Archive for the Green Category

Aug 18 2010

4 Degrees Celsius Increase

4 Degrees Celsius Increase

A presentation was launched last month by the UK climate ministry. It is a Google Earth (*.KML file or plugin) which ‘highlights some of the changes that may occur if the global average temperature rises by 4°C above the pre-industrial climate average.’ It spurns us, not just in the UK or the US – where [...]

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Jul 27 2010

Green Car Of The Future: Mercedes SLS AMG E-CELL

Green Car Of The Future: Mercedes SLS AMG E-CELL

The Mercedes SLS AMG E-CELL is a prototype and one of the cars in line to take Mercedes-Benz and it’s subsidiary Mercedes-AMG into its promised fully electric line. At one point it was mooted that Mercedes will be free of fossil fuels by, a now impossible, 2015 but a move in that direction is in [...]

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Feb 22 2010

Earth Hour 2010, March 27th, 8:30PM Local Time

Join many around the world for the 2010 edition of Earth Hour. Turn off the lights for one hour on March 27th at 8:30PM Local Time. http://www.earthhour.org/Homepage.aspx

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Nov 29 2009

Monitor Off Utility: Freeware That Conserves Energy

Monitor Off Utility: Freeware That Conserves Energy

Monitor Off Utility is described by its author as …is a free program that allows you to take control of your monitors built-in energy saving features Even though all computers and operating systems come with power management features that allow a user to turn off a hard disk or put a computer into standby or [...]

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Nov 24 2009

Green Tech: Google’s PowerMeter and Cisco’s EnergyWise

Reducing power usage and consumption is one of the best, easiest and immediate measures we can take while politicians wrangle through their greedy needs. Two large corporations that, along with IBM, have set up internal goals and business models based on selling and promoting green products are Google and Cisco. Two tools released by the [...]

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Nov 08 2009

Visualizing Carbon Emissions

Burning fossil fuels has contributed immensely to the problem of climate change or global warming as some call it. It is clear that some countries have contributed far more in terms of pollution and emissions. One of the big political debates hampering progress in the ‘climate debate’ is the acceptance of the share of responsibility [...]

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Oct 12 2009

24 October 2009: International Day Of Climate Action

350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis–the solutions that science and justice demand…More at http://www.350.org/mission and at http://www.350.org/multimedia

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Sep 24 2009

WWF – The New Climate Deal – A Pocket Guide

WWF - The New Climate Deal - A Pocket Guide

WWF has provided this pocket guide or short article on where we stand on the issue of climate change in 2009. It starts by quoting President Obama… Climate and the economic crisis “This is the generation that must stop the spread of the pollution that is slowly killing our planet… Rolling back the tide of [...]

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Aug 11 2009

Chevy Volt To Get 230 Miles Per Gallon?

Chevy Volt To Get 230 Miles Per Gallon?

General Motors has claimed that the first generation of its new electric car the Chevy Volt can run on an equivalent of 230 miles per gallon (one gallon equals almost 4 litres). If this is the case this is some of the best news to come out of the auto industry in a long while, [...]

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Jul 13 2009

Green Living: Improving Health Today And Tomorrow

Green Living: Improving Health Today And Tomorrow Much attention has been paid in recent years to what seems to be a growing environmental conscience in the United States. Going green used to be considered expensive and a luxury for those who could afford the trend. Now it appears that we are learning that not only [...]

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