Archive for September, 2009

Eco-friendly and anti-plastic crusading blogger Beth Terry, has developed and on going challenge through her blog Fake Plastic Fish.

The challenge is called Take The (Plastic) Trash Challenge and in it, she invites those who are green minded to catalog and share their plastic trash tallies online with the world.

All you have to do, is simply keep track of both your recyclable and non-recycle plastic trash over a week or more and then photograph the results to post online at Fake Plastic Fish.  The idea behind this challenge is to help people become more aware of the trash that they create and how they can start changing their buying and product using habits.

Much like the basis behind a food diary, in that we become aware of what we are doing when we hold ourselves accountable and keep a written log… this challenge that Beth has created lets people become more aware of their plastic trash and usage thereby putting a personal spotlight on what plastic items are bought, used and then tossed.

For more information on Beth, her blog and the plastic trash challenge visit: www.fakeplasticfish.com

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The Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is set to start collecting solar energy from space. They are teaming up with AUD, which is another Japanese company to invest up to $25 million for the farming project.

The main goal of the solar farming project is to develop a 1GW farm stationed in space at 36,000 kilometers from our planets surface. Using up to 4 kilometers of Mitsubishi solar panels, the energy farmed is set to be used to power close to 300,000 Japanese homes.

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