The use of chemical cleaning agents for cleaning is not required, but it is a conscious and responsible step. Look at the wider world, be treated with responsibility and respect to the world - is the philosophy of environmentally friendly janitorial cleaning products for cleaning. The use of such cleaning agents for cleaning means caring about their health, about others and about the world.

The green cleaning products have 2 main advantages. First, you can save, and secondly, the process of cleaning is safe. These two advantages seem to be quite sufficient for the choice in favor of environmentally friendly cleaning products.

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Echo Park Film Center is a volunteer-run, non-profit media arts organization located in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. We provide equal and affordable access to film/video education and resources via:
a community microcinema and meeting space
free and nominal cost media arts education programs
a comprehensive small format film equipment and service department
a touring film festival showcasing local established and student filmmakers

Be part of the EPFC Family! Come watch a movie, take a filmmaking class, rent a projector, telecine your home movies, check out our extensive film and book lending library, submit your film for programming, buy some Super 8 film, sign up for a membership or just drop by and say hello!

A necessary step in the transition to a sustainable path is to shift from problem-solving to creating. Problems are negative things which we would like to eliminate. However, eliminating the problem does not necessarily get us what we want. We often frame problems in such narrow ways that the solutions are not lasting and may create other problems later on or in some other place. The way we have dealt with most environmental issues such as air or water pollution is to view them as discrete problems with solutions which often end up moving pollution around rather than getting to the root of the problem and eliminating it. Creating, on the other hand, is bringing into existence some thing or situation that we want — which is usually a much better motivator for change than a problem we need to eliminate.

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We see posters everywhere announcing the restoration of a quarry, cleaning soil poisoned by lead, the underpinnings of some dunes… but do we really serve these actions? A scientific team anglohispano had this question, and after consideration of 89 initiatives focused on very different ecosystems, has concluded that it is effective: its positive impact has resulted in an increase in biodiversity of 44% and an increase of 25 % of the “services” that these environments provide to humans.  (more…)

The name of a story is because the volume of traffic is no longer measured in megabytes or in borders or in petas, even exabytes, but to reach the age of zetabyte. Exactly traffic 2013 is two thirds of a zetabyte or, what is the same, 667 exabytes. Last year the projection was 522 exabytes per year until 2012, but the economic crisis has made them reduce that number to 510.  (more…)

Life on the uninhabited island in northern Britain can be very difficult. On Unst the winters are hard and the winds, brutal and relentless, regularly hit the landscape with no trees more than 170km / h.

But Unst is the island chosen by a retired couple from Wiltshire to build one of the world’s most environmentally friendly homes: a zero emission home that works in their entirety by exploiting the energy of wind and sun. (more…)

Today in India, thousands of rural villages lack electricity or cope with an intermittent supply. And in 2030, the Planning Commission of India estimates that the country will have to generate at least 700,000 megawatts of additional power to supply the demand of its growing population and expanding economy.  (more…)

A perennial grass that grows to 13 feet, just needs fertilizer and can be stored in bales could be the next hope for efficient production of ethanol.

At least some scientists believe that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who have been conducting field trials of sterile grass known as Miscanthus giganteus, distant cousin of the rod Grass (Panicum virgatum). (more…)

Most of the water filtration technologies require a lot of energy to push water through a membrane that eventually end up staining and must be replaced. Both factors make water filtration is too costly for most applications.

Now researchers at the Research Center of Palo Alto (PARC, for short) have managed to overcome these challenges by incorporating scientific concepts of physics in the movement of the toner particles in a water filtration device that is not low membranes used.  (more…)

The Peruvian government said that deforestation in the country which hosts the fourth area of rainforest in the world after Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia, could be reduced to zero in ten years with funds from Western governments.  (more…)