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Cleaning Up Sinking Concordia Cruise Ship Oil
The Concordia rammed a reef Jan. 13 on the tiny Tuscan island and capsized a few hours later just outside Giglio’s port with 4,200 passengers and crew aboard for a Mediterranean cruise. Experts can begin pumping fuel from a capsized cruise ship to avert a possible environmental catastrophe and the ship is stable enough to [...]
Paul McCartney Dislikes No Meat-Free French Days
There will be no meat-free days in French schools for six million children following a new decree from their government that all students will have to eat meat if they want lunch at school. Taking a packed lunch is not an alternative as they are also banned. The ban will shortly be extended to kindergartens, [...]
Gluing Away Air Pollution
It sounds like the sort of idea that might have came up on a satirical TV shows London is serious about gluing pollution to roads. For the past few months a fleet of specially adapted gritting lorries has been spraying adhesive glue on some of London’s pollution hotspots in the middle of the night. The [...]
Nazi Bunker Becoming EU largest Solar Plant
A former Nazi bunker located in the Wilhelmsburg district of Hamburg, Germany is about to get a full-scale makeover. The building is set to become Europe’s largest renewable energy power plant. The power plant will supply 3,000 homes with heating and 1,000 of those with electricity, cutting 6,600 tons of CO2 per year. It’s almost [...]
EcoBond Two
Ecotricity is seeking to raise £10 million through its ‘Ecobond Two’, which will enable customers and non-customers of the UK’s largest renewable energy company to invest directly into building new sources of green energy in the UK. When Ecotricity launched its first Ecobond issue in October last year, it was heavily oversubscribed, exceeding its £10 [...]
Desertec EU-MENA
A network of scientists from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EU-MENA) developed the globally implementable DESERTEC Concept for the Mediterranean region. A long-term objective is to meet a considerable part of electricity demand in MENA countries and to cover about 15 percent of Europe’s energy demand with clean power from deserts by 2050. [...]
Vertical Forest (Milan)
Italian architecture firm Stefano Boeri Architetti hopes to merge vegetation and urban architecture, with its Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) project.. The Milan-based firm has designed a model that could see the “reforestation and naturalization” of metropolitan cities, by growing forests sky-ways. “Bosco Verticale [is a] device for the environmental survival of contemporary European cities,” says [...]
Icelands 1st ZeroCarbon Data Center
A British company has commissioned Colt, the telecoms and IT group, to build the world’s first zero-carbon data centre, which will be exported to Iceland as a pre-fabricated kit.Data centres are power hungry in two ways – the servers themselves consume large amounts of electricity, and they need constant cooling to prevent overheating. Verne will [...]
Aguçadoura Wave Park
Wave power is the transport of energy by ocean surface waves, and the capture of that energy to do useful work — for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or the pumping of water (into reservoirs). Machinery able to exploit wave power is generally known as a wave energy converter (WEC). Wave power is distinct from [...]
Eco UK Olympic Stadium
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, are scheduled to take place in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The United Kingdom hopes this will help economies of other countries and advertise Eco-Change. Everything is designed to promote low carbon emissions, low-waste, and green transportation. [...]
Kalundborg, Denmark Eco-Park
An eco-industrial park involves a network of firms and organizations, working together to improve their environmental and economic performance. Companies share each other’s resources and use their “leftover” products. For example, extra energy from the 1500MW coal fired power plant is used for: Heating 3500 local homes. Also heats a fish farm whose sludge is [...]
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