10 Best Eco-Adventure Destinations in India
India is one of the most popular destinations of Adventure Sports and Ecotourism. Thrillophilia Adventure is the first service provider in India dealing with adventure-related activities on a pan-India level. Thrillophilia Adventure have pioneered into adventure travel throughout the Indian Himalaya, Western Ghats, Deserts, offering the widest range of adventure tours, from soft adventure, eco-tourism trips to challenging expedition travel.
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AIR FORCE ONE EMMISSIONS FROM FLIGHT TO COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CONFERENCE TO BE OFFSET BY LIMEGREEN EARTH
LimeGreen Earth, Inc. announced today that it will offset the carbon emitted by President Obama’s flight on Air Force One to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference, which began on December 7, has brought together diplomats from 192 nations to discuss the global reduction of carbon emissions.
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Copenhagen – the greenest major city in Europe
Copenhagen is the “greenest” major city in Europe, followed by Stockholm, Oslo, Vienna, and Amsterdam. This is the conclusion reached by a unique study of the environmental sustainability of 30 major cities in 30 European countries that Siemens presented during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. In addition to analysing these cities’ achievements and objectives in the area of environmental and climate protection, the European Green City Index makes the differences transparent. The study evaluates the 30 cities in eight categories: C02 emissions; energy; buildings; transportation; water; air quality; waste and land use; and environmental governance. “We support the cities’ efforts to achieve efficient climate protection by providing them with comprehensive standardised data,” said Dr. Reinhold Achatz, head of Corporate Research and Technologies, the central research unit of Siemens AG. London is ranked 11th in the study.
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Tags: city, climate protection, cop15, copenhagen, green, renewable energy, siemens
New Fan Cans Recycling Containers Continue to Support Coca-Colas Sustainability Efforts with NFL and NCAA Football Teams
Fan Cans, LLC is once again helping Coca-Cola make a positive difference in the world by expanding the supporting role first played this baseball season in Coke’s “Give It Back” sustainability campaign. Coca-Cola North America and Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated recently purchased more Fan Cans – this time with lids shaped like football player helmets – for the Baltimore Ravens, Washington Redskins, and NC State Wolfpack. The innovative football-themed recycling containers grab fan attention, making it easier for Coca-Cola to achieve its long-term goal of collecting and reusing 100% of its bottles and cans.
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Keep Your Home Warm this Winter and Your Energy Bills Down
It’s starting to feel a lot like winter. With cooler days and nights approaching, now is the best time to prepare your home for colder months. By taking a few steps to winterize your home ahead of time, you’ll be able to keep your energy bills lower and your house cozy and warm all season long. Green Mountain Energy Company offers these seven tips for more efficient energy use that anyone can do for very little cost.
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Green Living Expert Annie B. Bonds Natural Flu Protection Kit
Pacific Sands, Inc (OTCBB: PFSD) is pleased to present The Natural Flu Protection Kit, the first product to emerge from the company’s partnership with Annie B Bond and GreenChiCafé.com.
Annie B. Bond is called the foremost expert on green living by Body & Soul Magazine, and is the best-selling author of five books, including Clean & Green, Better Basics for the Home, and Home Enlightenment. Pacific Sands, Inc. manufactures, markets and sells a broad range of environmentally-friendly products. The partnership is designed to provide information, products, and inspiration for helping people put the green lifestyle into practice.
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Niagara Conservation EcoKits: The Holiday Gift That Helps Everyone Go Green
Every drip from a leaky faucet, draft through the edges of an old window, or flush down a water-guzzling toilet costs money that many don’t have to spare during an economy that continues to challenge many American households. The good news is that there are easy, affordable fixes for many of the problems that cause extra utility costs in our homes. Gift-givers can pass those fixes on to their friends and family by giving Niagara Conservation Green House EcoKits for the holidays this year.
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Tags: eco, ecokit, efficient, faucet, green, home, house, niagra conservation, showerhead, tap, tips
The New Pollutants Brewing in Our Water
Potomac Conservancy today released its third annual State of the Nation’s River report, calling attention to a variety of pollutants found in the Potomac River that disrupt the endocrine system, which regulates the normal growth and sexual development of vertebrate species, including humans and fish.
