Archive for June, 2009
What is Graywater?
June 15th, 2009 | 
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With eco-consciousness spreading the use of “graywater” is being used more and more. Some people hear the term and automatically know what kind of water is being talked about, while others who are new to the green movement have no idea what graywater is.
Here, we are going to take a look at what graywater is and what it means.
First, we have to go over white and black water to better understand graywater. Whitewater is clean water and is the water that comes into the home. For instance when you turn the faucet on to wash your hands that isconsidered white water. Now, Blackwater is dirty water and is the water that leaves the home such as sewage water when you flush the toilet. Graywater is then considered to be in between fully clean and dirty water.
G.A.P Adventures Offers Eco-Vacations Around the World
G.A.P Adventures Eco-Trip Catalog
The G.A.P. Adventures travel agency is a green vacation operator that specializes in sustainable and environmentally responsible travel. The heart of their travel packages lies within their work at the local level. With every green vacation package that they operate and offer, they work with the local communities of each destination to develop sustainable and eco-tourism in an effort to become as impact neutral as possible.
Currently, the areas of the planet that they offer trip packages in are as follows: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica. The most popular trip packages contain both an element of adventure in exploration and a volunteer service slant to help keep travel sustainable.
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Tags: eco-tourism, gap adventures, green vacations, world eco vacations | 
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Get a Green Vacation with Global Volunteers
Global Volunteers
Taking a green vacation is one way to help educate yourself and promote the protection of the environment. One travel group, called Global Volunteers is dedicated to providing you and your family with an educational vacation while helping to support local communities and the world’s overall environmental consciousness. Their goal is to help create sustainable communities throughout the world with the cooperation of people like you who are willing to take a vacation for a cause.
Click to read through full article by Laura Jean Karr at BrightHub.
Sunday’s Green Comic!
Every Sunday here at EcoExistent, we will feature a new green comic strip. We kick things off with the Artic Circle – A Global Warming Comic strip by cartoonist Alex Hallatt. Currently, the strip has a current run online over at The Daily Green.
The Happy Hippie – Online Green Community & Shopping Source
One of the challenges facing the green shopper online is finding a dictated source of green retailers in one convenient area. That’s where the Happy Hippie comes in. Created back in 1997 by two self-affirmed web geeks, the Happy Hippie was built as an online resource for all things related to green shopping. Whether you are looking to find a reliable source for organic cotton sheets, clothing or green housewares the Happy Hippie can provide you with both the links and resources for different green shops.
Click here to read through for full article by Laura Jean Karr at BrightHub.
New Office Building Out of Shipping Crates
Box Office by Distill Studio
Providence, Rhode Island has a new eco-friendly office building designed by Distill Studio in conjunction with Truth Box’s Peter Gill Case. The three story building created from old shipping crates, was built to provideaffordable and sustainable office space during our troubled economic times. Tenants can garner use of the buildings office spaces through a green lease, which give business owners a monetary incentive for use.
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Tags: distill studio, Green Building, shipping crate office, sustainable office, truth box |
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Pests? Try Organic Pest Control
Using chemical pest control methods can harm both the environment and our health. Chemical pesticides have been linked as contributing factors to such diseases as lymphoma and encephalitis. In the environment run off from yards that have been treated with pesticides cause the demise of plant life, fresh water and certain species of wild life. Our legal system has started to take measures to control the chemical toxicity of some commercial pesticides but that has not lowered to the use of such chemicals in mass use.
Click here to read full article by Laura Jean Karr at BrightHub.
Save Your Skin with Natural Sunscreens
Wrapping up our closer look at the 5 Eco Tips for Summer, today is all about protecting your skin. Commercial sunscreens contain parabens, which are estrogenic and can mimic the estrogen hormone in the human body. This is the same reason that BPA containing plastics are being banned in certain areas of the world. They also contain Octyl-dimethyl-PABA (OD-PABA), Octyl-methoxycinnemate (OMC), 4-methyl-benzylidene camphor (4-MBC) and Homosalate (HMS) all of which are human endocrine disruptors.
The best way to protect your skin in a green way is by using organic and natural sunscreens. Normally, the main ingredient for natural sunscreens is either titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide. These two work by forming a barrier between your skin and the sun to block bothUVB and UVA rays. It is important to use a sunscreen that supports coverage for both UVA and UVB rays because of the damage that can be done to the skin. Overall, it is recommended that we keep covered with a natural blocking sunscreen of at least SPF 15 for year round protection.
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Tags: california baby, natural sunscreen, organic sunscreen |
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