Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Back-to-School Shopping

 

by biggreenpurse.com

 

Back-to-school shopping can put a real dent in a family’s budget and create a carbon footprint a mile wide. Here’s how you can green the shopping beast and save money, too.

 

• Shop at home first. Most families have enough pencils, crayons, glue, tape and markers left over from the previous year

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Thirst

A Slideshow

 

Check out this powerful presentation… It has a ton of information that should be used to educate Bermuda and the world about the future of global water supply.

Pretty scary stuff… BOYCOTT BOTTLED WATER! Trust in the rain!

 

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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

The Story of Bottled Water

Why drinking tap water makes more sense

The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap.

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Monday, May 31, 2010

The Story of Stuff

A 20 minute educational documentary

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. 

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Idling Gets you Nowhere

Circulated by Saltus PTA

Turn off Your Car if You are Stopped for More Than 10 Seconds

It may seem easier to leave the car running as we sit and wait for our kids, but most of us are unaware of the harm we are doing to our cars, kids, wallets, and the environment. Most voluntary idling is pure waste. It wastes gasoline, and therefore money, impairs the operating efficiency of our cars, and emits additional greenhouse gases. So why do we do it?

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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Biofuel Conversion Kits in Bermuda

by Darren DeSilva

“Vegetable Oil…it runs on vegetable oil?” I get that question alot lately. And the answer is yes, or at least 99% yes. Often lost in the discussion of a ‘green’ future are the steps and technologies that we can utilize today, as in right now, and this is just one such technology. Our first conversion is already on Bermuda roads – a Mack truck for local Water Trucking company Water Now, as of February 2010, has passed 4,500 miles on SVO. The primary tank holds 75 gallons of processed SVO, while the 6 gallon startup/shutdown tank is now running a blend of 30% Biodiesel from a local supplier, "Biodiesel Depot" and 70% conventional diesel (B30).Running on 'Dino Diesel' this truck would have added better than 15-30 tons of new C02 to the atmosphere each year. Now upgraded, it contributes less than 1% of this, as it’s primary fuel sources are ‘carbon neutral’.

So what does this result in? Apart from being made from renewable sources that are already being recycled into a second life: Carbon monoxide emissions are reduced by 43%, hydrocarbons by 56%, particulates by 55%, and sulfurs (a key cause of acid rain) are reduced by 100%.

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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Water Filtering System that you want to display and not HIDE

by Randy Stafford

OVOPUR is a cost effective, environmentally friendly choice.  It provides superior quality water at a fraction of the cost whilst respecting the environment and the cycle of nature.

We can all agree that water is an essential part of our lives. It is part of our world, part of our bodies. Yet nothing in our daily routine suggests its importance. In our modern society, water is taken for granted or hidden away. 0V0PUR restores water to its central role in our lives. AQUAOVO pays tribute to water.

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Monday, October 19, 2009

Green Kids: Witches and goblins and ghosts! Oh, my!

By Rowan Hallett

I doubt there’s a kid on the island who doesn’t look forward to the simple childhood pleasures that characterise Halloween: dressing up, thrilling games and activities and, of course, a copious supply of candy.

 

However, as I’ve grown older and become more aware – yes parents, it does happen one day – instead of mountains of delicious candy, I see a mounds of wrappers that fill our trashcans. Instead of a vast array of creative costumes, I see outfits that are only worn once then abandoned or thrown away. Even the thrills of haunted houses and Halloween games are fringed with gloomy knowledge that most of these things are destined for a future career as landfill.

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