Archive for March, 2012
The Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, Beijing’s Forbidden City, and hundreds of other world landmarks will be abruptly blacked out Saturday night. But the 60-minute power outages—scheduled for 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., local time—won’t be the results of a terrorist plot, natural disaster, or massive solar flare. They’re all part of Earth Hour 2011. (See before-and-after Earth Hour pictures from past years.) The organizers behind the 6th annual Earth Hour urge people to turn off lights and other nonessential appliances in a symbolic show of support for action against climate change and for energy conservation in general. In 2010, 128 countries...
By now anyone on this planet should know that bottled water isn’t a Mother Nature friendly way to cart around and consume your daily H2O. About 30 to 40 billion plastic water bottles are discarded each year, of which 90 percent end up in landfills rather than recycling bins. Let’s not even consider all the fossil fuels wasted in producing the bottles and trucking them around the world. The solution for a group of entrepreneurs out of Michigan? box up the water. Their motivation: It started with the simple idea of creating a new bottled water brand that is kinder...
Designer Rachel Roy truly believes that giving is better then receiving. Roy is gifting the children of Ghana education through OrphanAid Africa, a nonprofit organization supporting orphans and vulnerable children through education, care reform and developmental programs. Roy’s limited-edition Ghana clutch ($49), part of her on-going “Kindness is Always Fashionable” campaign, will donate 100 percent of proceeds to OrphanAid Africa. The clutch is currently sold out on her website but is available through retail partners! Get it before it’s gone!...
