CO2 reduction made simple for responsible travelers
Green Travel Choice on your iPhone provides you with transparency to make an informed travel choice while on the road taking CO2 emissions into consideration. Whether it is your next trip overseas or just a ride downtown: Green Travel Choice gives responsible travelers a simple and effective way to make informed travel choices.
Remember that for example if you take the SUV from New York City to Washington D.C., the CO2 emissions are about 110 kg (240 lbs). If you would take the train they are only 21 kg (46 lbs). The average weekly CO2 emissions per person for travel in industrialised nations is around 50-66 kg (110-145 lbs).
Environmental Working Group’s Sunscreen application is an easy way to check just how effective your sunscreen is at protecting your skin. EWG’s Sunscreen guide ranks the current crop of 500 beach and sport sunscreens, listing products as green (recommended), yellow (caution), or red (avoid). Our researchers considered how well each sunscreen blocks the sun’s harmful rays, and if it contains ingredients that could soak through the skin to pose other kinds of health risks.
The need for the guide? A surge in exaggerated SPF claims above 50 and new disclosures about potentially hazardous ingredients, in particular recently developed government data linking the common sunscreen ingredient vitamin A to accelerated development of skin tumors and lesions.
Industry’s lackluster performance and the federal Food and Drug Administration’s failure to issue regulations for sunscreens lead EWG to warn consumers not to depend on any sunscreen for primary protection from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. Hats, clothing and shade are still the most reliable sun protection.
