stronger stances against climate change. This game invites you and everyone interested to vote and [...]
Sculptures in Greenland generate awareness on climate change
The Arctic is melting. I listened to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth presentation again this week and was reminded of the magnitude of the current climate crisis. We really are in trouble. One of the very complicated problems we face [...]
Vote Earth by switching off your lights this Saturday
I guess most of you must have already heard or read about “Earth Hour”, which invites everyone on this planet to turn off their lights next Saturday, at 8.30 pm, in your local time zone. Why? To show decision makers [...]
RecyclingNearYou, an online tool to help Australians recycle
Trash, a real bummer. Many say our whole production system is incorrectly designed, that’s why so much materials and energy are wasted. The best solution would be to change this system and make everything reusable, and recyclable. In the meantime, [...]
The Story of bottled water
Check out Annie Leonard’s analysis of bottled water. It’s not tastier, not even cleaner or healthier than most tap water, so why do we keep consuming it?
New Discovery Channel series, Life, airs tonight
If you haven’t watched Planet Earth yet, please do so! It is an amazing collection of awe-inspiring images of the different forms of life on Earth. It was produced by Discovery and the BBC. After their success with that film, [...]
Human behavior plays a critical role in reducing energy use
In an interview with Grist, Republican Brian Baird explains his ideas of how psychology should be taken more into account when dealing with climate change. Baird has a PhD in clinical psychology, and argues that “to change the way Americans [...]
Apart Silvestris, a green hotel in Argentina
"It’s cost-effective to do things with environmental responsibility," says Alfredo Leali, owner of Apart Silvestris, in Mar de las Pampas, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. He wants to emphasize the fact that working in a sustainable manner may also be economically [...]
GoogleMaps now includes biking directions
Who can deny it? GoogleMaps is a fantastic tool. It includes information on directions, addresses, how to get from one place to another by car, walking or using public transport. For a while now, people have been asking Google to [...]
Homes made from recycled plastic
The Welsh company Affresol offers an alternative building material: recycled plastic. By doing so, the amount of waste sent to landfills is reduced, and the usage of new building materials is avoided. Affresol transforms plastics into a very strong material [...]
