Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
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Paper reduction is just not a sexy topic. Virtualising your servers, making your building more energy efficient, or using TelePresence to reduce your carbon footprint – these are big, exciting, engineering projects. How can you compete with that?
Well consider three little known facts:
The pulp and paper industry is the single largest consumer [...]
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PERU: Where the Poor Pay More for Water
LOMAS DE MANCHAY, Peru, Apr 9 (IPS) – In Lomas de Manchay, an area of slum-covered hills outside of the Peruvian capital that is home to 50,000 people, mainly poor indigenous migrants from the highlands, clean water is worth gold – almost literally.
Local residents of the shantytown pay [...]
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Personal Health – Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat – NYTimes.com
Now a new study of more than 500,000 Americans has provided the best evidence yet that our affinity for red meat has exacted a hefty price on our health and limited our longevity.
The study found that, other things being equal, the men and women [...]
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I have been a fan of Better Place and their unique model around electric vehicles since I watched Shai Agassi’s presentation at the DLD conference in January 2008.
If you are unfamiliar with the Better Place model, they looked at the idea of electric vehicles and people’s ‘range anxiety’ and asked how best to solve it. [...]
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Another step towards Kingsnorth – politics.co.uk
New coal-fired power stations form part of Britain’s “low-carbon future”, Ed Miliband told the Commons this lunchtime.
His pledge came as he outlined proposals to MPs for the construction of new conventional coal-fired stations, including Kingsnorth.
Mr Miliband said permission would be granted on the condition they can be retrofitted with carbon [...]
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I embedded today’s show live on GreenMonk.net on a new page on the site. Moving people to this page will allow me to change the back-end without inconveniencing people, however, it doesn’t appear to be possible for people to login to the chat on this page with their Ustream accounts so instead viewers were labelled [...]
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Q&A: Agassi’s Better Place idea–brilliant or nuts? | Green Tech – CNET News
nobody doubts that Agassi is a visionary with good intentions–to reduce the world’s dependence on oil to help preserve the planet. People just wonder if he can make a business of it.
tags: better place, shai agassi, ev, electric vehicle, phev, greenmonktv
Bolivia: water [...]
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Disabilities in China’s polluted Shanxi – BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific |
Hong Wei was born with an extra thumb on his right hand. His elder sister Lixia, who’s 14, was born with a twisted left foot and walks with a heavy limp.
Like many people in Shanxi, this family is too poor to go to the doctors. [...]
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Photo credit Benjamin Ellis
HomeCamp is running this Saturday. HomeCamp is a meeting of the home hacking, automation and green technology community. Think smart meters, monitoring and graphing energy usage geeks getting together to do their bit to try to improve the world of energy consumption.
The first event was held last November [...]
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