17th October is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, and the theme this year is “Acting together to empower children, their families, and communities to end poverty.” We all are aware that poverty is an abomination of the human race. Some people who are still struggling to lead a life without the need…
Tag: Environment
How Are Menstrual Cups Good for the Environment?
Only women know how messy a period can be, and they have to face it all through their early or late 50s. Throughout the years and today, also period has been overlooked as something terrible happening to women. Though there are women fighting this cause every day, there are some patriarchal countries that have accepted…
Let’s Know More About Hazardous and Non-Hazardous Waste Recycling
With everyone around the world becoming environmentally conscious, there is the thing of hazardous and non-hazardous waste that preoccupies almost everyone. According to Wikipedia, hazardous wastes are wastes that have substantial or potential threats to public health and the environment. Hazardous wastes are most of the times industrially produced, and these are responsible for the…
5 Tips When You’re Stuck In A Hurricane
When hurricanes or tropical storms are forecast to reach us, we often go into a panic and fear the worst about the coming storm. The uncertainty of the storm provokes a certain in anxiety in most of us. Some of those fears are very real, as government officials ask residents to evacuate areas directly in…
How Do We Reduce Our Carbon Footprint?
In the face of World Environment Day, we cannot deny the fact that climate change is real and we are doing our best to solve it. There are a lot of actionable steps that we can undertake even in our busiest times. So in order to save the environment, we can start by reducing our…
8 Steps Closer to Zero Waste Living
Plastic and other wastes have become a huge problem in our society and environment. We as consumers have changed our habits to certain extents and sometimes it feels like there’s nothing we can do to stem the flow of single-use products on the market and later on into the landfills. That’s why there is the…
Create an Environmentally-Friendly Home Office in 5 Easy Steps
When thinking of the environment, we go directly to conserving water, soil and what not; but have we ever thought of creating something within our homes to make the environment happy? Well if not, then why not create an environmentally friendly home office? Many companies have taken the step towards making their office environmentally-friendly and…
Renewable Energies: What Are They?
According to Wikipedia, renewable energy is energy that is collected from resources that can be renewed, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, waves, and geothermal heat. Four important areas are provided with energy, they are electricity generation, air and water heating/cooling, transportation, and rural energy services. Renewable energy…
How to Reduce Plastic Consumption?
Over the years, we have been using plastic as the main product for our daily chores and business. Be it either a water bottle or a bag, we could not get enough of plastic. Well, it took us a while to realize that plastic is one of the problems that we need to tackle in…
How Veganism Is Helping the Environment?
Veganism is the practice to abstain from the use of animal products, particularly in a diet. According to an associated philosophy that rejects the status of animals as a commodity. People who follow that diet are known as vegans. The term was coined in November 1944 by Donald Watson. It is proven that considering and…