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The Super Tree

lindym wrote 3 months ago: From an article by Ochieng’ Ogodo on 27 August 2009 African farmers could triple yields by pla … more →

Tags: Food Supply, IGCSE, development, sustainability, Economic Geography

Saving money on sewage treatment

lindym wrote 3 months ago: A regular sewage plant for  28,000 people costs about €225,000 a year to run according to figures fr … more →

Tags: Renewable, Bio-enenrgy, Global Warming, Y7/8, Y9, IGCSE, Appropriate Technology

Early Rice Harvests Ease Annual Famine In Bangladesh

lindym wrote 4 months ago: Problem: In Bangladesh  Monga ( famine that affects 2 million households from Sept to Dec when food … more →

Tags: Food Supply, IGCSE, Appropriate Technology, Human Geography

China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired Plants

lindym wrote 5 months ago: May10 2009  New York Times Link IANJIN, China — China’s frenetic construction of coal-fired power pl … more →

Tags: Global Warming, IGCSE, nonrenewables, Wind, development, Appropriate Technology, Economic Geography

Solar Power Experiences Strongest Year of Growth Yet

lindym wrote 5 months ago: From an article by by Yingling Liu / June 18, 2009 http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6156?emc=el&m= … more →

Tags: Renewable, Global Warming, solar, IGCSE, sustainability, Economic Geography

Biodiesal from non-food crops on marginal land that is more productive

lindym wrote 5 months ago: Ardent Energy Group has formed a sub-branch in Adis Ababa, Ethiopia to grow jatropha and castor oil … more →

Tags: Renewable, Bio-enenrgy, Y9, IGCSE, development, sustainability, Appropriate Technology, Human Geography, Economic Geography

RESTORING THE LIVELIHOODS OF POST-TSUNAMI VICTIMS IN THE MALDIVES WITH IRIS AUTOPOTS

lindym wrote 5 months ago: I saw this article here about how this innovate method of farming in uncompromising circumstances wa … more →

Tags: Food Supply, IGCSE, development, sustainability, Appropriate Technology, Economic Geography

GM corn comes a step closer to a complete meal

lindym wrote 6 months ago: There have been plenty of promise that GM foods could help alleviate third world health problems. Bu … more →

Tags: Food Supply, IGCSE, development, Human Geography

Biomass made into electricty produces more miles than bio-ethanol

lindym wrote 6 months ago: Electric vehicles using biomass converted into electricity travelled 81 percent farther per area of … more →

Tags: Renewable, Bio-enenrgy, Global Warming, sustainability, Appropriate Technology

Lives changed by a millipede

lindym wrote 7 months ago: This is in Kenya, near Mombasa Look around at the lush and fertile landscape and it’s hard to … more →

Tags: Food Supply, development, sustainability, Fragile environments, Appropriate Technology

2 Suriname men win global environmental prize

lindym wrote 7 months ago: Wanze and Hugo are descendants of African slaves.  These Africans took off into the rainforest when … more →

Tags: Y7/8, development, sustainability, Fragile environments

Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight

lindym wrote 7 months ago: This article from the New York Times implies that 18% of the global warming effect is caused by soot … more →

Tags: Y9, IGCSE, sustainability, Appropriate Technology

Prize winning Kyoto Box

lindym wrote 7 months ago: This box, costing a little over £3 a time, will save wood in poorer countries, as it uses solar powe … more →

Tags: Renewable, Y7/8, IGCSE, development, sustainability, Fragile environments, Appropriate Technology

Consumer demand for Fairtrade products 'set to explode

lindym wrote 8 months ago: 3rd April 2009 17:42  Here There will be an “explosion” in the growth of demand for Fair … more →

Tags: Food Supply, Y7/8, development, sustainability

Brazilian City Makes Food A Basic Right And Ends Hunger by Jeff Nield,

lindym wrote 8 months ago: Popular (People’s Restaurant) by Bruno Spada/MDS Back in 1993, the newly elected city governme … more →

Tags: development, Food Supply, IGCSE

On-line banking in Kenya

lindym wrote 9 months ago: M-PESA is a new Safaricom service enabling money transfer using a mobile phone. Kenya is the first c … more →

Tags: development, IGCSE, Y9

2 questions – one answer!

lindym wrote 9 months ago: Where did oil come from? Bacteria used carbon di oxide/photosynthesis to make it. They died taking t … more →

Tags: Renewable, Bio-enenrgy, IGCSE, nonrenewables

Sewage could be used to heat half the homes in Britain

lindym wrote 10 months ago: Bio-gas – in particular methane produced from sewage and other organic waste – could be … more →

Tags: Renewable, Bio-enenrgy, Global Warming, IGCSE, sustainability

Stop Feeding Sardines To The Cat: Let Fish Poop Save The World!

lindym wrote 10 months ago: The things you find out on the web!! Apparently it is not just the plankton that make limestone! It … more →

Tags: fun stuff, Global Warming, Y7/8, Y9


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