Dubai buys 20% of Zimbabwe for carbon offset projects
The UAE is buying a part of Zimbabwe the size of the UK for controversial carbon offset projects.
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5 tips for making the sustainable bus option more practical
They take wide turns in city streets and clog them as you are trying to make a left turn in your car. You think to yourself about how much traffic piles of city buses cause when in fact, you are the traffic.
How a Nitrogen Gas Generator is Environmentally Friendly
Does your business rely on a sustainable source of natural gas? Generate your own, using solar power
All the ways to make your traveling eco-friendly in 2022
Sustainable traveling, also referred to as eco-friendly traveling, is more than just another travel trend; we are working to reduce our carbon footprint at home and on the road, as well as broadening our understanding of what it means to travel.
7 Ways Businesses Can Reduce Their Environmental Impact
Environmental pollution and degradation have become a significant source of concern as the latest climate change reports forecast a grim future for the planet. Unfortunately, manufacturing industries and businesses are some of the most significant contributors to environmental pollution.
Fortnite to save old growth forests
Epic Games, the online games kids will do anything to play (you know the names… Fortnite and Rocket League) –– even if they need to line up and play at the library computer –– has decided they will use company profits to help save an Old Growth Forest in North Carolina.
Go mushroom, go mushroom! Fungi catching more climate change carbon?
Mushrooms are vulnerable to climate change, but it seems that fungi are working to store more carbon than usual as our planet heats up.
Carbon Offsetting Saudi Arabia
Who doesn’t want to jump onto the carbon offset bandwagon when you see Coldplay advocating it? I mean come on, that’s a cool bunch of guys, and if they are doing it, it must be the right thing to do. As interest in environmental issues has grown, so has the alluring, politically correct, celebrity-sanctioned model […]
Coral Reefs To Melt Away If CO2 Levels Double
The earth is warming up. There is no doubt about that. And carbon dioxide levels are increasing too. New research from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Carnegie Institution in the US suggests that if things get worse, coral reefs will start to dissolve. That’s millions of years of evolution that will simply melt […]
What To Do on Tu B’Shvat in Israel
Tu B’Shvat is the Jewish holiday marking the beginning of a new year for trees, and is usually celebrated by planting trees and exchanging gifts of dried fruit with loved ones. While these traditional activities are great and we support going out to plant trees (thus increasing the amount of carbon-eating leaves out there), these […]
Learn From spud! On How To Carbon Offset Your Business
Speak to an average person in Israel who cares about protecting the environment, and they will cross their eyes will cross when you start speaking with them about carbon offsetting. While Israel does have a few carbon offset providers (the Good Energy Initiative is one — they powered Earth Hour in Tel Aviv, with their […]
The Jaffa Orange Gets The Carbon Label
With America’s and the world’s financial markets going belly up, it will be interesting to see what happens to the carbon market. Smart CEOs will realize that a less carbon intensive business is better for the bottom line, as most companies can kick a lot of wasteful carbon habits, simply by doing a carbon audit. […]
World Usability Day Launches Global Transport Challenge
World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals’ Association to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, on the second Thursday of November, over 225 events are organized in over 40 countries around the world to raise […]
Eco-Rabbi: Genesis and Environment
“Look at My work, how beautiful and perfect is everything that I created. I created it for you. Be careful not to ruin and destroy My world. If you ruin it, there is nobody to restore it after you.” (Ecclesiastes Rabba 7:28) What is an eco-rabbi? It’s a person who brings the Jewish faith message […]
Carbon Neutral Car Rentals with Avis Israel
Israel’s tourism industry has made some serious changes recently. The Ministry of Tourism announced a few months ago that it was going ‘green’ for 2009, stating that it had a plan that included “environment-sensitive planning and development; preservation of the cultural and social heritage; developing tourism and new jobs in agricultural areas and the periphery […]