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Saving the World at 8mpg
2007-11-24 14:27:00 Another great website I came across recently is by a guy called Andy Baird, who swapped his house for a gas-guzzling RV, but actually substantially reduced his carbon footprint - and is saving loads of money to boot! “To most people with full-time jobs, travel means vacation travel… and that means you pile into your car ... More About: World , Action , The World , Carbon footprint , Saving
Saving the World at 8mpg
2007-11-24 14:27:00 Another great website I came across recently is by a guy called Andy Baird, who swapped his house for a gas-guzzling RV, but actually substantially reduced his carbon footprint - and is saving loads of money to boot! “To most people with full-time jobs, travel means vacation travel… and that means you pile into your car ... More About: World , Action , The World , Carbon footprint , Saving
The biofuel debate forum
2007-11-24 10:23:00 I recently came across the Biofuel forum website and thought you would be interested in hearing about it. As regular readers will know I believe the best use of biofuels is the recycling of spent cooking and other oils and turning organic waste into ethanol. I’m not so hot on using farming land that was primarily meant ... More About: Information , Debate , Forum , Biofuels
The biofuel debate forum
2007-11-24 10:23:00 I recently came across the Biofuel forum website and thought you would be interested in hearing about it. As regular readers will know I believe the best use of biofuels is the recycling of spent cooking and other oils and turning organic waste into ethanol. I’m not so hot on using farming land that was primarily meant ... More About: Information , Debate , Forum , Biofuels
Making water ?out of thin air?
2007-11-17 11:11:00 Yesterday I wrote about the Water cone, an inexpensive plastic product that can be used to desalinate water using just solar energy. Today you may be interested to read about the Max Water, which will actually extract fresh water almost out of thin air. It’s ingenious workings comprise internal wind turbines which power refrigeration units that cause condensation ... More About: Wind power
Making water ?out of thin air?
2007-11-17 11:11:00 Yesterday I wrote about the Water cone, an inexpensive plastic product that can be used to desalinate water using just solar energy. Today you may be interested to read about the Max Water, which will actually extract fresh water almost out of thin air. It’s ingenious workings comprise internal wind turbines which power refrigeration units that cause condensation ... More About: Wind power
Norway building vast ?Doomsday vault?
2007-11-17 11:05:00 Here’s a question. What will happen if global warming wipes out large numbers of plants in its seemingly unstoppable onslaught? And what about all the species man is destroying itself with deforestation, dam building and so on? Well, the Norwegian government is getting quite concerned about the potential loss of a diverse range of genetic ... More About: Building , Action , Norway , Vault , Forestry
Norway building vast ?Doomsday vault?
2007-11-17 11:05:00 Here’s a question. What will happen if global warming wipes out large numbers of plants in its seemingly unstoppable onslaught? And what about all the species man is destroying itself with deforestation, dam building and so on? Well, the Norwegian government is getting quite concerned about the potential loss of a diverse range of genetic ... More About: Building , Action , Norway , Vault , Forestry
Scotland reduces bus fares for passengers who supply cooking oil
2007-11-17 10:53:00 As regular readers will know, I am totally against all the hype about biofuels which are being promoted as the replacement for gasoline. For reasons such as people needing the farming land to grow food etc, biofuels can never get anywhere near even a 10% replacement. With one exception, which is highlighted by Stagecoach buses in ... More About: Cooking , Scotland , Biofuels , Passengers , Cookin
Scotland reduces bus fares for passengers who supply cooking oil
2007-11-17 10:53:00 As regular readers will know, I am totally against all the hype about biofuels which are being promoted as the replacement for gasoline. For reasons such as people needing the farming land to grow food etc, biofuels can never get anywhere near even a 10% replacement. With one exception, which is highlighted by Stagecoach buses in ... More About: Cooking , Scotland , Biofuels , Passengers , Cookin
China to ?reject any binding emissions pact?
2007-11-16 12:10:00 China will reject any agreement that calls for binding limits on carbon dioxide emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol, an EU official said last Wednesday. Guido Sacconi, chairman of a visiting European Parliament delegation, said that was the impression he got after three days of talks in Beijing with government and environmental officials. “In the private ... More About: Global Warming , China , Emissions , Carbon footprint , Missi
China to ?reject any binding emissions pact?
2007-11-16 12:10:00 China will reject any agreement that calls for binding limits on carbon dioxide emissions that will replace the Kyoto Protocol, an EU official said last Wednesday. Guido Sacconi, chairman of a visiting European Parliament delegation, said that was the impression he got after three days of talks in Beijing with government and environmental officials. “In the private ... More About: Global Warming , China , Emissions , Carbon footprint , Missi
Cutting calories can help save lives and the planet
2007-11-16 12:07:00 America’s obesity epidemic and global warming might not seem to have much in common. But public health experts suggest people can attack them both by cutting calories and carbon dioxide at the same time. How? They advise that people get out of their cars and walk or bike half an hour a day instead of driving - ... More About: Lifestyle , Planet , Transport , Lives , Carbon footprint
Jay Leno?s green garage makeover
2007-11-16 12:03:00 Jay Leno certainly has been throwing some green at making his personal garage as eco-friendly as possible. $450K alone went for the 54-kilowatt solar-power system he installed atop his garage last month. Just to diversify (Because Jay says two-thirds of the day, there?s not enough sunlight to generate electricity), he also spent $19,000 on a 10KW vertical-axis ... More About: Garage , Green , Alternative Energy , Jay Leno
China losing a million acres a year to desertification
2007-11-16 11:59:00 Moon lake in north-eastern China attracts a million visitors a year, but now it looks more like a village pond, encircled by railings and fading fast as the desert sucks up more and more water. In the 1960s, the lake used to be 10 metres deep ? now it is barely one metre. The disappearing lake at ... More About: Water , Million , Year , Forestry
The Watercone
2007-11-16 11:55:00 A new invention called the Water cone is a solar powered water desalinator that takes salt or brackish water and generates freshwater. It is simple to use, lightweight and mobile and the technology is simple in design and use. According to UNICEF every day 5000 children die as a result of diarrhoea caused by drinking unsafe water. With up ...
