Companies are working with environmentalists to make sure their policies and practices are not harming the environment. One area that is often addressed in helping a company to be more eco friendly is the area of products being used.
While many companies have policies in place to recycle, save paper, and keep from wasting electricity, they don’t always think that the products they use outside of their paper can have an effect on the environment. Industrial degreasers, for example, are products that often contain harsh, artificial chemicals, and when used (even properly) can damage the environment.
Industrial degreasers are used as cleaning products. They are usually used on industrial equipment and machines, and are very different from …

Should we Still Shop ‘Til We Drop? Tis almost the season, and the world appears to be swirling out of control. With a mammoth financial crises in full swing and unemployment rising across the globe, gift-giving is not only more of a challenge in the usual ways, it has become an ethical challenge as well. For example, over the last several years we’ve been told that by spending we can save America. And, now it seems that by buying correctly we can also help to save the world. This is a tall order and a heavy responsibility. Almost enough to suck the cheer right out of the season. So how about this? Let’s forget about …

As World Environmental leaders met in Copenhagen, the emphasis was on green technology, carbon emissions and jobs. Organizers of the world business summit on climate change outlined aggressive policies that projected 2 million green jobs in the U.S. and another one million jobs throughout Europe.
The focus of the summit is on establishing guiding principles that will be used to guide politicians in the development of a new global climate treaty that will succeed the current Kyoto Treaty, which expires in 2012. The Copenhagen Climate Council reported that many of the jobs would be created as economies commit to wind energy and other renewable sources for electricity.
European Union Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, explained that, “A …

Only a few centuries ago, all beautiful perfumes were made from natural ingredients. Using perfumery techniques originating in France, it was created by combining organic flowers and plant extracts with 100% natural wine alcohol, distilled from organic grapes.
With the chemical industry advancement post World War II , Chemicals became a key ingredient of perfumes and we saw the emergence of “fragrance” or synthetic perfume. The price of synthetic flower and plant extracts meant these new perfumes were able to be produced extremely cheaply and with a new level of consistency that could only be achieved using chemicals. This was music to both the perfume & chemical industry’s ears – but not great for the true …

“We can’t drill and burn our way out of our economic and ecological ills, but we can invent and invest our way out”, says Van Jones, the author of The Green Collar Economy and founder of Green for All.
This guy doesn’t need my help nor do I get any consideration for recommending this book. But this is a thoughtful straight forward view of how we can help the economy, create jobs, and retool America to get out of this economic slump while repairing the environment. That’s an incredible task and often encompassing goals that seem contradictory. But it’s do-able! There is hardly anything these days that is more important or has more far reaching effects …

Every month we are all paying electricity bills which continue to increase and we complain bitterly about it and yet there is a limitless free source of electricity readily available to every one of us. It belongs to no-one and anyone can take as much of it as they want. It’s called the sun.
It’s a huge and limitless source of energy and yet for the most part we don’t bother to use it. The more you think about it the crazier it seems. We are paying out so much money each month for power and using up the earth’s finite resources instead of using the alternative which is staring us in the face.   The simplest …

Global food security in a changing climate depends on the nutritional value and yield of staple food crops. Researchers at Monash University in Victoria, Australia have found an increase in toxic compounds, a decrease in protein content and a decreased yield in plants grown under high CO2 and drought conditions.
The research, to be presented by Dr Ros Gleadow on 29 June 2009 at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting in Glasgow, has shown that the concentration of cyanogenic glycosides, which break down to release toxic hydrogen cyanide, increased in plants in elevated CO2.
This was compounded by the fact that protein content decreased, making the plants overall more toxic as the ability of herbivores to …