Oxfam : “Biofuels are presented in rich countries as a solution to two crises: the climate crisis and the oil crisis. But they may not be a solution to either, and instead are contributing to a third: the current food crisis.” http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/another-inconvenient-truth
In a rather long report Oxfam International explain that the current rise in […]
Every now and then world leaders meets and discuss about world problems, that’s why we pay them. They often come up with ideas to solve the crisis “du jour”. This year it’s the price of the food.
The cause of the food crisis is the continuous consumption of energy (in whatever form) by rich countries and […]
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Subject: Green Transport Day
We at Action for the City are launching a Green Transport Day on May
16th and invite you to join us to make Hanoi a quieter, cleaner and
greener city. On this day, we ask that you walk, cycle, or use public
transport instead of private cars […]
Thanks to http://www.crisscrossed.net/ to pass me the following on twitter with this presentation, things got suddenly scarier.
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Save the planet big excerpt from http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/pwr_mgmt.html :
Limit screen-saver use. A screen saver does not save energy. In fact, more often than not, a screen saver not only will draw power for the monitor, but also will keep the CPU from shutting down. Instead, set your computer to turn off the monitor first, […]
See the difference you can make 8pm March 29
http://www.earthhour.org/
This is definitively one of my new year resolution. Whenever I’ll need to buy new hardware I will try to :
Use computer/gears with lower consumption of energy
Use computer/gears that require less toxic substances
Use more recyclable/reusable hardware
Use software that require less power consumption
In the last few months I’ve been collecting some links about that subject […]
Maybe not but we should try, to make it greener. I’ve read somewhere (I delay this post before sending it, just in case I could find the reference - but no luck). that the IT industry was producing as much greenhouse gases as the aviation sector does (any reference on that ?).
Even if it is […]
http://www.earthday.net/
Think about it, because one we may not have a planet anymore
