IPS – Carbon Credits Could Finance Improved Cookstoves in Mexico | Inter Press Service. Environmental organisations in Mexico are hoping to finance the promotion of fuel-efficient wood-fired cookstoves, which reduce […]
Cancer-causing chemicals and drugs like antibiotics pollute many of America’s lakes, rivers and drinking water supplies. Activated carbon filters can remove about 40 percent of carcinogens and antibiotics from these […]
IPS – ‘Green’ Approaches to Water Gaining Ground Around World | Inter Press Service. After Hurricane Sandy swept through the northeast of the United States late October 2012, millions of […]
Fifteen Nepali artists were closeted for a month with a heap of 1.5 metric tons (1.7 tons) of trash picked up from Mount Everest. When they emerged, they had transformed […]
Marine scientists and government officials say millions of molluscs planted in waters off cities could go a long way toward cleaning up a polluted urban environment. Oyster an environmental ‘hero’.
IPS – Hospitals Working to Reduce Their Ecological Footprint | Inter Press Service. Health Care Without Harm has attracted more than 3,500 institutions throughout the world to the Global Green […]
By a vote of 13 to 1, the Los Angeles City Council has approved a ban on plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines. Over the next 12 months, some 7,500 […]
The post-card perfect beaches of Hawaii’s Big Island will now be safer from toxic litter and costly waste thanks to recent decisions by the Hawaii County Council and Mayor Billy […]
Bikeshare Program Makes Cycling Lifestyle Easy. Many Western countries are encouraging their citizens to ride bicycles to work in an effort to reduce traffic congestion as well as to help […]
Taiwan Starts Cutting Emissions at the Village Level. Chientan Borough, a cul-de-sac neighborhood of crowded Taipei, looks like a giant tropical garden. Unlike most of the densely populated Taiwanese capital […]
