One of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the Grand Canyon draws upward of five million visitors a year, a fact which is both a blessing and a curse to one of our most valuable national treasures. Every one of those five million humans impact a natural phenomenon that began at least 17 million [...]
You know bike culture is growing continuously regardless of if slowly when you start seeing more and more recumbent bicycles on the roads of a place like NY City, previously one of the most notoriously bicycle-unfriendly cities around and still host to irritable drivers and hostile policemen.
With the large amounts of waste that is created in UK households each year, effective rubbish removal strategies are becoming more of a necessity. Every week seems to bring new stories about the effects of global warming, therefore more people are aware of the causes and what can be done to help reduce the effects. [...]
A short film called The Story of Bottled Water by Anne Leonard was released Thursday, which was World Water Day. In The story of Bottled Water, Leonard shows how corporations have convinced Americans to spend extra cash on half a billion bottles of water every week though most people in this country can get it [...]
It is every bit as possible for those who reside in the largest metropolitan places to experience catastrophe events as it is for anyone in a lot more non-urban settings. Although we think of tornadoes around states like Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, it is in reality , doable for them to hit virtually any place. [...]
In Taos, New Mexico, homes enable residents to enjoy unrivaled blue skies, the mysticism of Taos Pueblo and of course the exciting slopes of Ski Valley. Skilled real estate agents show interested parties single family homes, condos, townhouses and – studding the wide open landscape – Earthships. Known in the Taos real estate community as [...]
Air pollution is among the deadliest dangers to our surroundings today. Sadly, with each year that goes by, the problem gets worse with an increase of contaminant levels in the atmosphere. Thus, preventive measures must be taken at the earliest to keep this type of pollution in check. The real reason for air pollution is [...]
A one year old program in Ontario (a province in Canada) designed to recycle old electronics is failing to meet goals. The Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES) gathered only 40% of the 42,000 tonnes of toxin-laced equipment it was originally supposed to collect. OES has a goal to keep millions of computers and televisions out of [...]
Today, sustainability and environmentalism are often at the forefront of urban initiatives. It seems, however, that some U.S. cities are doing better than others when it comes to being green. Back in February 2008, Popular Science produced a list of the top 50 greenest cities in the United States. These are the greenest cities in [...]
Traditionally, cotton has been regarded as an organic popular inside the styles planet but now the materials generally recognized as Jute is becoming a favorite. The Bag made of Jute is rapidly growing to be a styles staple witnessed on display in shop fronts, on runways and fashion ads around the world.
