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Film Review: To buy, to throw away, to buy.
Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, tirar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. It tells the secret [...]
Kimberly-Clark´s greatest green innovation: the tube-free toilet paper
It is probably one of the most famous household products in the world. No matter if we are rich or poor, sustainable or not, we all use toilet paper. It’s something familiar to all of us. The product has no [...]
From plastic back to oil
Imagine being able to recycle plastic, any kind of plastic (including Styrofoam, plastic bags and bottle caps) back into oil. Not to mention then converting this oil into gasoline or any other oil by-product. The amount of garbage that would [...]
World Tap Water Week
A special week has been selected by Green Thing to be the annual World Tap Water Week. From this year on, on the third week of August we will be celebrating how great our pure, simple tap water is. The [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to the BioCouture fashion generation
Welcome to the living clothing. Well, technically the clothes we are introducing are not “alive” but they are made of organic matter cultivated specifically to the cause. It is like to grow a frock from a vat of liquid using [...]
Eco-friendly vacuum made from sea garbage
Unfortunately, people from all over the world throw plastic wastes without even thinking where they will end up going. Oceans are filled with floating garbage islands, and they grow bigger every passing day. But here´s the good news: Electrolux wants [...]
Corky mouse and the power of your hand
An average standard mouse can use dozens of alkaline batteries in a year. Let us introduce you a better option. This is Corky, a mouse which does not rely upon disposable batteries, it’s made from 100% recycled plastic components and [...]
Guide to greener electronics
Greenpeace has developed a ranking system applied to the world’s most important multinational electronics companies. They have designed a chart with values from 1 to 10, where 1 is the lowest “green value” and 10 would be extremely green. Greenpeace [...]
Green festivals and ways to rock more sustainably
We already told you about Jack Johnson´s initiative. Thinking in the UK means thinking in terms of music. Dozens of festivals take place every year in the country, attracting a huge audience, a factor which inevitably impacts the environment. A [...]
Karma Cup: sustainable coffee cups by Starbucks
Each year 58 billion paper cups are thrown away rather than recycled. This could also be counted as 20 million trees, 12 billion gallons of water and energy to power 53,000 million homes used to make these cups. All together, [...]
Jack Johnson: a green artist
Jack Johnson is a world famous musician, that unlike many others has a passion for environmentalism. He keeps it green not only in his daily life, but he also makes sure all of his concerts are as green as possible. [...]
