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Singer-songwriter Zeya pledges to plant trees
Beautiful new singer-songwriter Zeya is pledging to plant a tree for every 50 downloads achieved from her website and has forged a link with the Carbon Managers as her adopted carbon company. So if you want to help plant trees and hear great music visit www.zeyamusic.com/downloads and www.myspace.com/zeyamusic
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Major Discovery from MIT Could Unleash Solar Revolution
Photo: Donna Coveney
In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun isn't shining. Until now, solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing extra solar energy for later use is prohibitively expensive and grossly inefficient. With today's announcement, MIT researchers have hit upon a simple, inexpensive, highly efficient process for storing solar energy. By using biological sources, in imitation of photosynthesis, MIT's Professor Daniel Nocera has enabled solar power to be stored economically in a hydrogen fuel cell, for availability later. This is like having a storage heater for “off-peak” electricity, only instead of storing it at night, you might have a solar photovoltaic array working during the day, and then store the electricity for use after sunset.
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11 Billion Pounds Needed to Save the Amazon Rainforest
Photo: cameranaturalist
The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest needs 11 billion pounds to save it. That is what Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said at the official launch of a new international fund to protect it. The lush rainforest are the “lungs of the world” – but every minute of every day an area the size of a football pitch is cut down. 14% of it has already been deforested.
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Soil Association Revives Wartime Dig For Victory Spirit
Photo: Soil Association www.foodforlife.org
Leading environmental organisation The Soil Association is about to launch a self-sufficiency movement to the general public, mimicking the wartime “Dig for Victory” programme where people grew their own food in gardens and allotments. Alarmed at the lack of skills relating to food production, and worried by the way the “just-in-time” supermarket delivery combines with imported food to make Britain very vulnerable to disruptions in food supply – as nearly happened in the Tanker Blockade in 2000 – when the UK was actually down to its last few days food, The Soil Association has brought in master TV gardener Monty Don to get more people involved in food production on a small scale.
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Climate Camp Pictorial
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Kristian Buus www.kristianbuus.com
It is indisputable that of all the fossil fuels, coal is the dirtiest and most polluting. With the UK government about to sign up to a reduction in emissions of 60% - perhaps even 80% - by 2050 it seems a peculiar decision to plan a new generation of coal power stations. Kingsnorth is an existing coal power station in Kent which is to be replaced with a newer station. Although theoretically the power station could reduce its emissions by using Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology, in practice this technology does not exist on a commercial scale yet, so the plant will be nearly as dirty as the one it replaces until some unknown date in the future.
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