Have you ever sat in a traffic jam and thought about the fossil fuel being wasted? Or the effect of all those idling engines on air quality? Or the greenhouse gases being created? If only we could get around as efficiently as ants seem to find our picnics…
Samso is a Danish island that is perhaps the world’s first modern, completely self sustaining, energy producing community.
Samso has a population of 41 hundred people spread over 22 villages and numerous farms. Each year its population swells by 50 thousand as summer residents and tourists come to enjoy the quiet, quaint island way of life.
Noting that Brazilian authorities have significantly reduced deforestation over the last years, Norway will contribute US$1 Billion to Brazil’s Amazon Fund over the next seven years starting with US$20 Million this year. This makes Norway the first international contributor to the Amazon Fund, a major Brazilian effort to sharply curb deforestation of the world’s largest rainforest [...]
There is a large amount of forest acreage buried underwater as a result of the rapid construction of hydro and irrigation dam projects built from the 1960’s until the end of the last century.
Harvesting the underwater trees could be worth billions of dollars for tropical countries.
Ghana alone has submerged over 14 million cubic meters of [...]
World energy consumption is expected to increase by 50 percent over the next 20 years, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Total world energy consumption will increase to 721.6 quadrillion British Thermal Units (Btu) by 2030 according to the EIA, up about 240 quadrillion Btu over today’s current consumption rate.
Fossil fuels, led by petroleum and [...]
The world’s wetlands are in danger and if they are damaged further they could release a “carbon bomb” which could greatly affect Global Warming conditions.
Wetlands are natural carbon traps that contain the same amount of carbon that is currently in the earth’s atmosphere, in all they contain a fifth of the world’s carbon.
Process a tonne of gold ore and you will get 5 grams of pure gold. Process a tonne of cell phones and you’ll get, on average, 150 grams of gold. And there is a bonus, you will also be the proud owner of 100 kilograms of copper, 3 Kg of silver plus other minor metals.
This [...]
My local supermarket recently introduced a tote bag that was fashioned from recycled plastic bags.
They are light, strong and stylish – a basic black with a discreet logo and they only cost 99 cents each. I now have about seven of them and I use them constantly. I still accept plastic bags to use as [...]
