Category: The Environment

How Ergonomic Design Can Benefit the Environment: Part 2

The bottom line is that when these products are ergonomically right, they are not only helping to conserve our environment’s natural resources, but they are also saving deterioration on your physical body. Ergonomic office chairs are fully adjustable with armrests that move up and down and may even pivot from side to side. Special lumbar panels in the back of an ergonomic chair will provide support that will allow you to work for hours on end without a backache or sore muscles. Height is adjustable to allow your feet to rest on the floor at all times, taking the strain off of your back and legs.

Jan 19, 2010 | View Comments View Post

How Ergonomic Design Can Benefit the Environment: Part 1

This is a guest post by Tomer Harel who is the author of http://www.keyscouts.com
Ergonomics is a word that people now recognize and appreciate. Although it has taken a little time, more and more people are realizing the importance of taking care of their bodies in order to avoid health problems. Using the same [...]

Jan 18, 2010 | View Comments View Post

Can Manipulating the Weather Help the Planet?

Water shortages wouldn’t be such a big deal if we knew how to make it rain, right? Scientists are giving that method a try. Cloud-seeding programs have already begun, which send chemical-loaded rockets into clouds to encourage snow to fall.
In fact, a recent unseasonal 11-hour snow storm in Beijing was man-made in response to worries [...]

Nov 12, 2009 | View Comments View Post

Carbon Offset – A Great Way To Improve The Environment

Carbon offset is a huge help to protect the world from the catastrophic effects of ecological deterioration and global warming by its mission to decrease carbon emissions in big industries and manufacturing units, as well as at an individual level.

Nov 02, 2009 | View Comments View Post

The Truth Behind Toilet Paper and the Environment

I’ll admit it, before I was concerned about the environment, I used toilet paper without thinking about the negative impact it may have on the environment. We all just wipe our bottoms with it after doing our business, place it in the toilet bowl, flush our human and paper wastes down the septic tank and forget about it. There is also the matter of how much water is flushed down our toilets but that’s a story for another day. Now we need to look at how toilet paper affects the environment.

Oct 17, 2009 | View Comments View Post

Chemicals in Tap Water – Hidden Secrets Revealed

Drinking tap water can be very harmful to your health, which is why most households have started buying bottled water instead. There are many city governments that are trying to encourage you to drink tap water instead of buying bottled water for various reasons. In this article we will talk about some of the reasons why they are doing this.

Sep 14, 2009 | View Comments View Post

Electronic Cigarettes, The USFDA, and Simple Facts

Things are really heating up with the latest news that The FDA is calling electronic cigarettes dangerous to your health. This undeserved blow comes shortly after the FDA slapped Chantix and Zyban, two drugs already approved by them as Nicotine Replacement Therapies, with a warning label indicating their high risk of suicidal thoughts, aggression, depression, and hostility.

Sep 02, 2009 | View Comments View Post

Carbon Trading Market – Basics And Trends

Carbon trading is a method adopted to decrease the carbon footprints of industrialized countries, and the method has received wide acceptance across the world in recent times. In carbon trading, carbon credits are purchased and sold by companies and other entities across the world under the innovative cap-and-trade system, where each credit allows the emission of an equivalent of one tonne of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the environment.

Aug 26, 2009 | View Comments View Post

Carbon Credits And Its Advantages

The terms carbon trading and carbon credits are often referred in conferences about global warming everywhere, but not everyone comprehends what is meant by these words. In the system of carbon trading, regulations are imposed on greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, and the pre-decided emission limits are then distributed across nations which have to control the greenhouse gas emissions from the different industries and business units operating within them.

Aug 14, 2009 | View Comments View Post