The report describes the emergence of these new contaminants in the Potomac River system; features the latest research, exploring the potential relationship of these chemicals to the phenomenon of intersex fish; and reviews shortcomings in current federal and local regulations that are leaving this widespread problem essentially unregulated.
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Tags: development, drink, drinking water, endocrine, epa, fish, groth, humans, pollutants, pollution, potomac, river, safe drinking water, water
Basecamp Masai Mara – the World’s Best Ecotourism Hotel
Basecamp Masai Mara, an exclusive safari camp in Kenya, wins prestigious international ecotourism award. Basecamp was declared the world’s best ‘Ecotourism hotel’ by Skål International. Skål is the world’s largest association for professionals within the tourism industry, with 20 000 members in 90 countries.
“Look to Basecamp”, says Jack Soifer. “In the opinion of the jury Basecamp won this prestigious international award because they are taking in the best of Africa, highlighting the importance of education, and combining high quality trips with a strong commitment towards sustainability, conservation of nature and support of local cultures. We want to highlight best practises within ecotourism, and Skål believes that Basecamp represents the future of the tourism industry”.
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Not What the Doctor Ordered – Rapid Environmental Change Threatens the Foundations of Human Health
Changes to the Earth’s land cover, climate, and ecosystems are endangering the health of hundreds of millions, possibly billions, of people worldwide and now represent the greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. The scale of these global changes is rapidly undermining human life-support systems and threatening the core foundations of healthy communities around the globe: access to adequate food, clean air, safe drinking water, and secure homes.
These are the findings of the new report, Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health, published today by the Worldwatch Institute and the United Nations Foundation. The report notes that, as a result of rapid changes to the climate and in land use, we are already seeing alterations in the distribution of malaria, schistosomiasis, and other infectious diseases in many regions. It concludes that poor populations, mainly in developing countries, are the most vulnerable to these environmental changes, even though they are the least responsible for contributing to them.
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China Developing “Combustible Ice” as New Energy Source
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Last September, China discovered a large reserve of “combustible ice” on the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. “Combustible ice” is essentially frozen natural gas – a natural gas hydrate, and is one of the newest energy sources to be discovered. The new reserves found in China reveal a very large supply equal at least 35 [...] [Inhabitat Energy]
More Americans say global warming exaggerated: poll
[News] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated, as more people also doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup poll.
[Reuters]
Bead-Filled Washing Maching Uses 90% Less Water
[Technology] A new washing machine design uses 90 percent less water and reduces utility bills by 30 percent by cleaning clothes with tiny plastic beads.
The machine by UK company Xeros Ltd uses 3mm-long nylon beads that can get into all crevices and folds of clothing and absorb stains and dirt. Stephen Burkinshaw, a polymer chemist at Leeds University, discovered that nylon beads at 100 percent humidity could attract stains away from clothing and into the center of the beads, preventing deposition back onto the clothes.
The machine uses a small amount of water to dampen the clothes and to reach the right humidity level, then the drum is flooded with the beads. When the cycle is complete the beads drain away with the water to be reused hundreds of times.
I'm sure you've already started questioning what happens to these plastic beads once they're done scrubbing clothes. The company wants to eventually create a closed loop where the saturated beads can be refreshed and reused in the machines, but for the time being they will be collected and recycled.
Xeros says that if all of the US used these machines instead of regular washing machines, it would save 1.2 billion tonnes of water per year and the CO2 emissions saved would equal taking 5 million cars off the road. The machine would also eliminate the need to dry clean many delicates, another environmental benefit. The Xeros machine is expected to be available by the end of next year.
via Guardian
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Crazy Pixel Building to Be Australia's First Carbon Neutral Office
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Kuwaiti Scientists Say Peak Oil Will Arrive in 2014
[Transport]
New research out of Kuwait, using a new method of calculating the crude oil production potential of 47 of the world’s largest oil producing countries, has found that peak oil — the period in time when oil production reaches a maximum and then begins to decline — will come much sooner than expected… 2014 to be exact.
