POWER YOUR GADGETS BY USING YOUR OWN BREATH
iWe can´t live without our gadgets: from a GPS that helps you get to your destination to a Smartphone that lets you check your email while away on your little road adventure. The thing that most of us dread in this digital era is to be out of the game because you run out of power.
FLOATING CONCENTRATOR COOLS SOLAR PANEL’S GENERATORS
An engineering Italian company found a way of boosting solar panel’s efficiency with a solar concentrator system while not taking up valuable space on land. The company put them on rafts so that the solar concentrator system could use the water from small lakes or artificial reservoirs to cool solar panel’s generators on farms or quarries.
CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATION TECHNOLOGIES: THE BIG THING IN 2012
Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies will be at the forefront of international efforts to fight climate change. CCS technologies can be adopted to make cleaner electricity - not only from coal but also from heavy petroleum residues - and for that reason the European Union is looking into it with the ambition of introducing them as part of EU’s cap and trade scheme.
BRITAIN WANTS TO ADOPT A GLOBAL GREEN ACCOUNTING SYSTEM
The UK is pushing for the implementation of a ‘green accounting system’ by governments worldwide. With such practice Britain is hoping to formally acknowledge a value on environmental assets like forests or lakes. British Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman will be spreading the word at the next world conference on sustainable development to be held in Brazil this June.
MULTINATIONALS LEARN ABOUT SUSTAINABLE FARMING
The world is facing huge challenges with climate change, food scarcity being one of them. There is an urgent need to increase the use of appropriate technologies for sustainable agriculture. However, the identification and development of suitable technologies is a challenge in itself and we’re not even talking about the efficient dissemination of these, which would be the next step.
EUROPE IS STARTING TO MOVE TO THE RHYTHM OF WAVE POWER
Wave Hub is an electrical hub on the seabed 16 Km off the north coast of Cornwall in South West England to which wave energy devices can be connected. Its sole existence is to provide shared offshore infrastructure for the demonstration and verification of a collection of wave energy generation devices over a sustained period of time.
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You sure don’t associate gardening with lack of eco-friendliness, but it really seems that busy green fingers are damaging the environment. Long established practices are taking its toll in nature: from mowing and watering the lawn to the use of peat and pesticides.
