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 them
to find [...]

Environmental impact of Computers & the IT Industry

This report on the Global impact of the ICT (Information and communications technology) industry on it’s contribution to Global CO2 emissions still makes for surprising reading.
Although the technology involved in the survey is quite extensive – all computers, office IT equipment, servers, mobile and fixed telephony etc, the report suggests that the combined contribution is [...]

Environmentally friendly concrete…!

Here’s a great article from the New York Times.
What amazes me about this is the numbers involved – 5% of human caused emissions of CO2 are coming from concrete production! Who knows this? -We talk about switching light bulbs off, taking the train instead of flying if possible, but who thinks twice when laying foundations [...]

Health Impacts of Air Pollution & Solutions

Let’s look at “Planet Earth” as our society. To obtain and sustain joy and quality of life it is essential that all people, irrespective of nationality, race, religious beliefs or sex be aware of the effects of our cumulative actions. When each “one” of us becomes conscious of what we do that either diminish or [...]