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Test Driving Volkswagen's First Hybrid Vehicle: The 2011 Touareg
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VW's 2011 Touareg Hybrid
The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many splashy auto announcements--Porsche's first ever plug-in hybrid, a new Aud... Read the full story on TreeHugger [TreeHugger Transport]
Nike Unveils World Cup Soccer Jerseys Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles
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ATTENTION GREEN SOCCER FANS
Nike recently unveiled its new team jerseys for the upcoming World Cup and here’s the kicker (pun intended) – they’re made from discarded plastic bottles! That’s right, the uniforms, or “kits” in proper soccer speak, are made from melted down bottles from landfills in Japan and Taiwan that have been spun into [...] [Inhabitat Fashion]
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China Developing “Combustible Ice” as New Energy Source
[Energy] Last September, China discovered a large reserve of “combustible ice” on the tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. “Combustible ice” is essentially frozen natural gas – a natural gas hydrate, and is one of the newest energy sources to be discovered. The new reserves found in China reveal a very large supply equal at least 35 [...] [Inhabitat Energy]
More Americans say global warming exaggerated: poll
[News] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated, as more people also doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup poll. [Reuters]
Bead-Filled Washing Maching Uses 90% Less Water
[Technology] A new washing machine design uses 90 percent less water and reduces utility bills by 30 percent by cleaning clothes with tiny plastic beads. The machine by UK company Xeros Ltd uses 3mm-long nylon beads that can get into all crevices and folds of clothing and absorb stains and dirt. Stephen Burkinshaw, a polymer chemist at Leeds University, discovered that nylon beads at 100 percent humidity could attract stains away from clothing and into the center of the beads, preventing deposition back onto the clothes. The machine uses a small amount of water to dampen the clothes and to reach the right humidity level, then the drum is flooded with the beads. When the cycle is complete the beads drain away with the water to be reused hundreds of times. I'm sure you've already started questioning what happens to these plastic beads once they're done scrubbing clothes. The company wants to eventually create a closed loop where the saturated beads can be refreshed and reused in the machines, but for the time being they will be collected and recycled. Xeros says that if all of the US used these machines instead of regular washing machines, it would save 1.2 billion tonnes of water per year and the CO2 emissions saved would equal taking 5 million cars off the road. The machine would also eliminate the need to dry clean many delicates, another environmental benefit. The Xeros machine is expected to be available by the end of next year. via Guardian [EcoGeek]
Crazy Pixel Building to Be Australia's First Carbon Neutral Office
[Lifestyle] Read the rest of Crazy Pixel Building to Be Australia’s First Carbon Neutral OfficePermalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: "wind turbine", carbon neutral office building, carbon-neutral, eco design, first carbon neutral building in australia, Green Building, green design, grocon, pixel building, Solar Power, studio 505, Sustainable Building, sustainable design [Inhabitat Lifestyle]
Kuwaiti Scientists Say Peak Oil Will Arrive in 2014
[Transport] New research out of Kuwait, using a new method of calculating the crude oil production potential of 47 of the world’s largest oil producing countries, has found that peak oil — the period in time when oil production reaches a maximum and then begins to decline — will come much sooner than expected… 2014 to be exact. Read more of this story » [Gas 2.0]
Test Driving Volkswagen's First Hybrid Vehicle: The 2011 Touareg
[Transport] Photo via MotorTrend VW's 2011 Touareg Hybrid The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many splashy auto announcements--Porsche's first ever plug-in hybrid, a new Aud... Read the full story on TreeHugger [TreeHugger Transport]
Nike Unveils World Cup Soccer Jerseys Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles
[Fashion] ATTENTION GREEN SOCCER FANS Nike recently unveiled its new team jerseys for the upcoming World Cup and here’s the kicker (pun intended) – they’re made from discarded plastic bottles! That’s right, the uniforms, or “kits” in proper soccer speak, are made from melted down bottles from landfills in Japan and Taiwan that have been spun into [...] [Inhabitat Fashion]
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