What you need to know about GOING GREEN
Harrah’s Entertainment, owner and operator of the World Series of Poker, has purchased carbon offsets to mitigate the global warming impact from energy use and waste at its six and a half week event at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
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With summer now is full swing we thought that this would be an appropriate first item for the new Green Gadgets category. The Voltaic solar bags are mobile solar power generators designed to charge virtually all handheld electronics.
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Wind energy is a renewable source of energy. Renewable sources of energy are those which can be reused over and over again unlike fossil fuels such as oil and coal. In other words wind is a sustainable form of energy.
Basically to produce wind power the kinetic energy from wind is converted by a machine known as wind turbines. Wind turbines convert the kinetic energy wind produces into mechanical energy or electrical energy, depending on the use. Mechanical energy can only power machinery like pumps and windmills. This is because mechanical energy is still in the form of potential or sometimes kinetic energy.
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Food is one of the most important things that man cannot live without. Everyone is in need of food and yet in order to make food, we have to use a lot of resources and sometimes, we even pollute the land – and water – with chemicals like fertilizers or pesticides. So in order to help reduce pollution and at the same time sustain our stomachs, we have compiled a list of foods to eat and other related stuff so that eating organic food is not going to sound like an alien concept but more of a good idea.
• If it’s impossible for you to buy all organic foods (organic produce can be pricier than their inorganic counterparts, plus not all supermarkets or grocery store provide a good selection for organic produce), then you might want to consider to just choosing organic over inorganic when buying bell peppers, celery, lettuce, cherries, nectarines, strawberries, lettuce, grapes, apples and pears. The reason for that is because these are some of the foods that when grown inorganically, can be heavily contaminated with pesticides or fertilizers, which can have a negative effect on the body.
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NAIROBI, June 23 (Reuters) - Kenya should reverse a decision to grow biofuel crops which will threaten wild life on an important coastal wetland, two conservation groups warned on Monday.
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Ever since the former United States Vice President Al Gore presented to the world what is now deemed to be an inconvenient truth, efforts to find solutions on how to save the environment have been more consequential.
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