No-one will deny that the environment is an important factor to consider when doing anything these days. Engineers are the ones largely coming up with the solutions.
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Low-impact lifestyler extraordinaire, John Hermans, devised and built a water wheel for Earth Garden’s writer and forest campaigner, Jill Redwood. Jill can now refill her water tank from the Brodribb River near her farmhouse in Victoria’s East Gippsland. Her water wheel is silent, pumps about a litre a minute, goes 24 hours a day, has only one small moving part, and works on an ancient principle. Here John describes how to build one. |
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Tuesday 10 July, 2007 11:12 AM |
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Millions of manufacturing jobs can result from collaboration between blue-collar industries and environmental projects, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a union political gathering Thursday.
''The Blue Green Alliance really can create 1 million, 2 million new manufacturing jobs to replace some of the jobs that have been lost,'' Edwards told about 600 political activists from the United Steelworkers of America union at a conference on reviving U.S. manufacturing.
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Saturday 7 July, 2007 10:22 AM |
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Imperial Innovations Group today launched a nationwide call for recycling propositions that have the potential to make a significant difference in reducing the amount of waste going to landfill in the UK.
Up to £100,000 worth of commercial support is being offered to successful applicants by the Imperial Innovations Recycling Commercialisation Centre (IIRCC) to bring their ideas, technologies or products to market.
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Thursday 5 July, 2007 12:20 PM |
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The City that Never Sleeps and Makes a Lot of Noise has had to turn it down a notch after a tougher new noise code took effect this week. But where there are 8,000,000 New Yorkers, can decibels really drop?
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Thursday 5 July, 2007 11:45 AM |
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Coal must remain an integral part of energy generation, despite a sustained boom in renewable fuels, an analyst says.
There are good intentions, but ultimately what do we do ? burn coal or go backwards - What do you think ?
What are the options ?
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Monday 2 July, 2007 12:47 PM |
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Launching rockets to create a sulphur screen high in
the stratosphere is one way to counter global warming explored in a new
BBC documentary, Five Ways To Save The World.
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Sunday 3 June, 2007 05:36 PM |
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A Leading US climate scientist is considering legal action after he
says he was duped into appearing in a Channel 4 documentary that
claimed man-made global warming is a myth.
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Sunday 11 March, 2007 05:08 PM |
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The prime minister, Wen Jiabao, issued an environmental wake-up call to
China yesterday, saying the world's fastest-expanding economy had to
move away from red-hot growth towards a greener, leaner, slower model
of development. |
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Tuesday 6 March, 2007 02:24 PM |
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Some experts are proposing radical ideas to save us
from disastrous climate change. But would they work? Professors John
Latham and Stephen Salter have designed a fleet of yachts that would
pump fine particles of sea-water into clouds, thickening them to
reflect more of the Sun's rays. Here, Professor Latham talks about the
proposal.
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Monday 5 March, 2007 03:26 PM |
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Then again, there is always someone out there trying to get some publicity by attacking the big guys - Always easy to criticize Never mind that the Toyota Prius is popular with environmentally conscious motorists -- some environmentalists still wonder if Toyota is living up to its image as a green automaker
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Some people tend to generate more wind than others - this could be an advantage They're springing up on rooftops across the country and are becoming the standard bearer of those determined to generate their own electricity. But do wind-turbines - on sale in DIY stories for as little as £1,500 and with claims that they can save 30% on electricity bills - actually work? |
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