Zero Waste Lifestyle: The Latest & Growing Trend

Imagine yourself cheerfully living your life without producing any garbage whatsoever, in your house and outside. Furthermore, imagine yourself creating your own homemade, chemical-free, hygienic and cleaning products, including makeup, shampoos, and toilet cleaners, with the comfort of knowing that you aren’t polluting the world.   The zero waste, or waste-free, lifestyle is defined by…

Environment Class: Desertification

Due to the over population, people gradually overgrazing, overdrafting of ground water and diversion of water from tivers for human consumption and undustrual use. These are causes the serious environmental problem; Desertification. This disaster is seriously progressing in developong countries which included desert in their country. The most serious part is the southern part of…

The BP Oil Disaster

The huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, off the southern coast of the US has been in the news all around the world. The oil rig, which was drilling for oil under the sea on the south of the coast of state of Louisiana, exploded on Apr. 20th. 2010. Since then, around 500,000…

One Earth. One Hour.

Earth Hour: what started as an initiative to stop climate change in the city of Sydney, Australia quickly spread internationally and became a ‘global sustainability movement’… …giving people a voice on the future of our planet and working together to create a sustainable low carbon future for our planet. Why should you care?  Think about…

Change Making and Solar Panels

TED has invaded Calgary and it’s making local people think about global issues.  There is another TEDx event coming to Calgary on April 29th.  For more information check out http://www.tedxcalgary.ca.  To give you an idea of what TEDx is doing I want to share a TEDxYYC presentation done by Eden Full.  Eden full is a…

Save the honeybees, You can help.

Since 2007, there has been a high percent of honeybee hive die-offs (30-70%) occurring in US and parts of Canada.  This syndrome is called Colony Collapse Disorder or Honeybee Depopulation Syndrome.  European beekeepers have observed a similar phenomena in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and initial reports have also come in from Switzerland…