From Matt’s on the ground coverage during the first week of the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference from Copenhagen, to the advances in the ‘ClimateGate’ hacked e-mail scandal, a lot happened this week in green. A fire
With the first week of the Copenhagen Climate Conference
Solar panels may have just become more low maintenance. While conducting research on a cure forl Alzheimer’s, scientists at Tel Aviv University ended up with a nanotech breakthrough that could mean no more worrying about keeping solar panels clean – they can clean themselves!
The researchers were conducting experiments on ways to control peptide
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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.
mini Christmas
Eco Factor: Fuel cell-powered concept boat.
Designed by Simon Gorski of Entwurfreich, ZEMBO (Zero Emission Boat) is a 12m long, motorized boat concept, settled in the premium day-cruiser segment. The extreme lightweight construction of the recyclable aluminum-mono hull has excellent gliding properties and reduces the weight substantially.
We’ve had an email from Yvonne, asking:
I have a small vinyl accordion door (single door size). One of the vinyl folds are tearing. How can I fix?
There seem to be a range of vinyl repair kits available for fixing small holes in furnishings, which might do the job.
Searching around for general advice on repairing vinyl, it seems there is a difference between fixing it and fixing it neatly. It some places the latter is seen as important
Earlier this year California’s biggest energy utility PG&E announced that they would purchase 200 megawatts of
A project to build the country’s first wave power station off the coast of Oregon is finally moving forward. Wave power company Ocean Power Technologies just signed a contract with Oregon Iron Works to start building 10 buoys, with the first one to be deployed a year from now off the coast of Reedsport.
This project will
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.
mini Christmas