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By webmaster Monday December 14th 2009 1:13 Central European Time The world’s first prototype of a power plant that utilizes osmosis to produce electric power was recently opened in Norway, by the state owned power company Statkraft. It is indeed a prototype, in the sense that it produces a rather limited amount of electric power, but a full scale plant is planned to be in place during the year 2015 Read more.. Sphere: Related ContentBy webmaster Wednesday November 25th 2009 20:13 Central European Time Previously we have written about the Transition Movement as well as the TED conference here on “Green Tech the Open Source way” Here is Rob Hopkins of the Transition Movement delivering a speech at TED earlier this year. If you want to know a good approach to a world beyond oil dependency, and if you want to know how local resilience is a step beyond sustainability, then you should spend 20 minutes of your time watching this interesting talk. Read more.. Sphere: Related ContentBy webmaster Saturday October 17th 2009 23:30 Central European Time
(This article is also available in Norwegian) Sphere: Related ContentBy webmaster Sunday August 16th 2009 0:22 Central European Time
By webmaster Monday August 3rd 2009 21:25 Central European Time If I should name the one person that has influenced me the most in my life among those I have actually never met, then probably it would be the late Dr. Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996). Carl Sagan was an astronomer, author and educator, especially famous for the television series Cosmos. And Cosmos was indeed where I first came across his work. Read more.. Sphere: Related ContentBy webmaster Sunday July 26th 2009 1:44 Central European Time Ecologist Richard Heinberg is the head of the Post Carbon Institute and the author of he Party’s Over, Power Down, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything. In this interview he talks about the future of the human species with a lesser and lesser supply of fossil fuels. He also points out that the human species is no different from other species when it comes to what happens if the resources needed to support the current number of human organisms on this planet become inadequate. He even dares say that population growth constitutes a problem. In other words, he dares to say what in the eyes of many people is a taboo even to think. By webmaster Thursday July 2nd 2009 15:24 Central European Time You can hardly open a newspaper or visit a news web site this week without being bombarded with news about Michael Jackson’s death. Superstars, celebrities in music, film and sports, people that become rich beyond most people’s wildest fantasies by entertaining us, have been with us for a couple of generations now. Long enough for people to think that they have always been there. Looking at the economic climate in which they emerged it is obvious that they are products of an industrialized society. Hence, they are really one of the results of us burning large amounts of fossil fuel. Sphere: Related ContentBy webmaster Monday June 29th 2009 12:10 Central European Time Dear fellow techies, especially you green ones If you are a little bit like me, then every time you see a problem the immediate hunch is to think: “how can we use a machine to solve that?” Before we dive into this line of reasoning and start drawing up our requirement specifications for a system, there are a couple of questions that we don’t often ask, but maybe should start asking ourselves. Read more.. Sphere: Related ContentBy webmaster Thursday June 18th 2009 12:34 Central European Time Today CNN has an article about Dean Still and the Aprovecho Research Center, who have won a $65,000 eco award for a cleaner wood burning stove. From the picture in the article it looks like the stove is based on the rocket stove principle. Read more.. Sphere: Related Content |
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Green Life Innovators’ chairman Vidar Kristiansen and deputy chairman Espen Tverback recently spent 3 weeks in the Philippines. This trip marks the start of GLI’s activities in this country. In this article Vidar shares the experiences from the trip with our readers.
Finally, the Green Life Innovators Philippines Tour 2009 is ready to begin. The tickets have been bought and I am ready to go. The tour will take place between September 13th and October 2nd. I will be meeting up with GLI co-founder and deputy chairman, Espen, who came to the Philippines in June and will stay there for one year. Though he has to leave for work occasionally during this one year period. 
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