The pretty Daryl Hannah has never fails to surprise us with her eco-friendly ideas and innovations. And the best part is that she likes to share them with the world. In a recent interview, she came out and loud about her love for nature and frustrations with the word “green”. She even talked about her eco-make up and steps she would take to make her life more ‘natural’.

One of the steps included, cultivating sunflowers. Daryl looks at them as a fuel crop. She even expressed her desire to grow hemp because then she would be able to grow her fuel for one full year in just an acre. But she cannot do so as growing hemp is ridiculously illegal in the U.S.
Indeed a stupid law, because hemp is a useful crop that serves as food, fuel and even non-petroleum biodegradable plastics.
Via ecorazzi

An utterly green assortment of organic beauty products like eye cream, face wash, moisturizer, deep facial masque, lip cure or delicate cleansing antiseptic pads etc. has been newly launched in the skincare marketplace by Vegan Skin Care.

The facet which keep this product line aloof from other beauty products is its eco-friendliness as these fine beauty products have been nattily primed out of food items such as cardamom, kaolin etc. without employing any perilous chemicals. This novel beauty care lineup emerges to be decently cited as “Be Fine” since it organically bestows us with a healthy and fine looking skin.

Furthermore, apart from its green and organic worth an added striking feature appears in its fiscal worth as well since every single product in this streak falls in the price range of merely $30. These naturally finished oil free products would be by far accessible at most of the renowned medical stores like CVS and Rite-Aid.

Via Trendhunter

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/vegan-skincare-be-fine-food-skin-care

An international association named the Global Cassava Partnership jointly with UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization is looking at the potential of world’s fourth imperative crop called cassava along with the production of Biofuels. Since the dilemma of going up fuel and oil prices in low-income tropical countries calls for exploring economical food and fuel supplies, Research and development is being carried out to enhance cassava yields as it one of the low priced starch source. Besides gratifying the global food need cassava also emerges as a greener substitute to fuel production. Fermentation of this starch generates ethanol which is employed in Biofuels formation.

Bearing in mind future prospects of cassava and its industrialized utilization efforts must be made to perk up production inputs and improvise farmer’s scientific and technical knowledge. To deal with energy crisis we ought to set cassava starch products viable on a worldwide scale.

Via GreenCarCongress

Until now most of us used to think that the way we travel affects our environment the most. This view is now kicked out by a 408-page report prepared by none other than.

United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It raises concerns over people’s eating habits that (as is found out by FAO researchers) contribute more to global warming than the whole of US Transport sector taken as one single unit! It is disturbing to note that animal husbandry-meat and dairy, used in making burgers (and the way burgers are being made generally) has so far contributed in rising temperatures and resultant climate change as according to the FAO report, the greenhouse gas emission accounted by this industry and burger making per se is about 18%. The report also said that “the Earth, and all who reside here, are in grave peril like never before”. Another said news from the non-veg camp. Concerns over Salmonella and E.coli attacks and other dangerously fatal diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (a human variant of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy commonly known as Mad Cow Disease) have always loomed large enough to promote healthy eating habits among people. But never before has been the need to convert into a green diet (vegan diet/eco-friendly diet) more than now, when our Planet’s well-being is at stake!

The report advocates the moral and ethical responsibility that we all have towards our Mother Earth and our existence on it (as such). The need of the hour is definitely to change our eating habits. Predictions by this report say that we can eradicate about 20% of global warming by simply switching to a plant based diet. Not only this, the small change will also take care of other environmental issues like top soil erosion, deforestation and even the ever-worsening problem of water pollution besides being health for our arteries. So, next time u crave for a burger go for the veggie one and save your lungs besides your heart. In doing so you will also ensure a much smaller carbon footprint than one left by eating fatty non-veg burgers!

Via EconomicsTimes