Green Economy

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January 25, 2011

Will Road Trains Take to the Road?

The idea is simple: you link cars up with computers and the lead driver does not only control his car but all the following cars. This may help reduce the impact of cars on the environment but is it just science fiction? Are people really prepared to give up control to a lead driver? Part [...]

Green Politics

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January 11, 2011

Peak Travel: Really a Good Thing?

Peak Travel is here.  This term has arisen because several developed countries according to a new study have reached saturation point when it comes to private car use.  The study shows that car use in the last couple of years has not been increasing with higher GDP. The citizens no longer can take the queues, [...]

Green Economy

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January 4, 2011

The Internet: Good or Evil for the Environment?

The Internet:  Good or Evil for the Environment?

Something has been bothering me lately and that is my impact on the environment through my mouse clicks. How can something as abstract as the internet be a danger to the planet you may ask? But think about the amount of information that is being stored for the internet; stored not in the air but [...]

Green Economy

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December 14, 2010

Why Do We Allow Pillage & Rapage on the High Seas?

Why Do We Allow Pillage & Rapage on the High Seas?

When it comes to the environment the destruction of forests to make way for cattle ranches or soya plantations and the polluting of air from planes and smoke stack industries gets almost all of the attention. What is occurring at sea is also an outrage against humanity, but this destruction goes almost unreported. Here are [...]

Green Politics

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December 2, 2010

Scaring People Is Not the Answer to Combatting Climate Change

Scaring People Is Not the Answer to Combatting Climate Change

The world is going to burn and man is going to have to get used to a world that cannot support it. Millions will be forced to fight for their base existence. Such sentences according to a new study  by the University of California, Berkley rather than resulting in people to act on climate change [...]

Environmental Lifestyle

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November 25, 2010

One Meal With Meat a Year for the Environment?

Oops my weekend was not very vegetarian of me; I ate half a duck.  I went with a friend to a local Bavarian restaurant and was too tempted by the meat on the menu (although the temptation was better than the actual duck). Should I really have a bad conscious? Is Eating meat really so [...]