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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 [...]
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, [...]
World Cup jerseys made from recycled plastic
We are all attentive to the results of the FIFA World Cup, how our teams are doing in the match and making our own predictions of what future outcomes will be. But there is more to the 2010 tournament than [...]
CocaCola thinks green
It makes a big difference when big and respected companies such as Coca-Cola make a commitment to conserve energy and fight climate changes. People that might have been skeptic about eco-friendly lifestyles can not ignore the fact that if a [...]
Concord Town says goodbye to plastic bottles
Iniciatives like are worth spreading: the town of Concord has made a dramatical yet necessary announcement: it will stop selling bottled drinking water beginning next year. The reason? According to Jean Hill, who introduced the measure at Concord´s Town Meeting: [...]
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, [...]
Take your old jeans to the Gap for recycling and get 30% off
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot about jeans being recycled into insulating material. Apparently, it works very well, and it uses an already existent material, that could otherwise become trash. Like for example, your old jeans. This week, until March [...]
