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2009-10-30 15:16:30     Carbon.to - Carbon so you can understand it

http://carbon.to/about

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

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2010-10-14 20:50:35     Data | The World Bank

http://data.worldbank.org/

The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

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2011-04-05 08:16:47     IBM Research | | arun_kumar | WWTW - The World Wide Telecom Web (a.k.a. The Spoken Web)

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/.../arun_kumar.wwtw.html

WWTW - The World Wide Telecom Web (a.k.a. The Spoken Web)
The World Wide Telecom Web (also referred to as The Spok ...
The World Wide Telecom Web
Past and Present Collaborators:
... Related Publications are available here

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2013-03-13 09:41:13     Can Wind, Water and Sunlight Power New York by 2050? - NYTimes.com

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/...power-new-york-by-2050/

A group of scientists and energy analysts has laid out a... New York State could, in theory, eliminate its use of fo... nuclear power — including for transportation — by 20... charts the contributions played by improved efficiency a... renewable e

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2012-07-27 16:33:42     Latest eco-friendly fuel for cars: aluminum and water | DVICE

http://dvice.com/archives/2012/07/latest-eco-frie.php

I'll bet you didn't know that aluminum (the same stuff t...
The alchemists at a company called Alchemy Research are ...
alydro-formula-528x165.png
To get this to work, you need water to be superheated in ...
... hout all the nasty side-effects that come

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2012-07-12 14:56:06     M-Pesa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

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

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2010-10-18 15:31:52     Solving Africa's hunger - Features - Al Jazeera English

http://english.aljazeera.net/inde.../201010178242499808.html

Africa is hungry - 240 million people are undernourished... first-time, small African farmers have been properly con... solve the problem of feeding sub-Saharan Africa. Their a... directly repudiate a massive international effort to lau...
Instead of

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2014-01-04 18:14:14     A dictionary compiled in tyre shop in 30 years | ePaper | DAWN.COM

http://epaper.dawn.com/DetailImage.php?...

DERA GHAZI KHAN: At a worl(place dealing with Arabic and... Saudi Arabia, one day Akbar Makhmoor started with the Se... and its definition in Urdu and Seraiki. Now, after almos...
He has never been to a college or a university. A tyre r ...
`One doesn`

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2014-02-03 22:44:46     Flood Maps

http://flood.firetree.net/

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2014-11-18 19:00:22     The 110 Year-Old Light Bulb That's Never Been Turned Off

http://gizmodo.com/...s-never-been-turned-off-1659505178?...

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

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2012-12-10 20:08:27     Official Google Africa Blog: Understanding barriers to mobile Internet adoption in Kenya and Ghana

http://google-africa.blogspot.co.uk/...rriers-to-mobile.html

While mobile phones have become commonplace, mobile Inte... lagged. In 2011, for instance, mobile Internet adoption ... compared to 54% in Europe. We’ve been working to bette... nature and root causes of this dynamic. Earlier this yea... with iHub R

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2013-12-28 12:09:50     The ‘penny-drop moment’: building political leadership for radical emission reduction | green alliance blog

http://greenallianceblog.org.uk/...dical-emission-reduction/

This post is by Rebecca Willis, independent adviser on e... sustainability and Green Alliance associate, working wit... Leadership Programme. This is a shortened version of her... presentation to the Tyndall Centre’s Radical Emissions... conference.

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2012-10-02 10:32:22     Future Perfect » Thoughts on Rural Research

http://janchipchase.com/2012/07/thoughts-on-rural-research/

This article summarises the issues in conducting corpora... research in rural locations covering logistics to resear... communities are far from homongenous.

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2014-02-02 21:35:43     British Isles in 2100 by JaySimons on deviantART

http://jaysimons.deviantart.com/...h-Isles-in-2100-315945336

British Isles in 2100 by JaySimons
:iconjaysimons:
British Isles in 2100by JaySimons
Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Other©2012-2014 Ja ...
... Belfast have become new capitals of Britain and Ireland.

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2014-03-30 09:18:10     Global warming reveals Viking tunic

http://news.msn.com/s.../global-warming-reveals-viking-tunic

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2010-11-13 20:53:03     Living On One Dollar-A-Day - Home

http://onedollaraday.weebly.com/index.html

Understanding the reality of poverty is the critical ste... problem. Time and again, microfinance has been proven to... effective method of combating poverty. With the goal of ... to the reality of living on a dollar a day and helping t...
To achieve

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2014-05-18 09:11:30     Climate Change Is Harming Economy, Report Says - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/...2702303417104579545510182551226?...

Climate change is creating problems for American citizen... and costing the economy billions of dollars, as extreme ... flooding, droughts and other disasters to every region o... federal advisory panel concluded in a report released Tu...
The congres

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2011-08-15 17:13:57     India unveils prototype of $35 computer -  Tech & Gadget - MSN CA

http://tech.ca.msn.com/canadianpress-article.aspx?...

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 ...

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2013-03-09 20:26:53     Thermoelectric Generator by TEG Power

http://tegpower.com/index.html

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

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2014-03-11 20:49:14     About « The Restart Project

http://therestartproject.org/about/

The Restart Project is a London-based social enterprise ... empowers people to use their electronics longer, by lear... repair and maintenance skills.
Through community and workplace events we create engagin ...
Electronic waste is one of the fastest gr

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2013-02-19 07:45:23     Arctic Death Spiral Bombshell: CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice Volume Has Collapsed | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/...ea-ice-volume-has-collapsed/?...

The sharp drop in Arctic sea ice area has been matched b... but equally sharp, drop in sea ice thickness. The combin... a collapse in total sea ice volume — to one fifth of i...
Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via ...

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2012-12-05 13:53:44     this isn't happiness™ (Fixer’s Manifesto), Peteski

http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/366137.../fixers-manifesto

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2015-08-17 19:55:35     Winderful

http://winderful.diascreative.net/

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2015-12-08 09:38:48     How can we store more energy from the sun and the wind? - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34974644

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

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2013-02-11 20:41:11     BBC News - Less is more: Simple living in small spaces

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16348594

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2014-03-04 10:39:51     BBC News - The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26260978

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

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2016-12-27 08:59:23     The farmer who built her own broadband - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37974267

"I'm just a farmer's wife," says Christine Conder, modes... members of the rural communities of Lancashire she is al... internet pioneer.
Her DIY solution to a neighbour's internet connectivity ...
That is 35 times faster than the 28.9 Mbps average UK

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2009-10-30 15:14:37     Betavine - Blog - Sustainability blog

http://www.betavine.net/bvportal/blog/view.html?...

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2016-01-04 17:21:54    

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/carbon-clock/

Carbon concentration up counter

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2009-11-14 17:12:10     Carbon Footprint - What Is A Carbon Footprint?

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/carbonfootprint.html

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activi...
The carbon footprint is a measurement of all greenhouse ...
Breakdown of a typical person's carbon footprint
The pie chart above shows the main elements which
... we buy the more emissions wil

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