Category: Green news

In case you missed it, you can watch “Six Degrees could Change the World” on the National Geographic Channel, 14 February at 8 PM ET.

The United Nations’ 2-day debate on climate change started today. British billionaire Richard Branson offered to set up an “environmental war room” to help the UN address global warming. The General Assembly is trying to shape policy on climate change. The meeting is also intended to drum up support for UN-led negotiations to formulate a…

If you already know about this, then please excuse my post, but I really had no idea that talcum powder is carcinogenic. If you didn’t know this either, then quick! Go find some talc-free baby powder! Gaia Skin Naturals also offers organic baby powder that uses cornstarch powder. I just remembered that a lot of…

Greenwashing doesn’t make anyone happy save for the people doing the greenwashing. Most times, notorious greenwashers are the companies who want to ride the green wave and hopefully drive up profits by painting themselves as saviors of the environment. But what if the government itself if accused of painting a whole country green? The Environment…

The Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) Company has recently put up some ads promoting their wireless landline phones. It’s really fun, because you can take it out of the house and bring it with you everywhere. Pretty much like a mobile phone, really, or the car phones of old, so that means you’ll never miss…

I saw a television commercial last night for Green Works, a new line of cleaning products from Clorox. The products are purported to be 99% natural. They even list its ingredients on the label. The Sierra Club even allowed Clorox to use their logo on the Green Works products. Treehugger says that while it is…

So it seems like recycling is getting more and more common in Australia nowadays, which is a fine development and all, but the big problem they’re facing right now is their amount of carbon emissions. But Australia, which signed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change last December, continues to rely on coal for electricity, and…

We all know that a lot of business schools have started offering sustainable business and other environment-related classes and full degrees. Now even a law school has a Sustainable Business Law program and Animal Law courses. The University of Oregon’s School of Law is the first law school in the U.S. to offer these programs.

In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, there’s a man in Ankh-Morpork called Harry King, the King of the Golden River. Basically, what he does is put away people’s…waste products for them. It turned him into quite a rich man, especially because no one is doing the same thing in the city. That’s pretty much what Waste…

I saw Mark Moffett (that’s not him in the photo) on The Colbert Report talking about his new book, Face to Face with Frogs. Mr. Moffett said that frogs are on the fastest road to extinction due to climate change. Many species have now become extinct. I was terrorized with a plastic but realistic-looking frog…