Blogs & Ecology

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It’s an unfortunate but necessary evil that trash has to lay littering the streets until collection. It’s not clean and it’s not pretty. Well, it wasn’t until artist Adrian Kondratowicz collaborated with Renee Mlynaryk to design and produce a range of colorful trash bags which have decorated the streets of New York since May this year.

The first solar powered car to make its way around the world continues its trek.

Scientists discover a vegetarian spider.

Green Home Huddler interviews trash enthusiast Tom Szaky, the CEO of TerraCycle.

TriplePundit reviews Throwplace, calling it "A sort of Freecycle on steroids."

An Ohio-based company has plans to convert Saturn Sky cars to run on all-electric.

(Image: Takakuku)

As the weekend approaches, I'm thinking of the beach and maybe going for a swim. The Pacific Ocean is a wonderful place to go on a steaming hot July day, on this side of it as well.

Have you ever considered how much waste and garbage that you will produce over the course of your lifetime. National Geographic took a look and here is the total impact for the average American.

Walking through some trendy shopping district, with seasonal banners/flags above, do you ever wonder where they go after they've been switched out? In most cases, they get disposed of, adding to the waste stream. While it could be argued that these districts could find other creative, less resource intensive ways to promote themselves, one area, Commercial Drive in Vancouver, has taken another path:

The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ, German only) today published an article on space junk. The shocking image is an eye opener. Humankind continues to repeat the mistake of strewing waste into common spaces (no pun intended) without a thought to the consequences, leaving costs we don't want to pay today for the future generations. The FAS article spurred our curiosity, leading us to find even more spectacular video and potential solutions to the problem (overleaf).
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If you pay any attention to the media-driven vision of the beach, you understand that it’s a pristine, beautiful place that we all go to on vacation, and leave no trace of our existence on once we leave. 

Image from Hans Van Reenen on Flickr

The Ocean Conservancy has a bit of a wake up call after tallying the results of their International Coastal Cleanup Day: there was six million tons of trash - non in total, but which was actually collected.