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By NunoXEI • Aug 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog
In a world concerned with its carbon footprint and ever-striving for new ways to reduce environmental impact, hemp is one of those products that comes up time and again with new alternatives. This time around it’s “Hemcrete”–a new concrete-like substance developed by U.K.-based Lhoist Group, Tradical® Hemcrete® made from hemp, lime and water.
Here’s a new [...]
By NunoXEI • Aug 20th, 2009 • Category: Blog
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I’ve been sitting on this blog post for a while now and it almost got left unpublished. I came across it just after getting back from San Diego Comic Con. I spent a week there, exhausting myself to new degrees of human fatigue… and I loved it! So, when I saw [...]
By NunoXEI • Jul 29th, 2009 • Category: Blog
Just a few short weeks after Greenpeace released Slaughtering the Amazon, Nike has announced new standards for keeping leather made from Amazon destruction out of its shoes. Nike now wants to work towards a new leather sourcing policy that doesn’t contribute to the destruction of the Amazon or climate change. They’ll be adhering to the new [...]
By NunoXEI • Jul 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog
It always affects me negatively when I read headlines that seem to be degrading to the human race in general. I sit baffled at my computer reading and wondering: But how?! HOW can this be an issue considering what goes into STOPPING it from happening? It can’t be a question of organizations saying “we need [...]
By NikkiJade • Jun 1st, 2009 • Category: Blog
There’s a petition going on at Care2 right now to stop Iceland’s whale hunting. As The Green Rocket recently released a strongly opinionated blog on this topic, I was pretty excited to see the online community taking action. As I was signing the petition, my co-worker made a provocative comment: “In the context of the [...]
By NunoXEI • May 7th, 2009 • Category: Blog
Why hire a guy on a lawnmower when you can rent 200 goats to do the same job? I’d have to imagine going the gas-powered lawn mower route would b the cheaper option–but for Google, making a statement about the environment goes side by side with their company slogan of “Do no Evil”.
Google’s Mountain View [...]
By NunoXEI • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog
Greenpeace has hit the waters again and flagged down another pesky pirate ship. Okay, maybe that’s too dramatic, but here’s the actual current news on the situation. Greenpeace has uncovered evidence that the Spanish company, Vidal Armadores S.A. is receiving government subsidies equalling over 3.5 million Euros, and is still securing contracts and licenses to [...]
By NunoXEI • Feb 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog
A big story from last week–and an absolutely abhorrent one in my eyes–was Iceland’s Fisheries Minister Einar Gudfinnsson decision to increase Iceland’s annual quota to 100 minke whales and 150 fin whales; all in an effort to resolve Iceland’s financial situation. This choice comes just before the Icelandic government resigned, following widespread protests over its [...]
By NunoXEI • Feb 11th, 2009 • Category: Blog
There has never been a more important presidency in American history as the current one. Throughout President Obama’s candidate speeches it was evident that one of the changes he was determined to bring to the United States was to begin to take steps towards a greener, more environmentally friendly, future.
When one considers the reluctance of [...]
By NunoXEI • Sep 24th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Thanks to science, and specifically the progress of DNA technology, an extinct tortoise might be given a shot at wondering this Earth once again. (Source)
This giant tortoise was one of the four that went extinct over the last 150 years. The early extinction process was due to the early whaling expiditions of the 18th and [...]
