BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy Cups & Toddler Toys
If you’ve got a bottle of water welded to your hand, or, horrors, your toddler is married to a Sippy cup, here’s what you need to know:
Water bottles and Sippy cups are the source of deadly toxic chemicals called phthalates and bisphenol-A (BPA).
BPA is what makes plastics hard, like in baby bottles, Sippy cups [...]
Life in a carbon neutral world…
There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain.
Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who said revolutionizing our wasteful lifestyles was meant to be comfortable?!
Her [...]
Solar Powered Cardboard Cooker wins Climate Change Challenge Competition
Forum for the Future – a UK charity promoting sustainable development, recently ran a competition sponsored by the Financial Times – the FT Climate Change Challenge.
In their own words, the aims of the competition were:
to raise the profile of green innovation and demonstrate that there are solutions and money can be made from them
to find [...]
Environmental impact of Computers & the IT Industry
This report on the Global impact of the ICT (Information and communications technology) industry on it’s contribution to Global CO2 emissions still makes for surprising reading.
Although the technology involved in the survey is quite extensive – all computers, office IT equipment, servers, mobile and fixed telephony etc, the report suggests that the combined contribution is [...]
Environmentally friendly concrete…!
Here’s a great article from the New York Times.
What amazes me about this is the numbers involved – 5% of human caused emissions of CO2 are coming from concrete production! Who knows this? -We talk about switching light bulbs off, taking the train instead of flying if possible, but who thinks twice when laying foundations [...]
Challenging Ikea’s Green credentials
Good article in the UK Guardian challenging Ikea’s claim to be green…
There’s a lot of information on Ikea’s website about their environmental policies here many of which are laudable.
However, here’s the original report citing Ikea’s reluctance to adhere to the new conditions for timber importers in the USA to be able to certify the exact [...]
Green for Less!
What if making things green and sustainable could turn out to cost less? What an innovative concept. My personal experience in the world of manufacturing has led me to the conclusions that being green and being efficient are very similar. Being efficient by meaning saves money.
For thirty years in our shoe factory being efficient meant [...]
Health Impacts of Air Pollution & Solutions
Let’s look at “Planet Earth” as our society. To obtain and sustain joy and quality of life it is essential that all people, irrespective of nationality, race, religious beliefs or sex be aware of the effects of our cumulative actions. When each “one” of us becomes conscious of what we do that either diminish or [...]
Beyond Deception – Response to Paul Gilding
Beyond disruption or is it “Deception:”
From my perspective the Great Disruption [or deception as I see it], as described by Paul Gilding, comes from a fear based social system. In the 5 element theory in Taoist philosophy, nature is holographic. The water element [or the kidney aspect in our bodies is damaged by fear] controls [...]