‘Environment’ Archives
Don’t Replace Your Furniture – Restore It!
It can be difficult to be green in every aspect of life, especially when you want to buy new furniture for your home. The most effective policy is to find a way of not replacing your existing furniture – unless of course, it’s about to fall apart. Instead, think about how you can keep what you have and be happy with it. Wooden furniture may [...]
Australian PM Julia Gillard’s appalling record of climate change inaction
Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. Pro-coal, pro-gas Australian PM Julia Gillard has an appalling record of climate change inaction falsely dressed up as the opposite. The biggest and most outrageous untruth of Gillard Labor is that it is “tackling climate change” for a “clean energy [...]
Thermal Imaging at Home: To Save Your Planet and Money
The innovation of ‘Thermal Imaging’ has impressively changed the pre-learned concepts and theories of people. ‘Thermal Imaging’ with the help of infrared radiations, helps us to notice the density differences and temperature fluctuations in any tangible thing around us. Till today, this method has been generally used to [...]
Actress Lucy Lawless and Greenpeace blocks Shell arctic driller
Earlier this week a group of Greenpeace activists, including the actress Lucy Lawless, scaled an oil drill ship that was due to travel to the Arctic. After spending over 76 hours onboard the ship, Lucy Lawless and the five other activists have now been arrested by the police. The ship was scheduled to travel to the Chukchi Sea off the coast of [...]
Sun Power Solar Discovery Game: The New Age Gaming
Sun Power is the leader in solar power all around the world. Most people fall into the dilemma of whether to buy or not buy a solar system since it is really very costly and pinches one’s pocket. The system requires timely maintenance and the understanding of the system is quite complex. This tedious task is reduced by the introduction [...]
The Great Garbage Bag Trick
Plastic is a highly non-biodegradable material, which makes it ironic that the very bags we use to dispose of our trash are made out of it. Plastic items have got to be the easiest things to reuse and recycle, since most of these are containers and bags, but plastic ironically is one of the least-recycled consumer products in the US. In fact, [...]
Are the Rio+20 goals too green-as-usual?
Great piece by the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) Switchboard blog on efforts afoot in Latin America to step up on green in anticipation of Rio+20, which will be held here in the region this June. The goals and standards being contemplated, however, fall far too short. They’re too green-as-usual. First, the focus is [...]
Global Economy Expanded More Slowly than Expected in 2011
The global economy grew 3.8 percent in 2011, a drop from 5.2 percent in 2010. Economists had anticipated a slowdown, but this was even less growth than expected, thanks to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, unrest in oil-producing countries, the debt crisis in Europe, and a stagnating recovery in the United States. As richer economies struggle [...]
Santa Clara CA Purchases 50 MW Of New Projects Wind Energy
Iberdrola Renewables recently announced that it had sold 50 Megawatts to the City of Santa Clara Silicon Valley Power (SVP) from its Manzana Wind Power Project that is still under construction. According the contract Iberdrola will provide 50 MW to Santa Clara for a period of twenty years starting from the commercial operation of the Manzana plant [...]
The Benefits of Solar Power For Homes
Despite the legal fracas you might have seen on the news, solar photovoltaic (PV) panels are of immense benefit to those householders able to take advantage of them. If you live in the UK, and have a south or south-east facing roof, that is not shaded by trees or nearby buildings, you can, for a modest investment, install PV panels on your roof in [...]
