Monthly Archives: March 2010
“The overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged”
A few weeks ago, The New York Times featured an opinion editorial by ex US Vice-President Al Gore, which I highly recommend reading. Basically, Gore says that despite last year’s climate gate, and the disillusioning failure of Copenhagen, the menace [...]
Waste has huge potential as an energy source in Spain
Waste is trash, garbage, a problem, a nuisance. But it can also be an energy source. By using trash as an energy source we are being smart, we are imitating nature with its cyclical processes. Waste comes from somewhere; waste [...]
PlanetSolar, a solar boat that will tour the world
Since the late 80s, Raphaël Domjan has been trying to tour the world on a ship with low energy consumption. He tried different methods until he bumped into solar power and did not stop until he got the required funding [...]
Ben & Jerry’s: fair-trade ice cream
The popular North American ice-cream corporation has committed itself to use only fair-trade-certified ingredients in all its flavours by the end of 2013. This is both a huge dare and an opportunity, given the increasing social demands for more sustainable [...]
Take your old jeans to the Gap for recycling and get 30% off
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot about jeans being recycled into insulating material. Apparently, it works very well, and it uses an already existent material, that could otherwise become trash. Like for example, your old jeans. This week, until March [...]
Renewable Energy – a choice Sweden is taking further each day
Sweden has for years been working to lower its dependence on fossil fuels for energy, while investing and developing renewable energies. Last week, the Enterprise and Energy Minister Maud Olofsson announced that 2,000 new wind turbines will be built during [...]
Marks & Spencer’s impressive “Plan A”
Marks & Spencer is a major British retailer, with over 1,700 stores in the UK and around the world. There’s no doubt that its impact is huge, so the fact that the company has great environmental plans is fantastic. Leaders [...]
Seattle: carbon neutral by 2030?
Seattle has been working hard to be more environmentally friendly for years now. It is one of America’s more advanced cities in terms of sustainability. Last week, the City Council announced that Seattle aims at becoming carbon neutral by 2030. [...]
Clean Energy NOW!
Clean Energy advocates in the US are coming from every sector. Last week the ‘Hip Hop Caucus’ raped up a week-long tour that started in New Orleans and ended with DJ Biz Markie on the steps of Capitol Hill in [...]
Students designed and built a house covered in solar cells
The Solar Decathlon is a competition organized yearly by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, since 2002. Teams of college and university students can participate by designing and building solar powered houses. The goal is to help [...]
World without oil: a game for brainstorming solutions
World Without Oil is an online game that during May 2007 invited people to imagine life without oil. Over 1900 players participated with blog posts, videos, images and voicemails. The game was created by Ken Enklund, presented by Independent Television [...]
Del Nomade: a green lodge in Patagonia, Argentina
"Once you see something, you can’t stop seeing it," says Alejandro Avampini, nature photographer and tireless traveler. He saw that the world population keeps growing, and resources are limited. And since he became aware of this, his life has changed. [...]
