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‘Smart Plugs’ (TalkingPlugs) for Your Home

Plaurfapala — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:44:58 +0000

Zerofootprint has created a new “TalkingPlug” that will help you to better monitor the energy usage of different appliances and electronics. How? By making your electrical sockets smarter. Zerofootprint already helps corporations and governments in evaluating and reducing their carbon emissions through various methods. It also helps households through innovative technologies such as this one. This new TalkingPlug is for corporations or households (or anyone with electrical sockets) and will have an initial price tag of about $50. The price may go down considerably if it can make the product on a larger scale. How does it work? What are its advantages compared to Google’s PowerMeter and other similar up and coming technologies? Read more of this story

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KLM Testing Biofuels on Passenger Flight

vosduholov — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:44:09 +0000

As many of us in the U.S. are planning our Thanksgiving menus, Dutch airline company KLM is planning the first biofuel flight with passengers on board. On November 23, a Boeing 747 will take off running on a 50/50 combination of biofuel and jet fuel. The biofuel being used in this test flight will be made from camelina , a feedstock that produces 84 percent less emissions than regular jet fuel and has proven to be a low-impact crop, requiring less water and fertilizer and can grow in areas where food crops won’t be displaced. Other test flights have been done using other feedstocks like jatropha and without passengers with positive results, but this will be the first using a purely camelina biofuel and with people (other than the pilot) onboard. via KLM Technorati Tags: Global Warming Blog , Global Warming Statistics

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Bacteria Could Rid the World of Packaging Waste

kvintcloudqk — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:43:18 +0000

Consumer and shipping packaging can be incredibly wasteful. Some companies are downsizing their packaging, but many products sitll come wrapped and boxed in ridiculous amounts of plastic, paper, cardboard – you name it. One designer has come up with a way to get rid of the waste by wrapping objects in bacteria, creating a biodegradable, custom-fitting shell. Both gross and exciting! Mareike Frensmeier just won third place in the Cargo Packs 2020 challenge for his bacteria wrap idea called Bacs . The packaging is made by covering an object with a culture of the bacterium acetobacter xylinum, then starting a sugar feeding frenzy. This creates a “fibrous nano-scaled cellulose network” that encases the object and keeps it safe along its journey. The Bacs system can be manipulated to offer damp, gel-like packaging for food, dry, paper-like packaging or freeze-dried, foam-like packaging for the most fragile objects. Now, I’m not sure bacteria wrap will ever take off but the idea of a world free of packing peanuts sure is a nice one. via Treehugger Technorati Tags: Global Warming Blog , Global Warming Statistics

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photos of Zoe and Fatim

TORDIATADAB — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:42:25 +0000

As I promised you in the previous post, here are photos of Zoe and Fatim Zoe in her tree zoe in her cage during the transport 3 photos of Fatim all photos with the courtesy of DVM Melanie PIGNOREL Take care

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Kusu and Ekendi have their first fight!

Fuetwownkekkillenaps — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:41:32 +0000

The other day the whole group was feeding on leaves high up on a Ngombe tree. Kusu and Ekendi were together at the top of a smaller tree maybe 20m below the others. We’re not sure what happened but suddenly they were fighting. This wasn’t the usual play fighting but proper fighting with pig grunting

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Carbofuran ban is good for everyone – in USA only

BestTortureVideos — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:40:46 +0000

This really good article from Tree hugger explains the benefits of the carbofuran ban in USA As of the end of the year, one more pesticide will be absent from food crops grown in the United States. In May the EPA ruled that the current residue limits of the insecticide carbofuran on food crops was too

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Orangutan Rescued From Oil Palm Plantation

useriebtelara — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:39:53 +0000

Last Sunday the Orangutan Foundation responded to reports of a young female orangutan isolated in a tree in an oil palm plantation. The young female orangutan climbed the Banyan tree when we arrived in the oil palm plantation area at Pandu senjaya village, Pangkalan Lada. Uduk and Yatno climbed the Banyan tree, but the orangutan moved

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The Revealed on Facebook: almost 1500 fans over 4 months. What’s the benefit?

Jailditably — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:39:08 +0000

Brief guide for those undecided whether to engage in social networking Miroslav Bobek When Facebook (FB) changed its main page again some time ago, it was another change to the worse. It is getting on the verge of the tolerable to be constantly fed with information about someone’s results of quizzes, such as “Are you submissive

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Buddy – Orphaned Giant Otter – Arrives at Karanambu

nouroTardroke — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:38:13 +0000

Orphaned giant otter cub, Buddy. By the time we arrived at Karanambu, it was close to 9:00 p.m. I couldn’t thank Ryol enough. Between navigating the roads, cutting up the tree, and dealing with three nervous occupants, he’d done a magnificent job for all of us. Diane and I carried Buddy to his pen. He’d been awfully

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Analysis Of The Socio-Economic Impact Of Dolphin Watching In Kisite-Mpunguti MPA (Tourist Questionnaires Feedback)

alibighrzq — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:37:25 +0000

Tourist Dhow Analysis It is one of GVI’s objectives to analyse the socio-economic impact of tourism operations within the Kisite-Mpunguti Marine Protected Area (KMMPA) and to ascertain the sustainability of the increasing levels of human-dolphin interaction. Through doing so GVI hope to identify existing problems and to propose constructive changes that would assist tour companies, boat

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A Most Interesting Parasitic Flower

Smeaniaartets — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:36:35 +0000

On a recent backpacking trip through the Mathew’s Range we ran into a few examples of this most stunning plant. A bit of research suggested that it could possibly be Hydnora africana, a parasitic of Euphorbia. The description that we found online though shows a Euphorbia very different from the ones that we have in

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The poisoning of Kenya’s lions

MCSintern — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:34:52 +0000

Dear all, After the death of a child in Kenya from ingesting Furadan, and with the US Environmental Protection Agency banning carbofuran in America, we feel that there is no justification for delaying banning it in Kenya. Watch this video and share with your friends. Please support our campaign to save lions. Thank

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