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Monday, 1st September 2008
One of the challenges of weening a world off fossil powered electricity is making alternative methods affordable not just for developed nations, but for all people of every nation. Current solar technology is simply too expensive, this is where the iJET could provide a cheap alternative. Read more...
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Thursday, 28th August 2008
London Mayor, Boris Johnson, has launched his strategy for Climate Change Adaptation in London. The report shows that currently London is not designed to cope with the predicted changes. The launch of the strategy comes weeks after the Government's chief scientist advised that the UK needs to adapt to increased average global temperatures of four degrees. Read more...
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Tuesday, 26th August 2008
The mystery of why large numbers of migratory bats are killed by certain turbines of southern Alberta's wind farms every year may have been solved by a comprehensive University of Calgary research project that has yielded answers to the problem. Read more...
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Thursday, 21st August 2008
New research from Legal & General reveals that more than eight in ten Britons, 82 percent, are annoyed by government and business initiatives that are forcing green values on them. Read more...
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Tuesday, 12th August 2008
Thanks to WEEE, a European-wide scheme requiring electronic producers to take-back our old electronic items, we are sending less of our e-waste to landfill than ever before. Have you ever thought what happens to our e-waste? According to some Greenpeace investigations, they are being illegally dumped in India, China, Ghana and other developing nations as "second-hand goods". Read more...
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Monday, 11th August 2008
Milk bottles at ASDA get a green makeover with the launch of an innovative recycled cardboard version: the first milk bottle in the UK to be 91 percent recycled (from waste office paper) and 99 percent recyclable. The two litre milk bottle, created by GreenBottle, has a carbon footprint that is 48 percent lower than plastic. Read more...
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Monday, 11th August 2008
According to a report published in Conservation Letters, kangaroos can be utilised to help reduce Australia's methane emissions. It proposes that eating more kangaroos in lieu of cattle and sheep will help slow climate change. Read more...
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Saturday, 9th August 2008
Increasingly tough climatic conditions and limited rights to land and other basic resources risk jeopardizing the lives and livelihoods of many indigenous groups that hold the key to our long term survival, FAO noted today on the eve of the International Day for the World's Indigenous Peoples. Read more...
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Friday, 8th August 2008
Plans for a bioenergy facility at Scotland's largest distillery, Cameronbridge in Fife, were announced today by Diageo, makers of Johnnie Walker, Tanqueray and Smirnoff. Read more...
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Friday, 8th August 2008
Energy Secretary John Hutton today announced the approval of the UK's fourth largest offshore wind farm. Read more...
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