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Does Your Energy Saving Bulb Deliver What It Promises?

Friday, November 20, 2009 5:33 By Jaiyant Cavale

Green products do not actually be delivering what they promise. Millions of us have been using energy saving light bulbs which drastically reduce the percentage of electricity consumed. However it turns out these bulbs will become dimmer and dimmer with each passing year. In fact, they would not last 5 or 6 years as they [...]

Robotic replacements: St. Louis Zoo Replaces Dead Polar Bears with Electronic models!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 20:33 By Neo

The story in the St. Louis Today was not so much about the Polar Bears but about how the festive season is bringing new business opportunities to the city, but the picture in the paper that came attached tells a whole different tale. The zoo at St. Louis has tried its luck with keeping polar [...]

Saving millions of lives: Bacteria that light up around Landmines!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 20:17 By Neo

Landmines are arguably the gravest threat to both humans and wildlife alike in almost 87 countries across the planet and with war times long behind us the ugly scars and the undetonated landmines still haunt those who wish to put the past behind them. In countries such as Sri Lanka over 20 elephants each year [...]

Spot.us Funds Landmark New York Times Article

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 15:58 By Rajeev Saxena

One of the biggest organizations, Spot.us, which is a funded by a host of individuals and whose sole purpose is to promote and give boost to freelance journalism. The article written by the freelance journalist, Lindsey Hoshaw was backed by a funding of $10,000 from various individual contributions channeled through Spot.us.
The article written by Lindsey [...]

Fizzing with green: Coca-Cola unleashes Plant-Based Recyclable Bottles

Monday, November 16, 2009 22:44 By Neo

There is a certain advantage that green initiatives bring to the companies that take them up and when giants like Coca-Cola step up for the planet’s cause you tend to understand how big the green movement has got across the globe. Going green is quite simply the best PR you can generate and more and [...]

Wings for the planet: RQ-4 Global Hawk’s to now keep a watch over planet’s health!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 13:40 By Neo

When you talk of planes such as the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, which stay in the sky for a whole day without needing to refuel, have a range of over 3400 miles and can hit altitudes of up to 20,000 meters, you would think they would be used to spy on enemy nations, drop [...]

Green wings to passenger carriers: KLM to test fly Boeing 747 on biofuel

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:43 By Neo

The aviation industry has been trying real hard to green in more ways than just one and to be very honest expecting too much from them at such a fast pace is really unfair in times when every industry has been hit hard by the economic meltdown. But things are looking up already with airline [...]

Sea Shepherd unveils Ady Gil: The Batmobile of the oceans to help save the whales!

Monday, November 9, 2009 18:38 By Neo

Illegal whaling ships have been roaming the oceans of the world literally scotch-free for the last couple of decades and most often the only little hindrance they get is from those tiny little ships that have brave volunteers from ‘eco-friendly’ groups trying hard to stop the fast paced giants. Well, finally the huge ships and [...]

Carrier bags from old Bollywood posters: Recycling in India takes a cinematic turn!

Monday, November 9, 2009 11:11 By Neo

Recycling paper has taken a whole new turn in India with the once famous but now discarded being turned into utility objects that can be carried out by one and all. It seems that a few of the street children in the Indian capital have been rescued from the clutches of poverty and have been [...]

Baby Bjorn goes organic: Planet-friendly lineup for early initiation!

Monday, November 9, 2009 10:03 By Neo

They say that habits that are cultivated early in your life tend to follow you till the grave – good or bad. Then, why not teach your tiny tots the value of going green along with wrapping them up in gentle and skin-friendly green clothing. That is exactly what Swedish-designed, hands-free baby carrier firm, Baby [...]


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