Are your daily habits harming the environment? They might be, whether you realize the fact or not. You see, while we tut and shake our heads at the way big businesses harm the environment, such as those large industrial companies ...
How the Print Industry is Focusing on Environmental Sustainability
Many companies are doing all they can to “go green,” meaning to factor environmental sustainability into their everyday decisions. The print industry is no exception, but this industry may face unique challenges in trying to offer sustainable and eco-friendly products ...
All Healthy Businesses Need These Things
Is your business healthy? If you took a close look at your business under a microscope, are you sure that you’d find it as healthy as can be? You need your business to be healthy so that you have a ...
Smart recycling bins could simplify selective waste disposal
When interviewed about their recycling habits or their general opinions on recycling, most people generally agree that selective waste disposal is great for the environment and that they are doing everything they can not waste packaging. In the United ...
The Future of Solar Power: The Cheapest Energy Resource
The Future of Solar Power: The Cheapest Energy Resource To appreciate what solar power can do for the planet’s future, you first have to understand what the world might look like without solar’s help. Along with wind power, solar produces ...
Pre-Industrial Cloud Formation
Scientists at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts have been exploring the origins of clouds and the chemical composition of the particles that form them. The researchers were able to isolate air from a pristine environment high above a remote region ...
The Aerosol Conundrum
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have recently discovered a new reason for Earth’s warming. Apparently, aerosols are not only responsible for Earth’s cooling, but they make our planet warmer. Since human activity partially creates these particles, the new ...
ArmorLite Safety Coating for Compact Lights
Florida-based company ClearLite has recently introduced an innovative coating for compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) named ArmorLite. The new coating solves a familiar issue: the release of toxic mercury when bulbs break. Worried parents, loving pet-owners or just the average cautious ...
Rate of Ecoshift in a Period of Climate Change
Scientists from several major research institutions have determined that, on average, ecosystems must shift 0.42 kilometers (approximately half of a mile) each year to keep pace with current climate changes. The shifts are projected to be greatest in dry, arid ...
Portable Charger Utilizes Both Wind and Sunlight
Kinesis Industries, Arizona, has recently launched the Kinesis K3, a portable charger that utilizes ‘green’ energy, using the wind and the sun. In addition, the K3 can be connected to an AC outlet for faster recharge. K3 Portable Wind and ...