Eco-Friendly
Environmentally friendly, environment-friendly, eco-friendly, nature-friendly, and green are terms referring to goods and habitats, services, laws, guidelines and policies that inflict reduced, minimal, or no harm upon ecosystems or the environment
Are we destined to be Easter Island writ large? Or will we take our place in the great community of life as we were intended, and become the caretakers, the stewards of this miraculous planetary being within whom we are so intimately embedded?
Northwestern University researchers are the first to develop a new solar cell with good efficiency that uses tin instead of lead perovskite as the harvester of light. The low-cost, environmentally friendly solar cell can be made easily using “bench” chemistry—no fancy equipment or hazardous materials.
China is submitting proposals to its national legislature that would amend the country’s environmental protection law for the first time in 25 years. “China’s coal consumption has become the single most significant determinant for the future of the world’s climate,” reports Greenpeace.
In June of 2011, a scientist, an actor, a banker and a filmmaker were sitting around a table talking about their opposition to extreme energy extraction. Their conversation sparked an important realization – it wasn’t enough for them to be against something. They needed to be part of the solution.
Rather than building a brand new home, it can often make more sense to renovate an existing home and bring it in line with modern standards. This 1930s property was transformed into a passively-cooled home, complete with a modern extension that both adds space and contributes to its considerable charm.
Cherie Roe Dirksen discusses 6 easy ways to help save our planet by reducing your carbon footprint and they are all things you can start doing today!
Cadillac and Ford are yukking it up in their battle to attract savvy buyers to their electric vehicles. Target demographics now extend beyond the “greenies”.
The US Navy believes it has finally worked out the solution to a problem that has intrigued scientists for decades: how to take seawater and use it as fuel. The development of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel is being hailed as “a game-changer” because it would signficantly shorten the supply chain.
More Americans are using trains, buses, and subways rather than cars for work commuting. Voters in Los Angeles are so fed up with traffic that, by the end of 2014, LA Metro will have started construction on multiple new heavy and light rail projects that will become operational over the next decade.
Researchers have found a way to tap the sun not only as a source of power, but also to directly produce the solar energy materials that make this possible.
Can citizens, rather than governments or corporations, solve the vanishing bee problem by making it easy to keep bees? Join the OSBH team to find out!
Millions of homes across the UK could be heated using a carbon-free technology that draws energy from rivers and lakes in a revolutionary system that could reduce household bills by 20 per cent. In the first system of its kind in the UK, a heat pump in the Thames will provide hot water for radiators, showers and taps in nearly 150 homes and a 140-room hotel and conference center in south London, saving 500 tons of carbon emissions from being released every year into the atmosphere.
Organized swapping has been gaining momentum. A thrifty way to makeover a wardrobe or refresh a bookshelf, it helps keep unwanted items out of the landfill.
A new sustainable house prototype is lightweight, recyclable, and promises to be an inexpensive purchase and extremely efficient to run. The suitably-named Pop-Up House also boasts another notable selling-point: all that’s required to assemble it is four day’s patience and a standard electric screwdriver.
Cabin dwellings almost entirely constructed out of repurposed materials can be high-tech or old-fashioned, spacious or small. All have sustainability in mind.
