Photo by Gilmer Diaz Estela via pexels I remember being taught about the importance and use of pesticides in my agricultural science class back in high school. I had no knowledge of the health effects of pesticides. I thought pesticides were good. I mean, they help get rid of pests and insects that could damage …
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While Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22nd, the month of April is known as Earth Month, and the week preceding Earth Day is known as Earth Week. This year’s theme is “Invest In Our Planet,” which raises the question of how we can invest in our planet. There’s a lot going on …
Some of your favorite species are currently facing threats of extinction. Every third Friday of May, Endangered Species Day is celebrated worldwide to spread more knowledge, raise awareness and take action to protect wildlife and endangered species. For Endangered Species Day 2021 which comes up this year on Friday, 21, 2021, here are 8 reasons …
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All around the world, lots of people are now going green, living eco-friendly, and being eco-conscious. With this happening, brands and companies that are out to degrade and pollute the environment – and those who profit from environmental degradation – have asked themselves what can we do to lead these eco-conscious people astray? How can …
One of my April reads was Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects our Health by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie with Sarah Dopp. As clearly stated on the title, the book reveals how several chemicals which are present in some of the products we use in our everyday …
Gifting is a common thing for Christmas so how about some eco-friendly gift-wrapping ideas? Let’s not have that regular “open gift, put the wrapper in the trash” scene on Christmas morning this year. Let’s do the green wrapping. For your green wrapping this green Christmas, I’ll be giving you 6 eco-friendly gift wrapping ideas you …
It’s December which means we’re officially counting down to Christmas Day!!! Preparations are being made and there’s lot of planning to be done. For this season, I’ll be giving you some eco-friendly tips for Christmas…a green Christmas as I love to call it. Tip 1: Decoration For your decorations, go all eco-friendly. If you have …
The first observance of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW) was celebrated on 29 September 2020, to serve as a global wakeup call especially during this time of COVID-19 pandemic to rethink the way we produce, handle and waste our food. In line with this, here are 11 tips on …
Let’s bring it home for a second. Let’s talk about major environmental problems in Nigeria. Even though Nigeria is party and signatory to lots of international agreements, treaties and conventions like the Paris Agreement, Montreal Protocol, and also has lots of environmental organizations and bodies like NESREA, the environment is one part that has been …
While we’re going about our day-to-day activities we emit carbon. We may not have control over this emission because sometimes we emit without knowing we’re emitting. Some emissions are simply unavoidable.This is where the carbon offsetting thing comes in. Carbon offsetting is just you removing the carbon you’ve emitted from the atmosphere. How? Like I …
