I love the title of this documentary currently in the works. Plant This Movie looks like it will concentrate on urban farming around the globe as a way to study its use and effectiveness. I think I will add it to my list of movies to see in the future. I hope it gets...
I was excited to read yesterday that Akbank, a Turkish bank, has decided on full disclosure when it comes to it’s environmental impact. According to an article by Nathaniel Parish Flannery, a contributor to Forbes, …Akbank, a Turkish bank, was recognized by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for being the first Turkish bank to...
I was wandering around San Francisco on Saturday afternoon and noticed it was the weekend for the Nike Women’s Marathon. I felt a bit of guilt as I watched all of the giddy women and girls run around with their active wear grinning from ear to ear. It’s about time I run another one....
I don’t mean to be a downer, but I get a little sad when I read statistics like, “Only 7.1 percent of our plastic waste was recycled in 2008, according to the latest data from the Environmental Protection Agency.” Photo taken by John Makely, courtesy of MSNBC.com Sometimes I get so wrapped up in...
According to an article posted on Science Daily on April 8th, some shampoos and detergents might be linked to a water contaminant called NDMA. The article states shampoos and detergents… …may be a source of precursor materials for formation of a suspected cancer-causing contaminant in water supplies that receive water from sewage treatment plants....
