Category: Green news

It’s no secret that many major sporting goods companies are guilty of taking advantage of the skills and sweat of third world laborers. It’s not the most inspiring state of affairs, people working to manufacture top-quality products and making only a pittance for their hard work, even as the products go on to sell for…

Grooming is a major part of keeping your dogs clean and healthy, but if you’ve never felt entirely comfortable leaving your precious pooch in the hands of groomers, you’re not alone. Brian Corby thought it would be a great idea to have a self-service dog wash, and made his idea come to life last month,…

Apparently, there is now a term for the type of vacation where you don’t actually go very far, and might even just be spending it around town, going to the nearest city, or exploring attractions in other towns (where have I been?): staycation. It’s an interesting idea, and it definitely gives you the opportunity to…

One of my more ambitious travel plans in life is to go to the United Kingdom, ambitious mainly because doing so would sap me of all the financial resources I have and ones that I don’t even have yet. Still, it can’t hurt to dream and work for that dream. In the meantime, I keep…

Parking lots weren’t exactly a symbol of eco-friendly living, since they signaled the tearing down of large green spaces to make room for smoke-belching vehicles. Today however, they’re getting quite an interesting makeover. “Green” is the new black in planning, design and construction philosophy, and it’s no different for the parking industry. Parking designers are…

Today’s Blog Action Day 2009! Thank goodness for efforts like Blog Action Day to keep spreading the word about important issues like climate change! Now, what can we say about climate change? For starters, it is obvious to us that climate change is happening as we speak. We can choose to do nothing, or we…

Colin Beavan and his family went a whole year living the “No Impact” way. He wrote a book about it and there’s even a movie coming out. If you want to try a “carbon cleanse” for a week, click here to join. The experiment starts 18 October.

Green electronics are gaining quite a following and people are growing more interested in how electronics companies are making sure that they are taking an active role in the protection of the environment. One of the things that people are concerned about is recycling their old electronics; indeed, where should you take your old, unfixable…

More and more cellphone manufacturers these days are coming out with eco-friendly phones; I just wish I can see some of them over here! It would be great to actually hold one, try it out, and see if its looks, features, and capabilities are up to snuff, and that its eco-friendliness isn’t its only virtue,…