Drinking Water Week Each year, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and an alliance of organizations, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), sponsor Drinking Water Week to highlight the importance of tap water and the need to reinvest in our water infrastructure. Tap water plays a critical role in the success of a society, from … [Read more…]
Energy Saving Tips For The Summer Every year, along with the beautiful weather, a barbeque every weekend, and sunburns at baseball games, comes those high energy bills from trying to keep your home cool. Summer heat in most US climates can be difficult to deal with without spiking energy bills, but read on for a … [Read more…]
Watch The Environment With Safe Pest Control Controlling pests in your garden is absolutely necessary for the continued health of your investment. Plants cannot flourish if damaging pests eat the roots and foliage of your plants, or penetrate the bark of trees. And inside your home, pests can spread disease as quickly as they breed. … [Read more…]
Solar-Water Heating Systems: A Win-Win As non-renewable energy becomes scarcer and more expensive, the sustainability-minded of us are increasingly looking to clean, renewable sources to meet our needs. Harnessing the energy of the sun to provide hot water for domestic purposes is one prime example. Installing a solar-water heating system has many benefits. Most significantly, … [Read more…]
Earth Day – April 22, 2013 Today is Earth Day! Over one billion people in 192 countries are participating from London to Sao Paolo, Seoul to Babylon City, New Delhi to New York, Rome to Cairo; people everywhere are taking action in their communities and helping depict The Face of Climate Change. How can you get … [Read more…]
Pesticides in chlorinated tap water found to cause increased food allergies Sunday, April 21, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes – NaturalNews.com (NaturalNews) The evidence continues to mount against genetically modified organisms, in terms of why they are harming our food supply and how much damage they are causing to humans in general. The latest data indicates … [Read more…]
Healthy Eating Without Leaving Home – Grow Your Own There’s no doubt about it, healthy eating is essential to a long, vibrant life. People often ask me my secret to shiny hair, glowing skin and bright eyes. I’m used to this by now, but I don’t think I’ll ever get used to how surprised people … [Read more…]
Avoid Conservation Crime! Learn The Best Ways To Conserve Water During the year there will be dry spells. In order to keep your gardens in the best health you will at times need to do some watering. There are some great ways to keep your garden from getting thirsty without wasting water. Why Save Water? … [Read more…]
Tips To Conserve Water In The Kitchen It can be challenging to balance all of your responsibilities, obligations, and concerns. When you are at work, you think you should be at home. When you spend money, you think you should be saving. It’s hard to even do something simple like go to the grocery store … [Read more…]
Taking care of the planet starts at home. From using eco-friendly cleaning materials to recycling your trash, there are many minor changes which can add up to big benefits for the Earth. Here are ten ways you can take care of the environment—and your own health, too. Use “green” appliances. That garage refrigerator might be … [Read more…]
Drinking Dirty Water – Is America’s Water Safety In Jeopardy? Civilization is only as strong as its water supply. Communities and cities, as well as their economic stability, can quickly and easily be bruised, if not toppled, by the unchecked outbreak of waterborne microbes such as viruses and bacteria. Subtler, long-term mayhem may be wrought … [Read more…]
Last Call At The Oasis – Erin Brockovich & Peter Gleick Documentary Watch Last Call At The Oasis on Amazon The global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century. We can manage this problem, but only if we are willing to act now. Last Call at the Oasis is a … [Read more…]
How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans In 2009, a U.N. joint commission estimated that 6.4 million metric tons of plastic waste currently pollutes the oceans. The U.N. also estimates that 5 … [Read more…]
Scientists Warn Water Shortages Could Force World Into Vegetarianism Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world’s population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages. Humans derive about 20% of their protein … [Read more…]
Join the Global Frackdown September 22nd 2012 Fracking for oil and gas poses a direct and immediate threat to our drinking water, our health and our communities. But the oil and gas industry is ramping up its PR machine to try and convince the public and decision makers that fracking is safe. It’s time to … [Read more…]
NRDC, EWG Sue to Protect Millions of Californians from Contaminated Drinking Water An Estimated 31 Million People Exposed to Cancer-Causing “Erin Brockovich” Chemical SAN FRANCISCO (August 14, 2012) –The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group today sued the California Department of Public Health for failing to protect millions of Californians from hexavalent … [Read more…]
12 Simple Things You Can Do To Reduce Water Pollution Dirty water is the world’s biggest health risk, and continues to threaten both quality of life and public health in the United States. When water from rain and melting snow runs off roofs and roads into our rivers, it picks up toxic chemicals, dirt, trash … [Read more…]
The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Returning to the island over several years, … [Read more…]
Los Angeles Becomes Largest U.S. City to Ban Plastic Bags In a historic vote Wednesday, the L.A. City Council voted overwhelmingly to enact a ban on plastic bags — becoming the largest city in the United States to push towards more eco-friendly alternatives. Under the measure, passed by a 13 to 1 vote, stores throughout … [Read more…]
Become An Ecopreneur With The Multipure Business Model What is an Ecopreneur? Environmental entrepreneurs, or ecopreneurs, are people that believe that environmental products and services can serve as a synergy of business opportunity and environmental responsibility. The Multipure Business Opportunity promotes not just entrepreneurship, but ecopreneurship. Multipure allows Independent Distributors to attain financial success by … [Read more…]