Category: Green news
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Avery’s Beverages has a good idea for its bottles
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…
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BetterWorld Bookstore
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…
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Rechargeable batteries are love
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….
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Recycled bags
BazuraShop* sells bags made from recycled juice containers, banners, posters, and foils, all made by a women’s cooperative in the Philippines. A woman named Marina Beltran was also recently featured in Entrepreneur Philippines. She started her own bag-making business with only P300 ($6.25) as her start-up capital, and they’re all made from recycled foil packs,…
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Could games be greener than we think?
The Guardian‘s GamesBlog is ruminating on a pretty interesting concept: that video games actually help us grasp the concepts of recycling, reusing, and working with the environment. Energy and item conservation are vital components of all combat games. In survival horror, no bullet is wasted, no herb squandered, while in RPGs the obsessive collection and…