Goal For The Green

These days, everybody is trying to do their part to be more eco-friendly. While technology has in many ways been seen as the enemy, in other ways it’s actually making it easier to live “green.” The influx of hybrid cars is just one example or the merging of technology with green thinking. Eco-minded smartphone apps are yet another. Here are four of the best eco-friendly apps engineered to help you become more conscious of the environment.

BGT Eco 6.0

Cost: 99 cents

The BGT Eco app by BerryGoodThemes offers a striking smartphone theme for brightening up your phone. Connect with the positive energy of the vibrant spring and summer months any time of year. This theme retains the sliding panel design of your device while providing cheery, attractive flowered wallpaper looks. Crisp, white icons along with cool green highlights further enhance the design. You’ll also enjoy custom-made menus, banners, buttons, minimal file size, a wallpaper-friendly home screen and your choice of cursor. BGT Eco is quick, responsive, attractive and user-friendly — a great addition to your BlackBerry.

EcoNotes

Cost: Free

A simple but direct note taking app to help you to streamline your life in an environmentally friendly way. You’ll contribute to saving multiple trees by reducing your output of paper waste. EcoNotes allows you to preserve your random musings digitally, without paper. Simple steps like these all add up to a big environmental impact. Cool cell phones deserve cool apps, and with a price of free, this one’s hard to pass up.

Eco Theology

Cost: $19.99

Eco Theology is a comprehensive resource book that highlights and evaluates contemporary eco-theologies. Care for the environment has emerged and intensified in recent decades and it now seems to dominate much of our culture and political landscape. Religious environmentalism adds to the debate, seeking to examine cultural malaise as well as a potential solution for today’s environmental issues.

Author Celia Deane-Drummond offers a comprehensive resource in her book “Eco Theology” for this ever-growing field of inquiry. The book evaluates the merits and pitfalls of contemporary schools of thought and eco-theologies. The author introduces the reader to the most critical debates currently raging within eco-theology, following the trends that have sprung up around the world as well as the top contemporary theological responses. She encourages analysis and reflection in the reader via continued study using sections she has added at the end of each chapter and posing discussion questions throughout. Eco Theology is a full-length, digitized quality e-book. The BlackBerry version is packaged with a user-friendly, functional reader so you can just download and begin reading right away.

Eco

Cost: Free

With the Eco app, you’ll be able to learn simple tips for saving the planet by making small changes in your life. The Eco app appreciates your input as well — they encourage users to write reviews and contribute their own helpful tips, which could be featured in the next Eco app software update. Eco encourages everyone to remember that this planet is our responsibility; it’s up to us to treat it well and make it the best it can be. Getting tips and advice from the free Eco app can make living green even easier.

If everyone does their part, our planet could be in much better shape. Downloading eco-minded apps and using them consciously is just one way to contribute through technology.

Green bedding is the next hot trend amongst buyers in the market. After researching and real time study, it has been proved that organic bedding is one of the best practical solutions for a green change. Eco-friendly bedding like bamboo bedding is made of natural materials and ingredients, which makes it easy to dispose and these can be recycled without a hitch.

Bedding manufactured using dyes, chemicals and plastic constituents are not easy to dispose or recycle. This issue has also created hassles for recycling centers to process these bedding containing hazardous elements. Thus, it is a mandate that you consider the environment and health factor next time you purchase a bed sheet or other bedding item.

Below are the top questions and buying tips that you need to get answers to, before you buy green bedding of any brand…

Hunter Douglas Bedding (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Is the bedding eco-friendly in real ?

Just because the organic bedding is labeled as ‘Eco-friendly’ does not mean that it really is one. Be cautious of the imitation! There are few fake companies that not even utilize 5% of natural material to create the bedding and utilize 95% of the chemicals. This could be dangerous. These bedding will not give you any green benefit and can rather harm your health. You need to check the brand history and product sourcing & making to the core. Try to be more aware about the materials to be incorporated.

How was it manufactured?

Why you would require learning about production procedures? It is very important that the bedding you choose is not only made up of environmentally friendly material but is also manufactured using green ways. Bedding manufacturers might use certain methods of production that can harm the environment. It defeats the aim of buying organic bedding. So, ensure that the brand you opted uses greener methods of production and do not harm the planet and surroundings in any manner.

How much is the life of the bedding?

As you are investing your hard earned money in this purchase, you must give priority to the comfort and durability. Ensure that the bedding meets your needs and comfort requirement. For instance, if you frequently suffer from allergies or have discomfort while you slumber due to night sweat and hot flashes. You can opt for bamboo bedding that has natural properties to regulate the moisture and fight against germs and allergens. Also, ascertain that the bedding is made using durable and quality material that will not disappoint you in a long run.

So, being aware with answers of the above stated queries, you can definitely make a best buy that is healthy for you and the planet.

This post is provided by Dana Smith.  She is an avid user of bamboo bedding and believes that using eco-friendly bedding is the best way to go green and experience a siesta on the lap of Mother Nature.

Clean air and water regulations have been in place throughout the western world since the 1970s. Massive industrial expansion throughout the previous 100 years made many modern cities ugly and hazardous to human health.

As citizens grew more affluent, they had less of a tolerance for the dirty air and water. Some people decided to just move out of the city, but others fought hard to pass environmental regulations that forced companies to produce cleaner emissions and waste. Businesses often fought hard against these new rules, arguing that the economy would get worse as companies had to cut back on pollution, and therefore production.

Overview of main health effects on humans from some common types of pollution (See Wikipedia:Pollution#Human health). Model: Mikael Häggström. To discuss image, please see Template talk:Häggström diagrams (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Environmental regulations, however, did not have this affect in the end. One result of these regulations was a burgeoning environmental industry that helped polluters clean up their act. Entrepreneurs saw an enormous opportunity to make money off legacy industries trying to cut back on pollution.

Products like catalytic converters for automobiles and the thermal oxidizer by Adwest Technologies Inc. helped businesses drastically reduce their pollution footprint without sacrificing huge costs and production quotas.

As populations in the developing world continue to gain more money and influence, they will likely put similar pressure on their governments to curb industrial waste into the cities. While business interests will naturally push back at the efforts to begin, cleaner air is better for the health of the entire world.