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    The astonishing facts of carbon footprints stamped out by mobile phone usage

    Mobile Phone.jpgWhat would life be without our cell phones? A whole lot better, it’d be a one with a lighter carbon footprint at least. Now you maybe wondering just how much damage could that little phone of yours do to our environment. You’ve probably forgotten the huge energy sucking networks they use to spread your word around. Here’s just how much of a carbon footprint your mobile phone leaves behind. If you’ve been using your phone for around 2 minutes a day, a year’s Co2e weighs 42kgs! 1250kgs if you use your phone for an hour everyday and 123 million tons globally every year.

    Posted in Awareness and Hype on June 14, 2010
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    Green Market at Singapore Changi Airport is a green and clean lounge

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    Singapore’s Changi airport has something green to boast about, which in time will turn other airports around the world green, with envy. The Green Market will fling its doors open on June 7trh at the Singapore’s Terminal 2, adding a greener shade to your air travel. Spread across 2,200 square foot, the pace designed by Hong Kong designer Kinney Chan, sports a green terrace and earth-tone colors. The lights have a tinge of greenery too. An eco-friendly air filtration Oxyvital system keeps the air clean at a molecular level. And to please your tummies before flights, the lounge has a Japanese menu, cooked-to-order meals.

    Posted in Awareness and Hype on June 2, 2010
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    Gyms go green for a healthier tomorrow

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    There’s no better place to get in shape and burn the fat then a gym. So gyms will now do our health and the environmental health a favor too. Soon, visiting a gym will also be a matter of reducing carbon footprint, besides reducing you weight. California based chains like Club One and Frog’s Fitness are going green with eco-friendly and environment friendly renovations. Rubber flooring from recycled tires, roof-top solar thermal water panels and bio-degradable cleaning products are being put into place.

    Posted in Awareness and Hype on May 4, 2010
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    April rains in the Arctic indicate signs of warming

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    A group of British explorers were hit by a three minute rain shower at their ice base off Ellef Rignes Island, 2420 miles north of Canadian capital, Ottawa. According to scientists, events like this are a clear indication of the temperature rising in the Arctic. A three member team studying the absorption of CO2 in water further north has reported that the ice cover is becoming thinner, and has decreased every year since 2007. Scientists blame this effect on greenhouse gases causing global warming.

    Posted in Awareness and Hype on April 29, 2010
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    Coast guard to burn oil leaked out of blown-out well

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    Almost 42,000 gallons of oil are being leaked into the ocean every day since the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank last week. Though the direction of wind, and water currents are favourable, it is estimated the oil will reach areas with high marine life habitat by Friday. The options available apart from burning the oil are either not feasible or will take too long to implement. As a result, the Coast Guard have decided to burn the oil slick which is about 20 miles east of the mouth of Mississippi river, an area having hundreds of species of wildlife.

    Posted in Awareness and Hype on April 29, 2010
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    United States to lead the way for bio-fuel

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    Looks like President Obama is taking the whole green thing seriously. Every effort is being made on his part to save the environment and have the United States go green. His latest was a visit to Missouri, the first ethanol plant. The President stated that U.S. should be No.1 in bio-fuels.

    Posted in Awareness and Hype on April 29, 2010
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    The polluting facts of mobile phones

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    Just because your cell phone doesn’t and give out CO2, it doesn’t mean that your phone doesn’t indirectly cause a whole lot of pollution. Think again! Here’s an infographic that tells you just how polluting that Blackberry or iPhone in your pocket could be. Here’s a reality check on how mobile phones can actually pollute.

    Posted in Awareness and Hype on April 29, 2010
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    Brooke Shields does her part for the environment

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    There have been many reports in the recent years which question the impact of global warming on the environment. Commenting on this widely debated topic, Hollywood actress Brooke Shields says that irrespective of the fact whether global warming has an impact on the environment, it is in everyone’s best interest to adopt eco friendly practices such as conserving water and electricity, and switching to green products. Her new film “Furry Vengeance”, a family comedy, also focuses on the subject of human encroachment in areas inhabited by wildlife. The makers have also teamed up with Participant Media, a Los-Angeles based company, to integrate a social action campaign to co incide with the release of the film.

    Posted in Awareness and Hype on April 28, 2010
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    The 10 largest solar power plants in the world

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    Japan is all set to send out a craft in space, powered by solar power. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch the space yacht, using solar sails on 18th May. Accelerated by the sun’s radiation, the Interplanetary Kite-craft will have solar particles bounce off its sails. Known as the Ikaros, the space craft will be the first of its kind to enter into deep space using solar sails.

    Posted in Awareness and Hype on April 28, 2010
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    Solar panels for the White House

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    Nothing would set a better eco-conscious example to the people of the United States than the White House going solar powered itself. And that’s exactly what companies are trying to convince the White House to do. So much, that these companies are even offering these panels for free, not that the White House can’t afford a whole array of them.

    Posted in Awareness and Hype on April 27, 2010
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