Solar Powered Cardboard Cooker wins Climate Change Challenge Competition
Forum for the Future – a UK charity promoting sustainable development, recently ran a competition sponsored by the Financial Times – the FT Climate Change Challenge. In their own words, the aims of the competition were: to raise the profile of green innovation and demonstrate that there are solutions and money can be made from [...]
Air powered environmentally friendly car being produced
Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in production, [...]
Food Miles – how far your food travels & the environmental impact
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Deforestation – environmental & human effects
There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen. In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temperatures [...]
Air powered environmentally friendly car being produced
Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in production, [...]
Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny houses & be inspired to live more simply…
Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans for regular small and eco friendly houses [...]
