• Marijuana: Good or Bad for the Environment

    Being a young activist I get asked this more often than one would expect. So I did some research and here’s me answer: The marijuana comes from the female cannabis plant. This plant actually absorbs five times more carbon than the average plant, but as a result requires a lot of energy as well as …

  • 800-Year-Old Oak Tree Stops Traffic in Turkey

    ew roads are built all the time in Turkey without much fuss, but the prospect of losing a massive oak tree that had stood in their town for 800 years brought residents of one Aegean village out into the streets recently to halt the completion of the Denizli-Salihli Highway. ”The highway can pass by anywhere, but how …

  • Head of Brazil’s Environmental Protection Agency Says It Is Not His Job to Protect the Environment

    As the President of Brazil’s environmental protection agency IBAMA, which oversees regulationion in the world’s largest rainforest, Curt Trennepohl has a very important position — the only problem is, he says that protecting the environment isn’t part of it. In an interview with Australia’s “60 Minutes” when asked if his job was to guard the environment from …

  • Embarassed Lego Drops Rainforest Hardwoods From Packaging

    Lego has changed it’s ways; packaging of those little Lego men has just become greener and more sustainable. After a robust campaign by Greenpeace, the Danish company has announced a new plan to clean up their packaging and make it more environmental Earlier this year Greenpeace discovered that some packaging of Star Wars toys contained mixed tropical …