After spending years working into IT Stefanos decided it was time to pursue his dream and go full time with blogging. Time was right for the first Greek blogger who tries to make his living out of… oh well blogging on www.pestaola.gr
Stefanos Kofopoulos as his full Greek name is, lives and works in Athens, Greece. He loves his city and aims to prove that with his new blog project Make Athens Green which hopes to put a new plant to everyone's balcony.
When he's not blogging he co-hosts a radio show and remember those crazy university years that gave him a Bachelor in MIS and MCP certification.
My recent trip to Amsterdam taught me two things: weather is pretty much British (if you know what i mean) and water is a valuable good. I guess that explains why drinking water is so expensive and why The Netherlands are into water recycling. The picture was taken in Naarden Bussum train station, an area 50 minutes away from Amsterdam’s center. It’s pretty much self explanatory but if [...]
To make money you need to work hard, win the lottery or stop by Greece and recycle glass, aluminum or plastic bottless. The city of Athens installed quite a few of those huge recycling machines that give back a little something every time someone recycles. The price list in Euros is:
1 cent per soda or beer can
1 cent per 3 glass bottles
1 cent per 3 plastic bottles
The city of Athens made a big leap ahead by signing an agreement with all major food stores for replacing plastics bags used for carrying goods. Starting on April 14th 2008 every major super market within Athens will promote and sell the new green bags made from eco friendly materials.
Retailers like AB Vasilopoulos, Atlantic, Veropoulos, Bazaar, Galaxias, Carrefour Marinopoulos, Dia Hellas, My Market, Metro and Sklavenitis agreed to heavily promote and sell [...]
In a collaborative effort for public environmental awareness, electronics giant Philips and news station SKAI are giving away 50.000 compact fluorescent lamps in Greece. When compared to incandescent lamps of the same luminous flux, CFLs use less energy and have a longer rated life, saving thousands of tons of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
On January 26th, Philips and SKAI representatives will be giving away CLFs in the city of Athens, Piraeus, [...]
Greeks are not to be considered as the most environmental conscious citizens of this planet but rules are made to be broken. Over the last couple of months more and more environmental friendly, or green if you will, commercials air on Greek radio stations. Greeks are now bombarded with commercials about new hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius and the Honda Civic, but if you thought that was it, you were wrong.
There are [...]
Have you ever thought of dressing green along with living green? Organic clothing is a new option for wearing your favorite t-shirts without harming the environment and your skin. A typical conventional cotton t-shirt uses about 150 grams of acutely toxic pesticides and insecticides; that’s the size of a cup of sugar. Indigo clothing, a UK based company, offers a variety of organic t-shirts, v-nekcs, polo shirts and jerseys from “a number of [...]
It took developers almost 20 years since the “Wind of Change”, a 1990 power ballad written by Klaus Meine, vocalist of Scorpions, to come up with maglev wind turbines. The new type of wind turbine uses full-permanent magnets to eliminate friction and claims to be 1000x more efficient than the windmill next door. The new wind turbines can produce electricity with wind speed as low as 5Km/h or 3 miles per hour. The technology is [...]
