Photo credit: eBay This guest post was written by Annie Lescroart, a member of eBay’s Green Team. We’re well aware of the importance of health when it comes to preparing foods in the kitchen—between Salmonella, E. Coli, and a variety of other food-borne diseases , we’ve learned to pay close attention to how we prepare our food. But what about the things we bring into the kitchen—and the kitchen itself?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Walmart This guest post was written by Beth Keck, senior director of sustainability at Walmart. Walmart customers—whether they live in Chicago or Tokyo—want locally grown fresh produce. Yet, while grocery sales make up more than half our business, we haven’t focused enough of our sustainability efforts toward the food we sell. We’ve set dozens of sustainability goals for the company during the past five years, but only four of our 39 public sustainability goals addressed food…A year ago, we realized we … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Natalie Maynor , used under Creative Commons license. I’ve written before about the dangers of pious eco-religion and green living as passive aggressive preaching , and I’ve asked whether it is even possible to preach green without being pr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …China’s Ecological Footprint Unsustainable – We’d Still Need 1.2 Planets if Everyone Had It
November 15, 2010 No Comment
photo: tinabasgen / Creative Commons China has been the world’s foremost carbon emitter for over a year now–with per capita emissions now higher than those of France–and this summer overtook the US to become the world’s largest energy consumer as well. Now, according to new analysis by WWF , China can also check itself off on another eco-black list: If everyone on the planet consumed natural resources like the average Chine… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image via Gizmodo Figuring out what to do with obsolete tech can be either tedious, or a lot of fun. Floppy disks are a perfect example of where creativity can be let loose — makers have turned them into everything from notepads to laptop stands. But what about simply upgrading the old technology into something still useful? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photos: Brian Merchant What’s in an EV Strategy? Electric cars are the future of personal mobility — right? Even top execs of major automakers wearily acknowledge that petroleum won’t be the dominant fuel source forever. So most publicly point to electric cars as the next step in the future of automobiles — many say the question is when they’ll enter the market en masse, not whether or not they will. As a result, just about every major automaker has an EV in the works — and a corresponding marketing depart… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via Anderson Smith2010 The Mission Blue Voyage held by TED earlier this year brought together some of the most respected and admirable people working on protecting our oceans. The catalyst behind the voyage was Sylvia Earle’s TED wish , which was to boost the number of “hope spots” or protected marine areas globally. As one of the TED speakers, Greg Stone, poin… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: Wikipedia For the first time in half a century a person in Miami-Dade County, Florida has been diagnosed (and recovered from…) a case of dengue fever that had been acquired locally ( Palm Beach Post ). This follows 24 cases of locally-caught dengue being discovered in Key West over the summer. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The can, bottle and plastics manufacturers and their lobbyists want you to celebrate America Recycles Day today. But recycling isn’t good enough anymore; we have to do better. Let’s make today a Zero Waste Day: * Support a restaurant that has real mugs and china. * Support companies that have deposits and returnable packaging. * Buy only fresh food that comes without packaging. * Buy electronics and tech from companies that take it back at the end of it’s life. * Don’t buy anything disposable for just one day. Here are some other R’s that a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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