Cycle Babble: Podcasting On A Bike
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Matthew Weaver If you want share the delights of cycle ride try podcasting from the saddle and mapping the results. Last month I tried filming on a bicycle so this time I thought I would ...
Engineers Without Borders: Improving Communities With Technology Solutions
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffNominated by the TerraPass team Engineers Without Borders is a chapter-based organization devoted to bringing technical expertise to the developing world to assist with fundamental needs like clean water and reliable power. Through innovative initiatives like the ...
Engineers Without Borders: Improving Communities With Technology Solutions
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffNominated by the TerraPass team Engineers Without Borders is a chapter-based organization devoted to bringing technical expertise to the developing world to assist with fundamental needs like clean water and reliable power. Through innovative initiatives like the ...
Kunstler: Stop Calling Americans “Consumers”
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffI was at a small meeting on peak oil Friday — Executive Summary: We’re peaking now! James Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, was there. He is in the Mad Max/Lovelock/Wall-E school of dystopia, and so I ...
Kunstler: Stop Calling Americans “Consumers”
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffI was at a small meeting on peak oil Friday — Executive Summary: We’re peaking now! James Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, was there. He is in the Mad Max/Lovelock/Wall-E school of dystopia, and so I ...
Interview with IRENA Director General Nominee Hans Jǿrgen Koch
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffWind and solar power and other "new" renewable energy sources provide Denmark with more electricity, on a percentage basis, than any other country. This accomplishment can be attributed in large part to the work of Hans ...
Interview with IRENA Director General Nominee Hans Jǿrgen Koch
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffWind and solar power and other "new" renewable energy sources provide Denmark with more electricity, on a percentage basis, than any other country. This accomplishment can be attributed in large part to the work of Hans ...
Lewis Hyde and The Enclosure of Silence
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffLewis Hyde, poet, critic and intellectual historian, has been hard at work on a book about “the commons”, and specifically the notion that ideas should be part of a cultural commons, not treated as private property, ...
Lewis Hyde and The Enclosure of Silence
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffLewis Hyde, poet, critic and intellectual historian, has been hard at work on a book about “the commons”, and specifically the notion that ideas should be part of a cultural commons, not treated as private property, ...
Prince Charles Presents Ashden Awards for Innovative Environmental Projects
Thursday, June 11th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments Offby Adam Vaughan Solar electricity project in Ethiopia, Ugandan biomass scheme to prevent deforestation and a Surrey school that halved its electricity consumption among winners of Ashden Awards. International Development Enterprises India's treadle pumps seen in ...
African Leaders Pursue “Malawi Miracle”
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffFive years ago, the rains disappeared for a month across much of Malawi, just as the country's corn crop reached a critical growth period. As a result, the 2005 harvest was the worst in a decade. ...
David Bollier On The Principles Of The Commons
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffDrive around Boston in the wintertime and you might see an unusual sight - a shoveled-out parking space occupied by a lawn chair or a garbage can. Move that can or chair and park at your ...
Get Smart
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffEmbedded sensors and wireless networks will bring needed efficiency to our infrastructure One of the big emerging trends over the next few decades will be the marriage of information technology and infrastructure. We're going to start seeing ...
Luxury Or Necessity?
Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffPoll finds that people are reconsidering what's really "necessary." A new poll from the Pew Resarch Center finds that the recession is altering our perceptions of what we truly need, and what we can live without: some ...
‘Reuse It Yourself’ Movement Could Revolutionise DIY
Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Rebecca Schischa DIY enthusiasts poised to reuse old building materials Some “14 million tonnes” of unwanted building materials generated by the construction industry could be saved from being dumped in landfills in a new reclaim and ...
Postopolis Day 4
Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffI got a pleasant and at the same time painful wave of nostalgia last night when i read Bryan's overview of Postopolis on his blog Subtopia. It has been such an amazing adventure for us all. Day ...
Postopolis Day 4
Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffI got a pleasant and at the same time painful wave of nostalgia last night when i read Bryan's overview of Postopolis on his blog Subtopia. It has been such an amazing adventure for us all. Day ...
One Charger For All Cell Phones
Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments Offby Anna Simpson Could incompatible phone chargers soon be a thing of the past? Not just an irritant to users, the proliferation of different connections – and the assumption that every new mobile phone comes with its ...
One Charger For All Cell Phones
Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments Offby Anna Simpson Could incompatible phone chargers soon be a thing of the past? Not just an irritant to users, the proliferation of different connections – and the assumption that every new mobile phone comes with its ...
Coffee Sales Helping Chimpanzees, Goodall Says
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffDecades after Jane Goodall began her pursuit to protect Tanzania's endangered chimpanzees, she has found a solution that was growing right beneath her nose. International gourmands say the forests surrounding the famed chimpanzees grow some of the ...