CO2 Sequestration Will Not Work Long Term.
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Mar 23, 2010 |
| OK, let's just cut right through it. Carbon sequestration as it currently stands will not work long term.
Why? In the CO2 molecule, we don't breathe this bit "C", but we do breathe this bit "O2", and we know politicians, all things being equal, will not respond quickly enough to stop putting the O2 under the ground.
Solution? Simple, we bubble the smoke stack outputs through algae and then put the algae as a slurry under the ground. We need to make sure we use a benign algae as we do not want a toxic one seeping into our ground water.
This algae can be acclimatized to smoke from the smoke stacks. And to reduce the impact on our water supplies, it can probably be acclimated to to salt water as well. We have a lot of it underground here in Australia. This would allow us to deliver the carbon as a slurry underground and keep the precious oxygen above ground.
The thing that makes this solution so viable is it doesn't change our economy. Everything can go on as normal.
The people at MIT were talking a 40% reduction in GHG emissions, conceivably adding a light in the tubes could increase sequestration by 60 to 80% for now, with better results as the technology evolves. I think the slurry is a better use of the resulting algae production, though there is still merit in t's production as a biofuel.
There is also the possibility of using algae in paper production as well, reducing the need for wood chipping. Something I'd be quite happy about.
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Reaching Carbon Balance Through Reduction
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Mar 4, 2009 |
One of the key things to realise about reducing carbon emissions is we need to be on the negative side of the emissions equation.
I.E. For balance we need to reach a 1-1=0.
To reduce the current glut of carbon in our atmosphere we need to reduce it below balance to say, 1-5=-5. For example, by sequestering 5 times our normal carbon output we can reduce our carbon footprint to balance in about 15 years.
Are governments around the world going to do this? On their current performance I would say "No!"
I would say we are going to have to be the ones who do it ourselves or convince them they are actually going to have to stop talking and get it done.. Labels: carbon sequestration, emission reductions |
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Applying The 80/20 Rule To World Hunger
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Dec 10, 2008 |
 I did a reverse search on many of the topics involved in global warming and dealing with world hunger and found the number of searches for these items was incredibly low, when compared to "news" items.
I feel our news media has a solemn duty to properly keep these things in the public eye, so that people begin to understand the problem fully enough to change their behavours.
For example, many of the things we can do about global warming are, as simple as, turning out a light or offsetting our car usage; and if we add enough of them up, we can easily bring the world carbon emissions below that much talked about and little done 20% mark.
For some useful tools,
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Applying The 80/20 Rule To Global Warming
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Oct 11, 2008 |
 One of the most important things to do is decide what are going to be the quickest methodologys to reduce global warming now, not in three years now!
Each country will be different, each country will have different resources we can apply to this increasing environmental degradation.
We can do it. We only think we don't handle change well. However, when the earth is at breaking point, we must adapt quickly or perish. Labels: environment, global warming, greenhouse gas |
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Beginning The Saltbush Salinity Solution
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Jun 8, 2008 |
 It's one of the only plants in the world which can actually take salty water through its system, and it takes the salt out of the water and puts it into a couple of sacrifice leaves on the plant, and then the rest of the plant can use the pure water or cleaner water and it enables it to grow on.
As it uses lowers the water, the natural rainfall washes the salt back out of the soil, and hence improves the land dramatically.
We need to grow this plant across the world to help reduce salinity everywhere it occurs. Labels: Pure Water, Salinity, solutions |
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Don't Think They Were Meant To Let This Little Space Shuttle Secret Slip Through Just Yet.
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May 30, 2008 |
 It's amazing what you can recycle in a closed system isn't it.
"Water-recycling technology has not been installed on the ISS because the shuttle visits the ISS regularly. The shuttle creates water during flight because it uses fuel cells that "burn" hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity.
Fuel cells are a very cool technology that's just starting to reach the point where it's feasible to think about having one in the basement to provide clean and reliable electricity for your house without an electricity network. They have been used on the shuttle for nearly 20 years.
Anyhow, as a result, when the shuttle docks it has bags and bags of pure water. This is water is de-ionised and taken to the ISS, where it is stored in great big balloons. I think there can be several tons of water in the station at any given time. As a result, the ISS isn't yet as aggressive about recycling urine as Mir was.
