Wired UK takes us inside the Cool and Clean Mission 2010 Convention in California: “Climate change? Isn’t that Al Gore’s problem?” That’s how a typical resident of South San Francisco, an industrial city in the Bay Peninsular separate from its namesake, responds. Changing this attitude is Arup’s problem, although the civil engineering group probably wouldn’t [...]
Urgent action is needed to tackle the “mountains” of e-waste building up in developing nations, says a UN report. Huge amounts of old computers and discarded electronic goods are piling up in countries such as China, India and some Africa nations, it said. India could see a 500% rise in the number of old computers [...]
A bit of disconcerting news for those of us living in California: The habitat of the Sequoia sempervirens is confined to a misty, 30 mile-wide strip along the California coast, stretching from Big Sur in Central California to just north of the Oregon border. The giant trees can reach 380 feet tall and live more than [...]
An interesting perspective from the BBCNEWS ‘GREEN ROOM’ on possibly rethinking climate change and how we deal with it (snippet): Copenhagen’s failure to deliver a legally binding deal has created an opportunity for individuals to fill the void left by politicians, says Sir David King. In this week’s Green Room, he explains how small-scale projects [...]