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World Population Day: Sustainable Agriculture for a Planet of 7 Billion

By on July 11, 2011 in sustainable agriculture, sustainable eating, sustainable living, TANK STANDS, toilets, WATER, WATER CONSERVATION, WATER SYSTEMS, WATER TANK, WATER TANK PRICES, water tanks, YES SOLAR

As the world population increases, so do the number of mouths to feed. The good news is that in addition to providing food, innovations in sustainable agriculture can provide a solution to many of the challenges that a growing population presents. Agriculture is emerging as a solution to mitigating climate change, reducing public health problems […]

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1 in 8 People That Have Ever Lived Are Alive Today

By on May 14, 2011 in environmental issues, GRAY WATER, green insurance, GREY WATER, GREYWATER, JOJO, JOJO WATER TANKS, RAINWATER, RAINWATER HARVESTING, SOLAR ENERGY, SOLAR GEYSERS, TANK STANDS, WATER, WATER CONSERVATION, WATER SYSTEMS, WATER TANK, WATER TANK PRICES, water tanks, YES SOLAR

Earth is in the midst of a population crisis, and extremes are heading in both directions. While countless species have seen their numbers plummet in recent decades, with more than a few going extinct entirely, humans have seen theirs grow and grow — and the two trends are hardly unrelated. But incredibly, when considering the […]

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Humans Now Consuming 25% of All Plant Life Growing Each Year

By on December 20, 2010 in carbon footprint, environmental footprint, sustainability

Plenty of research on both both personal and national ecological footprints has shown that we are using Earth’s resources at unsustainable rates, that we are using them up faster than they can be regenerated. Now, some new work from NASA digs a bit deeper, examining how plant consumption is increasing as both population and consumerism […]

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Having Babies: Bad for the Environment?

By on June 15, 2010 in green living, sustainable living

There ’s no doubt that every person who is born uses more food, more water, more land, more fossil fuels, more trees and produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases and adds to the problem of over-population. Natalie Wassung, a Masters student at Stellenbosch´s Sustainability Institute, explains: “The earth has a fixed land area, […]

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