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Changing to energy efficient bulbs is not enough - you must convince your f
2007-10-01 11:26:00 I’ve been doing a lot of remodelling around the house over the last few weeks and have therefore had many trips to the local DIY stores. While there I have been amazed at the number of people in the lighting aisles that shun the energy saving CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Bulbs) and go for the ‘cheap’ ... More About: Finance , Energy , Lighting , Energy Efficiency , Changing
The carbon offset child labourers
2007-09-26 10:04:00 Pumping furiously on a foot treadle in the afternoon heat, six-year-old Sarju Ram is irrigating her impoverished family?s field, improving the crop and - without knowing it - helping environmentally sensitive holiday makers assuage their guilt over long-haul flights to dream destinations. But Sarju and her four brothers and sisters working flat out in a clump ... More About: Carbon offset , Carbon , Alternative Energy , Child , Carbon footprint
Serbian man runs his car on wood
2007-09-26 09:42:00 A pensioner from Serbia transformed his 20 years-old Yugo into a car that runs on wood and coal. These fuels have proved to be much cheaper than gasoline prices for which continue to rise. The transformation, however, led to a reduction of the maximum possible speed of the vehicle to only 85 kph (about 53 mph). Full story ... More About: Wood , Alternative Energy , Serbian , Runs
Solar powered homes are outselling a weak market
2007-09-26 09:39:00 At the Solar Power 2007 conference in Long Beach this week, participants claim they are seeing an unprecedented boom for their industry. Federal tax credits continue to be a positive factor, as is California?s pioneering Million Solar Roofs rebate program. The Golden State has long been the dominant leader in this area. Improving technology and uncertainties in ... More About: Industry , Market , Homes , Solar energy
Mountaintop removal is devastating hundreds of square miles of Appalachia
2007-09-21 17:35:00 This is one online video that will make you angry. Angry and sad. The devastation that Corporate America is wreaking on some of its most beautiful landscapes and habitats is simply astounding. Rather than paying for a workforce of miners to tunnel underground for coal, leaving most of the surrounding countryside untouched, it seems the latest ... More About: Pollution , Industry , Miles , Vast , Mount
UK Wave hub gets planning go-ahead
2007-09-21 17:26:00 The UK government has given planning approval for the world’s first large-scale wave project off the coast of north Cornwall. Sited 10 miles (16km) out to sea off Hayle, the hub - which would collect energy from wave turbines - could generate electricity for 14,000 homes. It should deliver electricity to the national grid by 2009. It is ... More About: Planning , Wave energy , Wave , Ahead
The UK has enough plutonium for 17,000 nuclear bombs!
2007-09-21 17:24:00 The UK has built up a stockpile of 100 tonnes of plutonium - enough to make 17,000 nuclear bombs, according to a Royal Society report. The plutonium mainly comes from reprocessed spent uranium fuel from the country’s nuclear power plants. The society warns that it could be made into “a crude nuclear bomb” by a terror group, ... More About: Pollution , Nuclear , Nuclear power , Toni , Bombs
Melting Arctic ice uncovers the legendary Northwest passage
2007-09-21 17:21:00 Explorers have searched for it for centuries and failed. However, it seems that now the Northwest Passage ? a legendary sea route that connects Europe and Asia has been uncovered by one of the most unlikely culprits. No not archeologists, not scientists, not explorers, but global warming. More details More About: Global Warming , Arctic , Waterways , Northwest Passage
How many Global Warming Deniers are in the pockets of Big Oil?
2007-09-21 17:16:00 Court documents have surfaced claiming that prominent climate denier Pat Michaels has withdrawn as an expert witness from a Vermont court case after a request was submitted that he reveal his funding sources. In the documents, Michaels states that he was dependent for his livelihood on the income he got through his wholly owned firm, New ... More About: Global Warming , Industry , Global , Campaigns , Armin
What will happen to the world?s population when energy production declines?
