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Permaculture in South Africa
Permaculture in South Africa can help further maximize biological solutions to human needs. Image: gbaku/flickr Permaculture, a term created by David Holmgren and Bill Mollison in 1970, is defined as a...
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Vegetable Oil Fuels – A Not So New Way of Keeping Wheels Turning
This inspirational bus is powered only vegetable oil fuel. Image: Richard Masoner/Cyclelicious/Flickr Vegetable oil fuels are an alternative for diesel fuel as well as for the use of heating oil...
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History of Tidal Energy
The history of tidal energy applications goes back to ancient times. Image: besar bears/flickr Harvesting energy from the tides is a surprisingly old method; the technology has improved and changed...
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How To Recycle Batteries
Recycle your batteries! Learn how. Image: JohnSeb/flickr Today almost everything uses batteries – from wristwatches and mobile phones to laptop computers and cars. Anything that runs on electricity...
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Modern Airships Not Yet Sustainable
Helium airships, due to high resource and monetary costs, are not yet a sustainable technology for flight. Air flight has a huge negative impact on the problem of global warming and carbon emissions....
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Exxon Oil Spill – The Valdez Incident
Wildlife, landscapes, entire ecosystems wiped out in the Exxon Oil Spill. Image: ARLIS Reference/flickr On the 24th of March, 1989, the Exxon Oil Tanker, Valdez, hit the Prince William Sound’s Bligh...
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The Volcano Stove – Something for Everyday Use
US Forest Service sponsors Dutch oven cooking classes show here, heated by a volcano stove. Image: Forest Service - Northern Region/flickr The volcano stove is a revolutionary stove that can be used in...
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BP Oil Leak: The Deepwater Horizon Incident
On the 20th of April, 2010, a series of events on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig in the Gulf of Mexico, caused an explosion, the animals, ecosystem and waterfront towns paying paying the biggest price...
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Why Upcycling is Better than Recycling
The dirty, dusty feel of the dull grey paper in your hands and the less than happy smell is the recycled paper from which you read today’s news. That same paper can be thrown away to decay in a dump or...
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What Causes Oil Spills?
Oil, a natural resource, becomes unnatural when it leaves the depths of the Earth and into the living surface for industrial purpose. The most obvious and devastating depiction of this is an oil spill...
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