Do animals have emotions?: Animal Facts. Arriving home to be greeted by a yipping dog bouncing off the walls and a purring cat cuddled up in bed can bring a strong sense that you're the star of the show and your pets are decidedly happy to see you.
10 Real Ways to Overcome Embarrassment. Famous Serendipitous Discoveries. Potato Chips. Ad_pt-daddy-1949_big.jpg 1.200×1.651 píxeles. Britons bin 17m gadgets worth £762 MILLION every year. Average recycle value per item is £43.54 By Nick Enoch Updated: 11:15 GMT, 7 February 2012 Britons are throwing away money - by binning 17million gadgets worth £762million every year.
How Much Do We Really Recycle? A metamaterial which could stop electronics from eating the planet. Why Recycling Your Gadgets Is Important. UN: Six billion mobile phone subscriptions in the world. There are almost as many mobile phone subscriptions in the world as people, a United Nations telecom agency has said.
A report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said there were about six billion subscriptions at the end of 2011. There are nearly seven billion people on Earth. Almost one billion subscriptions were in China, the study found. Domestic energy use rises by 18 per cent - Home News - UK. The figure rose from 37 million tonnes of oil equivalent to 44 million tonnes in 2009 - with more than half used for heating.
Statisticians attributed the rise to the increased number of households and changes in energy efficiency and "external temperatures". Authors of the study said that in 2008, 5.6% of all electricity consumption in the UK was generated from renewable resources - an increase compared to 1.7% in 1990. But the 2008 proportion was dwarfed by the EU average of 16.7%.
UK emissions "of the basket of greenhouse gases" were estimated to have fallen by more than 27% between 1990 and 2009. Last year in the UK, the number of days of moderate or higher air pollution were at their lowest level since 1987 in rural areas (22 days) and their lowest level in urban areas since records began in 1993 (eight days). UK homes getting more hungry for electricity. 26 June 2012Last updated at 04:53 ET By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News.
Women spend half as much time on housework today compared to 1960s. The study of 577 adult women in the UK shows that on average, ladies spend 18.2 hours a week on housework, including cleaning, vacuuming, food shopping and cooking.
This compares to 44 hours a week on average in 1965, according to official figures from the Department for Education. Home appliances, The impact of changing technology on everyday life, Australia's social and cultural history in the post-war period, History Year 9, NSW. The 1950s - A decade of change After years of rationing and shortages, the 1950s were a period of economic prosperity, high employment and great technological development.
¡Juegan con unas ‘botellitas’ encima! LONDRES (Reuters) — Muchas de las grandes estrellas del fútbol, incluido Cristiano Ronaldo, llevarán camisetas hechas de botellas viejas de plástico en el Mundial de Sudáfrica.
Nike dijo que las camisetas de las nueve selecciones que llevan su marca, incluida la de Brasil estarán hechas de poliéster reciclado de botellas usadas. Cada camiseta usará hasta ocho botellas de plástico recogidas en vertederos japoneses y taiwaneses, dijo Nike, el mayor productor de artículos deportivos del mundo. Las casacas de los nueve equipos, entre los que también se incluye Portugal, Holanda y Estados Unidos, llevarán el nuevo material. Nike dice que el equipamiento mantendrá a los jugadores más secos y frescos que las camisetas anteriores, a la vez que reduce el consumo de energía en su fabricación un 30% frente al poliéster normal. Las botellas se derritieron para producir hilo de poliéster, que según Nike asegurará un equipamiento más ecológico que nunca.
One in five Brits bin clothing after one wear. Households Britain chuck out old clothes every fortnight. Timberland and TRAID Partner to Reduce Waste and Change Lives. TRAID. Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development. Video: Recyling and restyling unwanted clothes. Textile recycling innovation challenges clothing industry. With reprocessing many textile fibres a challenge, dumping old clothes is often taken as the easy option.
Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Thanks mostly to retailers such as H&M, C&A, and Inditex (the owner of Zara), fashion has become far more affordable to millions of consumers. Once fiercely protective of their brands, high-end designers Roberto Cavalli, Matthew Williamson, Sonia Rykiel, and others have collaborated with H&M, bringing fashion-forward styles to the masses. Cheap fashion, however, has a cost. Yes, even clothes can be recycled. Call it the Forever 21 effect, or fast fashion.
Americans are buying, and discarding, clothes more quickly than ever. The average American throws 54 pounds of clothes and shoes into the trash each year. That adds up to about 9 million tons of wearables that are sent into the waste stream, according to the Environmental Protection Agency — a 27% increase in a mere eight years. UrthBags Eco-Chic Handbags. Pop-Top Handbags, Pull-tab Purses, Pull-tab Accessories from Escama Studio® What is Eco Friendly Clothing? Made from Recycled Products: Stuff to Buy. Earrings From Recycled Soda Cans! I am loving Etsy.com these days because it has lots of wahm stores that sell crafts and eco friendly goods made from recycled materials.