Posts Tagged ‘ecology’

Co2 Emissions And The Individual

In: Reference & Education

14 Oct 2010

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last ten years there is little doubt that you’ve heard about co2 emissions and your carbon footprint. The government, special interest groups, radio, television and your neighbors; everyone seems to have taken up the banner of the global warming march. There is a dizzying array of terminology thrown at us from carbon footprints to sustainability, renewable energy and carbon credits, offsets and neutrality.

Photocopiers: Leading the way for energy efficiency in the office

In: computers

8 Oct 2009

To decrease the growing problem of electrical and electronic waste, the WEEE directive was established and passed into law in Europe on 13 February 2003. WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment. With this new directive it would be the responsibility of any equipment producer to recycle or treat their equipment, or simply take it back.

About Honda Hybrid Cars

In: Vehicles

7 Jun 2009

Most of us have heard of the various Honda cars on the market today. You can add to this range of cars the Honda hybrid cars. These hybrid cars include the Honda Accord Hybrid, the Honda Civic hybrid 4 door car and Honda Insight, which is a two seater. These are not the only hybrid cars in Honda’s stable, there are others but these are the more well-known models.

It Is Okay To Make Positive Changes: Easy Tips For Greening Up

In: Technology

16 May 2009

This isn’t a lecture on what you must do in order to sleep at night. I’ve been listening to television while I work lately and I’ve realized nearly everything I do has some greater implication to someone or something in the world. My own personal epiphany, my own “butterfly effect”. I stopped watching the nightly news because it’s so negative, rarely are positive stories released and I figured life is tough enough that I don’t need to fill my mind with the world’s issues. With this great “green” movement, I’ve begun to feel the same. I don’t want to avoid new discoveries. So, I began looking at simple things most all of us can employ to have a smaller footprint and not feel as if we’re altering our lifestyles dramatically. So here you are, some simple steps to green up, simply because it’s a good thing to do.

Where Does All the Plastic Go?

In: Technology

17 Mar 2009

Each year the United States throws out millions of tons of waste. Much of it is plastic. For every ten tons of plastic waste, we only recycle about one ton. So where do the other nine tons go? It goes to the dump where much of it floats away on the wind and rain. Most of that ends up in our oceans. Water bottles, gas cans, plastic bags, and even kayaks break up into tiny particles to be deposited on our beaches. The larger pieces float on the currents out to gyres. Gyres are swirling dead zones in the ocean. Once the debris is in the gyres, it is trapped there forever. These floating trash piles are estimated to be twice the size of Texas, and weigh approximately three million tons.


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