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You might have heard about a number of toilets that feature composting facilities. This not o9nly helps to clear and dispose off solid wastes in a hygienic manner but they could also be used as dry compost material since the liquid wastes are evaporated. Envirolet reduces wastes by 90% and the remaining 10% becomes dry compost and the toilet can be [...]

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, more popularly called as the Copenhagen Climate Conference scheduled to be held from December 7-18 2009 is a much-awaited event where the representatives of the global community will sit, talk, negotiate a deal, and hopefully sign the deal on how to save our warming planet. These are some [...]

Geologists prefer to call the past two centuries as ‘the anthropocene period, a time when humans have reshaped about half of the Earth’s surface. We have dictated what plants grow and where. We’ve pocked and deformed the Earth’s crust with mines and wells, and we’ve commandeered a huge fraction of its freshwater supply for our own purposes.’ Humans [...]

According to Phil Edwards, a researcher from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, “We need to do a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness. It is a key factor in the battle to reduce carbon emissions and slow climate change.” Edwards’ research found that ‘the average overweight person is responsible for an extra [...]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that ‘the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth’ and ‘could be ice-free by 2030.’ Ban recently visited the Polar Ice Rim in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard where he observed firsthand the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Ban promptly called on governments to achieve in the international [...]

Trees have the natural ability to breathe in carbon-dioxide and breathe out the life sustaining oxygen. With the rise in population and deforestation reaching high numbers, the number of planet-saving trees keeps falling day by day. Planting of more trees are certainly necessary but the discovery of other ways in which we can reduce the carbon-dioxide [...]

A leading Confucian intellectual in China makes the proposal for a political system that will give equal emphasis to the otherwise ignored sectors of modern democracies: foreigners, future generations, and ancestors. “Is democracy really the best way to protect future victims of global warming?” he asks. Confucianism is premised on human kinships [...]

Perhaps to make Earth Day 2009 more significant, carbon dioxide (CO2) was officially categorized as a pollutant by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This overhauls the grand scheme of things through the climate change bill which has already survived the US House of Representatives, and is awaiting an equal approval by the US Senate. The impending [...]

The hard facts are astounding as the number of people on the planet quadrupled to six billion during the 20th century. The world’s richest people on the planet now number half a billion, and their activities account for half of all carbon dioxide emissions on the entire planet. People from the US, still the richest nation on earth, are responsible [...]

In a new study featured in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers aver that “[T]he Earth will be identifiable as an inhabited planet for nearly half the total lifetime of the Sun, an important point to consider in the search for life on extrasolar planets.” The new study suggests that ‘the Earth could be [...]