Posts for life

According to the latest EcoWatch news, Monsanto and Cargill Aggressively Pursue GE Soy Feed for Factory Fish-Farming Industry. So first we stopped eating meat, be it due to environmental impact (land use, water use, pharmaceuticals, ethical aspects, …) and we thought we could eat fish.…

Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment defines all impacts of a material or product from all of its components and processes to produce a functional unit of the material or product.

life cycle assessment (LCA) is the compilation and evaluation of the inputs, outputs and the potential environmental impacts of a product system throughout its life cycle.

This morning I slept too long after a late night yesterday and woke up with the knowledge that I will have to queue in the traffic jam. If I do not leave home at 6:30 in the morning, the likelihood of ending up in rush…

Via Los Angeles Times, 23/05/2012 Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation Wednesday to approve a ban on plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines, handing a major victory to clean-water advocates who sought to reduce the amount of trash clogging landfills, the region’s waterways…

Via Ecowatch.org, 15-05-2012 When the Governor of Honolulu County signed into law the plastic bag ban last week that the County Council approved, Hawaii became the first state in the nation where every city and unincorporated area is covered by a plastic bag ban. This…

Via inhabitat.com, 15/08/2011 Frankfurt’s Zeilgalerie recently lit up with an incredible new multi-level media wall composed of 19,700 individually controlled light emitting diodes! Conceived by German design studio 3deluxe, the shimmering energy-efficient LED orchestration translates the urban vibrancy of the mall into an energetic media…

Via inhabitat.com, 15/08/2011 According to scientists, there are mussels at the bottom of the ocean that are efficiently converting hydrogen into energy in their very own, nature-made hydrogen fuel cells. The mussels, discovered by the Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology and the Cluster of…

Briscoes in NZ is now selling the Ecology series of kitchen hardware. According to Briscoes’ brochure it’s made from recycled stainless steel and bamboo handles.

I increasingly see eco cleaning companies sprouting, there is one that I know of in NZ, which is Environmental Choice NZ certified and I stumbled just across another one in UAE.