Environment
- How New Software Can Help Save The Planet
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A software that can drastically reduce CO2 emissions (and energetic costs) on computers all over the world has been developed by Portuguese scientists and is freely available to anyone interested. ...
Article - Catarina Amorim - Jan 26 2011 - 3:02pm
- Can the world wait for us?
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It seems that every time I open the newspaper there is something awful happening in the world, pollution being the least of our worries. But can the world stand us? Can we continue to break ecosystems with the expectation that our mitigation will be suffic ...
Blog Post - Demeter Design - Jan 30 2011 - 4:58pm
- Bringing a Non-profit to Life
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Well here I am again with an Earth-shaking update (for those of you who don't know me well I am extremely humorous). Demeter Design is well on its way to non-profitdom. I am winging this (mostly, I am business savvy) and we will see how well (or poorl ...
Blog Post - Demeter Design - Jan 31 2011 - 2:53pm
- A Call to Action
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It is just before dawn. The raft has rotated on its mooring and aligned to the new direction of the tidal flow. The hydro generator has just come on-line again, and its low whine pervades the silence of the surrounding area. Nothing stirs, no fish nor bird ...
Blog Post - Brian Bennett - Feb 4 2011 - 3:36pm
- Sustainable development and GDP
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Any economic growth will have energy inputs as one of the major imperative and equity is increasing in the developing world. A 60 percent growth in GDP will require lot more energy and world economy is based on fossil fuel economy. Any future progress of m ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 7 2011 - 9:13am
- Sustainable development and economic growth
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The world survies largely on fossil fuel economy but burning fossil fuel causes green house gas emissions which raise Carbon di oxide levels. Kyoto protocol expiring in 2012, Copenhagen without consensus, Cancun declarations aparts, the DSDS 2011 brought o ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 8 2011 - 4:36am
- Green house gas emission and global warming
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Green house gas emissions are natural with use of fossil fuel resources and increasing levels of Carbon di oxide are causing great concern. “Scoping meeting on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation From January 21st-25th, 2008, the IPCC w ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 10 2011 - 12:34pm
- Pick Your Poison- Mercury In CFLs Or Lead In LEDs (or Just Go Back To Incandescent Bulbs)
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In the somewhat irrational war on incandescent light bulbs, one thing left out is that the current alternatives are not great yet either. If you break a CFL bulb, you'd better call in a HazMat team (and who knows what the high frequency ballasts are ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2011 - 2:06am
- Climate Change- Human caused or not?
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A question I get asked alot is "Is humanity the cause of climate change". The short answer is yes, no, or maybe. It all depends upon your point of view. From my point of view, species homo sapiens is as much a part of this world as any other spec ...
Blog Post - Craig Dillon - Feb 13 2011 - 3:15pm
- Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) 2011
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Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Feb 13 2011 - 9:33pm
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