17 countries with 17,000 people participated in the Greendex survey. Indians from India scored the highest. Brazilians came second. Canadians is the second worst in the Greendex & US the lowest in the Greendex. The Greendex ranks consumers in 17 countries around the world according to the impact of their choices in such areas as housing, transportation, food & consumer goods.
The Greendex Scores:
Greendex 2009 Overall Scores (2008 scores in brackets)
GOOD Magazine has a pretty, and pretty comprehensive, chart that suggests ways both serious and subtle to reduce your water consumption. Organized left-to-right as a morning-to-night guide
So you drive a Prius, eat organic and boycott anything made in China - but will that help to fight climate change? Simon Usborne faces the facts many ecologists would rather ignore
Greenwahing is the least of my concern, my concern would be: why do we call "Global Warming"? In the winter, we still have extreme cold weather?!?! In the summer, we have down right dry weather in some parts of the country and then forest fires, partly due to weather, but also human activities. Do we know that the atmosphere changes are changing despite of what we do or not? Many centuries ago, when there were less human or barely human activities, some types of animals extinct? The climate were once hot and once very cold too? When all these add up, only common sense of cutting and consume less are some of the answers, not because of "global warming", but because even the rotations of the soils and lands could not cope. How about the reproductive systems? Could we cope?
Innovations, so they called, will be the future despite of the downturn of the economy. People will still need to use gadgets, electricity, medicines, health care, eat, work, and have a place to live in.
From BusinessWeek: one of the innovations- Pop-up businesses
Futurist David Zach, who consults with companies such as 3M (MMM) and Abbott Labboratories (ABT) on emerging business trends, sees success for companies that tackle a single project before disbanding. They will assemble teams, rent temporary office spaces, and satisfy a certain need. When the job's over, they scatter, and all move on to a new project.
"a small, but growing, segment of the US population is choosing to ditch the fridge permanently. The carbon savings, not to mention the savings on the electricity bill are not necessarily huge."
I would not go as far to and say goodbye to my fridge. There is no reason to. I am guilty as charged(frequent shopping trips, not quite efficient food waste managment
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