Going Green

Cars for future fuels

The elegant lines, rapid acceleration and good range should make this Toyota sell in developing countries and extreme climates in the future. For now, they want to improve that slow...

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Organic foods have lots to give

The farmers' market is the European solution to locally-produced and hopefully organic crops for everyman. The farmers and smallholders must be persuaded that the extra pressure of organic produce will...

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Power, and less energy, to the people

New roof, more solar, less wind-power, whatever you dream of is now reality. Every country contains enthusiasts and others who simply want to be less energy-intensive. They seem to want...

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Reviewing transition agricultural practice

In Cuba, Russian tractors used to transform the land into huge cooperative farms. Now there is great cooperation, but great oxen pull the plough, just as horses have been used...

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Forming better soils, gardens and farms

A good brown earth, but the farmer has problems maintaining any semblance of original forest soil using current farming techniques. The labour intensive allotment gardener does approach the natural soil...

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Earth Day 2014

Every blade of grass, every wall, every tree planted) or not cut down) counts today, or any other day, to make the planet a cleaner, better place for everything to...

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Solar energy saves the earth?

As we chunter along our chosen path of emissions and pollution, the IPCC keep trying to remind us to be careful in our choice of fuels and in how we...

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Trees-the solution to flooding?

SCaMP has worked in the NW of England to try and reproduce more of the original "Lakes" image than the drained, deforested landscape that has assaulted our senses for many...

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The value of underwater algal forest

The kelp bass, Paralabrax clathratus, belongs to these beautiful and enormous forests of Macrocystis pyrifera off the whole American west coast; Kelp forest image; Credit: © Shutterstock When we talk...

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Using the energy within our bodies!

This spiny lobster could be used as a transmitter of information, just as ecologists study the species now. The difference is that no batteries would be needed, so the implant...

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