Category: Green news

I recently made travel arrangements on Travelocity. At check-out, I noticed an option to “Go Zero” by donating $10 to offset one person’s carbon dioxide emissions for a flight, a one night hotel stay and one day car rental. The Conservation Fund will plant trees to zero out your emissions. I ended up not buying…

Better World Club is the only earth-friendly auto club in the U. S. They not only provide roadside assistance to car owners, but to bicycle riders as well. Hybrid car owners receive discounted memberships. Other benefits include gas rebate coupons, carbon offsets, insurance, discounts at eco-friendly companies, including hotels and hybrid or biodiesel rental car…

We’ve been having a lot of much-needed rain here lately. Normally, the rainy season starts in June and by August, we are treated to torrential rains, but there’s been so few of the sort that water levels are running low and there’s a serious threat to the power supply. It’s been raining for almost a…

Newsweek offers some tips on how you can save water in every room of your house. Check them out.

See? Concern for the environment isn’t just limited to the Western world. In Saipan, shoppers who are bringing their own bags get a chance to receive a nice reward. The totebag (canvans) (sic) bag promotion is one manner shoppers can protect the environment and promote sustainable living by reducing the amount of plastic bags while…

(Image from Amazon) The July 2007 Non-Toxic Times Newsletter recommends two books as required reading this summer. In “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning”, GeorgeMonbiot presents the idea that we can reduce carbon emissions by a whopping 90% by the year 2030. There is supposedly a lot of how-to information on reducing or…

(Photo from Natural Touch) from Ideal Bite: Instead of burgers and hotdogs on your next cook-out, how about soy burgers, bison beef or organic beef? Organic farming uses up 30% less energy while producing the same amount of food. You’re also ingesting less pesticide residue.

Dirty car? Keep it and your conscience clean with these tips from Ideal Bite: Turning the hose off between rinses. Using a non-toxic, biodegradable cleaner like Biokleen. Try a waterless wash kit. Better yet, go to a professional car wash that uses eco-friendly cleaners. When washing at home, chemicals from toxic cleaners can run off…

So goes former Manila mayor and new DENR secretary Lito Atienza’s latest statement in response to attacks on his green cred. Newly appointed Environment Secretary Jose Lito Atienza is so annoyed at being portrayed as a tree killer in the media, he has made a vow to plant up to 50 million trees in a…

(photos from the Daily Mail) For twenty years, Lewis Gordon Pugh has been swimming in the world’s five oceans to draw attention to climate change. On 15 July 2007, the lawyer -turned-World Wildlife Fund ambassador became the first person to swim long distance at the geographic North Pole in minus 1.8C waters. He swam 1…