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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The world population is stabilized at a level that is within the short- and long-term carrying capacity of the earth’s finite resources. This level is of great debate and is probably between 8 and 9 billion people.

Resources are used efficiently. Leading organizations such as the Wuppertal Institute and the Factor 10 Club and a growing number of individuals such as Ernst von Weizsacker, Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins have been calling for a huge increase in resource productivity by a factor of 4 to 10 in order to increase wealth for four-fifths of the world’s population and to decrease environmental impact. This is critical because the industrialized economy is incredibly wasteful in use of resources while the planet has a finite amount of resources and a finite ability to absorb and process wastes. According to a recent report of the World Resources Institute, industrialized countries extract forty-five to eight-five tons of materials per person per year. A recent report of the US National Academy of Engineering indicates that 93 percent of all the material which enters into commerce becomes waste before the product reaches the consumer. (more…)

Disturbing global trends continue to evidence the fact that human activity threatens our ability “to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” This goal of sustainability, as defined by the Brundtland Commission in 1987, will become more inaccessible without a dramatic change in our current mindset and behavior.

In the last five decades, the population of the world has more than doubled to 6 billion people and the world’s economic output has increased nearly sixfold (1). This unprecedented growth is altering the face of the earth and the composition of the atmosphere. (more…)

Our current level of thinking remains a significant obstacle to the promise of a just and sustainable future. As Einstein observed, “the significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Our current mindset is characterized by the beliefs that

• humans are both separate from and the dominant species of nature;
• that resources are free and inexhaustible;
• that technological fixes are available to solve most problems;
• that nature has an infinite capacity to assimilate human waste;
• and that material acquisition and accumulation is the most important determinant of success.

As the primary centers of teaching, research and learning, institutions of higher education are significant leverage points which both reflect and inform social mindsets. (more…)

Second Nature imagines a society in which all present and future generations of humans:

• are healthy and can meet their basic needs;
• have fair and equitable access to Earth’s resources;
• have a decent quality of life;
• celebrate cultural diversity;
• are realizing their highest aspirations;
• and restore and preserve the biologically diverse ecosystems on which we all depend.

How might society achieve this vision? We provide you with the following ideas that shape Second Nature’s response to that question, and suggest that you simultaneously picture a sustainable society, and elements of your own vision.

We must align social, economic and natural systems for mutual benefit and sustainability.

Imagine that all people understand their connections to the natural world and to other humans, know where products and services come from and where wastes go, and know how to measure and minimize their ecological footprint. Our ecological footprint (our impact on the Earth) is invisible to most of us. We must make the invisible visible.

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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…)

As human culture developed, forest fires increased. This association has been observed since the glaciers retreated, 10,000 years ago. It was thought that the increase in fires was a direct effect of agricultural expansion (the clearing of forests to open fields for farming). Well, now that the tenants were not all the blame. Researchers from the Far East have provided evidence that in certain regions responsible for the burning of forests was the war. (more…)

Let us, therefore, neither the rich, colorful glossy brochures, which can be batched in the Finnish Touristikzentrale monoplane can still largely unanimous opinion of the Finnish people, the Finnish nature is “clean” does not fade prematurely, but we dare a glance behind the scenes “.

A Baltic Sea, which threatened to dump on the decline, acid rain, Chernobyl cesium residual, poison skidding across the Russian border.

Admittedly, many of the Finnish environmental problems are not homemade. But pollution does not work now at the country’s boundaries. (more…)

Only tackle what moves. This setting I live not only in my profession, but try this in the Remscheider municipal policy. It is important to me with you to talk to in order to spot the people with the willingness to closely integrate feasible. In the municipal elections on 30 August 2009 I am running for the SPD in Remscheid city center in constituency 01

My family, my 27 year old son and I grew up in Remscheid. After my training as a technical illustrator, I have about the second chance education, architecture and urban design in Wuppertal and at the Technical University of Aachen studied. Apart from my political engagement I like to go hiking, bike ride and fly with passion paragliding. The little adventures in the natural light as rock climbing and the voltage at paragliding particularly irritate me. (more…)

By J Settembrino.  The human history of Newfoundland and Labrador has been deeply marked by the natural environment, especially the abundance of marine resources.

Different cultures have succeeded on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, turning its back on the limited resources of the Interior to operate rather abundant riches of the ocean. The realities of the environment have been of great importance in the history of the Province. Given the relative poverty of domestic resources (land, flora and fauna), patterns of settlement and economic activity have been deeply influenced by the richness of coastal and marine resources (mammals, fish and birds).
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