Overdraft Day 2016 is here! Humanity has become extremely wasteful. Despite numerous environmental commitments, in just eight months of 2016 we used up all the natural resources that the Earth can produce. renews within a year, reports the Global Footprint Network (GFN). Earth Overshoot Day occurs earlier every year, last year it happened on August 13, and this year it was August 8, 2016.
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On paper, it pays to cover the roof with solar cells. Namely, this reduces the electricity bill, and can even bring income. But first you have to think about the costs, because photovoltaics are not cheap, and even before that you have to ask yourself whether your roof has solar potential at all. Getting a professional opinion on whether it's worth installing solar panels on your house can really hit your wallet, especially if the answer is 'no'. As with many things, Google now also has an answer to the question of whether your roof is suitable for a solar power plant.
Ecocapsule is a self-sufficient mobile home of a futuristic design by the Bratislava office Nice Architects, which offers a stay off the grid for up to one year. Each unit is equipped with solar panels and a wind turbine and designed to capture rainwater. The interior has a kitchenette with running water and a hot shower.
In many countries of the developed world, each person produces 1.95 kilograms of waste per day. Back in 1960, this figure was 1.2 kg. There are currently 7.3 billion people in the world, and at the current rate of population growth (1.1% per year), there will be 15 billion people on Earth in about 64 years. This only means more pollution. So let's do what we have to do, avoid the mistakes of the past and keep our planet clean. We have only one.
Alejandro Duran is an artist who creates colorful landscape art from washed-up trash from more than 50 different countries.
The renowned manufacturer of American "muscle cars", the company Saleen, has taken up the conversion of the Tesla S, which was given additional pepper both in terms of design and performance. It is still an electric vehicle, which produces absolutely no harmful emissions on the road, at least when the range extender in the form of a petrol engine is not working.
Concrete hotel complexes are out, nowadays they are replaced by ecological resorts, where luxury is combined with listening to nature. We've picked out some of the hottest right now…
Bovec Outdoor Film Festival is a festival of films about sports, adventure and ecology, which brightens up the last days of December in Bovec every year.
The Narava-zdravje fair brings together products, activities and ecologically aware ideas.
What if pencil scraps could grow into something delicious, beautiful, and fun instead of filling up with trash? In September, a somewhat unusual family arrived on the Slovenian market - this is the Sprout family of pencils that grow.