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Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid

Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid

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One With The Herd Reached to : 560 Citizens Shared: 13 Favorited: Tweets: Express below for the consciousness effected by this story/film... Contact This Story.Teller/Film.Producer Contribute Directly to this story/cause HOST Community Screening of This Film/Story Sustainable Energy Energy is central to sustainable development and poverty reduction efforts. It affects all aspects of development -- social, economic, and environmental -- including livelihoods, access to water, agricultural productivity, health, population levels, education, and gender-related issues. None of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be met without major improvement in the quality and quantity of energy services in developing countries. UNDP's efforts in energy for sustainable development support the achievement of: Access to sustainable sources of clean, reliable and affordable energy has a profound impact on multiple aspects of human development; it relates not only to physical infrastructure (e.g. electricity grids), but also to energy affordability, reliability and commercial viability.

הכירו: המכונית העירונית המתקפלת במצב נסיעה הגודל שלה יהיה דומה לסמארט הצורך במציאת פתרונות שיאפשרו תחבורה אישית ברחובות הכרך שהופכים צפופים מיום ליום מעסיק מזה שנים לא מעט מתכנני ערים, אנשי הייטק, מהנדסים, מעצבי מכוניות ומפתחים. לכולם ברור שבקצב הנוכחי אם לא יעשה שינוי משמעותי בתוך שנים ספורות רחובות הערים הגדולות בעולם יהפכו לפקק תנועה גדול כשעל חניה בכלל לא יהיה על מה לדבר. Spray-on film turns windows into solar panels EnSol's film being applied inside a deposition chamber Imagine if all the windows of a building, and perhaps even all its exterior walls, could be put to use as solar collectors. Soon, you may not have to imagine it, as the Norweigan solar power company EnSol has patented a thin film solar cell technology designed to be sprayed on to just such surfaces. Unlike traditional silicon-based solar cells, the film is composed of metal nanoparticles embedded in a transparent composite matrix, and operates on a different principle.

The Last Interview: November, 1999 (Terence McKenna) [FULL] ירוק - אסף צחור nrg - ...בסביבה טובה: ישראל צריכה לו הייתה ישראל, על הגיאוגרפיה שלה ומשאביה, ספינה – היא הייתה הספינה אָרגוֹ. הספינה המיתולוגית ארגו נזכרת בפואמה האפית "ארגונאוטיקה" ככלי השיט שנשא את יאסון והארגונאוטים במסעם המרהיב בעקבות גיזת הזהב. מרהיב באותה המידה, אולם ידוע פחות, הוא "הפרדוקס של הספינה ארגו". ◄בואו להיות חברים של nrg ירוק גם בפייסבוק מספרים כי מסעם של יאסון והארגונאוטים בים התארך כל-כך, והזמן ומי-המלח זרקו בעצי הספינה מק ורקב, עד כי אנשי-הסירה נאלצו להחליף בה בהדרגה עץ עץ, קורה קורה. Living Off-Grid: Our Micro Hydro Alternative Energy System – Blue Living Ideas Blue Energy Published on March 24th, 2009 | by Jennifer Lance As a follow up to Sean’s post on Micro Hydro Essentials, I thought I would share an overview of my system, which has powered my home for over 13 years. We are fortunate to live on rural mountain property in Northern California with a creek that is not seasonal, although the volume of water does drop significantly during the arid months of summer. The beauty of hydro power is that it produces power 24 hours a day and is not dependent upon weather patterns, such as sun and wind. The drawbacks are having to maintain the system by cleaning the intake and dealing with varying creek flows. Photo by jennifer lance

Terence McKenna ~ "The New Psychedelics" @Ego-Soft, Amsterdam. 1995 To Increase Sustainable Consumption, Show People What’s In It For Them This year at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, the concept of sustainable consumption took center stage. In partnership with Accenture, the WEF just released its report, "More With Less," which accurately pinpoints the systemic triggers, barriers and urgent need for action inherent in this necessary transition. At face value, sustainable consumption seems counterintuitive to growth, but the report identifies the extraordinary competitive and economic opportunities for businesses, whether catalyzed by resource scarcity, population growth, the burgeoning middle class, or changing consumer values. An area where there is still work to do, however, is the "how." Namely, how to better define and ingrain the value proposition sustainable consumption brings to consumers, and spur broader systemic change and adoption. Changing consumer behavior is one of the single, largest opportunities to answer the question of "how," and to make a positive environmental (and economic) impact.

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