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The footprint of your electronics!
Do you realise that your mobile phone, your dvd-player etc make a big part of your ecological footprint?
A typical young Briton – living 78 years – will throw away during his/her lifetime 150 small and large appliances – as… read more
Foxes in Northern Henhouse
How Foxes in the Aleutian Henhouse Doomed Islands’ Plant Life
By CHARLES PETIT
From New York Times 2005-03-29
Foxes may not graze, but a new scientific study describes how their arrival on Aleutian Islands destroyed rich grasslands and left only… read more
Why we spend too much on food
Buy local produce and save the world:
why food costs £4bn more than we think
Every major supermarket spends millions of pounds a day making sure their warehouse-sized stores are brimming with products fom all over the world.
But the… read more
Energy for the future
Who Needs Oil, Anyway?
A new book by Lovins and his think-tank colleagues, “Winning the Oil Endgame“ offers a technology-driven blueprint to wean the country off petroleum within a few decades: first, double the fuel efficiency of cars, trucks and… read more
Amphibians dying out
November 05, 2004 — By Kathleen M. Wong and Suzanne Ubick, California Academy of Sciences
Amphibians Are Threatened Worldwide
Frogs and their relatives are in deep trouble. According to a new study published in the journal Science, one-third of the… read more