A scientist, who a quarter of a century ago found himself musing on the way plants store their energy during the night-time darkness, has made a remarkable advance along the road toward bringing solar panels in as the predominant form of domestic power supply. In doing so, he has made the shift from conventional energy sources, namely those derived from gas and oil supplies, toward renewable, green energies all the more likely.

Two non-profit organisations in the United States, alongside the private research Duke University in North Carolina, have spent the last three years monitoring the actions of gas and oil companies in the western Amazon.

It’s a rare business plan that involves visiting the pale severity of the Arctic, but for those companies that do send their employees into the wilderness the return can be sizable. For these companies it’s not what’s visible in this fragile, remote and utterly unique portion of the world, but rather what is hidden, beneath the surface, swirling in giant lakes; the dark liquor of the deep earth that yells up to the oil prospectors through the ice, apparently desperate to be pumped upwards and put to use in our cars and factories.

This articles explains the workings of a solar water heater and how they can save your money whislt protecting the Earth. It includes a brief explanation of how to create your own solar water heater.

What’s so important about solar vehicles? This article seeks to shed some light on the cultures of change and open up an brief awareness of Who? What? and Where? is supporting a solar solution. And hopefully bring one piece of the progression of eco-alternatives to the surfaces of societies around the globe, through a market that would seem to be the least willing for change.

Deep in the Amazon, on the banks of the river Bonyic, a civilisation that has survived for centuries is under threat. The Naso kings are the only tribal leaders in the Americas whose monarchy is recognised by the government but despite they’re having survived the rise and fall of the Aztec and Mayan empires as [...]

BrightSource Energy Inc plans to open a power tower in Israel which will employ new solar power technology. The technology is being tested ahead of the construction of a series of new power plants, which begins in California next year.
Utility company PG&E Corporation will buy a significant amount of solar thermal power in the near [...]

Biofuels, not so long ago heralded as the best thing since cheap oil, have become increasingly fought over, with environmental and humanitarian groups criticizing their production for taking away resources from food production or for expropriating land from rain-forests or other habitats for their preferential cultivation. At the recent UN food summit in Rome, Brazilian [...]

From the early 1960’s countries struggling with the challenge of maintaining their levels of food production against population growth embraced emergent technologies, technologies manufactured, for the most part, in developed countries from 1943 onwards.
The result? Swelling yields of basic food stuffs. Wheat yields, for example, grew from below 500kg per hectare to just under 3,000kg [...]

Glastonbury is the kingpin of summer festivals, but its hazy, hippie-riddled image has had to adjust in the last few years in order to reconcile its apparently well-intended ethos with the fact that pilling thousands of smoking, drinking, drug taking people into a field for a weekend can produce some rather negative consequences for the [...]