A plan to grow rooftop gardens will help smoggy Mexico City in reducing its carbon footprint. The program was launched on Thursday in Mexico

China’s plastic bag usage is phenomenal, even for a country with the population of 1.3 billion. Three billion plastic bags are used every day in China, amounting to 1.6 million tonnes each year. The Chinese government wants to reduce this amount to 1.1 million tonnes per year, with limits on packaging coming into force on [...]

The dreadful weather of 2007 has caused serious pollution on many of Britain’s beaches. Heavy storms swept sewage, street debris and animal waste down to the sea, resulting in 52 of the Good Beach Guide’s 500 excellent beaches losing their premier certification. In addition to this, the number of coastal areas that failed to meet [...]

The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) in Germany have suspended the use of eight pesticide seed treatment products used in rapeseed oil and sweet corn. Reports from bee keepers in the Baden-Wurttemberg region found that two thirds of their bees died after an application of a pesticide called Clothianidin.
Manfred Hederer, president [...]

The city of Juneau, Alaska’s capital and popular cruise destination, was hit by a devastating avalanche last month that cut the electric lines that power the city with hydroelectricity. The disaster has forced the city to transform its ways and become a model for energy conservation.
A dangerous snow slide occurred on the coastal range of [...]

Ethical shopping just got harder. Now, not only should you be keeping track of your carbon footprint, you should also notice your water footprint.
A water footprint or virtual water tells consumers the amount of water used to manufacture the product they purchase. It’s the same idea as carbon labelling, the water footprint of a product [...]

When shopping in a supermarket, or in fact any other shop, it is becoming increasingly impossible to avoid the amount of packaging that accompanies a product. Salad comes pre-chopped, and vegetables pre-peeled, all ready to eat and packaged up in neat cellophane containers. Noodles come in plastic pots, and drinks in individual aluminium cans