Yes, as the title says, there is a boat made out of plastic water bottles. This boat, called Plastiki, is made completely out of plastic bottles and recycled waste products. They plan to sail this boat starting in August 2009. When it is complete, Plastiki will be comprised of 12,500 2-liter plastic bottles that have been collected by Waste Management. The whole boat will end up weighing 9 tons and will support a team of 6 crew members.
The boat also has a composting toilet on board, renewable energy, and a garden.
Why was this plastic boat made? Well, David De Rothschild,
Plastiki, the Bottled Water Boat
by Bea May 27th, 2009 | Pollution, Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Transportation Tips
The Green Guide
by Louise May 19th, 2009 | Easy Ideas, Websites
Sponsored by National Geographic, The Green Guide is one of the most comprehensive and qualified sources you will find on the Web for making your everyday life green.
There are seven major categories that can you can go green in: Home & Garden, Personal Care, Kids, Health & Safety, Travel, Food, and Go Local (buying from local resources). Did you know that you can go green with virtually anything? Recently featured buying guides include fertilizer, plastic containers, and baby bottles.
For each specific product, The Green Guide provides a brief 101 on the topic, introduces its environment impact, outlines a
There are seven major categories that can you can go green in: Home & Garden, Personal Care, Kids, Health & Safety, Travel, Food, and Go Local (buying from local resources). Did you know that you can go green with virtually anything? Recently featured buying guides include fertilizer, plastic containers, and baby bottles.
For each specific product, The Green Guide provides a brief 101 on the topic, introduces its environment impact, outlines a
The Kyoto Box
by Gumer Liston May 12th, 2009 | Easy Ideas
What happens when you want to save the trees, help reduce carbon emissions, and save a lot of lives? You'd probably end up inventing the Kyoto Box, a cheap but very useful solar-powered cardboard cooker. Solar cookers are not new inventions, we have seen them before, but the Kyoto Box is probably the cheapest and most useful of all solar cookers.
Jonathan Boehmer, a Norwegian based in Kenya, invented the Kyoto Box; it was his winning entry to the FT Climate Change Challenge 2009. What made the Kyoto Box a winner? There are two things that make it a winner: it is very cheap
Jonathan Boehmer, a Norwegian based in Kenya, invented the Kyoto Box; it was his winning entry to the FT Climate Change Challenge 2009. What made the Kyoto Box a winner? There are two things that make it a winner: it is very cheap
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
by Bea May 5th, 2009 | Gardening
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault celebrated its one year anniversary on February 26th. Never heard of this vault? Well, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is is a secure seedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. This $9 million facility was built last year in order to preserve a variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern. The Seed Vault contains duplicate samples of seeds held in genebanks worldwide. This is also a refuge for seeds in the case of large scale regional or global crises. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault's mission is to provide a safety net against accidental loss of diversity in traditional genebanks.
What I did
What I did
