Imagine your neighborhood being so bustling and packed that you just might have to go without electricity long-term – there’s simply not enough juice to go around. This problem is a regular reality in India, where last year the country was short by a whopping 73,000 gigawatt hours. Now 150 dams are coming to the rescue but at a huge green cost that will lead to “damnation,” some say.
Kimberly Ovitz, a women’s fashion designer, is making green look pretty chic – and for less. Ovitz on April 10 launched a lower-priced eco-friendly clothing line. The highly anticipated clothing collection, O by Kimberly Ovitz, formally was launched at Curve, a boutique on New York’s Mercer Street. The collection is made up of dresses and super-soft tees for the spring and summer of 2012 and cost less than $200. A wide variety of colors also are available for these items, including coral, peach, white and black.
As we enter the new month of May this week, spring truly does feel as though it is in the air, and May Day is here to remind us of that. This week, completely different activities such as growing your own cantaloupes, guzzling some suds around the maypole, catching some sun at the beach or even digging into a piece of your co-worker’s famous lemon meringue pie in the break room all can become more green than ever before.
When Brazilians mention that they are going green through the power of the wind turbine, they’re not just blowing hot air. Over the past five years, the wind power sector in Brazil has vamped up tremendously – by more than 80 percent actually – thus showing that those going green in this sector aren’t just chasing the wind: Unlike the United States, they’re truly capitalizing on it.
