It is… because I care…
Not that the U.N. really has so much (or any) real power, but it’s another start.
AP – It’s the business end of climate change: ensuring that the $20 trillion the world will spend on energy over the next two decades is as environmentally friendly as possible.
If not donating unwanted electronics for reuse, drop off your unwanted or broken electronics for recycling. Only the following items will be accepted:
computers & laptops
Other kinds of electronics won’t be accepted. Only NYC residents (no businesses allowed*) may drop off material (limit five pieces per vehicle). The first 100 people to drop off electronics will receive a $5 Best Buy gift card.
All dropped off items will be recycled through contracted vendors and all data on hard drives will be destroyed; no scavenging will be permitted and no tax-deduction receipts will be given out.
While safe to use, electronics contain hazardous materials, such as lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium. Recycling your unwanted electronic equipment keeps these hazardous materials out of the waste stream and the environment.
MANHATTAN
Sunday, September 9, 2007
8am – 2pm
Union Square North Plaza (southeast corner of 17th St. and Broadway; cars enter at 16th St & Union Square West).
More dates and all the information from NYCWastele$$ can be found here. (Thanks Todd!)
It sounds counter-intuitive (dry water?), but Sonoma-based DriWater‘s innovative product ? a gelatinous substance consisting of 98% purified water and 2% cellulose gum ? does just that: provide an irrigation solution that delivers a reliable source of moisture directly to a plant’s roots, when needed, without requiring a permanent water source. When placed in the ground, the DriWater gels are inserted into tubes buried next to the roots of a young plant. Enzymes naturally produced by the bacteria found in the soil then begin to break down the cellulose holding the gels together ? resulting in the gel converting to liquid and be…
Sony said Friday that it had developed a bio-conscious battery that is encased in vegetable-based plastic and runs on sugars. The sugars are poured into the battery, and are then broken down by enzymes in order to create electricity.
Just in time for the back-to-school crew, See Jane Work bring in Cocoina’s Almond Scented Paste. Nontoxic, non-solvent, and acid-free, it even tastes of marzipan for the paste-eater in your life. Used in schools in Italy since the 1930s, the $8 imported paste comes in a vintage-style silver tin and includes a stiff bristle. You can also get it in the form of a $3 glue stick for handy toting about. Coccoina Eco-Friendly Glue
Celebrities Natalie Portman, Chloe Sevigny, and Kyra Sedgewick enlighten us about CFLs.
Last year, Americans threw away 38 billion plastic water bottles, about $1 billion worth of plastic1. That’s a huge waste, especially considering 1.5 million barrels of oil – enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year – were used to produce the bottles2. And that’s not even including the oil used for transportation.
You can make a difference by choosing to reduce your contribution to bottle water waste. Brita and Nalgene have partnered to create the FilterForGood pledge, a commitment to reduce your personal waste by giving up bottled water, even if it’s just a few days each week.
* Change of pace just to scare/amaze you*
An international team of 31 researchers found this and other strange animals while exploring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an underwater mountain range that runs from Iceland to the Azores islands west of Portugal… Read more at Weird Deep-Sea Creatures Found in Atlantic.
His googly eyes are my favorite:
