Archive for February, 2008

• Greece promotes green-bags in Athens

  All developed countries have started taking measures to reduce their bad impact on Earth. Banning incadescent lightbulbs, cars from the city centres, or introducing laws for greener factories and industries. Greece at last followed their example by promoting a greener …

• Latest Green videos

  These are some of the latest Green videos published this week, collected by the Ecolive.TV community. Map reveals extent of human damage to oceans Marine ecologist Ben Halpern shows us the map he unveiled at the AAAS meeting in Boston …

• Green shipbuilders hark back to age of sail

  German engineers have devised a way of tugging merchant vessels along with huge, computer steered kites, known as Skysails, that catch the ocean winds. It marks the beginning of a revolution in the way that ships are powered. The sails …

• If you return as a seal in your next life, you are so dead

  Up to 350000 newborn seals were estimated to be killed last summer in Canada, and the number is thought to be much bigger this coming summer. In 2005 the 98,5% of the babies killed weren’t even 2-months-old, and autopsies showed …

• Two new green web hosts added

  Two new green web hosts has been added to our growing green web host list. The first one is Host Papa, a web host located in Canada who purchases Green Certificates (Green Tags or RECs). The second one is Lightbeing …

• Missy Higgins green US tour

  Missy Higgins is a popular musician in Australia. If you watched the Live Earth (7.7.07) events last year you could see her perform in Australia. Now she is trying to make her way to the US music scene in her …

• Airsick: an industrial devolution

  Lucas Oleniuk, photographer at the Star, has made a video to illustrate climate change from still-images “taken in our own back yard.” Twenty days in Ontario resulted in twenty thousand still images that make up this beautiful piece called “Airsick: …

• London raises its congestion charge for gas-guzzling vehicles

  In London today, all cars, except the cleanest ones, have to pay £8 ($16) a day, to enter the city of London. But starting in October this year owners of big gas-guzzling cars will need to pay £25 ($50). On …

• Will the United Arab Emirates build the first zero-carbon city?

  The United Arab Emirates, home for around 5 million people, wants to build the world’s first zero-carbon city called Masdar City. In Masdar City cars will be banned. A light rail system will serve the residents inside the city as …

• It’s capitalism or a habitable planet – you can’t have both

  Robert Newman, a British stand-up comedian, author and political activist, urges for a “major” social political change to combat global warming. Newman says that “our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature.” And he believes that “the only response …