seeing this makes it look like such an obvious thing that should be installed all over the place.
“The turbine is designed vertically with long blades. It covers less area on the ground and is easy to handle. It can easily be assembled and disassembled which makes it durable. Solar panels are fixed at the top of the turbine to generate extra electricity. The device is capable of producing approximately 1 kilowatt per hour of electricity. A single ENLIL turbine can easily provide the average daily electricity needs of two households.
Apart from that, the turbine also contains inbuilt sensors like carbon footprint sensors, to detect earthquakes and IOT platform. The safety and comfort of the city are also ensured.
The turbine can be installed in parks, near seashores, rooftops, households but the roads are the ideal locations for the device. The big vehicles like buses can provide a lot of wind energy. The speeding vehicles on the highway can provide enough wind for these turbines to work all day and night without stopping. The energy generated can be transported to places or it can be used for maintenance of roadways.“
My friend was visiting me the other day and as she sat in my living room she noticed my plastic hairbrush on the table.
“Why do you have a plastic hairbrush I thought you care about nature and you try to avoid plastic!”
Why? Because I can still use it. I have had this brush for cca 12 years. It is not broken. It’s fine. And I will have it for as long as it works and then buy a good alternative. We don’t throw away things that work perfectly fine just to prove to other people, that we care. We use the things we have FIRST!
There is no need for buying a stainless steel lunch box if you can still use an old plastic one. It’s fine.
USE WHAT YOU HAVE FIRST and when it no longer works like it should, dispose of it responsibly and then get a good alternative. You don’t have to prove anything to anyone.
Love
K.
Also, durable plastic is not nearly as much of a problem as single use plastic.
Many people can’t afford a wood and bristle hair brush anyway…they’re like six times more expensive.
Reminder that the aesthetics of green living aren’t the same as actually making good ethical decisions about the resources you have access to.
Mega corporations and the rich created the plastic problem, not people with fuckin combs, Debbie
Yes, pollution is caused primarily by companies, national coal, the pentagon, ect. but small scale community clean up efforts are still good! cleaning your local park wont save the ozone but it will make life better for the neighborhood kids and wildlife! world problems arent a zero sum game. Small improvements are still improvements that make things better and I dont see how deriding them is positive in any context. You can agree there needs to be more large scale efforts without saying small scale efforts are useless and dont matter.
They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.
They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.
“The business of importing foods across great distances is…very good business for oil companies. Transporting a single calorie of a perishable fresh fruit from California to New York takes about 87 calories worth of fuel. That’s as efficient as driving from Philadelphia to Annapolis, and back, in order to walk three miles on a treadmill in a Maryland gym.”
— from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Conservatives have so much fucking nerve talking about how “ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS ARE OUT OF CONTROL” when absolutely no-one feels inconvenienced by them or has ever even encountered them in their personal lives unless they’re the CEO’s of a megaconglomerate bitter that they couldn’t rip up a national park and buy like their fifth house boat
Yeah, it’s literally the Kochs saying “It’s so UNFAIR that when the oil pipelines we own but don’t maintain bust and flood a town with toxic sludge, that WE have to pay to fix it.” and “An employee we forced to clean chemical storage tanks without the proper gear for 15 years developed cancer, and they’re allowed to sue us over it? TYRANNY!!”
How is it never occurred to me to put it like this before?
its because republicans/ceos have convinced a large majority of americans that corporations are not only living entities that need to be protected but also that they’re even more important than people
Thanks to Greenpeace’s Tuna Shopping Guide, you can make an informed decision when shopping for tuna and support brands that use sustainable fishing methods.
Consumers can make a big impact! Recently, Chicken of the Sea (the world’s biggest tuna company!) has vowed to clean up its act after a huge consumer backlash over their unsustainable fishing practices.
Here are some brands rated from best to worst:
The Best:
1. Wild Planet
All Wild Planet products are pole and line or troll caught—two fishing methods with minimal impacts on other marine life. They have also vowed not to source tuna from proposed ocean sanctuaries.
2. American Tuna
All tuna is caught by pole and line—a turtle, shark, and seabird friendly fishing method. American Tuna supports ocean conservation through the creation of marine reserves.
3. Whole Foods
Whole Foods is the first and only U.S. retailer with a commitment to sell only pole and line, handline, or trollcaught canned tuna. By early 2018, any canned tuna sold in Whole Foods will be responsibly-caught.
4. Ocean Naturals
Tri Marine has a public commitment against destructive practices like shark finning and reflects this commitment by offering pole and troll caught albacore tuna.
The Worst:
20. Starkist
Starkist sources from destructive fisheries that kill tons of marine life as bycatch. StarKist is not transparent about the origins of its tuna and refused, yet again, to provide Greenpeace with meaningful information about its operations.
19. H-E-B
H‑E‑B, Hill Country Fare, and Central Market brand canned tuna are sourced from destructive fishing methods that result in bycatch of marine life.
18. Walmart
Walmart’s Great Value canned tuna is sourced from destructive fishing methods like purse seines employing FADs and conventional longlines that kill tons of marine life as bycatch.
17. Bumble Bee
While Bumble Bee offers some pole and line caught Marine Stewardship Council certified skipjack tuna under a separate brand, Wild Selections, it
does not offer any responsibly-caught options under its flagship brand. Bumble Bee has not made a commitment to introduce responsibly-caught products under its flagship brand.
Hansjörg Wyss, a billionaire and conservationist, wrote Wednesday in a New York Times op-ed that he will donate the money over the next 10 years through his Wyss Foundation. Lands and waters are best conserved when they become public national parks, wildlife refuges, or marine reserves, Wyss wrote. He aims to help conserve 30% of the Earth in a natural state by 2030.”
Wyss previously helped protect wild species on roughly 40 million acres of land and ocean after donating more than $450 million across Africa, South America, North America, and Europe. Wyss is also one of several billionaires to sign the Giving Pledge, a commitment to give away at least half of one’s wealth to charity.
On April 26, 2019, the Waorani Indians won their judicial struggle against the landing of the oil companies in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador.
A court in Puyo, the capital of Pastaza, issued a ruling of first instance in favor of the indigenous people on Friday, recognizing that the right to free and informed prior consultation and self-determination of the peoples was violated in the face of oil exploitation in the area. .
Its settlement is 40 minutes by plane from Shell, the town that adopted the name of the European multinational that operated in the province of Pastaza and is a symbol of the penetration of oil activity in the Amazon.
Hunters by tradition, the Waorani (or Huaorani) see themselves as guardians of the forest. As a warrior people they have asserted their ancestral weapons in defense of their codes of honor, but above all of the barely explored territory that inhabit the Amazon.
With the support of other Wao, the Indians of Nemompare and the surrounding area went to court to prevent the oil companies from entering.
With some 4,800 members, the Waorani own about 800,000 hectares of jungle in Pastaza, Napo and Orellana, a small part of the Ecuadorian Amazon basin. The law recognizes the indigenous jurisdiction, but maintains the power of the State over the subsoil.
For its part, the government claims to have the green light to call the oil companies thanks to a consultation made in 2012. However, the Indians indicated that officials then arrived by plane and obtained the endorsement with deception, food and refreshments.
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