Category: Green news

…if it’s the kind that has to travel thousands of miles before it reaches your local store and your dinner table. A recent study shows that the food miles clocked in by organic produce and regular produce aren’t much different. Food miles are defined as the distance that food travels from the field to the…

Being near 40 and having all these cassette tapes that testify to prior poor judgment or bad taste in music, I want to get rid of the evidence. Natch. But I read that they are made from tensilized polyester which doesn’t fall into anyone of the recycling categories. Thrift shops might be able to take…

Okay, I’m seriously annoyed. I just found out that my car doesn’t take too kindly to unleaded gasoline. In case you didn’t know, leaded gasoline still isn’t phased out in our country. But what’s more annoying is that it’s a car released in 2000, and despite that, its engine wasn’t built for unleaded. Geez.

One thing I noticed here in the US is how easy it is for toys to accumulate. Toys are easy to give and easy to collect. However, kids do get tired of their toys, and outgrow them. It’s easier to throw them out, but then what happens to these toys? They end up in landfills….

I used to work in an office where I had to wear suits. Not only was it a nuisance having to constantly drop it off at the dry cleaners, turns out it was also not environment-friendly. So much for dressing for success. What are your options in lieu of dry cleaning? The Grinning Planet recommends…

In a few weeks, the U.S. Congress will vote on renewable sources of energy. Five senators, called the Fluttering Five by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, claim they haven’t heard from the public. PIRG is raising money to buy red,white and blue pinwheels (each representing 1.5 megawatt wind turbine enough to provide power to…

The municipality of Rodriguez, Rizal has jumpstarted an ambitious P1.5 billion project to extract methane gas from the Rodriguez landfill and churn out electricity enough to power 15,000 homes. In what could be the first of its kind in Asia, the “Rodriguez Landfill Methane Recovery and Electricity Generation Project” is projected to produce 15 megawatts…

Greener Choices offer the following tips on staying cool yet green during the hot summer months : Turn on the ceiling fan if you have one instead of the airconditioner. On hot days, you can set the air conditioner at 82 degrees and let the fan do the rest of the cooling. Draw the blinds…

So the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has launched the Tree For Life project, which aims to plant 20 million trees all over the Philippines. Call me a naysayer, but I really hate how many people in this country think that planting trees is the only way to save the planet. People, people, no…

Aside from washing full loads, you can go green with your laundry by using all natural liquid soap without dyes or fragrances. Instead of hot water, use warm water for washing and cold water for rinsing. Heating water costs more and uses more energy. Get the most efficient washers. According to EarthShare if every U.S….