2007-09-20 16:28:00 Energy is the ?enabling? resource. Most, if not all other natural and manmade resources and their capacities to sustain human life are derived from or dependent upon one or more sources of primary energy. The fact that the amount of energy available to human beings is subject to a limit, global peak energy, has profound implications for ... More About: World , Energy , Peak Oil , Production , The World
A train runs through a Bangkok market
2007-09-20 07:41:00 How overcrowded does a city have to become before there’s so little space you have to locate street markets right over train tracks, with trains passing through? More About: Market , Bangkok , Train , Runs , TRAI
Be the change, share the story and win part of $200,000 for your school
2007-09-17 09:05:00 Last year, Ryan Hoye was a 17-year old who wanted to make a difference. Like the rest of us, he was perhaps a little daunted by a world filled with challenges ranging from global warming to war, poverty and homelessness. Inspired by a teacher at his high school who had initiated a science project on environmental ... More About: Information , Story , Action , Change , School
The age of guerilla gardening
2007-09-16 13:16:00 The term “guerrilla” may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist’s nonviolent direct action ... More About: Gardening , Guerilla , Forestry , Arden , Garde
India looks to sea to cool the planet
2007-09-16 13:13:00 Can India sink carbon dioxide emissions in the oceans to ?manage? global warming? Among the world?s top polluters, India will test this futuristic concept from January to March 2009 in the frigid Scotia Sea, off the Antarctic Peninsula in the South Atlantic. The experiment will simulate the Ice Age, when the earth was drier and iron particles ... More About: Global Warming , Planet , Cool , Water
Even cooler than the Segway?
2007-09-16 13:09:00 This one-wheeled 380-watt electric scooter features a detachable footbridge that visibly mimics a chariot style stance. It will travel about 15 miles on a single charge (at a top speed of 13mph) and can be juiced back into service in about three to four hours. Including your choice of five colors, expect this one to retail for ... More About: Transport , Segway , Cooler
New invention: Magnet powered refrigerators
2007-09-16 13:04:00 Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have invented a new method of magnetic cooling technology that brings a whole new meaning to refrigerator magnets. Scientists have been able to drop the temperature of a room from 20° C to 11° C by taking the heat energy from opposing magnetic fields and thermodynamically reversing it to ... More About: Energy Efficiency , Invention , Alternative Energy , Magnet , Gera
Pollution blamed for decrease in Arctic baby boys
2007-09-12 18:29:00 Twice as many girls as boys are being born across much of the Arctic because of pollution from industrialised countries, scientists have found. The study also found that in parts of Russia many newborn boys were sickly or underweight. The Scandinavian scientists behind the study suspect the same to be the case in Greenland and Canada. They say ... More About: Baby , Pollution , Boys , Lame
Human activity on S. America?s coasts impacting marine life
2007-09-12 18:26:00 Increased human activity along South America ?s coasts is severely impacting marine habitats and could have devastating effects on the people, plants, and animals that rely on them. According to a new comprehensive study released by The Nature Conservancy, many South American countries face mounting threats to their coastal and marine environments and suffer from a startling ... More About: Life , Human , Rivers , Marine
Ford generating electricity from waste paint fumes
2007-09-12 18:22:00 Ford is going to feed the fumes from their Oakville paint shop into a fuel cell that will convert those fumes into power. They’ve purchased a 300 kilowatt fuel cell for the plant and the emissions from their paintshop will be captured on carbon beads and then consumed by the fuel cell. The plant is expected to ... More About: Ford , Pollution , Electricity , Alternative Energy , Waste
Avoid commercial brands, make your own popcorn and be healthier!