I think the plan calls for urine recycling to come on stream at a future date, when the crew will be expanded and the shuttle visits might not bring enough water. Also, if we are going to get to Mars and beyond, we need to be able to recycle 100% of the food and water, which means both solid and liquid waste, and the ISS may well get to test drive some of those systems in the future. " - Mark ShuttleworthAnd it might have just gone out with the sh-t and that was 2002. Labels: International Space Station, recycling, Space Shuttle, water power |
| posted by speedquill @ 8:45 PM |
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How To Feed A Billion People And Be Able To Pay For It Part 1
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 A simple process is available to over a few years to feed a billion people using the same simple maths used by network marketers. Some aid agencys are starting to move in this direction, this article is designed to simply make the whole process happen more quickly and systematically.
Certain strategies need to be in place to impliment this process robustly.
Firstly, a solid base.
You need to create an ongoing food creation centre to feed baseline village systems. For simplicity, I've used villiages of 100 people which we will feed until they are operational, with an operational date of 3 months from starting ( the village is self sufficently abled to feed itself). Obviously, these figures will vary on a case by case basis, though we do need to establish clear baselines to work with and in some cases we will need to buy villages more land.
Now the part that makes it really pump.
Graham Stoate
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The Maths Of Feeding One Billion People Pt 2
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 Ok, so let's get right to it.
Firstly, we will assume a feeding centre that can feed 20 villages of 100 people has been established. This will also provide all the seedlings and tree stock for each villiage. Spreading the baseline here, makes the whole country move far more quickly towards sustainability.
So the Maths.
With 20 villages producing enough food to support 4 more 100 people villages at an arbitary 3 months to self sufficiency. That's 80 villages or 8,000 people self sufficient.
So 20 produces 80;
In the next 3 months produces 320;
In the next 3 months produces 1280;
In the next 3 months produces 5120, so after one year 512 thousand people are fed;
In the next 3months produces 20480;
In the next 3months produces 81920;
In the next 3months produces 327,680;
In the next 3months produces 1310720, after 2 yrs thats 131 million fed and sustainable;
In the next 3months produces 5,242,880;
In the next 3months produces 10485760; that's over one billion people to sustainability in less than 3 yrs.
Before you question this, Ask yourself this
"Can we afford to not do this now?" Again!
-Graham Stoate
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How Do We Make Each 100 Person Village Self Suffucient Pt 3
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May 15, 2008 |
 Firstly, We need to have water and a place to store it. So the first thing you need is a windmill that pumps water. That water is pumped into an above ground swimming pool liner held inside four walls of earth. This allows gravity feeding to be used in irrigating an extensive garden.
The reasons for doing this are two fold:
1. To fuel four more villages out of poverty, and this should be seen as payment for all the infrastructure we provide. So they did it, we didn't do it for them.
2. They continue to over produce so they can sell excess product to larger towns and citys.
3. By planting a diverse array of trees near by ( ie fruit, timber, native, bamboo, paper).
This sets us up for the next part "How to make the west willingly pay for it ."
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How To Pay For It And Mitigate The Greedy Half The World's Greenhouse Gases In The Process Part 4
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 Many countries in the west are struggling with inflation and rising interest rates.
Plus we have the added burden of trying to reduce our greenhouse emissions by quite extreme levels in a very short period of time.
By selling the offsets from the trees in the west, with a maintenance strategy in place, we can assure that three things:
1. We sell the offsets at western rates.
2. This means excess monies can be put into electricity generation from renewable energy sources IE solar and wind.
3. As the money is leaving these countries, with the offsets as a return, shouldn't this reduce
inflation and thus interest rates?
This must be seen as only an interim measure to get global warming and climate change under control. This is only a small space for us to catch our collective breath.Labels: Billion Sustainability |
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A Carbon Neutral Bio Mass Plant
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 A local biomass debris reclamation site takes limbs and grinds them up on site and turns them into wood fuel for wood-fired boilers for power production.
"It's basically carbon neutral," Ed Buford with the Angelina Fuels LLC said. "With fossil fuels you are adding carbon to the atmosphere when you burn it. With biomass, the carbon is already there, so you are not adding any new carbon to the atmosphere. It's better than coal-fired plants by far."(Link)
For More Detail on This Proposal
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One Environment Minister Shows The Way.
