Today is World Environment Day, organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the slogan for this year is “CO2, Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy”. New Zealand is this year’s host, with events taking...
Category - Green consumption
I was recommended The Meatrix by a friend and thought it deserved being shared. The Meatrix is an organization that discusses issues related to food, factory farming and sustainable agriculture. Factory farming has become a major environmental...
We live in world where marketeers will do anything to buck the latest trends and dress their products with the emblems of credibility. This practice when applied to green issues has been called for a while greenwashing. Imagine Coca-Cola trying to...
Business Week magazine is publishing stories about the green economy almost on a daily basis. One of the latest items that caught my attention was this feature about how Germany has got it right in terms of green power. Windmills now generate 7% of...
If you have been reading this blog, you know I am recently separated. And now that I living on my own, I have to buy housewares. I had some old cotton polyester sheets that were probably older than my marriage, and I wanted flannel instead. I...
