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Give me the bin!!!
Posted at: 2009-09-30 13:45:30
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^That was me, the forum didn’t sign me in for some reason |
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Babies- green, organic kids..
Posted at: 2009-09-28 12:04:03
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Is anyone on here raising a vegan baby?? I’m really curious about how it’s done! |
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The best tents?
Posted at: 2009-09-03 17:58:11
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I use an ’Outbound’ tent. It’s made from synthetic materials. The model is Sierra-1, and it’s three-person, but best for two. No separate compartment for bags, but there is a slight ’hood’ over the entrance, for having a cup of tea underneath. But really if it rains you have to just stay in the tent itself with your bags and sleeping material. I think it’s a bit of a budget model/brand and I found it in a garage, but it served me and my partner well on a short camping trip. I’d rather have a model with an extra front compartment for storage/hiding out from the rain, especially if I went camping for a longer time, and in more unreliable weather.
There doesn’t appear to be any ’inner’ lining to the tent either, just the outside material, with a gauze ’window’ at the top/peak of the tent, which is covered by a loose square of plastic that ties over the top. It kept us dry in the rain but I’d imagine in stormier conditions it might not have held up.
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How much is geothermal energy used?
Posted at: 2009-08-29 17:48:19
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Although don’t quote me about the garden-pipe stuff, I think domestic ground pumps might actually go deeper than I thought. But still not in the same league as deep-level volcanic drilling. |
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Geothermal drilling companies- UK lists
Posted at: 2009-08-29 17:45:17
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Cool info. Thanks for the links! |
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How much is geothermal energy used?
Posted at: 2009-08-29 17:44:23
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It’s a great resource. Although it does vary between and depend upon geographic locations; for instance, there are some places in the world where there is more volcanic activity under the earth’s crust at a level accessible to drilling and power stations. But it’s still used to some degree in other places, eg there’s a civic centre in Southampton England that uses geothermal energy for heating itself, as well as district-wide heating for thousands of citizens. There are whole towns in Iceland heated by geothermal as well as key buildings in Italy, New Zealand is also a significant user.
Domestic geothermal, in homes in other parts of the world is different, it’s more like pipes of water in the gardens of often mild climates heated by the general warmth of the earth without volcanic involvement (the earth’s molten core can melt rock)- in contrast, power stations placed above volcanic areas have wells where cold water is shot down and filters through cracks in the hot rocks many leagues below the crust, the hot steam of this contact then shoots up a different pipe where it turns turbines and drives generators, or else simply the heat is used to heat homes.
It’s a really impressive form of power!
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Does recycling get cleaned? How thoroughly?
Posted at: 2009-08-27 15:42:51
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I’d imagine things like metal rings around bottle tops would be filtered out when the glass is sorted and, possibly, smashed.
A similar thing would happen to the paper labels of glass bottles, I’d imagine.
Sometimes you get plastic rings around the neck of a plastic bottle- I’m guessing, with this, that either it gets filtered somehow or else is made of the same plastic as the bottle and can be re-processed together with it.
I think most recycling centres/collection boxes specify that the products should be cleaned. So people should be doing this anyway, and I think it’s silly if people don’t, especially as, i’d presume, they wouldn’t want muck and residue making the recycling in their home smell and attract flies. If the glass is dirty, it would probably be separated from the clean stuff and then cleaned with all the rest of the dirty glass, or else used for a different purpose than the clean glass.
Rain shouldn’t ruin paper, although keep it dry if you can. It’ll get pulped anyway. And if chemicals from the atmosphere and the rain get into the wet paper and card, it might not matter as, presumably, the stuff will be bleached (hopefully by a non-harmful process like oxygen-bleaching). It wouldn’t do any harm, I’m sure, to put a makeshift lid of some sort over the recycling box outside your home, even if it doesn’t come with one already.
Sorry I couldn’t provide you with any in-depth information! Hopefully someone out there will know more.
–all the best
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Packaging- worst offenders!!
Posted at: 2009-08-26 18:45:01
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It’s already got the best packaging system nature can provide! |
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Packaging- worst offenders!!
Posted at: 2009-08-26 18:44:32
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Didn’t Morrissons supermarkets, in Britain, get told off for wrapping their coconuts in shrinkwrap?? Terrible |
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Candles- friendly? Good idea for eco-lighting?
Posted at: 2009-08-24 18:58:54
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I think energy saving bulbs are the most energy efficient to light your home. But, if you like candles, and try and use green types, I don’t think you should worry too much. |
