Could plants save us from the rising carbon dioxide levels from human emissions and greenhouse gases and save us from the Climate Crunch?
July
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Are plants our saviour from the Climate Crunch
July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
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July
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SolarDAB - solar powered digital-only radio
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Robert’s solarDAB is the world’s first solar powered digital-only radio. This stylish and compact portable radio has an integral solar panel on top which powers everything. A simple meter helps you find the best place for it and indicates how well the panel is working. Under good conditions, there’s sufficient power to charge and listen, and while it is not in use you can leave it to charge.
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July
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Hybrid and pure electric cars - the next ten years
July 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Dr Peter Harrop, chairman of IDTechEX has issued a reporting detailing the current and future development of hybrid and pure electric cars.
A radical change in attitude to electric vehicles has occurred in 2009, resulting in huge new financing from governments and tough new laws that will boost sales. Now all car makers must offer electric versions in their line up or face oblivion as governments finally get serious about global warming, oil running out and the domino effect of imminent collapse of their traditional car industries. Earlier forecasts of these markets therefore need revisiting and, in a timely response, IDTechEx has issued a totally new report “EV Cars – Hybrid and Pure Electric 2009-2019”. Entirely researched in 2009, this analyses the effects the new market drivers. They include the tens of billions of dollars that will now be invested in those developing, manufacturing and buying electric cars and their components, the surge of new models and the remarkable new technological breakthroughs.
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June
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Wi-Fi enabled solar power future tent
June 30th, 2009 · No Comments
A cool looking tent, as tents go, but this one is filled to the brim with tech. This tent produces it’s own power via photovoltaic fabric and offers wireless internet connectivity. This concept designed in association with Kaleidoscope builds on the the original solar tent that was trialled at Glastonbury 2003 uses the latest photovoltaic fabric that has specially treated solar threads weaved into the fabric of the canvas which combines with the ability to reposition areas of the tent to take advantages of the best position to efficiently capture optimum amount of energy.
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June
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Climate Crunch environmental news network launched
June 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Climate Crunch, the new environmental news network site will provide new and views from around the internet. Gathering it’s content from new outlets, blogs, videos it provides a unique view of current affairs and opinions from across the world regarding the environment and climate change.
Two new environmental blogs will be launched shortly to enhance the service with other sites to follow.
To find out more. Climate Crunch
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June
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Sunday Energy & Ormat Technologies to Build Largest Solar Roof in the Middle East
June 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Sunday Energy Ltd., the leading solar energy service provider in Israel, and Ormat Technologies , one of the world’s largest geothermal power solutions companies, recently announced the signing of an agreement to build a 1MWp photovoltaic solar installation on the roof of Ormat’s factory in Yavne, Israel. Once complete, the 16,000 square meter installation will be the largest PV roof in the Middle East and will generate over NIS 60 million from solar energy sales over the next 20 years. The project will cost approximately NIS 20 million to construct and is expected to be completed by …
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May
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Snow Cover Turning to Lakes in the Himalayas
May 21st, 2009 · No Comments
As climate change takes hold, even the mighty Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountain ranges are now losing their snow and ice.
These are the world’s greatest repositories of snow and ice outside of the polar regions, and yet they may melt away in just 20 to 30 years, leaving more than a billion people desperately short of water, experts concluded in San Diego this week.
“There’s been a super-rapid decline in the glaciers of the region,” said Charles Kennel, senior strategist at the University of California San Diego Sustainability Solutions Institute and former director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Kennel told IPS that nearly all of the 20,000 glaciers in the Himalaya-Hindu Kush …
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May
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Water Woodstock for Peace, Health & Sustainability
May 20th, 2009 · No Comments
If the whole world is a stage, then this summer “LIVEH2O” will offer a global performance. It is being called a “High Tech Worldwide Woodstock.” The Concert for the Living Water is being advanced by “green” activists to promote peace, health, and plenty of clean water for everyone.
LIVE H2O is being hosted in more than a dozen countries simultaneously from Japan to Jerusalem, June 19-21, 2009. It is history’s first grassroots organized environmental initiative engaging audiences interactively over the Internet using HD video broadcasting technology to raise awareness about growing concerns about shortages of the “Universal Solvent.” LIVEH2O.org has created LIVEH2O.tv for people everywhere to be “edutained” interactively online.
Southern California …
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May
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Obama to Rewrite Emissions, Fuel Economy Law
May 19th, 2009 · No Comments
The administration will announce tomorrow that it will blend the new California standards with existing Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules into one standard for 2016. Light trucks would have to meet a 26.2-mpg standard, and that automakers will not challenge the rules so long as there is a fixed timetable and a national standard for the rules.
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May
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New electric motorbike offers fuel and time savings
May 18th, 2009 · No Comments
A new electric bike, being promoted as an environmentally-friendly alternative to petrol-powered motorbikes, has been launched in London.
With growing numbers of businesses and private users now turning to electric cars in a bid to cut back on fuel emissions as well as running costs, Zero Motorcycles is confident that its product will prove to be a hit among consumers looking to do both of these things, but with the added dimension of speed.
According to the company’s founder and chief technology officer, Neal Saki, the eco-friendly bikes are capable of accelerating from zero to 50mph in just five seconds, with this aided by the lightweight aluminium frame and a light battery …
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