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Apr 17, 2008 |
 Australia's environment ministers have failed to agree on a national scheme to rid the country of the billions of plastic bags used each year. South Australian Environment Minister Gail Gago said she was "deeply disappointed" with Thursday's outcome. "But South Australia can hold its head high. We've announced that as of today we will ... bring about a ban on plastic bags in South Australia, commencing January 2009," she said.( For More)
Every Australian needs more effective leadership like this from politicians, not the usual lets create a harsher law and pretend the problem doesn't exist. Bravo.Labels: environment |
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Can Our World Really Wait Any Longer For Clean Hydrogen Fuel Systems
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Apr 7, 2008 |
The book advocates hydrogen fuel as the best long-term alternative to fossil fuels and as a way to stop polluting the air and subsidizing terrorists. Shows how to generate hydrogen by electrolysis, how to convert an internal combustion engine to hydrogen, and how hydrogen can be used in home appliances.
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Global Warming Is Simple To Understand, No Water No Drinking, No Oxygen No Breathing, Water Above Our Heads Drowning, Simple.
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Apr 6, 2008 |
 Global warming isn’t opinion. It’s a scientific reality. And the science tells us that human activity has made enormous impacts to our planet that affect our well-being and even our survival as a species.
The world’s leading science journals report that glaciers are melting ten times faster than previously thought, that atmospheric greenhouse gases have reached levels not seen for millions of years, and that species are vanishing as a result of climate change. They also report of extreme weather events, long-term droughts, and rising sea levels.
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Matrin Luther King How big Would His Dream For Our Environment Have Been.
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Apr 5, 2008 |
 Martin was someone who dreamed big, we need people who dream this big to connect the answers to our global position.
In a way, that makes it possible for all of us to live in a sustainable way . To not stop the initiatives that are so important, but to support them properly in better applying the solutions for a positive future, as Martin Luther King did to solving the problems of rascism. We need to show that much courage again. Labels: Dream Big |
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Burying Our CO2 Deep
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Mar 29, 2008 |
 Kurt Zenz House isn't the first scientist to suggest sequestering carbon dioxide in the ocean. But he is the first to come up with a solution that might actually work.
The key is depth. Whereas other plans to sequester carbon in the ocean were plagued by fears that the CO2 would escape, House advocates going much deeper—at least three thousand meters, or two miles below sea level into the seabed.
At that depth, House hypothesizes that the extreme water pressure and low temperature will turn the carbon into a liquid denser than the surrounding water, forming a layer that will prevent it from rising back up into the ocean.
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The Water Purifying Pollution Magnet. A Work Of Sheer Genius
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 Eighty-two thousand people die from cancer in Bangladesh every year, many due to arsenic poisoning.
But building upon her discovery of a way to get rust nanoparticles to bind to arsenic, Vicki Colvin has invented a new, astonishingly easy way to clean the water supply:
Sauté a teaspoon of rust in a mixture of oil and lye, which breaks down the rust into nano-sized pieces. Retrieve the rust particles with a household magnet. Then immerse the rust-covered magnet into a pot of contaminated water. Pull out the arsenic. The system is up to a hundred times more efficient than existing methods, and requires no electricity or manufacturing infrastructure, so even the poorest of villagers can use it.
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Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment
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For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems.
Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum. The insidious explosion of human impact today is creating a shockwave that will threaten global ecosystems and their ability to support us for decades-possibly centuries.
Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global EnvironmentLabels: environment |
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Amazon, What If The Forest Was'nt There Anymore? Essential Oxygen #1
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Mar 21, 2008 |
 The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than 160 kilometres or one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.
The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.
So if we fell all the trees in the Amazon basin, we'll have 20% less oxygen to breathe world wide.
I guess we might be abled to live with that. I guess people forget we have to breath...Labels: Oxygen |
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Asbestosis A Disease That Could Have Been Prevented Continues To Occur. Essential Oxygen #3
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 Just ask this very courageous human being, how important oxygen is.
Oh, you can't, because Bernie Banton is dead.
Asbestosis an essentially preventable disease continues to be a problem in our community and governments continue to turn a blind eye to it. Probably because it takes so long to take effect.
In almost every community you can easily find sources of contamination.
So whats my point, if the oceans die, and scientists have predicted 50 years. If the Amazon rainforests disappear.
