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Don’t Chase Two Rabbits

I find myself very disheartened by all the green parties and environmental organizations that claim to attempt to strike a balance between protecting the environment and ensuring the well-being of the people, or even to protect the environment and improve the people’s standard of living at the same time. That means they’re just greenwashing, because […]

Earth Day 2009

I’ll be brief today… Not much to say except to express a general annoyance towards fake activism. Just wondering how many of those who supposedly celebrate Earth Day today are actually doing things for Earth? How many walk instead of driving? How many remember to always unplug chargers and actually turn off (and preferably also […]

Earth Hour 2009

Last year I was saying that I’d have felt better if Earth Hour would have happened a day later, because I was doing it the “hardcore” way, turning off and unplugging everything in my room, and that’d have meant missing the first 30 minutes of an important match and I’d have been able to say […]

One More Sign of the Damage Already Done

It keeps being said that we need to do something about the environment before it’s too late. Unfortunately, recent signs show that we might have passed that point already. Studies have shown that even if humanity would completely stop harming the environment from now on, the destructive process would still continue. We have already pushed […]

The Water Footprint

Several months ago, an article from ENN made me want to write a post about the water footprint, which is something that even many of those from the Western world who do care about their environmental impact tend to pay little attention to. Another, more recent, article offers more details and does a better job […]