SLalley | Shared With: Everyone - May 20 2008 | green, politics
Quoted: Farmers and consumers in poor countries are now paying the price now for decisions made by well-fed Westerners, as reported by my colleagues Keith Bradsher and Andrew Martin in their front-page article on cutbacks in financing for agricultural research. They explain how the Green Revolution faltered after Western governments and agencies slashed funds for agricultural research, partly to shift money to other areas, like environmental projects, and partly because of opposition to high-yield agriculture from advocacy groups.
- SLalley | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 17 2007 | green, engineering
Cool building.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - SLalley | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2007 | green, mail, UK
Facinating.
Quoted: We all know what the world looks like.
ShareViewed: 34 Times - SLalley | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 09 2007 | green, new, global warming
- EasyJet slams 'snake oil sellers' in offset market and goes it alone | | Guardian Unlimited BusinessSLalley | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 30 2007 | green, business, global warming
I think offsets can be good things but I am sure there will be a lot of people trying to take advantage of the system.
- SLalley | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 29 2007 | new, green, blog
While the modern environmental movement often portrays capitalist industrial societies as the world’s biggest pollution problem, Forbes notes something interesting about the top-25 cleanest cities in the world: Most of them are in wealthy industrialized democracies. Turns out, all that industrialization created wealth which, in turn, buys the things (mass transit, especially) and pays for the policies that create a cleaner environment. Forbes:
- SLalley | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 22 2007 | new, green, women
Makes me think the rich want the poor to change their life styles but they themselves are not. Not giving up the second home...
Quoted: Sensitive to trends, these women believe that in this day of fervent eco-consciousness one can never be too green.
- SLalley | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 27 2007 | energy, green, environment
Quoted: Al Gore has responded to charges that his house consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, with the new Oscar winner saying he has taken many steps to reduce the carbon footprint in his home.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - SLalley | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 29 2006 | god, culture, green
Interesting take on cultures.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - SLalley | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 20 2006 | engine, question, green
Powered by one heck of a lot of laptop batteries. Still nice to see someone trying. I have feeling that hydrogen cars will not be the way to go but all electric plug in cars. It will take much better batteries and very fast recharge plug in stations for when you are away from home.
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