Tag Archive | "sustainability"
Ad Standards Agency Smacks Down Palm Oil Industry “Green” Claims
The Ad Standards Agency has been featured on Environmental Graffiti several times in the past, always over its crackdowns on companies making false green claims in their advertisements. A Malaysian palm oil plantation. The British agency is at it again, this time taking on one of the more ridiculous [...]
Continue reading...Norway’s Emission Reduction Plan Was to Give Offshore Oil Rigs Clean Electricity
Sunday, January 6, 2008
From the “Wait a second. What?” files comes the story of Norway’s failing attempt to fight global warming by providing offshore gas and oil rigs with clean electricity. Photo via NASA Norway has been attempting to fight global warming by, among other ways, providing rigs drilling for oil and [...]
Continue reading...Low Energy Bulbs Can Cause Cancer, Along With Everything Else Ever Made.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
The cyclical nature of the world has been expounded upon over the centuries by countless thinkers from Toynbee to drunken first year Philosophy majors. While I may not be the world’s foremost philosopher or drunk, despite all my hard work on the latter, I’d like to
Continue reading...Welcome to the Solar Century
Friday, January 4, 2008
New technology means solar power could one day provide all the world’s energy needs – but governments must do their bit. Until a few years ago the suggestion that solar power might provide the answer to the intertwined problems of long term energy security and climate change would [...]
Continue reading...Park Rangers Hire Sharpshooters to Cull Elk Herds
Monday, December 17, 2007
Park officials at Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park have announced plans to use hired guns to help cull the park’s elk herd. The park’s elk herd is a major tourist attraction, but has become an ecological problem. The elks are not originally
Continue reading...Horses Pushed as New Eco-Friendly Transport Option
Thursday, November 22, 2007
There is a new transportation alternative to cars and buses being pitched in France. It’s called a horse. Horses are being presented as an eco-friendly alternative to large vehicles used for several jobs
Continue reading...Supermarket Bans Unsustainable Oil
Thursday, November 22, 2007
The Sainsbury’s supermarket chain has announced a ban on environmentally unfriendly palm oil in all of its own-brand products after a customer and activist campaign. Palm oil has been blamed for increasing the destruction of tropical rainforests and driving some animals
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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