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Sunday, August 08, 2010
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Greenrock Pilot Green School Project
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 
Greenrock School Roadshow Update
2009 - 2010
The Greenrock School Roadshow is a dynamic and interactive program geared toward educating and inspiring our youth about Sustainable Development in Bermuda and how we can all make sustainable lifestyle choices henceforth. The Roadshow is divided into three separate presentations: Global Warming, Sustainable Living and Green School. Wednesday, July 21, 2010 
Elliot to become dedicated green school
Bermuda Sun - June 30, 2010
Children at Elliot Primary School will be encouraged to spread the word as they grow up green.
Work is well under way to name the primary school in Hermitage Road, Devonshire, as Bermuda’s first green school.
Environmental charity Greenrock is working in partnership with the Ministry of Education and the Department of Energy to introduce a whole host of eco-friendly projects.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Bermuda Sun - June 4, 2010 Elliot Primary School will be Bermuda’s first ‘green’ school as staff and students work to reduce their impact on the environment.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
The Royal Gazette - June 3, 2010
For seven years John White has been President and CEO of local insurance company BF&M. During that time he's seen many changes take place within the company - more recently a company wide commitment to going 'Green'. Friday, May 07, 2010  Net Metering Agreementby Felix Tod
The situation for those wishing to connect Solar Panels to the grid is changing all the time. This month, the Energy and Telecommunications ministry circulated Belco's proposed interconnection agreement and asked for comments. Thursday, December 31, 2009  Bring Your Own Bottle (BYOB)Better for You, Better for Bermuda by Andrew Vaucrosson Back in March 2008, the Bermuda End-to-End Foundation provided us the funding to run a series of Public Service Announcements (PSA) around the challenge of changing consumer usage of disposable shopping bags and single use, plastic drinking bottles. (see March 2008 article) This year, with the partial funding from Gorham's we have managed to acquire a safe, reusable green stainless steel bottle that is ideal for Bermuda. And we have arranged through Gorham's Green Initiative 50% off coupon that we will be handing out to those students who attend our Greenrock School Roadshow (a savings of $10 on a bottle that will retail for around $20). Thursday, October 22, 2009  You are what you chewBy Felix Tod Early this month, Greenrock launched its new Healthy Harvest Bermuda initiative. As a charity focused on raising awareness of sustainability issues, Greenrock looks not only at environmental concerns, but also at those that affect sustainable development. The health of the nation is part of that.
In January 2003, a Royal Gazette article reported that 57 percent of Bermudians were overweight. This is a level comparable to Scotland’s population, often cited as Europe’s most obese people! Our diabetes rates are also sky high. It is clear we need to educate ourselves about what we eat, rather than relying on a doctor to fix us and on insurance to pay for our treatment. We need to take responsibility for our own bodies and what we put into them, so we can avoid sickness in the first place. Wednesday, September 09, 2009  Green Office: Managing wasteBy Judith Landsberg One much-discussed issue in the last few months is how to manage waste. Not theoretical waste – wasted energy, wasted time – or even something more topical like wasted assets, but actual physical waste: bottles, paper, old computers, old food, stuff we are actively trying to get out the door.
Most companies are doing their best to dispose of waste in an environmentally friendly manner. Almost all companies have separate recycling bins. Many companies collect so many used phone books that the resultant stack could almost be a work of art or a feat of engineering. A lot of companies also try to find ways to give away or reuse old computers, monitors and cell phones to abate the embarrassment of electronic superfluity that seems to collect around most of us these days. However, disposing of things in an environmentally friendly way, particularly in Bermuda, is not easy. Wednesday, September 09, 2009  Introducing a home energy rating scale for Bermuda’s homesBy Judith Landsberg The Department of Energy tells us that every kilowatt hour of electricity generated in Bermuda pumps 751 grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. This amounted to approximately 6.5 metric tons of CO2 per residential customer in 2007 (see the 2009 Energy Green Paper).
With this in mind, to my husband’s frequent irritation, I constantly try to reduce the electricity demands of our large and complicated household. His irritation is generated by my failed experiments (he never notices the successful ones). More Articles...Page 1 of 3 << Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >> |
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