Ang Peregrino Recommends 28: Green​Launches​.Com

Green Launches
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Ever since I was young, I have been an advo­cate for the envi­ron­ment. I remem­ber back in high school, I would cut out news arti­cles on the envi­ron­ment. I kept them in this really nerdy enve­lope. I even did a study on for­est cover in Min­danao for my Inves­ti­ga­tory Project in Biol­ogy class. Wow, I was a nerd, man. haha

I lost a lit­tle of that gung-ho atti­tude for the envi­ron­ment after­wards, but I do remem­ber plant­ing some trees in the Novi­tiate sev­eral years ago. I think the trees are still there– a tes­ta­ment to what was a bud­ding voca­tion that was later on nipped in the bud (naks!).

That love for the envi­ron­ment was brought back once again when I watched Al Gore’s An Incon­ve­nient Truth. I even fea­tured its web­site Cli​mate​Cri​sis​.Net in AngPere­grino Rec­om­mends a while back. My work in Linc Inter­na­tional is also slowly mov­ing towards work for the envi­ron­ment. I am now part of a huge (and I mean H-U-G-E!) project which will have great impact on air pol­lu­tion, our car­bon emis­sions, our petro­leum depen­dence, as well as on the over-all econ­omy of the coun­try. I might be talk­ing about that in more detail soon.

That is why I love web­sites like Green­Launches. Green­launches is about “cool stuff to heal earth”. And the stuff here are really cool: about an inge­nious way to pro­duce ethanol from rub­bish that will fuel cars. Or this air­con tech­nol­ogy that uses cool water from 1,600 feet below the ocean waves to cool build­ings in Hon­olulu. Once the cold sea­wa­ter has done its job, it is pumped back into the ocean. Or this truly eco-building in Sin­ga­pore? Or the Fil­ter­Brella, which is an umbrella, that will allow the user to col­lect water in its han­dle (which is also a portable bot­tle). The canopy is made of com­postable poly­lac­tic acid plas­tic blends, which makes it envi­ron­ment friendly. Adding to the envi­ron­men­tal friend­li­ness is the inno­v­a­tive acti­vated car­bon fil­ter in its hol­low rod. The hol­low rod lets in rain­wa­ter, which, then gets puri­fied by the acti­vated car­bon. Or this new kind of hunt­ing for pre­cious met­als called Urban­Min­ing?

For show­ing us that help­ing the envi­ron­ment is cool, and for giv­ing us hope that so many cool things are hap­pen­ing around the world that will allow us to heal the earth, AngPere­grino Rec­om­mends Green​Launches​.Com this week.