That's 70% of our oxygen supply. Gone. For MoreLabels: Oxygen |
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Altitude Sickness. What Happens When You Can't Breathe. Essential Oxygen #4
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 "The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere at sea level is about 21% and the barometric pressure is around 760 mmHg.
As altitude increases, the percentage remains the same but the number of oxygen molecules per breath is reduced.
At 3,600 metres (12,000 feet) the barometric pressure is only about 480 mmHg, so there are roughly 40% fewer oxygen molecules per breath so the body must adjust to having less oxygen."For More
We are talking 70% less oxygen and most people have problems at 8,000 feet.
How will you do? I feel an oxygen tax coming on or perhaps the big money in the future will be in oxygen.
Of course, it is a long way off. Perhaps it is better to think ahead.Labels: Oxygen |
| posted by speedquill @ 11:08 AM |
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What Hillary Clinton Will Do For The Environment.
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Mar 20, 2008 |
 To transition to a clean and renewable energy future, Hillary will urge all of the nation's stakeholders to contribute to the effort.
Automakers will be asked to make more efficient vehicles; oil and energy companies to invest in cleaner, renewable technologies; utilities to ramp up use of renewables and modernize the grid; coal companies to implement clean coal technology; government to establish a cap and trade carbon emissions system.
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| posted by speedquill @ 11:32 AM |
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Barack Obama On our Environmental Future
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 "Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in," Obama shouted.
"And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen."
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McCartney's Kangaroo Cull Protest: I take Issue With His Rhetoric
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Mar 13, 2008 |
 I have no problem with Paul McCartney's attempts to have these kangaroos moved to a better location; to me this is the prefered outcome.
However, as to his assertion, "There is an urgent need for action to protect kangaroos from a barbaric industry which slaughters them for meat and leather," he said in the message. ( in IBN News.)
The humble kangaroo is one of the least damaging animals for the Australian environment, far less than cattle and sheep.
So will he be campaigning for stopping all animals being killed for for meat as well or was this just a glib and catch cry for attention.
Especially when there would be ample recourse under australian law to simply have the animals humanely removed. You have the money use it wisely.
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The Renewable Sustainability Of An Interesting Mind.
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Mabey is controversial in his views about what we mean by buzz words like 'renewable', or 'sustainable', and he is highly provocative in his final response to the Eden Project itself. Labels: environment |
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What Is Cosmetic Eco-Friendly Anyway?
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 Mabey argued this is peddling a bubble of illusion for people who hanker for "a kind of refuge in the green" but don't want to think a great deal about the natural world, or relate to it.
What is being marketed as "green living" isn't bunking down with the wild wonders of nature, but an air-brushed concept of nature as a kind of property make-over.
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Wood Smoke Particles. Imagine The Damage They Do Around The World.
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Mar 8, 2008 |
 Smoke from wood burning, however, pumps four times more particulate pollution into the air as the dozens of power plants in the basin. And the pollution itself can be far more hazardous than other kinds of air pollution.
Wood smoke is mainly made up of particles 2.5 microns in size, or smaller. Such particles are estimated to cause 5,000 premature deaths in the basin each year. They can worsen heart and lung disease, and could cause cancer.
Imagine the damage wood smoke does around the world. We need to do better.
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China's Pollution Problem In This Olympic Year
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 BEIJING — China's premier promised in a major speech Wednesday to cut pollution emissions, conserve energy and shut down outmoded and inefficient factories in heavily polluting industries such as electricity, coal and steel.
"First, we will implement the plan to close down backward production facilities in the electricity, steel, cement, coal and papermaking industries," Premier Wen Jiabao said.
China's double-digit economic growth has come with a surge in heavily polluting industries such as manufacturing and energy. The country is home to 16 of the world's 20 most heavily polluted cities. ( Read Full Article) Labels: environment, Pollution |
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Solar Cars. Can They Be Trully Independent?
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Feb 29, 2008 |
 Scientists have invented a plastic solar cell that can turn the sun's power into electrical energy, even on a cloudy day.
The plastic material uses nanotechnology and contains the first solar cells able to harness the sun's invisible, infrared rays.
A hydrogen-powered car painted with the film could potentially convert enough energy into electricity to continually recharge the car's battery. ( Read More.)Labels: efficiency, electric cars, solar |
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Solar Cells More Efficient By Up To 5 Times.
