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8 Tips to Save Energy Working from Home
With more and more people working from home, we think it’s time to dust off a few trusty tricks for curbing electricity consumption without curbing productivity. Working from home has been shown to have its environmental benefits, from reducing road congestion to cutting down on office building energy consumption — but there’s a lot you [...]
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Big Mac cooking oil to be converted into biofuel
The Dubai government has launched a clean-technology venture in which waste cooking oil will be converted into eco-friendly fuel. The biodiesel will be used by fast food giant McDonalds to operate its delivery trucks. The announcement came Sunday at a meeting of Dubai FDI, the foreign investment promotion arm of the Department of Economic Development, [...]
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Bad News! Plant Bottle = Greenwashing
First things first: It’s great that companies are looking for alternatives to plastic, and there’s huge potential for bioplastics to be a big part of the solution to our single-use plastic problem. On that note, Pepsi and Coca Cola deserve kudos for putting their money where their press releases are and investing in research for [...]
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Ditch meat for vegetables to save water
DUBAI // A key to the conservation of our increasingly precious resources of water lies on the dinner table, according to one of the world’s authorities on the subject. That means the consumption of more vegetables and less meat, said Professor John Anthony Allan, an expert on water management and the politics of water in [...]
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UNEP launches mapping project to locate carbon stocks
The United Nations Environment Programme is leading an effort to identify and map countries’ carbon stocks overlapping with biodiversity hubs in its pursuit to counter climate change through forest conservation. These new carbon maps locate and measure carbon stored in the vegetation and soils of a country’s terrestrial ecosystems. They also determine areas where investments [...]
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