Did you know that to make paper from scratch, we taint the earth with 84 pounds of air pollution, 36 pounds of water pollution and 176 pounds of solid waste? That’s a lot of waste considering we use paper for practically everything we do! To produce recycled paper 60% less energy is required as compared […]

A hard working man or woman in the field knows that recreational activities are just as important to a great lifestyle as the work activities. Often clothing is selected for usability in both arenas–work and play. Carhartt pants are an example of clothing that can be used either for rugged outdoor work but can be […]

Choosing Carhartt pants because they look good is enough reason for the purchase, but if you select these quality work garments, you will find that there are other features that make Carhartt pants an excellent choice for your work day attire. Some of the fine points that make the pants more desirable include double stitching […]

The susceptibility of the food chain to manmade chemicals has been highlighted once again by the Dow AgroSciences calamity over Aminopyralid.
The chemical, a herbicide popular with many farmers, is able to destroy weeds and nettles without destroying the crops or grass around them. However, the Aminopyralid, which is used to in the manufacture of many […]

It’s a rare business plan that involves visiting the pale severity of the Arctic, but for those companies that do send their employees into the wilderness the return can be sizable. For these companies it’s not what’s visible in this fragile, remote and utterly unique portion of the world, but rather what is hidden, beneath […]

Consumers worldwide have been feeling the pinch recently. Food prices have risen as the honeymoon period of cheap oil that allowed for the years of overabundant production in the west has ended. No more are the days of milk lakes and corn mountains. The days of food being so cheap that almost a third of […]

Two non-profit organisations in the United States, alongside the private research Duke University in North Carolina, have spent the last three years monitoring the actions of gas and oil companies in the western Amazon, and have now completed a comprehensive map covering the area that shows the alarming extent to which the corporations have plans […]

We live in the age of the celebrity endorsement, so much so that it is often impossible not to think about a certain footballer when shopping for our latest pair of pants, or a certain model when lathering our scalps with a particular brand of shampoo.
All this is, of course, well and good, but there […]

Imagine your wedding anniversary or your birthday falling a week earlier this year than it did forty years ago. This was the example that Mark Avery, the RSPB’s conservation director, gave to the BBC’s Today programme this morning to highlight the significance of a new report showing that many of the UK’s garden birds, from […]

Foreign invaders are undertaking a siege of Britain’s waterways, leaving respectable domestic species reeling beneath their imported terror. In an attempt to raise awareness about the problem of non-domestic species in the waterway system British Waterways- the people in charge of maintaining the country’s waterway system - have produced a list of the twelve animals […]