Ethical and Green has just been made aware of National Science and Engineering Week. It’s coming to an end but there is still time to register for the Green Roof competition. It’s also worth taking a look at the website links as they have loads of information about the environment.
National Science and Engineering Week helps the environment
Climate Care Day 26th March
Arkadin Global Conferencing announced today the launch of Climate Care Day – a working day without travel on Friday, March 26. Supported by WWF, employees from organisations of all sizes and sectors are urged to replace business travel with remote meetings for one day only.
Held a day ahead of WWF’s Earth Hour, Climate Care Day is a business initiative to raise international awareness of the importance of climate change and encourage more sustainable ways of working. Businesses can help reduce their carbon footprint and demonstrate their support by registering at:www.climatecareday.com.
Come on people. Get involved!!
Liz Earle Foot Scrub
Check out the current Foot Scrub from Liz Earle. Ethical and Green think it works a treat!! After all you need to look after your feet when ypu are walking places rather than using the car!
Get pedicure-perfect feet in 2 simple steps with Liz Earle Naturally Active Skincare. The botanically based British beauty company have walking on air this summer.
Step 1: Buff and smooth away hard skin on heels and soles with Liz Earle Foot Scrub to reveal super-smooth, beautiful feet. This hardworking scrub gently and intensively exfoliates with natural pumice, and softens with avocado oil and wheatgerm oil. Leaves skin baby-soft and buffed to perfection.
Step 2: Wrap your feet in richness with Liz Earle Foot Repair Moisturiser. This uplifting and revitalising cream contains a blend of peppermint and rosemary essential oils (as does the Foot Scrub), as well as a nature-identical ingredient called Farnesol to keep odour causing bacteria at bay, leaving feet smelling sweet. The luxurious formulation sinks in fast and contains shea butter sourced from a women’s cooperative in Africa, as well as skin softening avocado oil and wheatgerm oil rich in natural vitamin E, giving soothing intensive care to tired, aching feet and legs.
Use these uplifting, luxurious naturally active foot care products at home for a pedicure-perfect feel.
Follow these 4 simple steps from the Liz Earle Treatment Rooms Treatment Manager, Jo Givens, to help care for your feet:
When feet are hot or tired soothe them with a moisturiser
Massage Superbalm over cuticles to reduce dryness. It is also great for dry skin on the heels. To relieve tension and instantly energise, press into the spot just below the ball of your foot in the centre and hold for 5 seconds. Then massage and pull on each toe individually to relieve tension in your neck and head. To provide relief for super dry feet in need of extra TLC, massage a generous amount of Foot Repair Moisturiser all over your feet and ankles and put on a pair of cotton socks before going to bed to nourish feet overnight while you sleep.
Electric car charging in residential developments
Following on from our posts about reducing your carbon footprint when driving, take a look at a new initiative about electric cars currently running in America. It’s great to see residential developments incorporating green initiatives into their plans. In this case they have gone above and beyond the normal tactics by including transport initiatives. Maybe Britain will follow soon….
Gentlemen, Charge Your Engines!: Aqua Becomes First Residential Development to Offer Electric Car Charging Stations
Both the city of Chicago and its mayor are excited about a cutting-edge green initiative that Aqua will offer its residents: electric car charging stations and the public. Aqua will be the first residential development to offer a service like the one it will provide. Magellan Development instituted many green initiatives when developing the new mixed-use tower, but the car charging stations are one of the most innovative and exciting features.
The six public stations will be able to charge 24 cars simultaneously and are located in the garage of Aqua. Charging an electric car on these stations, which costs approximately $5 in energy costs, will allow an electric car to drive approximately 250 miles.
In a demonstration hosted by Magellan and attended by Mayor Daley, an I-GO Car Sharing Prius was charged at the Aqua charging station. Magellan partnered with Carbon Day Automotives, a Chicago company using the Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Network of electric charging stations, to create the Aqua charging stations. As nearly every automotive manufacturer has announced plans to develop an electric model or hybrid model, the electric charging stations in Aqua allow for the whole city of Chicago to start to participate in the green movement in the future. The charging station amenities at Aqua make it a great place to live for those already owning an electric vehicle.
