Climate Change
World Water Day: shortages of safe drinking water and inadequate sanitation services in Africa
Since year 1993 the International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. An international day to celebrate freshwater [...]
Climate change might contribute to the food prices rise
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced some days ago that food prices hit a record last month. Its Food Price Index reached the highest level since the organization created the index to measure the price of a [...]
Tropic biodiversity in decline as demand of natural resources rises
“Our demand on natural resources has doubled since 1966 and in 2007 we were using the equivalent of 1.5 planets to support our activities. If we continue living beyond the Earth’s limits, by 2030 we’ll need the equivalent of two [...]
A new mushroom-based biopackaging is growing
We bet you didn’t know that packaging could be grown. We didn’t know it either. The mates from Ecovative Design are responsible of that. They got a new packaging material, EcoCradle™, made of mushroom roots and agricultural waste that lowers [...]
Pamela Anderson in the PETA campaign: Have a heart and go vegetarian
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has convinced Pamela Anderson to show up her curves once more. And for an awareness cause. How? By using an advertisement in which Pamela shows the blonde’s body labeled as though she [...]
Toronto: food tastes better in a green marketplace
Last 7th of June, the city of Toronto unveiled the winning design for the new St. Lawrence Market North Building. The new design, proposed by Adamson Associates Architects and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, was unanimously chosen by judges as [...]
Rice art: a sustainable way of being creative in rice fields
The small town of Inakadate in Japan, felt the need to revitalize themselves. They came up with the fantastic idea to combine their century-old farming tradition with art to create artistic rice fields. In 1993 the village farmers created the [...]
UK: Can the new recycling system, based on nine different bins, actually work?
Newcastle-under-Lyme Council, north Staffordshire, has a new bin system that forces households to separate their rubbish into nine different bins in order to meet tough recycling targets. To achieve this goal, there is a blue box for glass, foil, tins [...]
Connecting people to foster gardening
Shared Earth has developed a brilliant concept: getting together people who want and know how to garden with people who have a piece of land and want to share it. Gardeners and farmers get to grow plants and food, and [...]
