Bournemouth, UK, is often mocked by many of the British for the average age of its citizens. In short, a seaside resort where many go to die. Jack Dee once quipped that the shop windows are all fitted with bi-focals to allow passers-by to ascertain what lies within.
But the citizens, it seems, are having the last laugh as it has been reported this week that the town is to be the first in the UK to make use of the sewer system in a whole new way.
Amy Winehouse
If you appreciate irony, as I’m sure you do, then you’ll understand there’s something quite beautiful about the fact that Amy Winehouse will shortly be securing a $700,000 deal to sing at the opening of a nightclub in Rotterdam, Holland.
Irony, yes, because the club will be powered by widdle and Amy’s career is going down the pan due to a vicious circle of relapses. (Rehab? No thanks.)
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Here is some good news about Greenland, and the “North West Passage”
For instance, the respected journal; Geophysical Research Letters, 13 June 2006, has published this paper by Chylek et al:
ABSTRACT:
We provide an analysis of Greenland temperature records to compare the current (1995-2005) warming period with the previous (1920-1930)
Greenland warming. We find that the current Greenland warming is not unprecedented in recent Greenland history. Temperature increases in the two warming periods are of a similar magnitude, however, the rate of warming […]
Sometimes, when a country attempts to do the right thing, Murphy (ie, “Murphy’s law” Murphy) decides to present them with a hundred and one challenges to overcome. Murphy has recently set his sights on Norway, and is giving them a good tug.
Bordered by Sweden, Finland and Russia, the Kingdom of Norway is apparently one of the most peaceful countries in the world (though, by which measuring scale that was taken I’m not sure). Amongst the wealthiest countries of the world, Norway can thank the natural reserves of oil and gas reserves off their coast for their economic boom.
And though Norway apparently holds some of the strictest emission rules in the world, they want to do more.
I know some of you may be disappointed by a return to the despondent and depressed Josh, but I do try and keep a bit of variety. Just keep in mind my last two posts: a greener Google and a larger, more efficient wind farm. Keep those in mind as we discuss the top end of our planet.
There’s no need to rehash what we already know. The Arctic is melting. It’s
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Renewable energy is big, big, big: Josh just wrote about the world’s largest wind farm possibly going up in South Dakota (yahoo!), California could see the world’s largest solar power plant, and now Singapore is in the foray with landing the largest solar manufacturing facility the world’s ever seen.
A Norwegian company called Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) will build the complex, which will be completed in different stages to incorporate wafer,
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Holiday season fanfare has already begun, and I am reminded of my holiday motto: No more junk toys! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and/or the Winter Solstice, if you have children, you know what junk toys are. Junk toys are toys that will have little educational value, are usually made of plastic, are overly commercial, and end up in our landfills. Green parents often try to make these toys
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Efficient materials can sometimes seem to be the ideal path for green building. If we can find a way to more efficiently produce the materials we need to build our buildings, it would seem that we would be well on our way to reducing our impact on the planet.
For example, rather than using lumber sawn from old growth forests, engineered lumber and I-joists make more efficient use of lumber resources
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It might surprise many of you American readers to know that, down here in Australia, we don’t actually have wildfires. It’s a surprising fact isn’t it? From what I’m able to cobble together, Australia has never had a wildfire.
Granted, our bushfire seasons are horrific!
OK, so yeah, I’m just having a bit of fun with the different words and descriptions, but I have a point. Not an etymological point, but a point nonetheless.
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