George Monbiot speaks about air travel and Love Miles

there is no environmentally alternative to flying…. the solution simply is to fly less.
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Nadya Hutagalung’s Eco House (Female Mag March 2008 edition)

Well I guess it’s my house as well! We’re constantly looking for eco friendly technologies for the home, so if you know of or have any, please tell us!
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Man and what he does to the earth…

It’s rare that I look at the comics section of the newspapers but for some random reason today, I scanned through the Straitstimes comics section and this piece from Bizarro jumped out at me.
Why are we destroying the earth that we live on?!
Tags: green

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Green organic goodies for mama and baby

Last night, Nadya and I happened across a small cart on the 3rd floor of Great World City stocked with really cute baby clothings and oils and creams for expecting mothers. We picked up 3 Speesees bodysuits for our baby girl and a bottle of Erbaviva Stretch Mark Oil for Nadya.

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beautiful eco friendly house – prefab concrete!

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Eco-friendly bike rentals in Singapore someday?

Paris joins European cities of Barcelona, Geneva, Stockholm, Oslo and Vienna in offering bicycle rentals in the city in an effort to reduce the number of cars and help reduce pollution and improve air quality.  Some 13,000 people have already signed up for the rental service – registered bike users pay on an annual basis [...]

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Green Transport: Most beautiful electric scooter ever!

Simply beautiful. Can’t wait to pick one up for the ride…. like to use this to get to the subway and into the office – a greener more eco way to get to work!

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2000X Motorboard
The most advanced motorized scooter available on the planet!
The 2000X is a quantum leap in scooter design, [...]

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Today 5 June is World Enviroment Day 2007

Various events happening around the world and here in Singapore, Ricoh and the Singapore Environment Council (SEC), will have an event on 5 June titled THINK AND ACT – Eco Action. The goal of the event will be to conserve energy consumption and spread awareness for energy conservation and climate change among people in Singapore. [...]

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Singapore streets NEED to be more bicycle friendly!!!

If Singapore truly intends to be “green and eco-friendly” as it says it would, then we should really have more space and perhaps bicycle lanes. I would definitely be doing a lot more training on the roads (versus being on my stationary trainer at home) and would even cycle a couple kilometers to the [...]

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Who says Prefab houses don’t have the "wow" factor?

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dream factory001, originally uploaded by sportinc.

Perhaps sooner rather than later… we’ll use more custom pre-fab/pre-constructed building techniques in Singapore. We’ll definitely reduce wastage and require less sand and concrete!

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Keeping buildings cool with greenery

We’re hoping to have lots of green areas, green roofs, green walls! We’ll really know later when we get more of the plans drawn up…

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Alternative Energy: Green dreams

Cover of this week’s Economist. Latest craze? Investing in Alternative Energy – “great for society, but perhaps not so for investors?”
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LEADERS
Alternative energy
Green dreams
Nov 16th 2006 From The Economist print edition

The flood of money into clean energy is better news for society than it is for investors

COMPUTER chips and solar panels are made [...]

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"A World Divided By Scarcity of Water"

Water – basic necessity in life.
This was on the cover of the Straits Times last week and it really hit a nerve. And here we are in Singapore striving for the luxuries of life while so many in the world do not even have the basic necessities like water…. I carry 3 bottles [...]

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PSI under 60 – Finally, a real ride! Plus environmental aware companies?!

Finally a morning where the PSI dipped below 60! My mates and I met at 7am this morning for a 40km ride from Adam Road up Thomson through Mandia and back upper Bukit Timah. I haven’t been riding for about 3 weeks already since the haze developed and I must say even with [...]

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No training in this HAZE! What are we all doing to our earth!

So I’ve avoided swimming and training outsides for the last couple weeks, especially when the PSI goes past 100. But actually I won’t go train even when it’s about 70-80… I’ve had to train in the gym or on my indoor bicycle trainer (very useful these days!). We’ve all gotta do something about [...]

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