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 Scientists have invented a plastic solar cell that can turn the sun's power into electrical energy, even on a cloudy day.
The plastic material uses nanotechnology and contains the first solar cells able to harness the sun's invisible, infrared rays.
The breakthrough has led theorists to predict that plastic solar cells could one day become five times more efficient than current solar cell technology. (Read More?)
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Biofuel Mandate Need Not Put Upward Pressure On Fuel Prices
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Feb 26, 2008 |
 With the advent of Biodeisel produced from Algae it is unnecessary and stupid to use food crops as a source for biofuel production. The amounts of algal biodeisel that can be produced on a similar acreage to corn is trully remarkable. With the possibility of an almost zero waste output.
At present their is some talk that this process is currently more expensive, but isn't attempting to shut down of the ecosystem in which we live going a bit far, too?
We need to spend the money needed to make this process work here in Australia and since some algae forms grow in salt water wouldn't that make it even more viable.
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| posted by speedquill @ 2:03 AM |
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Walkability Must Be A Design Feature In Every Community
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 Once our most important and common transport mode, walking has been replaced by motor vehicle travel. Car ownership in Perth is the highest of any capital city in the world with 725 cars per thousand inhabitants.
Four in every five trips made by Perth residents is by car, about 10% of trips are made entirely by walking.
Everyday in WA's cities and towns people make over 240,000 car trips of less than 1 km (10 minute walk). TravelSmart data indicates that at least 20% of these could be walked.
A focus on ensuring local communities are walkable can reduce unnecessary car trips.
For An Exceptional Article On WalkingLabels: alternative energy |
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Global Warming And Palm Oil. Getting The Science Right.
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Feb 22, 2008 |
 Having been shown up to be less than kosher in their attempts to discredit palm oil as a healthy vegetable oil, CSPI then quickly changed tack and proceeded to make unfounded allegations of massive deforestation by oil palm plantations.
Leading allegedly to global warming and the destruction of habitat for the orang utan and pygmy elephants in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Sensing a chance to gain a financial windfall in the form of increased government, corporate and public funding, environmental NGO’s such as the Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Wetlands fell over each other in joining the queue to drum up a chorus and cacophony of apelike noises echoing CSPI’s sly stratagem to question and discredit the palm oil industry’s environmental record.
“Palm oil: Cooking the Climate”, a banal position paper issued by Greenpeace recklessly supported those unproven allegations.
You'll have to go halfway down the page to find it, but an interesting article that spells it out.
" We Must Get The Science Right"Labels: global warming, Palm Oil |
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Environmental Picture Just Keeps Getting Worse
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 A WORSENING global warming scenario means the Rudd Government should set a more ambitious greenhouse reductions target than it took to the federal election.
Prof Ross Garnaut, author of an interim report on climate change, said yesterday Australia had to take the lead on dealing with climate change because it potentially faced the greatest dangers.
He also warned that tackling greenhouse emissions would drive up electricity prices, hit low-income earners and bite into the profits of major industries such as cement-making, and steel and aluminium smelting. Labels: environment, global warming |
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Check out The Australian Governments Greenfleet Site
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Feb 18, 2008 |
 Greenhouse gas emissions are directly related to your car's fuel consumption, so choosing a fuel-efficient car and being responsible about how you use it will reduce its impact on the environment.
If you're buying a new car, choose a fuel-efficient vehicle from the class of vehicle that best suits your needs ... - Consult the fuel consumption sticker displayed on new and used vehicles.
- Check and compare the car's environmental credentials using the federal government's Green Vehicle Guide.
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| posted by speedquill @ 1:54 AM |
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Using Jatropha For Biofuels In Haiti
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Feb 14, 2008 |
 Jatropha curcas is an important feedstock for the production of biofuels. Its widespread use in India and Egypt is gaining popularity as a quick growing source of oil-bearing nuts that can be pressed to produce biodiesel products.
Jatropha has also been a crop of choice in development programs in Africa where local villages have grown Jatropha on small plots of land and have hand-pressed the oil for use in generators, sewing machines and small motors.
Glycerin, a by product of Jatropha oil, can also be used to produce soap.
For an excellent article on its use in Haiti for local economic development
http://www.haitiinnovation.org/node/1386Labels: biodiesel |
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