Can you possibly make someone eat healthier? A recent article from the column of Environment and Behavior says university students hoping to eat healthier may seek to invest in a clear fruit bowl. The recent study found that when fruits and vegetables are within arm’s reach, students are prone to eating them. At the same…
Going Carbon Neutral
In her first major speech to Parliament in 2007, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark laid down an ambitious plan of making New Zealand the world’s first greenhouse gas (GHG)-neutral country. Among measures Clark announced include a plan that clean-burning biofuels must account for 3.4 percent of fuel sold in the country by 2012 to…
Why low carbon?
Over the last two hundred and fifty years, since industrialization begun, the delicate balance in the earth’s systems and atmosphere has been disturbed by pollution. One form of pollution is the release of the basket of greenhouse gases that are associated with the consumption of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas. Unfortunately in…