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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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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Friday evening in Ekenäs (Tammisaari in Finnish) archipelago while waiting for the sauna to warm up. I spent the weekend in my familys cottage enjoying the surroundings and the stillness of nature.
The water level this weekend is the highest I’ve ever experienced out here, it’s been very high on all occations I’ve visited the [...]
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The freedom of recreational seagoing is in the same class as travelling by motorcycle. However, some facts about gasoline/petrol and oil consumption of atleast older engines (there are alot of them still out there). A 20 horsepower outboard motor uses about 10 litres/hour, a 35 hp about 15 l/h and a 90 hp about 35 [...]
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Even though we rate high in SD, innovation, education and what-not-indicators I have to say that living in Finland can be VERY frustrating sometimes. I just read about the scheme in the UK to give real-time-electricity-cost-meters to the consumers. A way for people to follow their energy consumption and that it costs right now. This [...]
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I sure hope the Climate Watch series will be available on DVD or for downloads from BBCWORLD, it is a very informative programme as well as easy to understand. I especially like the way they have illustated pollution and CO2 gases with black boxes coming out of chimneys and exhausts. If you have a chance [...]
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