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Sometimes a machine might not be the best solution

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 [...]

Save the wood burning stove for rainy days

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.

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Must see: Tropical permaculture strategies

In their famous 1984 song “Do they know it’s Christimas” the artists united in Band Aid to raise money for Africa, described the continent as a place “where nothing ever grows.” Have you ever watched a film from a very warm place, like in Africa or India, and though to yourself that nothing can [...]

Must see: A farm for the future

Today we have embedded a BBC documentary in 5 episodes found on YouTube. Professional wild life photographer, Rebecca Hosking, returns to her childhood farm to see how she can work to transform it into a farm for a future without an abundant access to fossil fuel.

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Made to break or last?

Surfing the various environmental blogs on the Internet, there seems to be a consensus among most environmentalist that people should prepare themselves for a future with far less consumptions of consumer goods and energy than they are used to today. I know that some people, who are into green tech, would like to challenge [...]

Website review: World Community Grid

“Switch off your computer when you are not using it,” is one of those classical everyday green living advices you can read on environmental pages throughout. If your are like me, you will know that up against this idea there are plenty of reasons to keep your computer running when you are not using [...]

Must see: The transition movement movie

The transition movement, which has been mentioned in a book review earlier on this blog, announce on their blog that they will be showing a preview of their movie “In transition” online later this week. It will be available from New Zealand’s midnight Thursday June 11th 2009 to Alaska’s midnight Sat June 13th . [...]

Understanding peak oil

Today we have embedded a series of 8 videos from YouTube showing a documentary named “Understanding peak oil”, that we strongly recommend everyone to watch. You will have to set aside approximately one and a half hour to watch the entire documentary. How many hours you will spend thinking about it afterwards [...]

Techies, from heroes to nerds and back?

The other day, while surfing the Internet for new interesting sites on green technology, I came across this collection of videos from the Washington Post named “Voices on Green.” The collection basically consists of different videos where different people, some of them people in very important positions, voice their opinion on environmental [...]