We’ve heard about the scary way in which sea levels are rising due to warmer sea temperatures and melting ice. The alarming thing is that it’s set to get worse. According to an international panel of scientists, sea levels are expected to rise by three metres or more by the year 2100.
When thinking of the uses for sugar, an image of your morning cuppa might come to mind. New research now aims to change the way we see sugar by using it to make clothing! Best of all, the process is much better for the planet.
A new Marks & Spencer store in Britain is going green in a big way!
This Saturday, 29th March, at 8:30pm marks the world’s 8th annual Earth Hour campaign. Earth Hour is a worldwide grassroots movement uniting people to protect the planet, and is organised by WWF. Engaging a massive mainstream community on a broad range of environmental issues, Earth Hour was famously started as a lights-off event in Sydney, Australia in 2007.
Welcome to The Street Store: just as its name implies, it’s a store on the street. But it’s so much more than that: an excellent fashion breakthrough that upcycles threads while helping those in need.
This is upcycling at its best! A Kenyan company, Ocean Sole, has found a way to make use of flip-flops that get left on beaches in a way that prevents waste while making something beautiful.
By now you will definitely have heard of the NekNominate craze that has been happening on social media. How it works is that it’s essentially a drinking game. You take a video of yourself downing a beer and then you nominate someone else to continue the game, daring them to be more extreme.
Squalene (or squalane) is found in many beauty products. But its origins are not pretty. It’s one of those names that you might see on a skincare product and not really know what it is. Squalene sounds like the other ingredients that we don’t even think twice about – but we should.
If we don’t care about our oceans, we will wind up hurting ourselves more than we can imagine. The World Ocean Summit, a three-day event starting on the 24th February, tackles important ocean issues that affect us all.
We purchase gadgets and then throw them out within the year when we upgrade to the latest models. We might not really spare a thought that all our disposed units are contributing to e-waste.