Another crackpot invention - or the answer to the fuel crisis?
2007-11-11 13:59:00 According to the UK’s Mail on Sunday newspaper, scientists in South East England have invented a device that outputs up to twice as much energy as is fed into it. Now, we all learned at school that the 2nd law of thermodynamics forbids energy to be created out of thin air, however Paul Calver, the inventor, ... More About: Answer , Fuel , Invention , Alternative Energy , Crisis
Revolutionary new roof-based wind turbines
2007-11-08 10:18:00 The wind turbines that engineer Bil Becker installed on top of a Chicago apartment building last year probably don?t resemble the structures that pop into your head when you think ?windmill.? Instead of propellers mounted on soaring poles, these turbines are made primarily with curved, galvanized steel shaped like the double helix of DNA. This special design ... More About: Wind , Alternative Energy , Roof , Wind power , Revolutionary
Meet your meat
2007-11-07 13:21:00 Aside from the fact that meat farming is highly damaging to the environment (farmed animals produce more greenhouse gas emissions than the world?s entire transport system - 18% vs 13.5%), it’s also an intensely cruel industry. Now, when you eat your steak or bacon, I’m sure that (if you even think of it) you believe the ... More About: Meat , Drink , Wildlife , Meet
King Corn
2007-11-05 19:26:00 Here’s a trailer from a new documentary about America’s love affair with corn. More About: Corn , King , Forestry , King Corn
Note to other bloggers: I?ve removed the nofollow tag
2007-11-04 09:25:00 Thanks to many other bloggers linking here, this blog now has a Google page rank of 5. As I receive a lot of excellent comments to many posts, I’ve often thought it unfair that people contributing in this way are denied the small return favour of receiving a little page rank back from me, due to ... More About: Action , Note , Bloggers , Nofollow
It?s a large world after all
2007-11-03 00:16:00 The Disneyland ‘It’s a small world’ ride boats routinely bottom out under the weight of super-sized riders, bringing the popular ride to a grinding halt. That’s increased the wear and tear on the fiberglass boats, which have been in use since the ride opened during the 1964 World ’s Fair, when Americans, on average, weighed 25 pounds ... More About: Large
Scientists find oldest living animal - then kill it!
2007-11-01 22:10:00 A clam that lived on the seabed in the frigid waters off Iceland’s north coast has been hailed as the longest-lived animal ever discovered. The mollusc, which is thought to have lurked beneath the waves until at least the age of 405, would have been a juvenile when Galileo picked up his first telescope, Hamlet was ... More About: Living , Animal , Wildlife , Find , Scientists
Wind powered light
2007-11-01 19:04:00 Dutch design house Demakersvan created a very clever wind powered outdoor lamp. “An outside lamp drawn from our home surroundings. The gently sweeping Dutch windmills were actually perfect generators of their own. With that in mind, we made this lamp. With every breeze it stores energy, enough to enjoy every summer evening until forever. Contemporary vs traditional, ... More About: Wind , Alternative Energy , Light , Wind power
?Heroes? actress attempts to stop Japanese dolphin slaughter
2007-11-01 18:16:00 TV star Hayden Panettiere has been involved in a violent confrontation with Japanese fishermen as she tried to disrupt their annual dolphin slaughter. The 18-year-old actress, who stars in TV blockbuster Heroes , paddled out on a surfboard in an attempt to reach a pod of dolphins to stop them being driven into a nearby cove and ... More About: Wildlife , Dolphin , Actress
The answer is spinach!
2007-11-01 16:06:00 Watch this clip to the end to understand the headline of this post. Bill Maher comments on how the drug companies want and need their customers to be ill as much as possible and how total cures are not in their interests to explore. He covers things such as type 2 diabetes in children never occurring ... More About: Humour , Drink , Answer , Spinach , Nach
A new invention could cut wind turbine maintenance by £30,000
2007-11-01 10:26:00 A Cambridge University spin-out has hit upon a revolutionary way to cut the cost of maintaining the world?s wind turbines. Wind Technologies has developed a ?brushless? system, which along with eliminating the need for brush replacement, also doubles the life time of the generator from 90,000 hours to 180,000 hours before failure. ?It depends on the size ... More About: Invention , Alternative Energy , Maintenance , Wind power
Nuclear power to explode in India - but China prefers coal
2007-11-01 10:06:00 To curb greenhouse gas emissions, India is poised to dramatically increase its reliance on nuclear energy - but there’ll be no overall benefit to the planet if China ’s coal binge continues. A new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency forecasts India will increase nuclear production eight-fold by 2030 to account for 26 percent of its ... More About: Global Warming , Power , Nuclear
Great invention: The wind roof
2007-10-31 09:16:00 This is a conceptual study for the construction of large roofs that are clad with wind turbines. The wind turbines shade the space below and at the same time as they rotate, they generate electricity to power whatever is under the roof and or anything around it. This particular roof is shown covering a large swimming pool ... More About: Architecture , Wind , Great , Invention , Roof
Organic produce IS better for you
More articles from this author:2007-10-29 12:43:00 Organic produce is better for you than ordinary food, a major European Union-funded study says. The £12m four-year project, led by Newcastle University, found a general trend showing organic food contained more antioxidants and less fatty acids. Researchers grew fruit, vegetables and reared cattle on adjacent organic and non-organic sites across Europe, including a 725-acre farm attached ... More About: Organic , Forestry , Produce , Organ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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