Indoor smoking bans resulted in outdoor smoking areas but they may be creating a new health hazard, U.S. researchers suggest. "Indoor smoking bans have helped to create more of these outdoor environments where people are exposed to secondhand smoke," study...
Athens :: Greece
| updated Sun Oct 11 17:50:03 -0700 2009
| green-news
Roof greening is as old as the hills, literally. So called human civilisation has passed through three distinct stages of development1 The first stage of development and differentiation from the rest of the animal kingdom was the rise of the...
Roof greening is as old as the hills, literally. So called human civilisation has passed through three distinct stages of development1 The first stage of development and differentiation from the rest of the animal kingdom was the rise of the...
Athens :: Greece
| updated Sat Oct 31 06:40:42 -0700 2009
| green-news
An observation and commentary on the times --- Writer, artist, teacher, scholar and humanitarian Esther Warner Dendel (1910-2002) once wrote - “It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose...
Over 2000 firefighters, soldiers, and volunteers began battling the inferno in Greece again Monday morning, using water-dropping aircraft and helicopters from France, Italy and Cyprus. The monster blaze near Athens prompted the evacuation of almost 20,000 people, according to CNN...
Athens :: Greece
| updated Sat Nov 21 00:04:50 -0800 2009
| green-news
Children place plastic bottles in a recycling bin in Syntagma Square, where Skai TV and Eurobank have helped set up the �Recycling Village,� which comprises a series of pavilions where people of all ages can learn more about how to...
The decision allows renewable energy producers with wind park projects on the islands of Evia, central Greece, and the Cyclades to co-finance a submarine cable to link them to the mainland. The undersea cable will be laid by state-controlled Public...
The key changes to the bill, heralded by Environment, Energy and Climate Change Minister Tina Birbili last month, are the inclusion of any areas of burned forestland in the national land register within a month of the blaze and the...
Athens :: Greece
| updated Sun Nov 15 09:30:52 -0800 2009
| green-news
The plants are gasping for sunlight as several high-rise buildings have encompassed it from three sides over the years hindering the natural growth of the plants...Water logging in the garden following a slight rainfall during monsoon is the cause of...
The report highlighted rising atmospheric pollution levels and the absence of a comprehensive waste management system in Attica as an enduring problem. Climbing air pollution in other big towns, including Thessaloniki, Patra, Volos and Kozani, was also highlighted.
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