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Climate change, Science & Technology, Mar 6th, 2010,
CNN’s Earth’ Frontiers maps out the changes in global energy consumption for different regions of the world between the years of 1980 and 2007. A colorful interactive ‘infographic’ shows how population, CO2 emissions from energy, and electricity – both total and renewable – have changed over the years.
The interactive graph is based on data from [...]
Tags: CNN, consumption, energy, global
Science & Technology, Sustainable lifestyle, Mar 2nd, 2010,
The energy crisis of the 1970s kick started an energy revolution in Denmark. Previously dependent on foreign oil, the Scandinavian country ‘learned the hard way’ about the importance of diversifying its power sources.
Government subsidies for wind power, a carbon tax and energy efficiency investments – as well as the discovery of North Sea oil, it [...]
Tags: CNN, denmark, energy, oil, power, turbines, wind
Sustainable lifestyle, Videos & Documentaries, Feb 27th, 2010,
With the help of the U.S. military, a company called Ocean Power Technologies is looking to exploit Hawaii’s massive wave energy potential as a renewable energy source.
Ocean Power Technologies’ wave powered energy producing design is a giant buoy that generates electricity by bobbing up and down in the ocean’s waves, working an internal plunger connected [...]
Tags: base, buoy, CNN, energy, Hawaii, Military, ocean, power, renewable, source, technologies, U.S., wave
Conservation, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 21st, 2010,
If you live in Indonesia and have $100,000 to spare, you soon may be able to. The Indonesian government is contemplating a tiger adoption initiative in an attempt to curb the illegal poaching of the endangered big cats.
These aren’t the typical kind of wildlife conservation ‘adoptions’ like the WWF’s Adopt a Tiger program, where a [...]
Tags: adopt, CNN, Conservation, government, Indonesia, Indonesian, initiative, pet, poaching, Sumatran, tiger, WWF
Conservation, Sustainable lifestyle, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 13th, 2010,
Since it’s the weekend, why not sit back, put your feet up and watch an environmentally themed video report?
This month’s Eco Solutions from CNN starts with a recap of an earlier report on Japan’s efforts to develop new ways for farming the endangered and highly valued bluefin tuna. It’s a classic example of supply and [...]
Tags: bluefin, CNN, Conservation, David Suzuki, ECO, Eco Solutions, eco warriors, environment, report, show, tuna
Science & Technology, Sustainable lifestyle, Videos & Documentaries, Feb 8th, 2010,
When Germany introduced a similar FIT scheme 10 years ago — but with targets of ten percent — it started a green energy revolution in the country, turning it into a European leader in renewables.
– CNN
The UK government announced on February 1st that it would pay households that generate renewable energy. The scheme, called Clean [...]
Tags: clean, Clean Energy Cashback, CNN, Eco Solutions, ecologist, energy, Europe, FIT, generate, Germany, Green, power, renewable, scheme, Solar, UK
Conservation, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 29th, 2010,
Kinki University in Japan has developed a way to farm prized bluefin tuna, but it is far from eco-friendly according to Greenpeace.
The WWF predicts Mediterranean bluefin will be wiped out by 2012 because of overfishing to sate the appetite of gourmet diners.
–CNN
Read the CNN article on bluefin tuna ranching and check out the embedded video [...]
Tags: bluefin, CNN, japan, overfishing, problem, tuna
Sustainable lifestyle, Videos & Documentaries, Jan 20th, 2010,
Full of green spaces and crisscrossed with 620 km (385 miles) of bicycle paths, the German capital of Berlin is a modern European city with practical approach to energy efficiency. Despite Berlin’s continued widespread use of coal for heating, the city has come up with some inventive solutions to meet its energy needs. This short [...]
Tags: Berlin, capital, city, CNN, energy, European, German, Green, sludge
Conservation, Health, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 15th, 2010,
2010 is (roughly) the Year of the Golden Tiger according to the Chinese calendar. An article from the Press Association reports that this alone is enough to inspire increased vigilance against tiger poaching in India – and so the South Asian nation is ‘beefing up’ security due to this concern:
‘They fear an increase in the [...]
Tags: Chinese, CNN, medicine, rhino, rhino horn, TCM, tiger, traditional, traditional Chinese medicine
Sustainable lifestyle, Videos & Documentaries, Jan 9th, 2010,
The Caribbean island nation of Haiti is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. There is little industry in Haiti and the majority of Haitian people – mostly subsistence farmers – survive on about $2 a day. In addition to poverty and political and economic instability, Haiti suffers from environmental hardships [...]
Tags: CNN, Haiti, report, SOIL, trash, video, waste