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I should check Digg more often, there tends to be some interesting articles that don’t get picked up anywhere else.

Anyway, this is just a quick post to plug this very interesting article from Time Magazine on line about whether wind power can finally overcome fossil fuels as the main ( Read more... )

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A few weeks ago when I introduced the Manpollo Project, I mentioned that Greg Craven, the guy behind all the videos I posted, was in the process of writing a book about his ideas on how to tackle the seemingly endless debate about Climate Change. Well things are moving along, the book ( Read more... )

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Another innovative initiative that came up yesterday. The supermarket chain Sainsbury’s will set up an experimental system in one of their branches in Gloucester wereby their tills and refrigeration cabinets will be powered using energy generated by a device powered by shoppers’ cars ( Read more... )

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I love those new initiatives that show great inventiveness and forward thinking, with a tinge of humour.
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This is a bit of an ambitious post to embark on at this time of the night but it’s been in my mind pretty much all day so I should lay it bare before it goes away again.

There are many steps one can take to make improvements to their homes to optimise the resources available to us, in ( Read more... )

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Kudos to Mark for pointing this out. The following is an absolutely beautiful 93min long movie available on YouTube for free called The Home Project. The purpose is to increase global awareness on the impact mankind has on the environment using footage of the planet taken from the sky.

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Yes that’s right, the New York Times reports that according to a report by the United Nations Environment Program, of the $255 billion spent in building new power plants and generators in 2008, $140 billion was spend building infrastructure for renewable energies.

While that does not ( Read more... )

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Here’s a really cool piece of news I came across earlier today, which is quite promising in showing that some people are actively trying to find viable alternatives to  fossil-fuels.

The Eden Project in Cornwall is looking at powering its greenhouse using Geothermal energy. The idea is ( Read more... )

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I’ll admit it straight away, I’m all in favour of renewable energies such as wind, solar, wave or tidal so when I see countries like Britain, which happens to be where I live, wasting their resources trying to implement Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), it kinda makes me cringe.

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I’ve been meaning to blog about this for some time now and though I may not reach as wide an audience as I would ideally like to, I feel that since time is very likely running out, now is as good as any other time.

Back in September 2008, I came across a guy on YouTube who was going by ( Read more... )