Eco-Friendly Tips

Be a Green Walker!

elaine — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:16:02 +0000

Shoes are a much needed and necessary part of everyday life, after all how are you going to get around without wearing something on your feet after all, the day would be extra tiresome without something comfortable to keep your feet inside and to keep you on track all day so to speak. We all [...]

ReMade USA Recycled Leather Bags

Lira — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:37:46 +0000

ReMade USA is a San Francisco based company that was put together out of a good concept combined with a solid passion. It is a retail company whose specialty is crafting really sophisticated, high quality leather bags using materials like recycled leather jackets and scraps from thrift stores, or furniture and car companies. Many of [...]

Toy Companies Slapped with Fine by CSPC

Lira — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:50:19 +0000

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is slapping a total of $500,000 in penalty fees for nine companies that have been found selling products laced with “toxic lead”. As everyone should know, lead is very poisonous and can cause brain damage, among other things. Below are the names of the companies and their offenses: 1. Cardinal Distributing [...]

Top 5 Green Cities

gracelim — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:19:13 +0000

Due to global warming and issues happening to our planet today, more people are practicing eco living. I used to hear my parents telling me that whatever we do to our plane, be it good our bad it will always come back to us. Today 5 cities are progressively growing to be Green. From Greenniacs, 1. [...]

Benefits of Eco Friendly household cleaners

gracelim — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:01:04 +0000

Household cleaners have one thing in common. They are created to clean and deodorize our homes. Lately certain studies have surfaced that it is dangerous due to high amount of chemicals. Greeniacs also stated that Chemically infused cleaning products have an undeserved reputation of immaculate cleanliness. The truth is these products that are intended to rid [...]

90,000 Seals To Be Clubbed To Death In Nambia

gracelim — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:44:17 +0000

Namibia’s annual seal hunting will go on despite objections by animal welfare groups, a government official said Monday. Hunters are expected to club over 90,000 seals, including 85,000 pups. Namibia has been practicing this events every year to club seals to use furs, eat their meats, and seal genitals are sold as traditional medicines and [...]

Global warming cuts on the rise

elaine — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:39:42 +0000

On wednesday in L’AQUILA, Italy president of the United States Barack Obama and other leaders of the richest industrial countries vowed to seek dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to slow down the dangerous climate change. In a positive move they all agreed that world temperatures must not rise more than a few degrees and urgent [...]

Yokohama Tires Out of Orange Peels

Lira — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:41:13 +0000

Yokohama, a world renowned tire manufacturing company, has started selling non-petroleum based tires using orange oil as the main ingredient. Called the Super E-spec™, this tire is already recognized by Popular Mechanics as its Editor’s Choice Awardee. The tire will be available in the latest hybrid Toyota Prius. Says Yokohama Vice President for Sales, [...]

Australian Town Bans Water Bottles

Lira — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:09:10 +0000

A rural town in Sydney Australia has posted a ban on bottled waters last Wednesday. Locals of Bundanoon applaud themselves for an almost unanimous choice by its residents to ban this, after a town-meeting discussion. This is the second place in Australia to do so. Just moments before this decision, New South Wales state also [...]

U2 Under Fire for Carbon Footprints!

elaine — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:19:31 +0000

U2 the Irish rockers, some might say possibly one of the biggest and most popular bands in the world for the last 20 years or so have been struck by environmental campaigners for the damage that their upcoming tour U2360 will do to the planet! This is interesting news for many as the band especially [...]