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Pete Smith @ January 30, 2008 # 3 Comments
The winner of the Innovate or Die Pedal Powered Machine competition is the Aquaduct, a pedal-powered vehicle that stores, filters and transports water. Intended for use in developing countries where clean water is scarce and obtaining it is challenging, the Aquaduct comprises a storage tank, filter, peristaltic pump, clean tank and clutch, mounted within a [...]
Pete Smith @ January 21, 2008 # 3 Comments
Tonight, The History Channel broadcasts a two-hour documentary special ‘Life After People’. The program speculates:
“What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive?”
A mix of science fiction and science fact, using expert testimony from a range of [...]
Pete Smith @ January 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
If you’re one of those people who’s prone to lightbulb moments, when a bright idea pops into your head when you least expect it, your time has come. NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has launched the Big Green Challenge, a nationwide competition to come up with innovative ways of reducing [...]
Pete Smith @ December 13, 2007 # 2 Comments
I’ m grateful to the guys at Ecospace for drawing my attention to this little baby. The boffins at Nokia have come up with a piece of kit that has the potential to extend the capabilities of mobile technology to a completely new level. Or it might prove a complete non-starter that never sees the [...]
Pete Smith @ November 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The environmental propaganda machine continues to rumble forward on ‘The Archers’, BBC Radio 4’s venerable soap opera and green information channel. Tuesday’s episode featured an earnest discussion of anaerobic digesters on farms, turning animal muck into methane and generating electricity for sale back to the grid. According to jet-setting career agriculturist Debbie Aldridge, calling home [...]
Pete Smith @ November 15, 2007 # One Comment
Recycled waste silicon from IBM’s chip manufacturing processes will soon be finding its way into solar panels.
A new process in IBM’s Vermont factory enables it to refurbish scrap semiconductor wafers to a standard where they can be reused in-house, and subsequently ‘retired’ to be sold on for use in the manufacture of photovoltaic cells. [...]
Pete Smith @ November 13, 2007 # 2 Comments
The Eden Project is already a world-renowned attraction and now it’s looking to add an extra edge to its success. Their latest building, the Edge, will demonstrate options for energy supply, water conservation and waste management intended to act as models of how we all might live in the next decades. From www.theedge.org :
“Its scale [...]
Pete Smith @ November 12, 2007 # 5 Comments
The Environment Agency has just published the Winter 2007 edition of its quarterly bulletin ‘Your Environment’. In the plastic wrapper (”made from bioegradable material and will decompose in landfill”. Oh joy!) I also discovered a supplement called ‘Your Environment Extra’. The EA has gathered together a team of 25 experts (most of whom I’m ashamed [...]
Pete Smith @ October 9, 2007 # 4 Comments
My colleague Matt has recently spoken out against the doom ‘n’ gloom merchants: “Try smiling. Think positive. Get positive. Make changes. Get involved.” Five years, that’s all we’ve got …
It’s true that for every disaster that might befall us, there’s a group taking an almost pornographic delight in talking about it as if it’s inevitable. [...]
Pete Smith @ October 4, 2007 # 3 Comments
….. were hit by a Category 3 Hurricane?
In New York City, over eight million people live on land that has 578 miles of waterfront. By 2030, the population is expected to reach nine million. At the same time, global climate change has put New York City at an increased risk for a severe coastal [...]