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Entries from May 2007

Carbon Neutral Car Insurance

May 31st, 2007 · No Comments

There are now a number of insurance companies getting involved with carbon offset. ibuyeco offers to offset the carbon emissions that you car creates.

Save money and do your bit to save the planet - switch to ibuyeco 100% carbon neutral car insurance!
When an individual or organisation reduces to net zero their carbon emissions. This is often [...]

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A Narrow Escape

May 31st, 2007 · No Comments

On Saturday 26th May at 17.10hrs BST, the team received a distressing satellite phone call from James.
They were travelling south-east towards Killorsuaq, a small community on the west coast, when Rob noticed he had dropped a mitten. They stopped and Rob went back to get it when suddenly the ice gave way and he fell [...]

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Southern Ocean - Carbon saturated

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments

The Southern Ocean is one of the world’s biggest reservoirs of carbon, known as a carbon sink.
When carbon is in a sink, whether it’s an ocean or a forest, both of which can lock up carbon dioxide, it stays out of the atmosphere and scientists say it does not contribute to global warming.
The new research, [...]

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Peak Oil

May 29th, 2007 · No Comments

This video paints a bleak picture regarding the point at which oil ceases to be easy to extract. 

Time to think seriously about our own response.

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Water wars

May 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

It is interesting to see just how the emphasis on the environment has changed in such a short time.  Global warming and all the other issue with Carbon Footprints are interesting.  But there is an issue that is as old as time.  Control of water.  This is going to be one of the biggest reasons [...]

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US Fuel Prices continue to rise

May 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

Brian Carr notes in an article on the Daily Fuel Economy Blog that

The new national average gas price is up to $3.21 per gallon, which is up 3.25% over the past week, 11.85% over the past month and 38.95% since the beginning of the year. Today’s price is also 11.75% higher than what the price [...]

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Pictures tell a thousand words

May 19th, 2007 · No Comments

The site by Chris Jordan is a series of images that looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. 
This project visually examines these vast [...]

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"I am the future of the internet"

May 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This is a great post on 10,000 mashmallows about the future of the internet…
By Steven Phenix, Viametric Principal
I am the future of the Internet and according to Pew Internet and American Life Project report from last week people like me — Web 2.0 participants, gadget hounds — only make up 8% of the general population. For [...]

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Missing Madeleine - your support is needed

May 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Little Madeleine McCann remains missing and her family needs your support. 
They have set up a website to keep awareness high.  Which can be found at Bring Madeleine Home
 There is also a banner ad that can be displayed on the web sites that is downloadable. 

Please take the time to consider Madeleine [...]

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Excessive Over Packaging?

May 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

There’s nothing wrong with reasonable packaging;  we all want the stuff we buy to be clean and undamaged.  But retail packaging has a dual purpose — protecting a product, and getting you to buy it. The latter case is where things get out of hand.

How many times has this happened to you…  You order a [...]

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