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Nuclear Fallout
Nuclear power is back at the top of the political agenda with the UK. Is nuclear power the answer? Should there be a new generation of nuclear reactors?
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An Board Picnic
Greening this years Electric Picnic. For ideas and concepts. The crew are Cultivate, Bin Your Empties, Ecocem, Body and Soul, Edenbee and more to come. We will be working on seriously reducing the carbon and environmental impact of this years festival, and communicating how we all participate in this process. CO2... watch wha ya do!!!
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Edenblog
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Friday's Green Icon
This week’s icon is a lady well known in her home country of India. For decades she has managed successfully to marry the ideals of political activism, environmentalism and sustainable development in ways that we in the West are far from achieving.
Beginning her illustrious career as a writer and researcher for the State of India’s Environment repo…
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Cardboard Bike
Here’s a a great way to recycle your cardboard, Phil Bridge, a design student from Sheffield has come up with a unique solution to the problem that a bicycle is stolen in England every 71 seconds. Make a bike that’s so cheap no one will want to nick it. So this clever boy designed and built a bike for the grand total of £20!
The bicycle is made fro…
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Top marks for Sony Ericsson
A friend of mine just gave me a new Sony Ericsson phone and I am still trying to get my head around the operating system. My last phone was a Nokia, which I have to admit I loved, but it’s good to see that both companies have made it into the eight issue of Greenpeace’s Greener Electronics Guide.
The guide routinely examines the production procedur…
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S'Up-dates!
For the mildly confused, here’s a nice summary of CO2-based tax schemes in Europe.
Found an amazing resource on AIDG for any twitterers out there (that’s a word right?). A comprehensive list of environmental groups and people on twitter.
Save The Children calls for action to prepare the world for future natural disasters expected to hit as a result…
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The 11th Hour
If you haven’t seen it yet check out the full version of Leonardo DiCapro’s feature documentary The 11th Hour here on Stumble Upon video.
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Friday's Green Icon
Today's Green Icon comes courtesy of our regular contributor Brendan Phelan AKA thewrittenone, whose finger is sore and can’t post today so he has asked me.
His man of the moment is the enigmatic James Lovelock who will forever be remembered for the simple beauty of his Gaia Hypothesis. The mythical reference has always rubbed ‘true’ scientists up …
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Cool Idea
More Ted-tastic ideas worth spreading, here's a great cool little idea from Adam Grosser who talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity - to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics worldwide. Tweaking some old technology, he's come up with a system that works.
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Edenbee, London Bound
Edenbee are London bound, first of all we have been invited by Julie’s Bicycle to speak at the Bike Club a network session for people championing climate issues in their workplace.
The evening’s main theme will be Carbon Calculators and will be attended by host of lovely people so if your around on the Thursday July 3 between 6-9pm pop along to the …
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Slovenia's Honeycomb houses
Slovenia’s Honeycomb Housing Complex has caught our eye. These beautifully designed seaside structures are simply stunning and they illustrate what biomimicry is all about. Taking its cues from the modular honeycomb clusters of a beehive, the complex was constructed as a low-income residence for young families and couples in the industrial district…
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S'Up-dates!
EU are planning to cut a serious amount of its annual 1.8 trillion tons of waste by 2030, while San Francisco looks to make recycling mandatory.
Apparently Americans want to go green, they just don’t know how.
The green recharge pod at Glastonbury serves as a trial for future innovation.
McCain proves he has a less than intelligent attitude to rene…