There is an excellent movie highlighting the madness of our dependence on fossil fuels out in cinemas the USA at the moment. ‘Fuel‘ from Josh Tickell was the winner of the prestigious Audience Award for Best Documentary award at the Sundance Film Festival. The film has had such an impact that Mr Tickell won an [...]
Archive for the ‘Go Greener’ Category
20 May
Green Energy in 2009 – Do you still care? (Poll)
We are in the midst of unprecendented economic times. The strain on every household and business in the UK is currently being sorely tested. Monthly bills including telephone, broadband, food and drink are all becoming more and more difficult to manage for many people. With this in mind, where do your energy bills feature in [...]
14 Apr
Copenhagen Conference Vital to Climate Future
The upcoming United Nations COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is the most vital international climate change conference since Kyoto in 1997. This conference is important for a host of reasons, partly due to its timing and also due to the fact that the climate change sitaution is actually alot worse than was previously thought.
From [...]
17 Mar
Google goes Green
It is being reported that the gods at Google are planning on looking into green and cheaper energy solutions, at Google they understand that they have a large part to play in the future development of renewable energy, after all they do dominate most of the internet market, just think how many computers they are [...]
6 Mar
Green Hydro Energy
Hydropower
Of the renewable energy sources Hydropower is the most established of them all. Hydropower has been used for centuries when the likes of water mills where used to generate power but in the last couple of decades turbines have been used to convert the flow of water into electricity, generally the modern systems is a [...]
30 Oct
Renewable Vs Nuclear Debate continues
Continuing on from Johnny Ball championing Nuclear Power, i came across a very interesting letter in The Herald today from Kerr McGregor of the Scottish Solar Energy Group. Aside from detailing an appealing energy-mix solution, the summary paragraph addresses the Nuclear debate far more elegantly that i ever could:
As for nuclear, it is fatally flawed [...]
6 Oct
The Green Team – Environmental Activism
Some more light relief from Will Ferrell and his Green Team (John C. Reilly, Adam Mckay). A pretty funny slant on the extreme nature of some of our fellow green energy evangelists.
12 Sep
Green Energy Evangelist – Paris Hilton
We are aware that we are behind the curve on this but the recent Paris Hilton spoof response video had us in stitches. The notorious hotel heiress seems more clued up in Green Energy that most of the world’s major policy makers!
See some of the highlights here:
26 Aug
Biofuels – The Ulitmate Clean and Green Energy?
Biofuel has long been claimed as the answer to rising oil and gas prices, the ultimate in ‘clean and green energy’. As if to emphasise this further, a group of enthusiasts are currently en route to the cradle of Western Civilisation using only waste oil and cooking fat obtained from Chip Shops along the way. [...]
4 Feb
Renewable power video
Good little video on renewable power
Although it is good to recycle our waste, it still has it’s flaws and we are also a bit away from getting it rolled out across all major countries.
For now we need to stick with our renewable energies such as hydro and wind power.
Hydro provider
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