Sustainability
My Issues With the Zero Waste Movement
The heart is in the right place, but it’s widely misjudged… The zero waste movement was made with the best intentions. However, I feel that that many companies and brands have jumped on this wagon to make more money. People are more conscious of the environment, but the solutions lack depth. Banning plastic straws isn’t going to solve the plastics in the ocean. Companies telling us they’re gonna grow more trees dosen’t solve the deforestation crisis. What’s the point in telling us to recycle and reuse when it all ends in landfill anyway? I’m all for more ethical products on the market, but I do feel there’s a lot of hypocrisy and a dose of double standards.
By Chloe Gilholy4 years ago in Earth
China S Energy Plan To Reduce Its Dependence Upon Coal
According to a U.S. Congressional – Executive Commission on China, which held a series of Issues Roundtables in late 2004, it was once estimated that 12 Chinese mine people die for each million lots of coal produced. Most are killed through methane gasoline explosions while interior the coal mines. China Business Weekly pronounced in July 2000, “To prevent gas explosions, China emits 6 billion cubic meters of methane from mines annually, significantly polluting the environment…” Last year, devices on the world’s greatest environment-monitoring satellite, the European Space Agency’s Envisat, revealed the world’s greatest quantity of nitrogen dioxide used to be hanging over Beijing and northeastern China. Because the united states emits greater methane from its coal mining than any different coal producing country, China pollutes the earth’s ecosystem with about one-third of the complete annual emissions of methane. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, methane traps warmness twenty instances greater than carbon dioxide, which impacts global warming.
By irinel vocal4 years ago in Earth
Making Survival Accessible
Many have researched climate change and its impacts on the human experience as the state of the earth worsen. However, like many fields of study, the concept of intersectionality is often missing, meaning certain point of views are not included, such as the ones of people with disabilities. The text below will look at the reasons why disabled people are likely to be more vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, reasons such as the ableist vision of disability as fatal, and the overall deepening of already existing inequalities created by climate change. The text will also examine the way the Human rights of disabled people are likely to be affected as the situation worsen, specifically their right to food, shelter, safety, and movement.
By Allie Pauld4 years ago in Earth
Why Quail Are The Perfect Animals For Hard Times
I've already previously mentioned how important I think these birds are to anyone aiming to have any level of food self-sufficiency. In the article Growing Food In Your Flat, I briefly went into why I think they're the perfect animals for our limited UK space, even if you have no garden at all.
By A Very English Prepper 4 years ago in Earth
10 landscaping designs tips for your home garden
A home nursery is a spot, which can give character to your home structure in an area. You can utilize almost no inventiveness to improve to look and feel of your nursery so it stands apart from the remainder of the nurseries in the area. Here is a rundown of plausible components you can add to your finishing garden so everyone loves it and you get the credit.
By Designers Gang4 years ago in Earth
Top Sustainable Garden Trends for 2022
Let's be real, I don't normally cherish garden pattern articles. Regularly, they can be cloyingly shallow - focussing on shading decisions or whether a specific style, for example, "contemporary," "modern," or "rural" is well known. In any case, patterns are not just about beauty care products. Patterns can inform us more significant things concerning cultivating, and how open discernments, and society as a general rule, are evolving.
By zeeshan amjad4 years ago in Earth
The Caring and Benevolent Love bond between people and nature
There was an elderly gentleman who enjoyed caring for the plants, trees, soils, and natural resources provided by our mother nature. He has a large number of diverse plant kinds at his home. He gets their saplings from somewhere else and plants them in the flowerpot on purpose. He is a government school teacher by profession. But he does it every day when he gets home from school. He spent time with his plants, caring for them, watering them, and occasionally planting new ones. He also changes their soil on a regular basis to ensure the quality and appropriate growth of the plants.
By Harsh Jain4 years ago in Earth
Rewilding
All animals, great and small, work together to maintain an ecosystem’s biodiversity and integrity. In some of my research on mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains, I have argued that apex predators are crucial to this balance. Without them, ecosystems will collapse. Dave Foreman, founder of Earth First! knows this and created the term Rewilding as a comprehensive means to protect the environment.
By Mary Louisa Cappelli4 years ago in Earth
