Australia’s Future Climate is quite well modeled and the results of that modeling have been made available online.:
Our future climate will depend on greenhouse gas emissions, so the regional projections are available for low, mid-range and high greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. These scenarios were developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and are […]
Conservative British flagship paper The Times has a great story Top 12 UK farmers’ markets.
Dirty dozen: the best of Britain’s 600 local-produce markets where you can buy muddy carrots and misshapen fruit that tastes as it should.
St Giles farmers’ market, Shipbourne, Kent
Winchester farmers’ market, Hampshire
Stroud farmers’ market, Gloucestershire
Kings Norton farmers’ market, Birmingham
Cardiff Riverside farmers’ market
Wirral […]
bikes4work is an advisory service that can help organisations set up workplace bike fleets. Bike fleets can be set up in most workplaces where staff are required to travel on-site, between worksites or within the local area.
Benefits to employers include:
Productivity increases and lower levels of absenteeism from a healthy and motivated workforce
Transport cost savings, […]
There’s a story in New Scientist, Long-life solar cells.
Polymer solar cells used to convert sunlight to electricity are degraded by ultraviolet light, which limits their lifespan.
Yang Yang, a materials scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, US, has a simple solution. He suggests coating the solar cell with a material that converts ultraviolet photons […]
There’s a story over at Virginia Tech in the USA, Lamp lit by gravity wins Greener Gadget award, about an industrial design student there who has developed a gravity powered LED lamp called Gravia.
Clay Moulton of Springfield, Va., who received his master of science degree in architecture (concentration in industrial design) from the College of […]
A Field of Marijuana. Photo ©Bart Pogoda and used with permission.
I lived in Amsterdam for some years and got to know many cannabis growers. These farmers, mostly based in Switzerland, do not grow “industrial” (ie low THC) hemp, but they do grow cannabis in industrial quantities. I do tend to use the […]
On 18 January this year the Australian consumer watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission or simply the ACCC announced they were taking action against GM Holden over their Saab ‘green’ claims, alleging misleading and deceptive conduct and false representations concerning ‘green’ claims made in the advertising of Saab vehicles.
The ACCC alleges that the Saab […]
Another great talk from the TED conference, this time by energy expert Amory Lovins who explains, in simple terms even a politician could understand, his plans for weaning the USA, and by extension the rest of the world too I’d assume, off its oil addiction. His book, Winning the Oil Endgame is available as […]
The UK’s Telegraph is reporting on a new report by the Worldwatch Institute in a story Global warming ‘changing world economy’.
Global warming is forcing the world to change the way it does business, according to a new report.
A more sustainable global economy is emerging as countries and companies move to combat the challenges posed by […]
The Air Car is the product of over fourteen years of research and development by former Formula One racing engineer Guy Nègre and runs on compressed air. The giant Indian car maker Tata Motors has invested heavily in the project and they expect the cars to be rolling out in Europe and India soon. […]