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How to Make Your Home More Environmentally Friendly: Practical Upgrades for a Greener, Healthier Home
Making your home greener does not have to mean a full renovation or an all-or-nothing zero-waste lifestyle. In most cases, an eco friendly home starts with a few practical changes that lower bills, improve comfort, and fit into everyday life. In this guide, you’ll learn how to make your home more environmentally friendly with realistic […]
Continue readingHow to Make Your Home Energy-Efficient: Simple Upgrades That Lower Bills and Boost Comfort
If you are looking for how to make your home more energy efficient, you want a home that feels better to live in, costs less to run, and helps you save money without turning daily life into hard work. This guide shows where most homes lose efficiency and how to create an energy efficient home. […]
Continue readingSustainable Tourism in Machu Picchu – Everything You Need to Know
Machu Picchu attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. It is the most visited site in South America, generating a reported $40 million each year for the economy of Peru. However, the overwhelming interest has made it a victim of overtourism and is taking a tool on the environment. Learn all about sustainable tourism in Machu Picchu […]
Continue readingAre you having a picnic above a London plague pit?
As you enjoy a picnic in a park, you could well be sitting above a London plague pit. The black death – thought to be a combination of bubonic, pneumonic and perhaps septacaemic plague – killed 15 percent of the population of London from 1665 to 1666. When churchyards overflowed, people were buried in plague pits […]
Continue readingAll About Solar Panels And Solar Water Heating Systems
The sun rises every day, and a homeowner can benefit from the process. The principal options for solar energy systems are solar panels and solar water heating systems, which generate electricity and heat water, respectively. One study (Scarpa and Willis 2010) discovered that people were prepared to spend an extra GBP2,380/USD3,602/EUR3,225 on a house where […]
Continue readingAcidic oceans are dissolving shells of snails
There is now evidence that the seawater off the west coast of the United States has grown so acidic that it’s dissolving shells of snails. These snails, pteropods, termed “sea butterflies,” are between an eighth and half an inch when fully-grown and one of the principal food sources of herring, mackerel, pink salmon, whales and […]
Continue readingShould you be going demitarian?
Relax. Going demitarian doesn’t require you to dine on Demi Moore. It is, instead, the practice of eating half as much meat and dairy products as you commonly do. A forthcoming UN report advises that people should do just that to reduce carbon emissions and air and water pollution. People taking the demitarian avenue would […]
Continue readingCow Farts Cause Explosion At Dairy Farm
As if it weren’t bad enough that methane warms the planet 23 times as much as carbon dioxide, a further danger became apparent on 27 January in the town of Rasdorf in the state of Hesse, central Germany, when the methane produced by 90 cows caused an explosion that blew the roof off a cow […]
Continue readingIndia is fast becoming the largest rubbish dump in the world
India has the largest population of any country in the world other than China, housing 17.4 percent of the Earth’s population, and it’s expected to soon overtake the land of the panda. It grows ever more powerful, along with the other BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). One small problem is that, in the […]
Continue readingIn China, an area as large as Belgium is too polluted to be farmed
The economy of China has grown by around 10 percent a year for the last three decades. The cost grows ever more apparent. Beyond the likes of Beijing’s airpocalypse that have deterred tourists, led to ex-patriates demanding danger money and virtually closed cities, rural areas have not been unaffected. The country’s government has revealed that […]
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