The Top 50 Survival Blogs! Your Online Survival Kit! British company offers efficient energy storage using ‘liquid air’ One of the most significant challenges confronting the renewable energy market is the erratic output of wind and solar power stations.
Modern power grids are designed to provide peak demand power in real time, not to store generated power until it’s needed. Wind and solar energy generation is tied to local environmental conditions, which is why some critics have argued that neither technology is reliable enough to replace conventional gas-fired turbines. Rather than 'Figure Out More Ways to Blow People Up', Former NASA Engineer Seeks Solution to Feed World. February 21, 2013 | Melonie Magruder When NASA ended its space shuttle program in 2011, a lot of the engineers and systems technology staff ended up heading to defense industry contracting firms.
But Douglas Mallette, founder and CEO of Cybernated Farm Systems, says he wanted to help feed the world rather than “figure out more ways to blow people up.” So he founded Cybernated Farm Systems with the idea of building a fully self-generating and sustainably-operating greenhouse growing system that could feed precisely 634 people for 30 years, leave a small carbon footprint and provide nutritious, organic, fresh food in a world of rising poverty and hunger. Vortex Induced Vibrations: Ocean Currents Could Power The Entire Planet. The massive oceanic surface currents that exist on Earth today are one of many unused reservoirs of energy that we could tap into.
Their total output of energy has been estimated at approximately 280-trillion watt – hours. Ocean surface currents are considered an indirect form of solar energy because of their link to surface heating processes as well as the winds. Scientists have developed a device that can harness energy from slow-moving rivers and ocean currents, which have the ability to power the entire planet. Japanese 'Blest Machine' recycles plastic into oil at home.
Cyberfarm. In the 21st century, it is unconscionable that anyone should go hungry, that we should waste as much food as we do, or that we should be using so much fresh water for old fashioned agricultural practices, especially given our advanced agricultural knowledge and technical capabilities.
One of the largest food problems is the centralized nature of production and the costly expense, financial and environmental, of distribution. Access is everything, and by giving an option to have food grown locally in an efficient and sustainable manner, we can be a part of ushering in a new agricultural paradigm. Cybernated Farm Systems, LLC, (CFS), is a socially conscious company dedicated to the standards of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies. Sustainable Green Buildings - Earthship Biotecture. Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy. Population growth and over-consumption could have 'potentially catastrophic implications for human wellbeing' - Climate Change - Environment. The coalition of scientists from nations as diverse as South Africa, Latvia, Japan, Nicaragua, Bolivia and the UK, have taken the rare step of issuing a joint statement ahead of the UN conference on sustainable development, which will begin in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday (June 20).
Scientists urged action not only on reducing consumption, but also on slowing population growth, with a particular focus on educating women and girls in developing countries. Rio+20: Tim Jackson on how fear led world leaders to betray green economy. Professor Tim Jackson is not in the mood to mince words.
Not only did Rio+20 fail to offer new hope to humanity but the author of the influential book Prosperity Without Growth believes the 190 heads of state and ministers who signed the final document have betrayed the vision of a green economy. Rather than questioning the existing economic model, which is leading us to environmental and social disaster, Jackson believes the final text showed that politicians have let fear rather than courage gain the upper hand, which will result in us being driven even further into the arms of a bankrupt belief system. The University of Surrey professor, who was in Rio to present the initial findings of his modelling work aimed at showing an innovative green investment led economic system is possible, says: "The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth'. Ecotricity - the green energy company, supplier and generator of eco electricity and gas.
Story of Stuff (2007, OFFICIAL Version) A Deliciously Resourceful Town Aims For Total Food Self-Sufficiency in 7 Years. By Vincent Graff dailymail.co.uk.
A Farm For The Future (BBC Documentary) Ffee-powered cannabis cars and bambara breakfasts on Plants Day. Greening the Desert. Willie Smits restores a rainforest. Peak Oil. 'Hug The Monster': Why So Many Climate Scientists Have Stopped Downplaying the Climate Threat. UK should lead transport welfare calls.
The UK’s agricultural minister Jim Paice will have the chance to support shorter times for live animal transport in the EU in a meeting next week.
The issue is on the table for a meeting of the 27 member states’ farming ministers on Monday 14th May and we are urging the UK government to support calls for a maximum eight-hour limit across the EU for journeys to slaughter. The European Parliament recently issued a written declaration calling for an eight-hour limit following an EU-wide campaign that Compassion was a part of. The campaign saw more than 1 million people sign the 8hours.eu petition. Read on to find out what else you can do to support our campaign against long distance transport. Current laws not good enough. RAW Campaign: The True Cost of Factory Farming. Your health It’s not just farm animals that suffer from factory farming – our health is also at risk.
Heavy red meat consumption can increase the risk of some cancers developing by as much as 43% People and poverty Factory farming drives poverty and damages livelihoods, threatening communities, farmers and farm workers. Gardening - Gardening Guides - Techniques - Companion planting. Lifesaver Bottle - Water Purification Systems. World’s largest sustainable city developed in China. The world's largest sustainable city, extending about 30 square kilometers, with urban living conditions has been developed in South Asian country of China.
Rising from wastelands in China, the globe's biggest eco-city of Tianjin is located 150 kilometres (93 miles) southeast from Beijing that means less than an hour on the new high-speed train line. Tipping point ahead: Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip. How to Start a Solar Co-op. HOME. Ecopsychology: Reconnecting with Nature II. Ecovillage Findhorn: new frontiers for sustainability. FlourishFarms. The Kontinuum Garden. Our Story. The London Green Fair, 9th & 10th June 2012 - Regent's Park. In Denmark, a printable house.
Bee Keeping. Bees - Colony Collapse Disorder. The Bee Cause : Current Campaigns : What We Do.