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Think about recycling and the first thing to pop into your head is not the damage that is done to the earth when you use chemically laden products at home. Recycling is about reducing waste, recycling products and reusing what can be reused, but it is also abut protecting the earth from poison.
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Loss of energy through badly insulated houses accounts for around forty per cent of carbon dioxide emissions in the European Union. This means that buildings with poor energy efficiency are actually responsible for more emissions than all the vehicles on the roads at present in Europe. In a bid to reduce the emissions from homes, governments have introduced an Energy Performance Certificate. We take a look at what this means, and if it is possible to combat global warming with this type of legislation.
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Waste accumulation in the world has become a concern that touches not only a part of but practically the whole world. This has become a main concern of humanity and so short and long term solutions have been conceived and implemented, but the problem of too much waste still continues to haunt humanity. Organizational solutions may not be enough however, and individual efforts may be found useful in the situation we are in right now.
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The Age of Stupid is the latest and quite possibly the most powerful of the new genre of films aimed at helping to wake up the citizens of Planet Earth to the crucial urgency of reversing global warming. It follows in the loud and ominous footsteps of its predecessors–An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore and The Eleventh Hour, narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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When you have a lot of rain like you might be having now, do you find yourself asking when is it ever going to stop? Have you ever been told as a child that when it rains the angels in heaven are crying? If this is the case, do you not think that these angels should be running out of tears? In some places you have had a lot more rainfall than others. Your ground might already be saturated which means that your soil can not hold anymore water. When this happens you could end up with floodwater.
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About the only truth pertaining to Man Made Global Warming is that there are many people across the world making tons of money by perpetrating a junk science hoax. Just as in the previous Nuclear Winter scare of the 80s, there is no basis for the fears that are being manipulated by those who are profiteering from this absurd science. Worse yet is that if one calls a Global Warming Alarmist (GWA) out on their claims then they will get the patented answer of, the debate is over.
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If you're packing your child's lunch, you know how much packaging goes into their noontime meal each day. You also know that that amount of packaging each day, five days a week, adds up to a lot of trash!
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It might be a lofty aim but Unilever has very serious intentions of implementing it. By 2015 Unilever plans on all its palm oil sources certified. The CEO of Unilever Patrick Cescau also was strongly in favor of having a moratorium to prevent rain forest destructions in Indonesia.
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These days it seems everything has a carbon footprint, and that includes how we look up local business phone numbers and email addresses. So for those of us wanting to minimise our contribution to climate change what's the most energy efficient way to find a local service?
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Now-a-days we hear about Climate Change more often than before. Climate change is a global phenomenon and the term Climate Change" is indeed a straightforward expression for such a complex subject. In fact, it has more than we can comprehend from this phrase and that is why it is quite essential to go at defining climate change in today's scenario.
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