Tag: News
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Eco-Friendly Laundry Detergent!
byOregon-made Washing Powder uses simple, naturally occurring ingredients to leave clothes soft, clean and smelling good. As a mother of four, Tiffany Burnett does a lot of laundry. Fed up with commercial detergent’s incompatibility with her high-efficiency washing machine — it left residue and odor, despite repeated washings — she created her own. Inspired by […]
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Theresa May pledges end to austerity in Tory conference speech
byPM makes several policy pledges in effort to show Brexit has not blown her off course Theresa May has made a bold pledge to bring a decade of austerity to a close, as she appealed to the public over the heads of her squabbling party to back her to deliver a Brexit deal and secure her […]
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Gun fired on Pennsylvania compound of Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen
byA white man wearing all dark clothing allegedly entered the compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. A gunshot was fired on the Pennsylvania compound of exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen on Wednesday after an unidentified man entered the property, according to police. A white man wearing all dark clothing allegedly entered the compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, according […]
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Hurricane Rosa to Bring Heavy Rain and Flash Flooding
byThe remnants of Hurricane Rosa are forecast to bring heavy rain and the threat of flash flooding to the Southwest over the next few days. The now-tropical storm – which had been as strong as a Category 4 hurricane – is poised to make landfall along Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Monday evening, where heavy rain was […]
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Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford at campaign rally
byAfter saying last week that her Senate testimony was “very credible,” the president on Tuesday night repeatedly ridiculed the woman who says she was attacked. SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeatedly mocked Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Supreme Court nominee Kavanau Brettgh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, despite having said […]
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NEW Eco-Friendly Fireworks
byScientists at the Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, one of the laboratories of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), are in the process of inventing green fireworks that will help bring down noise and air pollution levels. Project leader Dr. John Berchmans said that they were working on finding eco-friendly, less-polluting fireworks through modified […]
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Update: Hurricane Walaka has Grown to Category 5
byAt 11:00 p.m., the center of Hurricane Walaka was located about 955 miles west-southwest of Honolulu or about 210 miles south of Johnston Island. Walaka is moving toward the north-northwest near 8 mph. A turn toward the north is expected later tonight with an increase in forward speed expected Tuesday through Wednesday. On the forecast […]
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DIY Durable, Beautiful, and Eco-Friendly Furniture Tips
byGoing green is not limited to environmental conservation alone. Eco-friendly DIY furniture is one of the hottest trends in home furnishing. It seems fewer and fewer people want to put additional burden on the earth as most of us are now aware of the interconnectedness between the environment and ourselves. This situation today is in […]
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Stop Tossing Food Scraps!
byIt’s human nature — by the time a recipe is finished, we can’t wait to toss the leftover mess into the garbage. Things like pumpkin guts, coffee grounds, and pickle juice are usually throwaways, as a result. But coffee grounds can actually be used to fertilize plants, and carrot tops can add flavor to tons […]
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Indonesia tsunami: Death toll rises to nearly 1,350
byThe number of people known to have died in Indonesia in Friday’s earthquake and tsunami has risen to 1,347, disaster response officials say. The death toll jumped on Tuesday from a previously confirmed figure of 844. The 7.5-magnitude quake struck just off the central island of Sulawesi, setting off a tsunami that engulfed the coastal […]
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