Category: Green news

Sitting at home sneezing and sniffling on a gorgeous sunny day, I wondered if climate change could be making my allergy symptoms stronger. Sure enough, I read that elevated temperatures and more carbon dioxide are making allergy seasons worse. Plants are flowering earlier, advancing the onset of spring. Increase in greenhouse gases stimulate pollen production…

For more information on global warming, check out: We only have one Earth. Who else will take care of it but us?

Spotted two weeks ago at the Metro North train station: a billboard advertising a program called The Green, which airs Tuesday nights at 9 on the Sundance Channel. It is television’s first regularly scheduled program dedicated entirely to the environment.

Ever tried Freecycle? This has got to be one of the best ideas out there. You look for the local Freecycle group in your area and join. Then you start posting away. In our area, every time you post, you have to indicate whether it’s WANTED, OFFER, PROMISED or TAKEN. So far, we have “freecycled”…

Treehugger just posted about Greenway Pedicabs, which provides a nice, easy, and, most importantly, eco-friendly transport service. It’s kind of fun to see how such things are popping up in the US nowadays. Here in the Philippines, pedicabs have been around since forever and are a good way to get around if you’re not traveling…

Companies selling bottled water always like to claim that their water is pure, all-natural, safe to drink, and bottled at the source, which is always some clean mountain spring in a faraway place. Naturally, we all buy into it, because who can argue with the gorgeous TV commercials and the fact that the water always…

Quite an informative website. It even has a little counter at the top of the page that indicates the number of plastic bags consumed this year. Logo from the Reusablebags.com website.

I stumbled upon this website for Avery’s Beverages. They’re located in New Britain, CT. I’m not a big soda drinker, but their site caught my eye when I read: “Most of Avery’s soda is packaged in returnable, reusable glass bottles. You may notice that some of our bottles do not have an Avery label on…

I get my books brand-new straight from bookshops, but only if my trusty second- or third-hand booksellers don’t carry the titles I’m looking for. And because shopping for books is always, always a painful experience in my neck of the woods, what with books being expensive and extremely hard to find most times, I’ve also…

Does it sound stupid that I only switched to rechargeable batteries recently? It probably does. I’ve known for a long time that disposable batteries are definitely not environmentally friendly and are extremely wasteful, but because buying a battery charger and the batteries as well always seemed to expensive to me, I kept using the disposables….