Eating organic? Great! But just what does ‘organic’ really mean when it comes to your food? Check out the infographic below for details on just how eco-friendly your food is.

In recent weeks Apple has been making headlines for its policies pertaining to the environment – however not all of them are good. First, Apple touted the energy efficiency of its new iPad, promoting that it costs just $1.36 to charge an iPad for a year. But just yesterday, it [...]

When people take prescription medicine, it’s supposed to make you feel better. But once the medications have been washed out of your system, they enter the waterways and begin to pollute the environment. Although the amount of medicine that comes from one person has a small impact, as more and [...]

In this short video produced by Greenpeace, a homeless polar bear wanders around London, ignored by everyone and forced to forage for food. Voiced by Jude Law and with a soundtrack from Radiohead, the film highlights the plight of the Arctic

It’s interesting to consider how a trip to space made us re-think life on Earth. Watch the video below and listen to Neil Degrasse Tyson explain why we need NASA and space exploration more than ever. From Penny4NASA: Currently, NASA’s budget only represents about half of one penny of every dollar [...]

Are you sitting down? Statistically speaking, you probably are. But that’s not necessarily a good thing. In fact, the long-term effects of prolonged sitting day-in and day-out are not good for your personal health. And although some of us who are confined to a desk job have no choice but [...]

A new discovery of ocean life by NASA has been described as “unprecedented” and compared to “finding a rainforest in the middle of the desert”. The NASA team had to cut through three feet of sea ice to study the water beneath, but what they found in the water was [...]

In what can only be called a big win for the environment, Toronto has put an outright ban on plastic bags in its cities. But wait – that’s not the whole story. A few weeks ago, Toronto’s mayor had been talking about repealing the 5 cent bag tax the city [...]

Today, Honeywell announced they have selected 70 middle school teachers from around the world to participate in a “Green Boot Camp“, where they will educate them on issues pertaining to energy and sustainability so that it can be passed on to the children in their classrooms. This important initiative gives [...]

An unfortunate truth is that coal fired power plants pollute the air, land, and water around them. It’s especially unfortunate because there are a lot of coal plants that are doing this all over the world. However, some of the coal plants are leaking airborne mercury into atmosphere in the [...]