EcoFacts – office papers
Besides all those trees, paper making uses huge amounts of water, more water per ton of product than for any other industry. One sheet of copy paper has required more than a couple of gallons of water...
View ArticleEcoFacts – cows and us
About those burgers and our planet, where isn’t the beef? Or land that is not used to produce the stuff? THIRTY PERCENT of the land on our planet is used for livestock production, which also produces...
View ArticleEcoFacts – save resources, save money
In the U.S., here are the sources of our personal carbon emissions, which are twice those of people in other countries with similar standards of living, like in Britain, France or Japan: 28%...
View ArticleEcoFacts – actually, ecothoughts
I believe, more than anything else perhaps, in personal responsibility. This is the great driver of my ecofacts, the passion that makes me pursue them, and of my own internal combustion engine – me....
View ArticleEcoFacts – prius owners
Prius owners: it’s a term of derision among some anti-environmentalists, or anti-something-or-other folks, but they do make up one group of people who are attempting to take responsibility for their...
View ArticleEcofacts V.8 n.31 Is Edison sad about my rooftop solar?
Globally, solar power generation increased 58% in 2012. In the U.S. this year, new solar capacity is expected to be 33% more than last year. California currently has the most by far in the U.S.,...
View ArticleEcofacts V.8 n.35 Ireland
I just arrived a couple of days ago in Dublin and so am certainly not up on the scene here, enviro-wise. I had a talk with a friend's father who said basically that Ireland is slow in these ways, e.g....
View ArticleThe New Green Economy and The Bigger Picture
For many years man’s solution to environmental problems was to wait until the problem became overwhelming before taking action. In England the air had become so filthy after 800 years of burning coal...
View ArticleMade in the U.S.A.
So now that the idea of Made in America sounds good, how does the consumer know what to purchase. How does the consumer buy with confidence? Livingreen has been working with and selling eco-friendly,...
View ArticleMoving – Fast, Simple and Green
Moving made Simple Crunch the numbers: More than 40 million people move each year in the United States. If each person uses on average 25 cardboard boxes for their move, that equates to about 1...
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