Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Globally, renewables account for about one third of elec... generation—and that share is rising.

Herrington, a Dutch sustainability researcher and adviser to the Club of Rome, a Swiss thinktank, has made headlines in recent days after she authored a report that appeared to show a controversial 1970s study predicting the collapse of civ...

I'll bet you didn't know that aluminum (the same stuff t...
The alchemists at a company called Alchemy Research are ...
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To get this to work, you need water to be superheated in ...
... hout all the nasty side-effects that come

If perovskites mean nothing to you read on, as they may ... impact on your future fuel bill.
If we could capture approximately 1% of the sunlight fal ...

If you believe the hype, technology is going to help us ... Advances have indeed made a huge difference in the lives...
The organization I'm part of, BRAC, is known for going t ...
But I'm hardly a naysayer when it comes to tech. I agree ...
The trick i

Illuminating cities with sustainable smart lighting systems
Lights that switch off automatically when streets are em ...
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... a city-lighting system that's both sustainable and fun.

In a new report, Simon Roberts outlines why poor househo...
The poorest fifth of the population have already signifi ...
So why is it they are carrying more of the burden of cut ...
Based on detailed analysis of the Government's own figur ...
So lower in

In Albrecht’s view, the residents of the Upper Hunter ... just from the strain of living in difficult conditions b... something more fundamental: a hitherto unrecognized psyc... condition. In a 2004 essay, he coined a term to describe it: “solastal

In everyday life we encounter more and more carbon dioxi...
Convert between a CO2 amount to other units as cups of t ...
Compare between two different emissions, for instance ho ...
Use our API to convert CO2 to a more understandable numb ...
Our carbon

Inhabitat
October 11, 2005
SOLAR POWERED GLASS
by Jill Fehrenbacher
... c freedom in which to create energy efficient buildings.

IT was the silence that made this voyage different from ...
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Not the absence of sound, exactly.
The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rig ...
... The birds were missing because the fish were missing.

Jugaad is an Indian word that means ingenious improvisat... scarce resources - or necessity is the mother of inventi... more grassroots innovations:

Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, fo...
Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur acr ...
Pendo Luisi, 27 years old, borrowed $175 to open a cafe ...
Kiva was born of the following beliefs:
... r 2009, Kiva has facilitated

Konekta is an open development initiative focused on the... community web services that meet social needs. The proje... Development Goals and the objectives of Primary Health C...
The Konekta project is rooted in experience gained from ...
We're inter

Local cycling federation and tourist organisation warn t... in the Danish capital can make riding intimidating

M-Pesa (M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money) is a mo... money transfer service for Safaricom, Kenya's largest mo... operator.[1] Currently the most developed mobile payment... developing world, M-Pesa allows users to deposit, withdr... money easil

Many entrepreneurs (incorrectly) think the biggest chall... making the product. They are so pleased they have invent... more efficient or lower cost or fancier than the other w... market. Since there are 1 bazillion people whose life wo...
Wrong! Actu

MATT REYNOLDS, an assistant professor in the electrical ...
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Jochen Teizer
Using only radio waves for its electrical power, the Sma ...
... uipment to determine if the hat’s wearer is too close.

Mitchell is the second contributor to the Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project, for which 1,000 trees were planted two years ago in Oslo’s Nordmarka forest. Starting with Margaret Atwood, who last year handed over the...

More than 60 percent of the world’s population remains... removing crucial deterrents to Internet adoption, little... more than 4 billion people may be left behind.

MUMBAI, India - It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th ... unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet... which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.
If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux ope ...

Natural building construction
Pattern observation and site analysis
Renewable energy and appropriate technology
Reading the land and natural cycles
... ...and much, much more!

Nick Heyward, who manages the UK Power Networks project,... electricity grids need to balance supply and demand at a...
"One solution could be to add capacity to the existing g ...
Storage systems like SNS offer the ability to export ene ...
Mr Heyward

Our World in Data (OWID) is an online publication that s... conditions are changing. The aim is to give a global ove...
Our World in Data communicates this empirical knowledge ...
through data visualizations – charts and maps.
by presenting the acade

Samasource empowers over 850 marginalized people, from r... women in rural Pakistan, to receive life-changing work o... the Internet. In parallel, we enable socially responsibl... businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs in the US to c... economic de

TEG is an acronym for ‘thermoelectric generator’. A ...
When heat is applied to the hot side of a TEG, electrici ...
Can you really generate that much electricity from waste ...
You may be surprised just how much you can! Here is a sm ...
... solar h

Test-driving the 'World's Cheapest Computer'
India's 'Aakash' project, a tablet billed as the cheapes ...
Euphoria over a cheap tablet with a 'Made in India' labe ...

The 110 Year-Old Light Bulb That's Never Been Turned Off
The oldest lightbulb in continuous use was installed bef ...

The idea of the Good Country Index is pretty simple: to ... country on earth contributes to the common good of human... takes away. Using a wide range of data from the U.N. and... international organisations, we’ve given each country ... show at a g

The Rapid Commute system, as he calls it, would enable l... commuters to hop aboard a train instead – while still ... personal vehicles with them. Drivers already similarly u... waterways. So why not deploy the same concept, Farooq fi...
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