When you spend 8 hour days at a desk, it doesn’t take long to get thoroughly bored with your surroundings. Especially if those surrounding are a typical office cubicle in a typical bland office building. It’s even worse when you consider their jumbo-sized carbon footprint. But there is a new breed of office block with [...]
If you live in a part of the world where you are fortunate enough to actually have a climate, ie. distinct seasons, and not ‘weather’ then you should consider creating an outdoor room. Some people like to bring the outside in by incorporating large expanses of glass in their homes, flooding the interior with light [...]
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Time for the weekly link roundup. Today we’ll get started with this list of the most environmentally friendly cars for the future. Admittedly, some of them are still concepts, but it is cool to think about how much progress we can make in the auto-industry going forward. Plus, the Tesla is already [...]
I’m a little skeptical of the green movement. It’s not that I don’t want to go green. It’s not that I don’t want alternative energy… What I’m skeptical of is the attempt to market anything and everything as “green” – in something you’d expect straight out of The Onion, there are [...]
We throw too much stuff out, that’s a given. I try my best to minimise what gets dumped in landfill, but it’s impossible to recycle everything. Some people look at the problem differently though: check out this cool recycled garbage art.
One of the things I aspire to do during my lifetime is to go and see Victoria Falls, one of the most impressive waterfalls in the world. This list of the highest waterfalls is just beguiling, some of them are truly spectacular!
When you think about it, that’s quite a broad statement but there is a kernel of truth in there at least from my point of view. Ever been in London? Most of the people who live in the center of that city, while well-to-do, don’t own a car and rely on public transport or their [...]
I’m on a total green roll right now, but hey! I was reading this list of the best cities for telecommuters and it got me to thinking: is telecommuting part of the problem or the answer to the question of how to reduce our carbon footprints?
Personally I think there are massive benefits for the environment, [...]
Hot on the heels of news that wind power is seeing a surge in the USA comes a report from the University of Rochester on an attempt at sustainable fusion, a technology which could provide huge amounts of power with very little environmental impact and no runaway nuclear reactions or core meltdowns.
Numerous bloggers and newspapers have been carrying stories on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a huge floating mess of rubbish caught in a current in the north Pacific. Unfortunately this is a death trap for wildlife and as it degrades it will cause even more problems. What’s worse is the complete lack of effort to [...]
Ontario decided to subsidise solar energy in that energy produced from solar could be sold for 42 cents per kilowatt. They thought that contractors would build 88 kilowatts worth of solar-generated energy but now have 400 megawatts under contract. Build it and they will come, sort of.
A small square in an unpopulated region of an African desert could power the entire world. It’s true.
As an avid surfer I’ve always had a fascination with waves, but not necessarily rogue waves. For years sailors have talked about the mysterious rogue wave, a wave so big that it can easily sink a ship. The worrying thing about these massive waves is that they can’t be predicted and therefore data on them [...]
The founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore (not the stargazing Sir Patrick Moore) details why he decided to leave the organisation he set up in a WSJ report. Here’s a snippet:
“At first, many of the causes we championed, such as opposition to nuclear testing and protection of whales, stemmed from our scientific knowledge of nuclear physics [...]
There is a worldwide resource crisis in full-swing right now, and it’s coming home to roost. Costco are seeing customers stocking up on staple products as prices continue to climb ever higher. China has only 12 days worth of coal in their supply line. Japan is starting to suffer food shortages requiring their government to [...]
At least some countries are taking their environmental responsibility seriously. Not to be beaten by New Zealand, Iceland, Monaco or Norway, Costa Rica is apparently aiming to be the first carbon-neutral country in the world. If only more countries followed their lead.
It’s really not something I think about, at least on a regular basis. But, let’s say we managed to get to Mars, setup a permanent base there and start the process of terraforming. Would grass be green and roses red? According to the Scientific American there would be a few surprises in store!
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