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Vegetarians offered life insurance carrot Vegetarians and fish-eaters are being offered reduced-price life insurance through a scheme launched today by a not-for-profit insurance business.Non-meat eaters will be offered a 6% discount on premiums available from Animal Friends Insurance (AFI), in a d...

Vegans seek grilled meat warning A vegan group is trying to force U.S. restaurant chains to warn California consumers about a cancer-causing chemical that forms in grilled meat, using a state law designed to protect consumers from toxins in drinking water. The state's restaurant lobby said the lega...

Low protein diet might reduce cancer risk Researchers studying a group of vegetarians who'd maintained a diet relatively low in protein and calories found that they had lower blood levels of several hormones and other substances that have been tied to certain cancers.A comparison group of distance ...

Smart children more likely to become vegetarians Children with high IQs are more likely to be vegetarians when they grow up, according to research. A British study of more them 8,000 men and women aged 30 whose IQs had been measured when they were 10, showed that the higher the IQ, the greater the ...

Low fat, vegetarian diet may stall prostate cancer Low-fat, plant-based diets may help prevent or slow the progression of prostate cancer, according to a new research review. A number of studies, have suggested that eating plenty of fruits and vegetables may help ward off prostate cancer, while &qu...

Vegetarian-friendly campus food services recognized Fifteen North American universities are being recognized for their efforts to provide students with an excellent on-campus vegetarian dining experience.Peta2, the youth division of Virginia-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has re...

Most Consumers Will Pay More for Renewable Energy Seventy-six percent of Americans feel it’s extremely important that their electric utility offers power produced from renewable sources, according to Energy Pulse, a study from the Shelton Group, a marketing company.So important, in fact, that 56 pe...

HP To Build 1-Megawatt Solar Power System HP will install a large-scale solar power system at its San Diego facility and buy windpower to run a number of facilities in Ireland. The company has a goal to reduce its energy use by 20 percent by the end of 2010.Initial estimates indicate that the proje...

Fujitsu Unveils Green Initiative Fujitsu announced a new company-wide initiative dedicated to make greener products in a greener fashion, reports Fox Business. As part of the initiative, called Pervasive Green, Fujitsu established an environmental management system to cut waste and prevent pollutio...

Wind Power Up 45 percent In 2007 Shattering all its previous records, the U.S. wind energy industry installed 5,244 megawatts (MW) in 2007, expanding the nation's total wind power generating capacity by 45% in a single calendar year and injecting an investment of over $9 billion into the economy, t...

Cruise Ships Worse For Environment Than Planes Cruise ships emit three times more CO2 than airplanes, reports the Telegraph. In its annual report, Carnival, which comprises 11 cruise lines, said it emits 401 grams of CO2 per passenger, which this article claims is 36 times greater than the per pass...

Going Green Could Save Government $1 Billion In Five Years The federal government could save U.S. tax payers more than $1 billion in energy costs over the next five years by deploying green technologies in data centers and using more energy efficient PCs, says two new studies released Tuesday.The a...

Google search for renewable energy Google announced that it would spend "hundreds of millions" of dollars developing a range of green technologies including solar and wind power as part of a push into the renewable energy market. The software firm said it would spend "tens of million...

Is climate change making us sick? As a result of global warming, many homeowners this week are up to their waists inmuddy water. Andflooding could be just the beginning of our worries. This week a paper in the British Medical Journal gave warning that climate change could be particularly damaging t...

Rapid growth in green jobs Renewable energy engineer, energy account manager, carbon management consultant, carbon logistics specialist ... the variety of job titles is mind-boggling but they all have one thing in common: climate change.Public awareness and government policy are putting pressure on...

Harnessing the sun As a green entrepreneur, Jeremy Leggett has spent the past ten years fighting an enduring myth: solar panels don’t work in Britain. Granted, they work better in Spain. But at solarcentury’s office in London on a distinctly cloudy October day, the roof is gathering enough energy t...

Animal Welfare and the Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet Animals are not ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other reason. By switching to a plant-base diet, human societies will be able to alleviate the needless suffering and deaths of countless animals, the irrepara...

Good vegetarian jokes I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, it's because I hate vegetables!- Woody AllenWith all this crap they put in meat, like hormones for fast growing, antibiotics, etc... we will all go down, there’s only the vegetarians that will survive – so let me give you a good pie...

Multinationals Fight Climate Change Eleven companies are teaming up to see how they can work with thousands of their suppliers to curb greenhouse gas emissions, an environmental consultancy said on Sunday.The companies in the program, called the Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration, include giants...

Walking to the shops damages planet more than going by car Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated. Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a ca...

Meat and the Environment Would you ever open your refrigerator, pull out 16 plates of pasta and toss them in the trash, and then eat just one plate of food?How about leveling 55 square feet of rain forest for a single meal or dumping 2,500 gallons of water down the drain?Of course you wouldn't. But...

Climate change could create 200m refugees EQUATORIAL lands that are home to hundreds of millions of people will become uninhabitable as food and water run out due to climate change, scientists will warn this week.A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to be published on...

China Bans Free Plastic Bags Declaring war on the "white pollution" choking its cities, farms, and waterways, China is banning free plastic shopping bags and calling for a return to the cloth bags of old—steps largely welcomed by merchants and shoppers on Wednesday. The measure eliminates...

Rapeseed biofuel produces more greenhouse gas than oil or petrol A renewable energy source designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is contributing more to global warming than fossil fuels, a study suggests. Measurements of emissions from the burning of biofuels derived from rapeseed and maize h...

Damage to the planet is already inevitable Climate change is so far advanced that serious damage to the environment is inevitable, scientists told a conference yesterday.(September 18, 2007)Action to limit the impact can only make the difference between moderate and severe damage rather than preven...

250,000 a year turn vegetarian in UK THERE are more than 4 million vegetarians in Britain, with 250,000 joining them every year, the Vegetarian Society says. Alex Bourke, founder of the Vegetarian Guides, told the Vegetarian Society awards in London that in addition large numbers of Britons did not...

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