Target has come up with an ultra cool collection of tees that will have teenagers wear their eco beliefs on their shirts. 100 per cent organic, the shirts come at an affordable $10 a piece.

So why organic cotton? Well, to start with it takes only one-third of a pound of chemicals to yield cotton for one shirt. In other words, this type provides clothes to almost half the world without the use of any harmful substances like pesticides, herbicides, insecticides etc etc.And the bonus on that is the feature prints or wording on tees which help further the cause- ideas of Earth, peace, nature and wildlife, basically all things green.

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In this economic crisis, one always wonders if one is in the right job. Well, being eco-friendly can be very benefitting even monetarily do. Forbes recently came up with a list of environmental jobs with salaries easily over $100,000.

The top 10 job include:

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Sometimes the most complicated of problems can have simple solution that are easy to apply and really do not cost a fortune. So instead of trying to suck out Carbon Emissions from the atmosphere using giants suction pumps are digging holes in the ocean floor, it would be far more beneficial if you just painted your rooftops white with a good reflective material. If the Spanish region of Almeria has truly dropped its average temperature by 0.3 degrees per decade in the last two decades as the scientists claim, then we might all soon be forced to paint our own rooftops with radiation reflective material.

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Antarctica has been man’s last unchartered territory but only till sometime ago. Now the cold continent is seeing unprecedented growth in tourism and up to 40,000 people visited Antarctica in 2007. However, the tourists have a negative effect on the ecology of Antarctica and environmentalists have started to worry. Maastricht University in Holland seeks to solve this problem by dramatically controlling the number of tourists to the continent.

The problem lies in the fact that Antarctica has no government of its own and hence, no regulatory body. The university has proposed to auction off parts of the continent and limit tourists and their numbers in the auctioned parts. This could have a positive impact on the way the continent sustains itself and protect the unique fauna of Antarctica. Perhaps tour organizers and travel agencies must get in touch with the regulatory bodies in their own countries and inform prospective tourists about how their visit to Antarctica can affect the continent.

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Finally something to fight the food shortage problem!! Conceptualized by Dickson Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University, this is sure to be both environmentally friendly and economically profitable. Added to this the dream of preserving a little of the country in the city is a utopian one which now will help fight global warming too. The professor believes that only by allowing significant portions of the Earth’s farmland to return to forest do we have a real chance of stabilizing climate and weather patterns. Merely reducing energy consumption would not suffice.

Allowing forests to regrow where crops are now cultivated, he believes, would reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Besides, with the world’s population expected to increase to 3 billion by 2050 and almost 80 per cent of farming land in use, the idea has never been more relevant. The best way very rationally Despommier argues, is to change the way we farm.

Dr. Despommier estimates that it would cost $20 million to $30 million to make a prototype of a vertical farm, but hundreds of millions to build one of the 30-story towers that he suggests could feed 50,000 people. “I’m viewed as kind of an outlier because it’s kind of a crazy idea,” said he. The revolutionary scientist envisions blocks of vertical farms in the world’s biggest cities, each structure 30 stories high that could potentially be as productive as 588 acres of land and grow up to 12 million lettuces a year.

Currently he is in discussions with potential investors to build the first prototype. For Dr. Despommier, the high-rise version is on the horizon. “It’s very idealistic and ivory tower and all of that,” he said. “But there’s a real desire to make this happen.”

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Classy and efficient is how one can define this one. With startling looks, it is sure to take you on a ride. For travelers, this is an avant-garde vehicle, offering a great speed yet being environment friendly. With masters in industrial design, its designer Robert Nightingale is a much-talked about luminary these days. Drawing upon his experience in sustainable research, creative thinking & design method he has been consistently providing innovative concept. This futuristic concept is designed to take you miles and that too without causing any hazards like non-reversible carbon footprints & global warming which are the gifts of the aviation industry to the environment.

Aptly named, The Environment by its creator, this invention provides the travelers with an environment conducive for work as well as leisure besides zooming at a marvelous speed. Always banking upon the concepts, Robert’s innovations have brought him various applauses and acclamations all across the world.

