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EthicalandGreen.net is a resource for all who seek to translate concerns over the climate and compassion for humanity into real-time changes in their lifestyle. A selection of the top news stories of interest along with a full mashup of what is happening in the green and ethical world, you are sure to find something of interest.

Clean and pollutant-free water is a primary means of maintaining health and wellness. Thanks to the fact that in modern times there is a deeper understanding of the relationship between drinking water and health, there are more households wanting clean water and hence Water Filtration Systems.

The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to evidence in a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published October 19.

Oil prices continued their upward trend for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday on expectations that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates for the first time in more than ten years to support the growth in demand for fuel in the country.

Until a time, the waste generated in your homes, offices etc, would be recycled to stop the disastrous effects on the environment. That was an effort to make the environment greener, but later as we shifted to more machines, more technologically dependent way of living, the waste generated by such a lifestyle was not only abundant, but extremely harmful to the environment.

In January this year Iceland's National Energy Authority announced it had created the world's first magma-based geothermal energy system after drilling 1.3 miles through the earth's crust and hitting magma - only the second time magma has ever been reached. We find out how the project is progressing six months on and whether the project could be replicated anywhere else.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged member nations Monday to reach a compromise ahead of a climate change summit scheduled for December in Copenhagen and called on the United States to stay engaged.

Alternative maritime power for docked container vessels has made steady progress throughout the decade. But isn't it time more ports and shipping lines adopted the technology? asks Alex Hawkes. As the climate talks in Copenhagen draw to a close and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) comes under increasing pressure to address the shipping industry's carbon emissions, alternative maritime power (AMP) is looking an increasingly obvious solution.

Despite being touted as the best way to clean up dirty fossil fuels, commercial deployment of carbon capture storage (CCS) in the power industry has been near non-existent. Now, for the first time ever, a coal-fired power plant is being retrofitted with CCS.

The decision by Iraq to invite interest in a number of solar independent power producer (IPP) projects is not the first time that Baghdad has sought to push ahead with competitively tendered IPP schemes.