Archive for October, 2007

• Acid Rain and How to Fight it

  The accurate term for this phenomenon is acid precipitation,as it does not only occur with rain. When saying acid rain, we generally refer to the deposition of acidic components in rain, snow, fog, dew, even to dry particles. The rain …

• Post A Phone

  Post A Phone is a 4mm thick phone made out of recyclable card or plastic. It is designed by Priestman Goode and I love it. The Post A Phone is intended to be a backup phone when all your other …

• Green Quote of the Week – Nicolas Sarkozy

  At France’s environmental policy making forum, le Grenelle de l’Environnement, Nicolas Sarkozy said this: “From now on, every major public project, every public decision will be judged on its effect on climate, and on its carbon cost. Each public decision …

• DecTop – Small, Green and Cheap

  Here is a neat little green computer called DecTop. The computer runs on only 8 watts. Yes, you heard right and yes, 8 watts is nothing! You can compare that with my CPU processor who needs around 45 watts to …

• Cities In America Running Out of Water? Why Yes!

  The town of Orme, Tennessee here in the United States is on the worst water restriction ever! They can only have water pumped into their quaint little mountain town for three hours a day, and it is outsourced from elsewhere …

• SimCity Societies

  Im a huge fan of the game SimCity, I’ve played nearly all games in the serie. But it is with disappointment I look at the newest version of the game in the series: SimCity Societies. The disappointment is because of …

• Are you currently hosted on a “green” web host?

  That has been the question of the past week and here are the results: Yes! (44%) No, but I will soon. (33%) I am not sure? (22%) No! (0%) Surprisingly a rather large part of our visitors (voters) are already …

• Climate change with a gender perspective

  Who is to be blamed for climate change? The male population of the human race, of course. Sure we are all equal in our actions but if you consider climate change with a gender perspective a strong pattern reveals itself. …

• The Plastic Battle – Best Green One-minute film

  Ulla Jacobsen film “The Plastic Battle” has won Friends of the Earth‘s Best One-minute green film award. The judges, David Sproxton, Dilly Gent and Andrew Macdonald, gave the one minute film praises from “Good concept” to “Brilliant film. Perfect! The …

• Blog Action Day + An Inconvenient Truth

  So, have you talked about the environment today? Cause today it’s the 15th October and it’s Blog Action Day. What did you write about? What kind of effect did it have on your daily readers? Please share your thoughts by …