Millionaires are buying large tracts of land to protect the environment as oppose to destroying it.
Parque Tantauco, which Piñera created in 2005, is on one of South America’s largest islands, Chiloé, off the coast of Patagonia.
Piñera bought the land and immediately set about protecting the offshore habitat of blue whales and the inland virgin forests.
Pulling [...]
Category Archives: Environment
Buy the Planet to Save it
August 18, 2008 – 10:41 am
Community Welsh Farm Still Going Strong
August 13, 2008 – 10:43 am
Five years ago a community wanted to stop developers from building on a farm, so they literally bought the farm. The Guardian takes a look at this successful non-profit farm run by the local community.
This is no ordinary Welsh mountain farm - and yet, until five years ago, that is exactly what it was. In [...]
Dandelion Rubber for Tires
August 8, 2008 – 10:38 am
Dandelions can be used to create a natural rubber that can be used in tires. This weed will be put to a good use!
“No matter how much chemistry we’ve applied, we still haven’t been able to find an artificial substitute for natural rubber,” said William Ravlin, a researcher involved in the project. “We’re still harvesting [...]
Preserving Canada’s Boreal Forest
July 31, 2008 – 11:14 am
The Ontario government recently announced that a patch Canada’s boreal forest twice the size of England will be protected. The De-Smog Blog describes the greatness of the boreal forest and what the recent announcement means.
Canada’s Boreal Forest is important when it comes to global warming and greenhouse gas emissions. Canada’s Boreal forest is [...]
“Upcycling” Gets Corporate Interest
July 30, 2008 – 9:50 am
Upcycling takes items that would otherwise be wasted and makes them into useful products. James, who works for Terracycle, wrote to let me know that they have teamed up with Kraft to make some upcycled bags. I wonder how people will react to branded recycling.
Kraft will become the first major multi-category corporation to fund [...]
Sustainable Seafood
July 25, 2008 – 10:04 am
Greenpeace recently ranked grocery chains in how environmentally friendly their seafood is (full report as a PDF) and it seems that grocery stores are responding. Giant Food is already changing their way.
Giant Food announced support for the principles of the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions, a coalition of nonprofit groups that works with retailers to [...]