Our Breathing Planet

Shark finning can be largely summarized as the monetizing of human whims. It is the brutal practice of slicing off a shark’s fins, often for use in shark fin soup,…

  Has The Fuse Already Been Lit? Population growth is a quite controversial topic to write about so let’s start somewhere neutral where no dilemma exists. The industrial revolution is generally considered to…

There is a war ravaging our world.  I speak not of the conflicts between men or countries.  I speak of another, vastly different kind of war.  It is not a…

How to end the illegal wildlife trade really is the eternal question which has a very simple answer – minimize or stop demand! I have been thinking about this for…

An interesting article  by my friends at Grist on the logic behind climate change and how people, especially in America, view it. What are your thoughts? *** The consensus in American politics…

BIG DAY TODAY…! The world’s 7-billionth baby is born! As The Guardian reports, Danica May Camacho, a girl born in Philippine capital Manila, is chosen by UN to symbolically mark…

Solar power’s power…sounds funny but it’s what this fantastic infographic is all about – solar power in general. The mass population does not need to understand renewable energy very much in detail,…

Simply put, the truth about plastic is rather dire – every piece of plastic ever produced still exists. Some more interesting but unpleasant facts – all in the inforgraphic below….

October is GMO Awareness Month and many people still do not know exactly what GMOs are. This time, however, I would like to show you a fantastic infographic from Nature’s Path…

Plastic bag usage is an omnipresent curse! Yet, some countries have started working on removing that curse – both from the environment and our lives. Go reusable cotton/jute bags! Do…

What do you know about hydraulic fracking without having to read Wikipedia’s extensive research on it? For all of you who don’t want to spend hours researching the topic, here…

Do you really know what poison lurks in your fancy make-up? Confused by chlorobutanol? Baffled by benzyl? George Blacksell at The Ecologist has the skinny on beauty’s nastiest additives  …

GOOD magazine created an infographic video about Vampire Energy – all of the energy used by electronics in your house while you are not actively using them. The chart itself…

I came across this great infographic on pollution and wanted to share it with you so you can see some interesting facts about our contaminated world. You might wonder why…

Here’s one more fun infographic for the weekend, this one from Well Home, and energy audit provider. It shows the widespread support for energy efficiency around the world, as well as some…

You’ve gone out of your way to make sure your home is safe from bacteria —  but as this infographic from EcoMom shows, you may have missed the chemical toxins…

Organic farming is known to be environmentally sustainable, but can it be economically sustainable also? Well, great news for all organic food lovers and all farmers – yes, it can!…

Do you know what is bile bear farming? According to Wikipedia, bile bear, or battery bear, refers to Asiatic black bears kept in captivity in China and Vietnam to harvest bile, a digestive juice produced by the liver and stored…

                  Probably most greenies at some point face the dilemma between the lesser of two evils. Do all “green” people walk the…

As an environmental activist, I could not help but share with you this great interview on Grist. At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the…

A photo says a thousand words – especially amazing conservation photographs that evoke a myriad of emotions. Conservation photography may be a discipline you’ve never heard of. While the foundations have…

Today, July 11th 2011,  marks the 23rd annual World Population Day, instituted by the United Nations to highlight the impacts of population growth on people and the environment. Governments, universities…

With the steep rise of wealth in China and Vietnam, the perception of rhino horn benefits seems to have grown as well. Even though up to 2007 only about a…

Hello everyone, Recently CleanTechnica, one of the world’s leading cleantech websites, invited me to write an article on e-waste as this is my field of work. I am happy and…

I have had my Facebook page for about a year now and it has certainly grown surprisingly well. Yet, as much as I currently have almost 4,000 followers, I have…

                    A recent article on Reuters infuriated me – Kenya will allow genetically modified corn to alleviate shortage. Serious? Please, help…

  Greenwashing has certainly contributed to the challenge we are faced with today – the challenge of achieving a more sustainable society. As Albert Einstein once said “We can not…

                      I keep meeting people who downplay, deny or dismiss the scientific consensus on the extent of global warming, its significance, and…

I love Consumerism. The idea of “I SHOP, therefore I AM” is a fantastic ego boost, so what’s not to like? Wikipedia explains Consumerism as “a social and economic order…

They say the worst part of a beautiful dream is when it is over. The best part is when you realize that that dream just transformed your world and marked…

    What a fantastic way of explaining where do all communication on climate change get it all wrong? In an era when people get overwhelmed by the amount of…

A recent article I read woke me up to a possible bigger picture. Certainly, species go extinct every day, and the pace thereof is increasing at an alarming rate, but…

Today, technology in every area has grown with leaps and bounds and the LED light bulb is no exception. The progress of this efficient and useful light bulb has been…

What does ocean conservation mean to you and how much are you willing to give up in order to conserve our oceans? Do you know what role oceans play in each…

One of the main challenges of today’s world is fair trade, especially fair trade of food. We have all heard of the dreary conditions in which farmers toil to provide…

The amount of pesticides in today’s produce is a clear notion that our food safety is compromised. Pesticides nowadays are the omnipresent monster that is inherent to nearly every fruit…

We have all wondered at some point whether organic or local food is better. Wait, you might think, why do we need to have the dilemma between organic and local…

Global Warming’s toll – twelve years after warming oceans caused the worst coral die-off on record, coral reefs in still unable to recover. In 1998 an El Niño weather pattern sparked…

Have you ever thought whether solar power plants really are a clean energy source? Is it in any way connected to water, wind, soil or other elements? Is it applicable…

Recycling of plastic is not a yes or no story, let alone when it comes to practices in Asia. Recently I came across an article, which describes the plastic recycling…

Biotechnology has long modified living organisms according to human needs. Genetically modified organisms alas are common in many developed countries now. Fruits and vegetables look at us from the shelf…

Based on the scattered collection efforts and the ambiguity of the whole process, many of us in the UAE have reached a point where we ask ourselves: is it better…

The Story of a Cat In a Clinical Trial is my own interpretation of how my pet cat would feel if I sent him to take part in animal testing…

The flood in Pakistan is unequivocally one of the worst environmental disasters in recent history. Have you asked yourself what, apart from global warming, could be one of the main…

  Living green by saving water does not sound too hard, does it? Water is the most precious commodity on Earth and in the Middle East we have the highest…

  Hello Everyone, My name is Zornitza Hadjitodorova and I am the administrator of Our Breathing Planet. I am Bulgarian and currently live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where I…