In many Asian countries, especially China, they hunt seahorses for decorative ornaments, medical purposes and souvenirs. The seahorse population declined drastically. It is believed that many types of seahorses are at the brink of extinction or they already have. What is so unique about these creatures? For starters, they are the only species on this planet where the males get pregnant and give birth. Seahorses have no teeth and no stomach. Food passes through their [...]

PHILIPPINES – Plastic and glass bottles are used as building materials as they replace concrete blocks to build new schools. Yes, plastic and glass bottles! What’s even more remarkable is that the classrooms are twice the size when build with the plastic and glass bottles. It always makes me happy when plastic bottles end up anywhere but in our oceans but using it as building materials is unbelievable. The plastic bottle classrooms are much more [...]

HP substituted Nokia as the greenest IT Company in the world. Apparently HP earned most of its points because of its sustainable operations and energy criteria, this all according to Green Peace. Another company that beat Nokia I the race is Dell; as they invested a great deal in order to reduce their overall emissions. Despite the fact that both HP and Dell are leading the charts, they don’t use green materials in their products [...]

In 2009 emails of University of East Anglia (UEA) climate scientists were hacked. The hackers posted these emails online which were used by critics and skeptics to claim manipulation of climate change data. The Koch brothers with others funded the research in order to disapprove the notion of “man made global warming”, nonetheless the findings are valid and very similar to the those of the UEA scientists. Our planet’s surface is really getting warmer! The [...]

Hydraulic Fracturing Hydraulic Fracturing, best known as fracking is causing some turmoil in the US. Before I even dismiss the “fact” (according to the oil companies) that fracking is “safe”, I’m going to explain what this process is and leave it to you to decide whether it’s safe or not. What is hydraulic fracturing? Fracking is the process of initiating and subsequently propagating a fracture in a rock layer, by means of a pressurized fluid, [...]

There’s a saying: “Where/When the Sun don’t shine, wind blows!” If there’s not, there should be. This Sanya Skypump Wind Turbine was developed by Urban Green Energy and GE Energy Industrial Solutions to capture the power of wind and sun to charge an electric vehicle. Finally these engineers are killing two birds with one stone. The UGE-4K wind turbine generates power from the wind while the solar panels on top of the roof generate electricity [...]

Researchers compared a building with solar panels installed and one without the panels; they found that the one with the panels installed was five degrees Fahrenheit lower. If you live in a house and you have solar panels installed on your roof.  Apart from saving you cash on your electric bill, it helps cool down your home by providing your roof with shade. The wind blowing between the roof and the panels will remove the [...]

The Dutch are well known for caring about the environment. They even care about bugs, yep bugs, the creatures you don’t hesitate to squash. Well, researchers at the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands recruited approximately 250 drivers to record the number of insects motorists kill every month. The drivers were instructed to clean their front number plate and go for a drive. At the end of each drive they must count the number of [...]

Product designers Li-Te Lo, Song-Jung Chen, Tai-Yen Lee, Chun-Wei Hsu and Cheng-Yu Tsai have designed City Context, a system that combines within itself a litter can and a solar-powered street lamp. It’s like killing two birds with one stone. The type of trash that goes into the trash cans are distinguished by color litter. It works just like at home, plastic in one can, glass in the other and so forth. The trash can also [...]

China has come up with straw toilet paper which are organic as they aren’t bleached and mixed with other harmful chemical in the whole process, it is a healthy production process. This technology maximizes and develops the pliable of plant fiber and surprisingly the end product is as soft as silk for more comfort to your skin. Most of these papers are made from non-wood fiber, they do not waste any materials from the nature. [...]

Imagine the lines you have to stand in to pee at concerts. Some guys don’t really care and will whip their thing out and pee wherever. Thankfully it’s no longer necessary because Dutch Designers came up with this wonderful idea called P-Tree. If you think about it, guys pee on trees, walls, you name it. This tree hugging potty pot is ingenious. The only slight disadvantage of this is that it’s no so private. Depending [...]

We can’t live forever, at least not yet, but what if you die because of the end of the world. A lot of people are paranoid about the 2012 prophecy but there are far more possibilities the world could end. It’s a fact that in about 4.5 to 5 billion years or Sun will reach the end of its life. The Earth would be long gone before that as our Sun increases twice its current [...]

Einstein once said that if the bees no longer exist, every living thing would die after four years. It’s like we have a vendetta against bees. Our cell phones, every radio frequency transmission and other wireless technologies are killing these insects. Humans and animals basically rely on bees to be able to eat. Oil at it again! Another environmentally harmful byproduct of oil is pesticides. It is everywhere, in the air, in your food, in [...]