worldchanging.com edie.net NewsThe most interesting part of Gores speech for me was the strong point he made (oh he’s not the first or last) about dependence on foreign oil and renewables for the U.S. The economic, social and political, for this is surely big politics I argue not, points of his speech are the most interesting part [...]
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Vice President Al Gore as well as citizen and presidential candidate Barak Obama.
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Regarding the “eco vacations” some travel agencies sell these days;
One of the best eco vacations would be local travel by bicycle or by foot. I’m sure there are many a location fairly near to where one lives that you have not visited or don’t know much about.
For a more distant location rail is by far [...]
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OER is the new milennia for online educational resources a change in paradigms can be seen slowly changing from private information and copyright to open information and copyleft. Open courses and the exchange of coursematerial between educators and the possibility for students anywhere and whomever to take courses for free online is very important for us all [...]
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Re-greening Chicago is a short video about greening urban space and other environmental actions within the urban area.
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During the past month I’ve taken part in an Environmental Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. A conference about Energy efficiency and a Partner Search Forum for the next EU, Baltic Sea Region (BSR) programme for 2007-2013. More to come about these two as well as other things I’ve picked up during this past month.
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design for sustainability is a joint publication by the UNEP and Delft University of Technology onDesign for Sustainability: a practical approach for developing economies. The site is basically a set of .pdf documents explaining the concepts and how to do it! you can find an introduction to the publication and the concepts on the website [...]
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micro compact home or m-ch is a prefab with potential, measuring 266cm*266cm*266cm its very compact, no big area foot-print, it costs a mere 25k-34k euros (depending on contract) and is currently shipped to all parts of europe (at an extra cost of course). there is also there is a low e-home version (low energy home) which [...]
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posted by me first as a comment to, “no news is good news” on unformal.
especially in today society if you have a look at any regular newscast you?ll see a multitude of death and suffering but very rarely the happy news unless its revolutionary, of course suffering is also important to show but showing the [...]
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Starting on the 6th of june and going on till the 10th, Olohuone.org will arrange a series of art events in Turku (check out) http://www.olohuone.org.
Turku Design Week is a design event in Turku where local design companies as well as young designers present their work during 5 days. 11-16th of June.
http://www.turkudesign.fi
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