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Did you know that each year more than 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide? It’s a pretty shocking statistic, one that you may or may not have heard before. But it never hurts to be reminded — especially by Edward Norton.
I had to watch the video twice — I was too busy drooling over Ed the first time around to understand the words coming out of his mouth. Don’t judge — those eyes pierce my soul! But after seeing it, I got really excited about this campaign. It’s catchy and backed by a total Hollywood heavy hitter. Let’s hope it continues to gain momentum.
The campaign is called “Bag the bag,” and it’s for National Geographic. In the video, Ed reminds us that our choice shouldn’t be between paper or plastic. Our only decision should be to bring our own reusable totes to the grocery store.
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Original post by Hank Green
Filed under: Cars and Transportation, Local, Travel and Vacation, Fitness
While I’m a little tired of the current trend towards slapping the prefix “eco” in front of everything (”Eco-coal-fired power, now with more eco-mercury!”), the EcoCabs coming to Toronto on May 1 seem to actually fit the bill.
The new vehicles, which are already cruising the streets of a number of cities around the world, seat two people plus a driver and operate principally on human pedal-power. However, they also feature a small, rechargeable electric motor for hills or just chilling’.
EcoCabs normally travel at a leisurely 6 km/h, but in a pinch (”my wife is having a baby, get us to the hospital - stat!”) can race along at up to 12 km/h.
The EcoCabs will be offering rides to the weary and the lazy all summer at Toronto events and hotspots, and rides will be free, thanks to corporate sponsorship. Presumably that means there’s soft drink ads on the sides of the cab, not that the driver is going to try and sell you a timeshare.
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Original post by Hank Green
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Original post by Erik
Filed under: Food, News, Polit-eco
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In the wake of skyrocketing food prices and shortages that have already cause rioting and unrest in developing countries, policymakers in Europe and the US are starting to arrive at the same conclusion: biofuel is putting a strain on agriculture and it could get ugly. Energy analysts at Oil World are forecasting that the aggressive biofuel targets adopted by many governments will be rolled back considerably in the next year.
The future of biofuels is looking less and less certain, with many taking the recent food crisis as a sign that further expansions into crop fuels will throw the global agricultural system out of whack. Not only are prices rising steadily, but Oil World actually puts the problem in term of simple resources, saying: “A fight for acres is underway between energy crops and food crops.”Since most biofuels are eventually used in the US and Europe, policymakers seem to be worried that any global food debacles would rest on their shoulders. Therefore, dropping targets would ease food prices downward — or if not, they would at least keep developed nations from taking all the blame for massive food shortages. From the Oil World forecast
“In our opinion, there is a relatively high possibility that the severe global food crisis and the worsening of the food supply in many of the poor developing countries will create enormous political pressure in Europe and elsewhere to revise future biofuel targets.”
Biofuel backers, don’t get too discouraged, there’s little doubt that the market for crop-fuels will stop growing — even with all the food concerns. Companies like Shell are pioneering other non-food crops like switchgrass that they hope won’t effect food prices. The biggest question left to answer is whether or not biofuel is actually better for the environment.
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Original post by Hank Green
Filed under: Home
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Every time I move, I feel like I lose about 10 million environmental karmapoints. (Didn’t know karma came in points, did you?) All that packing tape! The bubble wrap for the lamps and the pictures! The boxes, which, after the move, I inevitably leave lying in some outside storage shed until they need to be tossed because mice have nested in them!
There’s at least one company, Earth Friendly Moving, that’s trying to help eliminate some of these green headaches, without causing you more work at a very busy time. They make these things called Recopacks out of bottles from the landfill. Recopacks are boxes that solve the problems of wasted tape (they snap closed) and cardboard (they are reusable). Also, if you’re the kind of person who tends to live places without much storage, there’s the handy fact that you only rent the Recopack - nothing to shove under a bed afterwards. They’ll also sell you a special, non-plastic type of bubble wrap. Finally, the company will come deliver and pick up the Recopacks with their trucks, which are, nicely, run on biodiesel.
These awesome people are now operating only in Long Beach and Orange County, but the company has plans to expand nationwide in the next couple of years. Hurry!
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Original post by Hank Green