Sunday, April 29, 2007

keeping up with the joneses

affluenza.org has a rather good diagram presenting the rather large and complicated issues involved in sustainable development which have lately been giving me such a headache.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

biopower

A selection of articles outlining the dangers of biofuels.

The latest greenwash attempt by the motoring and fuel industry is perhaps not as clean as it suggests. it's time that we concentrate on developing new technologies rather than making the most out of old ones (diesel engines were originally developed to run on biologically derived fuels). I'll let Monbiot tell you all about the potential ethical dangers of an increase in the usage of biofuels. Yesterday's Guardian talks about the health dangers of ethanol.
I'd like to imagine a day where cars like the Tesla Roadster fill our roads. I'm the first to admit that they are not perfect, in addition to its enormous price-tag current methods of electricity production have also got some way to go in improving its environmental performance. what really excites me is the potential for improvement of the technology.

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