Archive for the ‘being vege’ Category

He is famous, talented, rich, handsome and… green! Ladies and gentlemen: Leonardo DiCaprio!

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EcoDictionary: biodegradation

August 21st, 2013

Hello GreenZoners,

do you know how long does it take to decompose paper towel? 2-4 weeks. Leather shoes? 25-40 years. Plastic bag? 100-1000 years. Scary?

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Hello GreenZoner,

today we have for you another words of wisdom connected – as always – with ecology and environment. We don’t have to agree with all his opinions or share religion, but probably we all know this monk and think the same about…

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Hello GreenZoners,

do you know this guy?


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Friendship is so eco!

August 4th, 2013

Environment-friendly (or eco-friendly, nature friendly, green) means everything what is good for ecosystem or environment. What are we thinking about when we see this term on some products’ labels? Recycling? Air polution? Saving energy?

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GZEcoDictionary: recycling

August 2nd, 2013

Do you know what does this sign mean? It has a very special meaning: second life.

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Hello GreenZoners,

Monday is a good day to know some new or remind some old quotes. Unfortunately, all Monday quotes are rather sad so instead of them let’s focus on quotes about ecology:).

The author of few from the most famous ecological quotes is


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Hello Greenzoners! Some of you know, and some of you probably don’t know (nothing to be ashamed of, don’t worry 😉 ), one of the main causes of air pollution is burning wood and coal in cookstoves in the process of preparing food.

cookstove
Many people use more modern technologies like gas or electric cookers, but everyone can afford them or are available to anyone.
There were designs of special, “clean” cookstoves, trying to reduce the amount of pollution, but they had no effect, unfortunately.

Recently however, a group of students discovered an interesting way to vastly reduce the amount of pollution in our households. (more…)

Hello Greenzoners! How is your Easter going? 🙂

We had an idea, that, because in many places there is a lot of snow during Easter holidays, how about some appropriate Easter decorations to be made easily and cheap? 😉

easter lights (more…)

Need new, solid flip flops but don’t want to spend too much money? Some people are just astonishing with the amount of creativity they have! 🙂 Do it yourself!

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