Our Love Affair With Our Lawns Is Hurling the U.S. Toward Water Crisis
We spend $40 billion annually on our lawns and spend $10 billion more on pesticides and fertilizers keeping them green. But worse, they're draining diminishing water resources.
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We spend $40 billion annually on our lawns and spend $10 billion more on pesticides and fertilizers keeping them green. But worse, they're draining diminishing water resources.
From the obviously good news department - the great state of Oregon has just passed a law proclaiming the legality of reusing bath and kitchen water on gardens.
CURRENT :: GREEN - "Water is something I've taken for granted all my life. It comes from the tap, and flows for as long as i want it to. What would it be like not to have access to unlimited clean water every day? I want to know how the lack of water would affect my life." Paulina Turvo
"No matter where we live, the Great Lakes affect us all. And as species of fish disappear and rates of birth defects and cancer rise, it seems one thing is clear: the Great Lakes are changing and something is not quite right with the water." - Waterlife
The latest fight between activists and companies such as Coke and Nestle is about who really owns water -- corporations or communities.
All reusable water bottles are not the same. If you cannot trust Sigg or Nalgene, what do you do?
In less than one minute you can make major green changes, such as…
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Struggling with the raging fires left behind by SIGG's announcement about trace amounts of bpa in their former liners...
Asian countries urgently need to boost farmland productivity and use water more efficiently or the continent may not have enough water to support the agricultural needs of its growing populations, an Asian Development Bank-supported study found.
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