Green your recycling

Recycling is the third component of the ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ mantra – the “3R’s” of waste minimisation. Whilst this mantra has become commonplace, it is a cornerstone of saving our environment, and the recycling bit is the part we can easily get on top of. Some experts have added “re-think” to the mix, questioning the entire [...]

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Plastic Bags: Can We Kick the Habit?

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American Consumption - American Self Portrait

This may be off the topic of building a house but this blog is a fluid thing that will hopefully continually evolve. Next week we hope to bring you some posts relating to the construction of this house.

Turn manure into fuel for cooking and electricity.

Sintex Industries, a plastics and textiles manufacturer in Gujarat, India, is betting it can find profit in human waste. Its new biogas digester turns human excrement, cow dung, or kitchen garbage into fuel that can be used for cooking or generating electricity, simultaneously addressing two of India’s major needs: energy and sanitation.

Should I Cancel My Newspaper Subscription?

The environmental pros and cons of reading online.

Human Impacts on Ocean: Shocking

Researchers unveiled the first detailed map of human impacts on the world’s oceans last week, and the news is not good. A team of 20 acclaimed marine scientists from around the world collaborated on the project, finding that humans are having a major impact on marine ecosystems, leaving only four percent of the world’s oceans unaffected by human activities.

The world’s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan

A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.