Category: Green news
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Life Goggles asks “How Many Phonebooks Do you Get?”
A good question was raised by Life Goggles in its blog post “How Many PhoneBooks Do you Get?” post. So yeah, how many phonebooks do you get? In my case, we get two – one covers our county, another one covers our city. Do we use it? Hardly. Once we get the new ones, do…
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Google Store’s Green Initiative
Life Goggles post “Google’s Products Go Green” led me to the Google Store‘s “The Green Initiative“. What IS “The Green Initiative”? “The Google Store is going green. We only have one Earth and we want to do our best to take care of her, so we’ve worked hard to make our store more eco-friendly. From…
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Poland Spring’s Eco-Shape
Here’s another water bottle-related post from me. With all the traveling this 4th of July long weekend, I acknowledge that sometimes, we can’t bring our water bottles with us when we travel so we are forced to buy bottled water. In these situations, do consider Poland Spring. With their new Eco-Shape Bottle, at least they…
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50 Ways to Help the Planet
Wire and Twine is a group of designers, artists, and photographers who make some really good products like t-shirts and always keep the environment in mind. They have a list of 50 easy things you can do to protect the environment–and you can really see that it doesn’t take a lot of complicated changes to…
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LG’s green monitor
Hear ye! Hear ye! LG unveils the world’s most eco-friendly monitor! Check out LG’s FLATRON W2252TE. Hands down, it’s the winner in the green monitoring category. Right now anyway. p.s. I nearly forgot to post about this. How can that be? The monitor was unveiled in the middle of June.
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Lumeneo unveils Smera concept car
French company Lumeneo has come out with their concept electric car, Smera. It’s a tiny vehicle that looks more like a covered four-wheeled motorcycle, reaching a maximum speed of 80 mph. It’s a pretty cute little car, although it could only seat the driver and a passenger, if no one’s bringing with them any big…
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Happy 4th of July!
Hope you’ll all have a fun 4th of July! Happy birthday, USA!
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Vegetable oil-powered car being developed in the Philippines
In more Philippine-related news, a man named Ricky Nuñez has put the finishing touches on his pick-up truck that was modified to run on vegetable oil. With the help of his auto mechanic friends in Lipa, Batangas, Nuñez installed an engine converter kit from United States to his car. This enables his truck’s engine to…
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Let your 4th of July be red, white, blue…and green!
According to Wikipedia‘s entry on Independence Day: “Families often celebrate Independence Day with a picnic or barbecue, and take advantage of the day off and in some years, long weekend to gather with relatives. Decorations (e.g., streamers, balloons, and clothing) are generally colored red, white, and blue, the colors of the American flag. Parades often…
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Waste collection failure
The Philippines has plenty of great, detailed laws in place. The problem is enforcing and following them. One of the biggest problems we have is the waste collection service provided by the government. A letter from the EcoWaste Coalition’s coordinator Rei A. Panaligan opened up the flaws in local government’s waste collection. Some communities in…