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Natural, Eco-friendly and Green Baby Products - Part 1

I'm sure you'll just love these amazing green baby products I found, not... more

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Introducing Healthy Voyager Tours

The Healthy Voyager is proud to announce Healthy Voyager Tours! Group excursions to... more

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Ode to Perdido Beach Days

Summer escapes on escapades of slicks next to none Beach resorts in white sand,... more

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The Future Lounge Hotlist

As the sun gets hotter its time to chillax in the futurized contours of The Future... more

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Children's Books About Rainforest Deforestation Traced Back to Rainforest Deforestation |

An increasing number of children's books—including some detailing the... more

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Green Gifts for Father's Day

Have you thought about what could be the most unique, cool, fun, different, original... more

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Ash Clouds over Bushwick

Work Only Episode 7, Ash Clouds over Bushwick. Mari Ahokoivu and Anna Sailamaa are in... more

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Eco Promotional Products

Have a company? Work at a company? Have an office? Go to festivals, fairs or... more

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House Built Using Glass Bottles

In Quilmes, just South of Buenos Aires, Tito Ingenieri has labored for the past 19... more

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EcoBees - the newest way to freeshare

EcoBees.com is a new website, launched on 8th March 2010, that will give a much needed update to the world of online reusing and recycling, by combining ease of use with new web technologies. Already within 2 months of opening the doors it has hundreds of members in 8 countries over 3 continents. They have members in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc...

EcoBees.com is firm in the belief that "one person's garbage is another person's gift". It allows people to offer things they no longer need to someone who can put it to good use, thus saving the item from landfill. The EcoBees philosophy also instills a sense of community by allowing members to not only give but also to loan or swap items and even services too as well as ask for wanted items and services.

However, this is not the main difference between the EcoBees.com scheme and similar online ‘reuse’ schemes such as Freecycle(TM). The main benefits and reasons for setting up EcoBees.com are:

1) EcoBees.com is 'member-centric' in that rather than joining a group or many groups, you just specify a radius around which you will be informed of any items posted.
2) Each item posted on EcoBees.com is categorised and members can set a different radius for each category of item e.g. you might be prepared to collect ‘books’ within a 5 mile radius but up to 20 miles for ‘furniture’. This reduces the volume of irrelevant email that members receive into their inbox – a gripe cited by many Freecycle(TM) members.
3) EcoBees.com uses Google Maps to allow you to see where items you want can be collected from as well as how far away they are from you
5) Adding images of items you are giving away is easy too... it just takes 3 clicks.
6) EcoBees integrates with your FaceBook and Twitter account (if you have one) so your friends can see what you are giving / looking out for too.
7) EcoBees.com uses 100% green and eco friendly web hosting and so is carbon neutral.

All that said the EcoBees.com founders, Ron Johnson and Austen Jones, are keen to point out that EcoBees.com is a supplement to, rather than replacement of, schemes like Freecycle(TM). They firmly believe that by launching EcoBees people will have greater choice and more avenues via which they can source items for free and distribute unwanted items to like-minded others, “it’s all about reducing waste, reducing the need for ‘buying new’ and keeping things local... the easier it is for people to do this the more people will do it and the more we will all benefit”.

Inline with one of the EcoBees.com mantras of keeping things simple so as to boost ease of use and increase uptake of the service by people, the registration process is very straight forward... just fill in your details i.e. name, email address and image too if you like and you are ready to go! No groups or locations to join or subscribe to as this is all catered for once you have entered your postcode / zip code and ‘radius of interest’.

It's certainly worth checking out to see what all the buzz is about.EcoBees.com is a new website, launched on 8th March 2010, that will give a much needed... more

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Whaling No More

Recently, a small working group of the IWC (International Whaling Commission) met during the 1st week of March 2010, in St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA. This working group met with the intentions to draft a proposal for the upcoming INTERSESSIONAL MEETING to take place in June of this year.

What resulted from this preliminary meeting was concluded with a number of counterproductive points. The draft aims to actually suspend the 28 year old agreement that has partially been protecting the whale species. By following through with such a proposal it would allow the nations like Iceland, Japan, Norway, and South Korea pending authorization of the proposed package, in legitimately pursuing commercial whaling. In addition, it was suggested that caps can be overseen and put on a quota on the number of whales that Japan and the pro-whaling nations can take, this being merely an illusion. The fact remains that at the present time there is no quota proposed for large scale whaling that occurs in the Antarctica and the northern Pacific areas nor would it be acceptable in allowing any large scale whaling anywhere in the world without knowing its repercussions.

As to Japan´s pseudo scientific research whaling program; Currently, Japan has brutally slaughtered thousands in a slow and agonizing manner taking advantage of the technicality in the International Whaling Commission’s moratorium on commercial whaling by labeling whaling as scientific whaling. The scientific data that is collected by using lethal methods are not required by the IWC the research that results in killing whales has no actual benefit to humans or the whales themselves with many of its experiments deeply questioned and labeled by IWC members as bizarre and useless. In previous conferences the scientific community has also reported to the IWC the disturbing methods in which whales are slaughtered.

* More than 80% of whales are not killed instantly once harpooned

* Whales that are not killed instantly by the harpoon may struggle from 10 to 35 minutes before dying, exhibiting signs of severe suffering during this period

The facts remain that on March 15, 2010 Australian, French and New Zealand scientists returned from a field research using nonlethal techniques to study whales after a six-week expedition stating that this proves Japan’s annual kill of whales for scientific purposes is unnecessary.

The “scientific whale hunting”, is a front for what is clearly a multi-million dollar black market industry, an industry of greed and false science. The IWC and we as a society, have a responsibility to achieve the conservation of the whale species and not the preservation of whaling by any nation. Please take action and support to ban whaling and presently help encourage the anti whaling nations in pushing forward the alternative proposal that would include the complete phasing out of whaling in the Southern Ocean this June.

Please join us in taking action in supporting & encouraging anti whaling nations in phasing out whaling. Banning all forms of whale hunting is true conservation!
http://WhalingNoMore.org

Society for the Advancement of Animal WellbeingRecently, a small working group of the IWC (International Whaling Commission) met... more