It’s summer in the Southern Hemisphere, the right time of year to cook up a brew of solar tea. Remember, your kettle is one of the biggest energy vampire gadgets you’ve probably got, so change the way you make your tea this summer? You’ve heard of slow food, this is slow tea.
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Image from himalayantours.comTrain travel is the way of the future: clean, environmental, fast and easy. Now you can even take one to the remote and magical kingdom of Bhutan. Known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon, it is one of those small countries in the Himalayas that seems lost in time; they had no roads or telephones until 1960 and no television until
London mayor Boris Johnson launched a new plan called theElectric Vehicle Delivery Plan for Londonthat will allow all Londoners to be within one mile of an electric vehicle charging station in five years.
The plan calls for the installation of 25,000 charging points at public, residential and commercial spaces by 2015
As the new year rapidly approaches we’re all thinking about what lies ahead, and and this is the time that many of us start to think aboutNew Year’s resolutions. I’ve
Eco Factor:Concept car designed to get powered by solar energy.
In an effort to green personal transportation, industrial designers have long imagined vehicles that are powered by electric engines running on renewable sources of energy harvested by the vehicle itself. The Deltoid, which was an entrant at the Michelin Design Challenge, is one such double energy vehicle that
For an eco-friendly Xmas, make your own decorations out of garden and household waste. Twigs make an excellent Xmas tree, the bottoms of plastic bottles make gorgeous stars, and aluminium drink cans make sparkly baubles.
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Image:dpaLast week, the temporary closing of Frankfurt’s airport in Germany, due to bad winter weather, affected 8000 people. In order to fight the ice and snow, the airport used 700.000 litres of antacid to get rid of the three-day snowfall. This is an eco-friendlier option
Researchers at the University of Hawaii have discovered a strange and potentially damaging result of increased CO2 in the atmosphere: louder oceans. More CO2 in the atmosphere leads to more acidic seas and more acidic seas produce fewer sound-absorbing chemical reactions meaning noise will travel farther and be louder.
The researchers have used ocean models and CO2
For the past week we’ve been sharing our picks for the
Eco Factor:Concept multi-functional office building designed to run on renewable sources of energy.
RAU Architectshave unveiled the design of a sustainable mixed-use office building, dubbed theGreen