Environment, Nature, Technology, Uncategorized »
kaufDA, a young team based in Germany is working for an initiative called “Make it green!” with a goal to take part in reducing the carbon footprint by raising awareness of the severe environmental damage caused by carbon emissions.
They have decided to take an interesting approach to raising awareness of carbon emissions resulting from the use of the internet – specifically of blogs, creating “My blog is carbon neutral” buttons, so bloggers can demonstrate they care about the environment and the carbon footprint of having a blog.
How do they neutralize your blog’s carbon footprint?
By planting trees in cooperation with the Arbor Day Foundation in Plumas National Forest in Northern California for our project to neutralize the carbon footprint of blogs.
“Thousands of wildfires have burned in many national forests over the past ten years and 88.000 acres of Plumas’ were destroyed by two fires in 2007. For replanting this area we need help from bloggers all over the world! For every participating blog, we plant a tree. One blog – one tree.” -Christin Gericke, Make it green! Team
How much carbon dioxide does your blog create?
According to a study by Alexander Wissner-Gross, PhD, physicist at Harvard University and environmental activist, an average website causes about 0.02g (0,0008oz.) of carbon dioxide for each visit. Assuming an average blog gets 15,000 visits a month, it has yearly carbon dioxide emissions of 3,6kg (8lb.). This can mainly be tracked back to the immense energy usage from (mainframe) computers, servers, and their cooling systems.
kaufDA provides advertising brochures of local stores online to help consumers search for specific products and find good deals in their neighborhood. This reduces the amount of brochures printed and so the project helps the environment by reducing unnecessary paper in mailboxes. An American on average receives 41 pounds of junk mail per year. This has the same carbon footprint as burning six gallons of gasoline.
For more details and to find out how you can participate, visit http://www.kaufda.de/umwelt/co2-neutral/my-blog-is-carbon-neutral/
Agriculture, Animal Kingdom, Farming, Human Health, Nature, Uncategorized, Videos »
Visit the Nolan’s farm Laurel Valley Creamery online http://su.pr/1iSL3S and follow the farm on twitter @lvcreamery.
If you’d like to see this amazing short film turned into a full length documentary you can help out by clicking here. The great group at Milk Products Media have about 2 months left to raise $28,000 to turn From Grass to Cheese into a feature! Media and films like these help build support for family run farms which we desperately need more of. So, be sure to share this video with all your friends and family and use your dollars in the best possible way at grocery stores and buy local family owned & operated!
From Grass to Cheese is a feature documentary that chronicles the ups and downs of a family-run dairy farm in Ohio during it’s first year of cheese production. From Grass to Cheese will tell the story of Nick and Celeste Nolan, their five children, and what it’s like to start up a family farm in the age of industrial agriculture.
Art, Green Design, Green Sustainability, Nature, Uncategorized, fashion »
Artist, Dominic Wilcox creates a field of grass out of 400 eco-friendly shoes for Terra Plana, the ethical shoe company. Inspired by ecological survival, TERRA PLANA believes in a variety of non-generic products supporting ideas of sustainability: lightness, anatomic design, disassembly and durability.
www.TerraPlana.com
www.DominicWilcox.com
Environment, Film, Human Health, Nature, Oil, Trailer, Uncategorized, Videos »
Animated sequences by La Moustache for the feature documentary H2oil h2oildoc.com
via Drawn!
