Did London Go Green for the Olympics?

London was awarded the 2012 Summer Olympics partly for the promise of making the games green. From what I can tell they have accomplished most of it.

When making room for the venues, they demolished buildings, recycled most of the materials, cleaned up the soils, re-invigorated the Lea River, and many other actions. Some of the wood utilized was not painted as it will be reused after the Olympics. That is a pretty good stab at greening the games. (more…)

When Too Much Plastic is Way Too Much Plastic

Fact: 20-25% of landfill weight is plastics. Landfills are one of the most common waste disposal methods in the United States today, with an overall increase in Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) consistent with population increase. (more…)

Please welcome our guest writer, Lloyd Burrell who has a website offering Office Desk Reviews. I am sure you will consider his methods in going green in the office.

Go Paperless In Your Office And Help Save The Environment

Have you stumbled through a few piles of paper in your office and wondered where they came from? Not from an alternative universe, that’s for certain. Lists, receipts, bills and catalogs can take over our lives — if we let them. Don’t let that happen to you, because it’s depressing. Really, depressing — and it can be dangerous, as well, a fire hazard. What’s the point in having a swishy Techni Mobili computer desk if you can’t even see it?

Work on the paperwork which you still need, a few minutes a day or week, and try and reduce or eliminate the inflow of most of it, for the future. Get rid of this menace and get yourself more time. Being organized and less cluttered makes a person feel much better, and it saves on stress as well. If we all strive to reduce, recycle and reuse, then we’ll breathe easier and our planet will thank us. (more…)

How many remote controls do you have? 4 or 6 or maybe 8? How many times have you grabbed a remote control for the TV and got the DVD one?

That means you have to supply batteries to all of those remotes. Unless you have a re-charger, those batteries that are dead go into the trash and then onto the landfills.

Well, Yamaha Electronics has come up with an answer called the new Yamaha neoHD. This baby will connect all of your entertainment system together and shoves all of the remotes to one side. A device that simplifies your entire entertainment system. One remote, one on-screen interface, complete control.

With only 1 remote control to handle all of the devices you have, saves the landfills from tons of toxic battery waste (you should be recycling them anyway, but we know not all batteries make it).

No rush to go out and buy one of these when you could enter for a chance to win your own neoHD by;

- Tweeting: “I just entered to win a #neoHD b/c I have too many remotes, visit (blog.izea.com) to enter”

- enter via blog.izea.com, leave a comment on why you desperately need the new neoHD..

- find neoHD on facebook.

Be sure to check out the rules of the Yamaha neoHD Sweepstakes

I am sure you are going to go right over and enter.   Should you win one of these, please let us know how it works out for ya!

Vu1 Technology introduces Electron Stimulated Luminescence™ Lighting Technology

Let me start out by saying that if you think you have all the energy efficient
lighting figured out…..   OH, No Grasshopper!

It is neither incandescent, fluorescent nor LED. Vu1 has been quietly developing
an alternative technology, and the lighting industry might be on the verge of a
genuine shakeup. Electron Stimulated Luminescence (ESL™) Lighting Technology is an
entirely new, energy efficient lighting technology.

ESL Lighting Technology uses accelerated electrons to stimulate phosphor to create
light, making the surface of the bulb “glow”.  ESL Technology creates the same light
quality as an incandescent but is more energy conserving. There is no use of the
neurotoxin Mercury (Hg) in the lighting process. (more…)

About 40 percent of the trash you create that is put into the landfills is made up
of paper products.

Alot of us are doing our thing by recycling newspapers and plain paper, but there
is still more we can do including a couple of steps that you may not of thought
about.

30 percent of timber is being used to create paper, it is important to find ways
to conserve what we use by starting at the ATM. Many of us take the receipt from
the ATM, look at the balance, stuff it in our pockets or purses only to rip it up
later and throw it away. Did you know that approximately 8 billion transactions (more…)

Starbucks addresses water wastage following tabloid indictment

Following the revelation in British rag-mag The Sun that constantly running
dipper wells waste a humongous amount of water, a Starbucks spokesperson confirms, “Stores will be instructed to switch off the dipper well tap and will wash
spoons after use.” And the plot thickens: According to PRWeek.com, a senior-
level source at an unnamed PR agency claims, “We warned [Starbucks] several
years ago that their usage of water was not good for their environmental
credentials and could be a potential problem for them. They listened, but
they didn’t do anything about it.” Starbucks has tried to polish its green
image, saying that by 2010 it wants to source 50 percent of its energy from
renewables, use green-building practices in all new stores, and “reestablish” (more…)