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BUY ME A COFFEE

Ditch metal and plastic and turn to wood to save the planet,...

By Magdalena Mis ROME, July 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For design enthusiasts worried about forests being axed for furniture, this may come as a bit of a surprise: buying a table made of wood instead of metal or plastic could significantly help cut carbon emissions, according to a U.N. agency. Furniture, floors and doors made out of wood require less energy to produce than aluminium or plastic, and on top of that wood continues to store carbon for years, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. Carbon stored by wood products offsets nearly all of the greenhouse gas emissions related to their production, FAO said in a report published this week. "It might be counter-intuitive (to use wood) because if wood comes from illegal logging or irresponsible deforestation you will be damaging ecosystems and habitats," Rene Castro-Salazar, FAO assistant director-general for forestry, said. "But if you are able to produce firewood, a dining table or construction ...

Recycle

R ecycling is one of those things you know you should do. But while finding a way to dispose of plastics and paper is generally easy, it takes more effort to figure out where to take cellphones or batteries or CD cases — or any of the myriad things that clutter our households but might not be accepted by our trash or recycling services, or places such as Goodwill. Your phone can make it easier, with apps that use your location to tell you where to recycle items. I tried two: iRecycle and 1800Recycle, both free and both available for iOS and Android. They share another trait. Both are offshoots of businesses. iRecycle is run by Earth911, a website that "connects advertising partners with consumers in all aspects of their daily lives." 1800Recycle is powered by Recycle Nation, a "dynamic recycling and green living-focused website," which is, in turn, part of Electronic Recyclers International. All this is to say that helping you recycle your stuff is not the first pri...

Happy Earth Day 2016

It's always Earth Day here 24/7 365. From Wikipedia: Earth Day  is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which day events  worldwide  are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network [1]  and celebrated in more than 193 countries each year. [2] On Earth Day 2016, the landmark  Paris Agreement  is scheduled to be signed by the United States, China, and some 120 other countries. [3] [4]  This signing satisfies a key requirement for the  entry into force  of the historic draft  climate protection treaty  adopted by consensus of the 195 nations present at the  2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference  in Paris. In 1969 at a  UNESCO  Conference in San Francisco,  peace activist   John McConnell  proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be celebrated on March 21, 1...