Mar 11th, 2009 at 3:00PM: If a boat can be made out of Popsicle sticks to be sea-worthy, why not a boat of two-liter plastic bottles? In San Francisco, not too far from Fisherman's Wharf, David de Rothschild, environmentalist and adventurer is doing just that. He is in the process of lashing together 12,000 to 16,000 plastic bottles filled with dry ice powder in order to create two hulls for a sail boat that can travel the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Turn plastic bottles into a boat: One guy's quest to sail the ocean
Mar 11th, 2009 at 3:00PM: If a boat can be made out of Popsicle sticks to be sea-worthy, why not a boat of two-liter plastic bottles? In San Francisco, not too far from Fisherman's Wharf, David de Rothschild, environmentalist and adventurer is doing just that. He is in the process of lashing together 12,000 to 16,000 plastic bottles filled with dry ice powder in order to create two hulls for a sail boat that can travel the ...Antarctic Tourism Down
Feb 13th, 2009 at 8:30AM: The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators or IAATO is reporting that the number of tourists visiting Antarctica dropped dramatically in 2008 according to a report from Outside Online. According to the preliminary numbers from 2008, 36,000 people visited the frozen continent, that's down from the record high of 46,000 the year before. The reason for the sharp drop? Like all things ...Clean living in Stockholm
Jan 21st, 2009 at 9:00AM: Scandinavians are recognized as being on the cutting edge of environmentally-friendly innovation. Nowhere is this clearer than at Hammarby Sjöstad, a community of apartments in Stockholm designed to reduce carbon footprint and generally enable clean living. Large windows make the most of sunlight, especially in the summer, and carefully planned logistics – down to trash pickup schedules ...Star Island won't make you change
Jan 11th, 2009 at 9:00AM: It seems like every effort to "go green" requires a change of behavior. Hotels let you choose to use towels or sheets twice. Your parents instructed you to turn the lights off when leaving a room. These measures can affect change, but they usually don't. Despite the clear benefits, people just won't change. But, what if you could find a way to protect the environment without having to change any ...Gadling Take FIVE: Week of Jan. 3-Jan. 9
Jan 9th, 2009 at 4:30PM: With the 2009 turnover has come new beginnings and changes that have influenced the travel world. Some changes began to happen a few years to thousands of years ago.
Jeremy who struggles with change on laundry day, discusses the lack of coins problem in Argentina, an issue that has been exaserbated by the economy.
As a postive change, Brenda highlighted a recent move by President Bush. ...Ecotourism comes to Cambodia
Jan 5th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Mountain bikers can reclaim wilderness that once belonged to illegal loggers and poachers. Hidden in the foothills of Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains, the village of Chi Pat is now home to a mountain biking experience that is unparalleled in trail and impact. This new program is the result of cooperation among Wildlife Alliance (formerly known as Wild Aid), Asia Adventures (a Cambodia-based ...Virtuous bicycling is one way to help the environment
Nov 18th, 2008 at 3:30PM:
Even though gas prices have dropped considerably (a gallon of gas is $1.77 not far from my house) conserving energy and protecting the environment is still a concern. In Washington, D.C., bicycle commuting has grown considerably as a viable way to get from Point A to Point B.
Anyone living in an urban environment knows that bicycle commuting can create traffic problems even though they solve ...
Plastic bag fees in New York City? What about Seattle?
Nov 7th, 2008 at 9:30AM: Mayor Bloomberg's office has urged, urged, urged people in New York City to use cloth grocery bags for a long time now. They've cajoled. They've pleaded. His office has set up plastic bag recycling receptacles at various supermarkets around the city in an effort to make the city folk more environmentally conscience.
But people just love, love, love those plastic bags. They just can't stop using ...India to put an end to public defecating
Nov 3rd, 2007 at 8:59AM: If you travel through India there's a couple of bodily-function issues you might notice (outside your own, that is). One is that there's a large poor population that doesn't have access to any form of plumbing. Railroad tracks tend to become the local slum toilet -- at least that's what I noticed while traveling by rail. The other is that areas where public toilets are in place, the stench is ...Big in Japan: Making Biofuel Out of Used Chopsticks
Aug 27th, 2007 at 9:00AM: Today's ten-million yen trivia question is this:
How many disposable, wooden chopsticks are used each year in Japan?
Give up?
The answer is approximately 90,000 tons (81,646,000 kilograms) or approximately two-hundred pairs per person per year. Needless to say, the Japanese aren't exactly the world's greatest environmentalists!
Indeed, one of the biggest culture shocks foreigners experience upon ...A Canadian in Beijing: The Wild Wall Will Not Be Tamed
Jun 10th, 2007 at 11:50AM:
When I went to the Great Wall on that first weekend I arrived in China, I simultaneously learned about the "rest of the wall." By this, I mean the "wild wall" that isn't a tourist attraction but lies along the spines of mountains across China, crumbling and often forgotten. National Geographic Adventure Magazine ran an article called "Astride the Dragon's Back" (written by Matthew Power). My ...Earth Day Celebrations Around the World
Apr 18th, 2007 at 9:35AM: From Karachi, Pakistan to Koh Samui, Thailand to Chelewah, Washington people are celebrating the earth this weekend. Yep, Earth Day is April 22. You can plant trees, clean up a beach, go to a lecture, canoe, pet animals, hike, dance, sing, participate in a 5-K run and eat Earth Day fare at an Earth Day fair somewhere on the planet. The calendar page of the website Envirolink: The Online ...