2007-09-11 18:42:00 There’s an illness known as popcorn lung which has been diagnosed for many years among workers in popcorn factories. Now you would think that a disease with such a name and history would be a warning sign to popcorn manufacturers and government health agencies that something is wrong. You would think that, but it wouldn’t be the ... More About: Commercial , Pollution , Drink , Popcorn , Make
11 MW solar tower complex opens in Spain
2007-09-10 17:37:00 Europe’s first concentrated tower open recently near the sunny southern Spanish city of Seville. The 11 megawatt plant took four years to build and uses 624 large movable mirrors called heliostats. Each of the mirrors has a surface measuring 1,290 square feet that concentrates the Sun’s rays to the top of a 377 foot high tower where ... More About: Solar , Spain , Alternative Energy , Complex , Solar energy
The Envirocycle backyard composter
2007-09-10 16:48:00 The Envi rocycle Composter produces quality compost quicker and easier than conventional composters by its rolling and mixing action which keeps the ingredients well mixed and aerated. It also makes compost tea, a rich organic liquid plant food much appreciated by gardeners. Simply turn it a few times and your compost is fully mixed - without having to ... More About: Backyard , Forestry
Sam: The Eco car from Cree
2007-09-10 01:48:00 Stunning, simply stunning. SAM is a Swiss award-winning and patented Zero Emission Vehicle designed and developed by Cree Ltd. It is currently at prototype stage but is approved for all Swiss public roads. 80 vehicles initially produced for public testing in the cities of Zurich and Basle are currently running mainly on Swiss roads and owned by ... More About: Transport
Shockwaves from melting icecaps are triggering earthquakes
2007-09-10 01:18:00 High up inside the Arctic circle the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet has accelerated so dramatically that it is triggering earthquakes for the first time. Scientists monitoring the glaciers have revealed that movements of gigantic pieces of ice are creating shockwaves that register up to three on the Richter scale. The speed of the Arctic ice melt ... More About: Global Warming , Earthquakes , Wave , Geri , Aves
Global warming to wipe out most polar bears
2007-09-09 10:22:00 Two-thirds of the world?s polar bears will disappear by 2050, even under moderate projections for shrinking summer sea ice caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, government scientists reported on Friday. The finding is part of a year long review of the effects of climate and ice changes on polar bears to help determine whether they ... More About: Global Warming , Wildlife , Global , Bears , Wipe
Would you believe it: Pee powered batteries are here!
2007-09-09 10:05:00 Now on the shelves in AA and AAA sizes in Japan - Pee powered batteries! They can be recharged with a variety of liquids including urine and other bodily fluids, are supposed to last 10 years, and output 500 milliamp-hours. This is equivalent to zinc-carbon batteries but a third of alkaline power output. More details More About: Batteries , Alternative Energy , Erie
The low maintenance, eco-friendly lawn
2007-09-08 19:22:00 Eco-Lawn is the ultimate landscaping solution. Created from a specially designed blend of seven fine fescue grasses, it’s virtually maintenance free. It thrives in full sun as well as deep shade, and reduces mowing to once a month, saving up to 75% of your maintenance costs over the course of an entire growing season. What’s more, ... More About: Water , Maintenance , Friendly , Tena
How to purify water easily and for free
2007-09-07 09:32:00 You may have seen the Inhabitat solar bottle water purifiers before. If you haven’t they are a beautifully designed and highly cost-effective and efficient means for purifying water. They work on the principle of using a combination of ultra violet radiation and heat to destroy all germs in water to make it drinkable. Although these are certainly ... More About: Free , Water
It?s my rainforest now. No logging!
2007-09-07 09:15:00 After leaving his office in London?s Mayfair, it is a 12-hour journey by air and road before he can view his 400,000-acre plot in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The estate is the size of Greater London. Johan Eliasch, who is valued at £355m in The Sunday Times Rich List, is believed to have paid ... More About: Global Warming , Action , Fore , Rainforest
The eco-friendly coffee cup
More articles from this author:2007-09-07 09:03:00 Every year, Americans drink more than 100 billion cups of coffee. Of those, 14.4 billion are served in disposable paper cups - enough to wrap the earth 55 times if placed end-to-end! Those paper cups contain a plastic lining made from a petrochemical that would produce enough energy to heat 8,300 homes. That?s a town the ... More About: Drink , Coffee , Recycling , Friendly 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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