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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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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Re-greening Chicago is a short video about greening urban space and other environmental actions within the urban area.
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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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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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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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