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Dear fellow techies, especially you green ones If you are a little bit like me, then every time you see a problem the immediate hunch is to think: “how can we use a machine to solve that?” Before we dive into this line of reasoning and start drawing up our requirement specifications for a system, there are a couple of questions that we don’t often ask, but maybe should start asking ourselves. Read more.. Today CNN has an article about Dean Still and the Aprovecho Research Center, who have won a $65,000 eco award for a cleaner wood burning stove. From the picture in the article it looks like the stove is based on the rocket stove principle. Read more.. In their famous 1984 song “Do they know it’s Christimas” the artists united in Band Aid to raise money for Africa, described the continent as a place “where nothing ever grows.” Have you ever watched a film from a very warm place, like in Africa or India, and though to yourself that nothing can ever grow there? Think again. In this amazing video with permaculture founder Bill Mollison you will see that things can, and indeed do, grow in such places. Today we have embedded a BBC documentary in 5 episodes found on YouTube. Professional wild life photographer, Rebecca Hosking, returns to her childhood farm to see how she can work to transform it into a farm for a future without an abundant access to fossil fuel. Read more.. Surfing the various environmental blogs on the Internet, there seems to be a consensus among most environmentalist that people should prepare themselves for a future with far less consumptions of consumer goods and energy than they are used to today. I know that some people, who are into green tech, would like to challenge that idea and portray green technology as an alternative that will let us continue business as usual. Personally, I do not share the optimism of the latter. I do believe that no matter what clever things we can come up with, it will still be necessary to power down. Read more.. “Switch off your computer when you are not using it,” is one of those classical everyday green living advices you can read on environmental pages throughout. If your are like me, you will know that up against this idea there are plenty of reasons to keep your computer running when you are not using it, reasons of which running the virus scan while you are asleep is only one. For those of you who still worry that this behavior is wasteful, there is something else you can do to ease you conscience. Read more.. The transition movement, which has been mentioned in a book review earlier on this blog, announce on their blog that they will be showing a preview of their movie “In transition” online later this week. It will be available from New Zealand’s midnight Thursday June 11th 2009 to Alaska’s midnight Sat June 13th . The exact URL will be posted on their blog. Read more.. Today we have embedded a series of 8 videos from YouTube showing a documentary named “Understanding peak oil”, that we strongly recommend everyone to watch. You will have to set aside approximately one and a half hour to watch the entire documentary. How many hours you will spend thinking about it afterwards is hard to tell. If you have never heard about “peak oil” or are unfamiliar with what it means, watching this documentary might be one of the biggest wake up calls you’ve had, ever. You will probably never get what you are about to see off your mind again. Read more.. The other day, while surfing the Internet for new interesting sites on green technology, I came across this collection of videos from the Washington Post named “Voices on Green.” The collection basically consists of different videos where different people, some of them people in very important positions, voice their opinion on environmental issues. There’s a link to this video collection at the end of this article for those who are interested in learning more. One of the people in one of the videos was US secretary of energy Steven Chu. He told us, among other things, that the environmental challenges of today, result in more young students wanting to go into science. Personally, I will have to say: “It’s about time, that happened” Read more.. By Example, The quest for sustainable living, is the website of Patrick and Mel, a couple who have established their homestead in the high-desert of Arizona, based on the principles of sustainability. If you are planning on getting into this kind of life style yourself, this web page is a good place to start, as they share with us a wide range of practical hands on experience in many different aspects of sustainable living. Read more.. |
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