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If you didn’t find out already by typing “google.com”, today’s Earth day, my fellow readers! Enjoy this sunny, or maybe rainy or (I hope not) snowy day, and try to pollute as little as you can. Try to study about how people got into this game of planet destroying, try to understand why and what [...]

Some researchers from the Purdue University have made up a project revealing the CO2 emissions over the United States. They made a video showing the “hottest” areas in which CO2 is produced by several sources: power plants, factories, vehicle traffic. Kevin Gurney, the leader in the project, told The New York Times: “The resulting database [...]

Georgia Institute of Technology has created a concept of a car in a pretty new polluting fashion: it uses petrol as a fuel, but it separates hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The hydrogen is used in a fuel cell, and the CO2 is collected and recycled.
Now, I know my website’s name is “greenoptimistic.com”, but this one [...]

Today I stumbled upon a website called “The Story of Stuff” where a nice lady shows you how we deplete the planet’s resources, how products being made are in fact more expensive than you buy them, how you are fooled to buy stuff just for the sake of buying, how and where the waste is [...]