Green and animal rights issues have lately come closer as more and more organizations wake up to the huge damage that factory farming does to the planet (see our previous blog on this. For facts and figures, click here). One example of this trend is...
Category - Sustainable Development
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...
As we reported here, China is banning plastic bags, an initiative that may have caught many Westerners by surprise as we tend to think of China as the big environmental culprit. India has done the same in some of its states and now Australia is...
Major companies including Nokia, Pitney Bowes and Sony today have pledged to share their expertise to help the environment as part of an IBM-led initiative. The pledged portfolio, dubbed the “Eco-Patent Commons”, is available on a...
I had to travel out of town this week for work. It meant I couldn’t write here the whole time. But the good news is that I got to read the New York Times delivered to my hotel room. I brought home a bunch of pages from the NY Times about...