From the Hitch Concept to Water Shelter Concept to the current transport innovation, his products have always been an affix to the advanced technology. And when they couples with environmental benefits, they surely are adorable.
So now you don’t have to think before to decide your next trip.
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On Ecoblog has already been treated Global warming as an argument that color the roofs of the houses in white is a good practice to lower the temperature on the planet. Now, however, is published a study (by physical Hashem Akbari of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory along with some experts at the University of California) that has provided some interesting numbers on the effectiveness of this application also include the usefulness of sidewalks. According to this research, if hypothetically the 100 biggest cities in the world installing roofs white and change the sidewalks with more reflective material, it would have a significant effect raffreddante. Let’s see why. The average percentage of area employment in the cities are very high, in fact around 25% as regards the roofs and 35% in case of sidewalks.

The data are clear: If you were to replace these materials with other reflective surfaces, it would save about 44 billion tons of greenhouse gases, or the amount of gas that all countries of the world emit in a year. The scientific explanation is that the solar radiation incident verrrebbe reflected in the form of short waves. The latter without the chance uscirebbero become so long, or heat, which on the contrary would be retained by the molecules of greenhouse gases.

This emerged from the data presented during the conference on climate change research in California. Such an application would offset more than 10 years of emissions, even without reducing those industries. Just in the American state, since 2005, has regulated that the flat structures are required to have roofs white.

One roof of about 90 square meters, the standard measure of an American house, Cut 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. Experts point to convince the UN to change the rooftops in major cities of the globe. The advantages, besides the already mentioned benefits on global warming, would be those with significant energy savings, lowering a few degrees in temperature in cities and major reduction of smog.

This is certainly a laudable position taken by scientists, although it probably would be first of all should do more analysis on the costs necessary for the implementation of a project like this.

The icebergs Environment effect are melting so relentlessly and Global warming effects such as these are very common when you navigate around the poles. I do not want the readers, but the phenomenon is so widespread as to have been unofficially coined the word to describe cockberg the iceberg partially dissolved to form large penis.

The photo was taken recently in the area between the Antarctic peninsula and South Shetland Islands (map) from Andy Rouse professional photographer whose site offers many shots on nature.

The expected look of a synthetic tree

Scientists in the US may have found a quick solution to problems of an endangered environment with what they like to call a Synthetic Tree. From the looks of the scientific study involved, this tree will be able to help in soil remediation and heat transfer. Simulating the process of transpiration the tree bolsters the theory that transpiration in trees and plants is a physical process only. Yes, not looking one inch like a real tree, the synthetic tree would function like one. It will draw carbon dioxide out of the air, as plants do during photosynthesis, and retain the carbon which is one of the most damaging gases for the environment.
The expected results look promising. The tree can help in a passive heat transfer for cars and buildings. The scientists also expect it to build better soil remediation systems by pulling the contaminated fluid out of the soil without the use of more liquid. In the same way, the technology can also draw water out of dry soil without having to dig a well.
We have our fingers crossed.
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For decades now scientists have been shouting about how human activities are causing serious impact on both the North and the South Pole and now we have our first official pictorial evidence of it all in a huge way. While we did see images of breaking icebergs and melting glaciers in the past, the first ever recorded image of the North Pole as an Island is sufficiently large enough to drive home the point. While the world is not going to flood by another year or it is not the end of days as of yet, the great catastrophe might not be too far away at this rate.

The historic development was revealed by satellite images taken last week showing that both the north-west and north-east passages have been opened by melting ice. Prof Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in the US said the images suggested the Arctic may have entered a “death spiral” caused by global warming. Shipping companies though are already rubbing their hands with glee looking at the commercial aspect of it. (They are pretty low, so no point complaining now).

The Beluga Group in Germany says it will send the first ship through the north-east passage, around Russia, next year, cutting 4,000 miles off the voyage from Germany to Japan. The satellite images gathered by NASA show that the north-west passage opened last weekend and the final blockage on the east side of the ice cap, an area of sea ice stretching to Siberia, dissolved a few days later. If people still crib about this all being a ‘natural cycle of change’ and stop doing what they do need to do then the flick ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ might very well be a reality all too soon.

Via Telegraph