Mayor Daley joined the demonstration event to take part in the achievement for the city of Chicago. What Magellan and Aqua have done for the city has been called “an impressive prototype for the kind of sustainable-energy infrastructure.” Chicago was awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 Clean Cities Petroleum Reduction Technologies grant program; with $15 million allocated to this purpose, the development of green initiatives like this one will hopefully be an integral part of all Chicago developments in the near future.
Author Sig: Magellan Development, a premier developer of Chicago condos for sale, is committed to creating urban communities that blend striking and innovative architecture with top quality, environmentally-friendly construction. Designing communities in prime locations in the city, Magellan Development anticipates the needs and exceeds the expectations of valued residents and commercial clients.
Haiti Earthquake
Please read the correspondence Ethical and Green received regarding an appeal for the Haiti earthquake that has taken so many lives. Any donation you can make would be greatly appreciated.
Redeem calls on UK to help save Haitian lives by donating old mobile phones
Recycling expert, Redeem plc, is urging the UK public to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake by donating old mobile phones and inkjet cartridges to its emergency Haiti Recycling Appeal. All money raised from the campaign will go directly towards charities undertaking disaster relief in Haiti.
As the devastating impact of the earthquake which struck near Port-au-Prince on Tuesday becomes apparent, it is predicted that it could have affected up to 3 million people in Haiti. For the organisations mounting relief efforts there is a huge financial pressure to fund aid missions and the Haiti Recycling Appeal is pledging to help support this.
With an estimated 90 million mobile phones thought to be lying around in homes across the UK, Redeem is urging people to send old mobile phones and inkjet cartridges, in any condition, to a freepost address or arrange for free collections. The products will all be recycled to raise funds to go towards helping the hundreds of thousands of Haitian people who desperately need aid.
Jamie Rae, chief executive of Redeem Plc, commented: “This catastrophic earthquake has had the most appalling impact on the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and the people of Haiti need our help more than we can imagine. In the UK we have contributed huge sums to previous disaster funds, and also regularly donate vast amounts to charitable organisations every year. We recognise that across the country we are still dealing with a very tough economic climate, so we wanted to offer an alternative way for people to donate to the disaster relief. By donating old products through our freepost appeal, such as mobile phones and printer cartridges, will help raise absolutely vital funds for the people of Haiti.
“We support over 200 charities each year, offering them a much needed fundraising mechanism. With a very robust collection system in place we have the capacity to quickly set up and run a successful fundraising campaign. People can either send products to our freepost address or can ask friends, family or colleagues to get involved and arrange for a free collection. We ask that people across the UK get involved and support the Haiti Recycling Appeal.”
It is really easy to do – any mobile phone or printer cartridge (excluding Epson cartridges) can be sent freepost to Haiti Recycling Appeal, Freepost NAT 20539, Falkirk, FK2 9BR. If you have more than ten phones or printer cartridges to donate a free courier collection can be arranged simply by calling 08451 302 010.
For more information please visit www.recyclingappeal.com/haiti or call 08451 302010.
Green ideas for shipping containers
The Dutch firm Cargoshell has designed a collapsable shipping container made of lighter materials that can be flat packed. This means that one lorry can transport three or four containers as opposed to one therefore saving millions of gallons of fuel and consequently the emissions that go with them.
Data centres convert heat into electricity
The technology boom and rise of the internet has lead to for data centres that house computer servers. These are vital to power the digital economy and keep us logged on. However as you can imagine the consume a vast amount of electricity. In fact some data centres use as much electricity as a small town!! Those of you who know about computers will have noted that not only do the computers need power to work they also need energy to cool them down.
The company Telecity realised it was pumping a lot of hot air into the atmosphere and when designing its new data centre in Paris it coupled with a company to take away its heat. The French national agronomic institute built a greenhouse next to the data centre that will allow scientist to study how plants adapt to global warming. In Amsterdam the waste heat is used to warm an office block and heat the water supply of a hospital.
Telecity estimate that the data centre will save 2500 tonnes of CO2 each year. They will also have a white roof to reflect solar rays and therefore stop the sun heating the building.
So there we have an example of how a company has looked at their waste and come up with a solution to help other businesses. Good stuff! Hopefully Telecity will act as an example to other companies about how to cut their CO2 emissions.
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