Author: The GU team

Hankering for a taste of adventure and to experience the great outdoors in other parts of the world? You should make ekoVenture your first stop. ekoVenture works with more than 450 tour operators around the world in order to help you plan your adventure/holiday. You also get to see people’s reviews of the different tour…

Protect future generations. Join Seventh Generation’s virtual Million Baby Crawl. Click here to tell Congress to reform policies on toxic chemicals. You can even create and customize your own little crawler. (photo from Amazon)

I lost most of my clothes, things, and books in a fire at our house last year, and when Typhoon Ondoy/Ketsana swept through the Philippines on September 26, many houses were swallowed up by floods, and I know quite a few people who were affected, with most of their belongings ruined by floodwaters–and those belongings…

We don’t know about that, but Vancouver has recently snapped up eight of these fuel-cell babies as part of the 4,600-car fleet for the 2010 Winter Olympics in the city. People are currently abuzz at the possibility that the auto industry hasn’t turned its back on fuel cells. Just think: Water coming out of the…

I am guilty of being somewhat of a New York subway MetroCard hoarder. Not intentionally; it’s just that there’s little amounts left in each one and I just haven’t refilled them. (In my defense, I do not live in the city now. When I used to live there, I reused a card until it expired….

I understand that the fall season is well underway in the U.S., which means crisp weather, the turning of the leaves, and the subsequent falling and sweeping up of the aforementioned leaves. With all the leaves that you’ll be gathering, what are you supposed to do with them? Boise, Idaho’s got a good idea how…

It’s nice to see that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is recycling/reusing the buttons they give out for admission.

It would be awesome if all of us already had mobile phones that would be charged automatically every time you step out in the sunshine, but until that happy day, we have solar chargers to work with, like this one from i.Tech. The Solar Charger 906 features a monocrystalline solar panel and also comes with…

If you want to know more about how Southwest Airlines has been doing all it can to be green, you only have to take a look at Nuts About Southwest’s environment-related posts to see what they’ve been up to. Just a couple of months ago, the company was recognized by the EPA as a Green…

Parents these days are more concerned about the type of products and food they’re getting their kids. These must be wholesome, healthful, and should pose no risk to their children. Toys in particular are undergoing scrutiny, with parents rejecting them if they’re not 100% kid- and environment-friendly. But not every toy manufacturer is jumping on…