Author: The GU team

Nobody said saving the planet has to be done on a large scale. For practically everyone, it’s all about taking small steps. It would be nice if we could just get everyone to reuse and recycle, if no one had to question everything done for the environment, but yeah, that’s not the case. This article…

First, cities like San Francisco took this bold and highly necessary step. Now, a whole country decided to put its foot down on the matter of plastic bags. Declaring war on the “white pollution” choking its cities, farms and waterways, China is banning free plastic shopping bags and calling for a return to the cloth…

Of the many household chores to be done, doing the laundry ranks lowest in my list. I do my laundry every two weeks. Anyway, to put it simply, what can we as ordinary consumers do to wash our clothes the green way? Here are some ideas. 1. Wash on a full load. Don’t wash one…

My sister Cecile uses wineglass charms. This way, you know which one is your glass and you don’t have to keep getting a new one every time you need a drink. Ideal Bite says it takes about 2 full glasses of water to clean a dirty one. To save on paper napkins, use cloth napkins….

To state the glaringly obvious, women get their periods every month. Count the number of women in the world and think of how long periods usually last, and then think of how many sanitary napkins and tampons are being used for each day of menstruation. Now imagine all of them piled up in landfills all…

This year’s CES is underway in Las Vegas, and the focus isn’t just what’s hot and what’s on the verge of making it big, but also the energy efficiency and eco-friendliness of the featured products. One such product that made a splash is Fujitsu‘s corn-based laptop. Well, not the laptop itself, but the plastic casing…

On a lark, I Googled “solar powered clothes” and stumbled upon this. European scientists have developed light, flexible solar panels that could be sewn on fabrics and placed on surfaces to charge objects ranging from cell phones and DVD players to batteries. Developed by scientists working on a European Union research project called H-Alpha Solar…

This isn’t something new, but I thought I’d mention it here anyway, plus I’m a real sucker for bags. The Voltaic Solar Bags are made from recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET), contain three solar panels with 4 watts of power, and come with a variety of adaptors which can let you charge practically any electronic device….

Westchester County in New York is cracking down on non-recyclers. They’re going to start sticking yellow “oops” stickers on trash cans if they find recyclables in regular trash. Sounds good, but could we expect carting companies to really look through garbage? Don’t the trucks just collect trash from the dumpsters or the containers and then…

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