Christchurch Airport’s Carbon Neutral Status Has Been Renewed
Christchurch Airport was not only the first NZ airport, but the first airport in the Southern Hemisphere to achieve carbon neutral status for its operations. This status has now been renewed for the third year in a row.
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Keep Your Home Warm this Winter and Your Energy Bills Down
It’s starting to feel a lot like winter. With cooler days and nights approaching, now is the best time to prepare your home for colder months. By taking a few steps to winterize your home ahead of time, you’ll be able to keep your energy bills lower and your house cozy and warm all season long. Green Mountain Energy Company offers these seven tips for more efficient energy use that anyone can do for very little cost.
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Supermodel Lily Cole launches Sky rainforest rescue
Sky today launched a three-year campaign with WWF to help save one billion trees in the Amazon.
The campaign, Sky Rainforest Rescue, aims to protect rainforest covering over three million hectares in the state of Acre, Brazil to help combat climate change and preserve the unique habitat and species of the Amazon.
The world’s rainforests are a crucial resource needed to avoid dangerous climate change. But today in the Amazon alone an area the size of three football pitches is destroyed every minute. If current rates of deforestation continue, over half of all our rainforests will disappear by 2030.
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Cellulose from Wastewater Can Now be Turned into Fuel for Cars
Qteros of Marlborough, Mass., and Applied CleanTech, based in Israel, today announced that they have developed a novel solution for turning cellulose from municipal and agricultural liquid waste into ethanol fuel for cars. Joint use of the Qteros Q Microbe™ and Applied CleanTech’s Recyllose™ feedstock has been found to boost ethanol production, address sewage sludge disposal problems, and make smaller-scale ethanol plants viable for municipalities from Tel Aviv to Chicago.
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Tags: cars, cellulose, ethanol, fuel, gas, qteros, recyllose, waste, wastewater, water
Convert a car to run on electricity and slash gas costs to zero
“Over 50% of the people who attempt to convert a car to run on electricity simply give up out of fear of the unknown,” says EvSecrets co-founder Gavin Shoebridge. The author of the new eBook Electric Vehicle Conversion Made Easy has already converted his own car to electric and says, “The information you need is out there – but it takes many months of research and question asking to find it all out – and that sets a lot of people off.”
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“The dress goes on. It feels amazing. Orsola de Castro and her team have excelled themselves. It is exactly what I wanted to end this challenge. Deep, sumptuous blacks, a mix of materials, a subtle drape and old Hollywood detailing. I can't wait to tell people that it's made from waste!”
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[Transport] New research out of Kuwait, using a new method of calculating the crude oil production potential of 47 of the world’s largest oil producing countries, has found that peak oil — the period in time when oil production reaches a maximum and then begins to decline — will come much sooner than expected… 2014 to be exact. Read more of this story » [Gas 2.0]
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Nike Unveils World Cup Soccer Jerseys Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles
[Fashion] ATTENTION GREEN SOCCER FANS Nike recently unveiled its new team jerseys for the upcoming World Cup and here’s the kicker (pun intended) – they’re made from discarded plastic bottles! That’s right, the uniforms, or “kits” in proper soccer speak, are made from melted down bottles from landfills in Japan and Taiwan that have been spun into [...] [Inhabitat Fashion]
Livia Firth Blogs About Her Oscar Eco Dress Preparations
[Celebrity] “The dress goes on. It feels amazing. Orsola de Castro and her team have excelled themselves. It is exactly what I wanted to end this challenge. Deep, sumptuous blacks, a mix of materials, a subtle drape and old Hollywood detailing. I can't wait to tell people that it's made from waste!” “Everything feels so precious – [...] [Ecorazzi]
48 Hawaii-only species given endangered listing
[News] AP - Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish. [Yahoo! Green News]
Rich Countries “Outsourcing” Carbon, Good News for Carbon Software Players
[Technology] Blue collar jobs aren't the only thing getting outsourced away from the U.S. and Europe. As much as a third of carbon dioxide emissions related to goods and services bought in rich countries are emitted outside their borders, effectively “outsourcing” these gasses to the developing countries that produce much of what is consumed, according to a [...] [Earth2Tech]
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