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Archive for July, 2007
How to reduce waste and recycle more.
Posted in Communication, Community Projects, Conservation, Education, Gardening, Recycle, Reduce, UK on July 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Liftshare: drive in style!
Posted in Climate change, Communication, Reduce, Transport, UK on July 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Car sharing. You’ve heard of it but probably never found it! At least not on an organised level. Look no more as liftshare have a national database in the UK that you can tap into.
They say, ‘Before liftshare was founded in 1997, car sharing was almost unheard of in the UK. Since then, through our [...]
Recycling of electronic products.
Posted in Business, Communication, EU, Implementation, Policy, Recycle, Reuse, UK on July 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive is beginning to expand its remit to the recycling of more and more electronic goods. How many kettles for example have you been through because they keep on failing and no-one will repair them! I’m on my third kettle in 3 years with one only lasting 3 [...]
Fiat looking to develop electric cars in Brazil
Posted in Agriculture, Brazil, Business, Climate change, Community Projects, Energy, Renewable energy, Technology, Transport on July 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to Keith’s ‘Temas’ blog for this news.
‘Imagine most of the farms across the four nations of MERCOSUR (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) generating much or all of their daily electricity needs through biogas (primarily methane) siphoned off from biodigestors processing their own farm wastes.
Now imagine much of their passenger transport coming from electric [...]
Greening the desert – feeding the poor.
Posted in Agriculture, Climate change, Community Projects, Conservation, Gardening, Implementation, Water on July 20, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Low artificial input desert greening, with rainwater harvesting and mulching produces magic results that even the locals can’t at first believe. There are solutions to desert greening without using huge amounts of artificial fertilisers, plastic poly tunnels and wasting precious water.
Watch this if you’re interested in how we can feed [...]
The Art of using public transport.
Posted in Humour, Transport, UK, Youth on July 18, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Watch this! Seeing the reactions of everyday commuters on the London underground is wonderful. Full marks to these, no doubt, art students for pulling off their delicious stunt.
Greenest School Award for my kid’s school.
Posted in Climate change, Communication, Community Projects, Education, Gardening, Implementation, Recycle, Renewable energy, Transport, UK, Youth on July 13, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Something closer to home and my heart is my kids school. It’s an amazingly diverse community where over 60 languages are spoken. Recently the school won a Greenest School Award within our London borough. We went to a special ceremony to receive the award.
The important thing here is that no one person drives the energy, [...]
Spreading the word.
Posted in Climate change, Communication, Conservation, EU, Education, Policy, UK, Youth on July 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
In my youth I grew up under the nuclear spell of the cold war. Today’s youth have climate change to think about. Both are very weighty issues because they involve the survival of large parts of the human species. Climate change is however different from that of the nuclear cold war because it is happening [...]
Reduce reuse recycle
Posted in Business, Policy, Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Technology, UK on July 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
OK, we all know about recycling. In fact most of us have factored it into our routine of daily/weekly jobs. Even the concept of reusing things more and in different ways (eg. plastic bags) has caught on. It’s the reduce element of the equation that can be a little bit trickier.
We moan that supermarkets aren’t [...]
Renewable energy investment surges ahead.
Posted in Business, China, Climate change, EU, Energy, Funding, Implementation, India, Policy, Politics, Renewable energy, Technology, United States on July 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
A gold rush of new investment into renewable power over the past 18 months has led the United Nations to conclude that clean energy could provide almost a quarter of the world’s electricity by 2030.
More than £35bn was injected into wind and solar power and biofuels in 2006, 43% more than the preceding year. Sustainable [...]
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