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Climate Change

May 09, 2008

Lets get Seasonal

Gordon Ramsay does a Jamie Oliver.

Posted by Natural Collection on May 09, 2008 at 07:53 AM in Climate Change, Environment, Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tags: chef, environment, ethical living, food, gordon ramsay, green, jamie oliver, naturalcollection, restaurant, seasonal

May 07, 2008

Smog-eating house?

What a brilliant idea. A house that eats smog.

Posted by Natural Collection on May 07, 2008 at 04:39 AM in Business, Climate Change, Environment, Health | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tags: concrete, environment, ethical living, green, house, naturalcollection, smog

May 06, 2008

Big wind

UK to get the biggest turbines in the world?

Posted by Natural Collection on May 06, 2008 at 05:59 AM in Climate Change, Energy, Science | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tags: environment, ethical living, green, naturalcollection, turbine, uk, wind

April 29, 2008

What a brilliant idea: integrate turbines into the design of a building. Just imagine if every new build had solar and wind integrated into the build and electrical setup...would that be a bad thing? Surely not...

Posted by Natural Collection on April 29, 2008 at 06:14 AM in Business, Climate Change, Energy, Practical, Science | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tags: architecture, bahrain, building, energy, engineering, environment, ethical living, green, innovation, naturalcollection, power, wind

April 04, 2008

The Sound of a Glacier?

A very cool project to bring the sound of a glacier to you, worth a listen.

Posted by Natural Collection on April 04, 2008 at 12:43 AM in Climate Change, Environment, Music | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tags: environment, ethical living, glacier, green, ice, music, naturalcollection

April 02, 2008

Pee Power

Seems to be a lot of alternative power thinking going out there these days but this one showing how scientists have invented batteries powered by, uhm, Pee, has to be the strangest that I have come across. Still worthy of a mention though.

Posted by Natural Collection on April 02, 2008 at 09:00 AM in Business, Climate Change, Energy, Gadgets, Practical, Science | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tags: business, energy, engineering, environment, ethical living, green, naturalcollection, urine

April 01, 2008

Wave-powered boats?

Following on from our recent post about Wind-powered boats this effort to power a boat by wave power is worthy of mention. And no, it is no April Fools gag. It is a mighty fine idea...plenty of waves at sea ;)

Posted by Natural Collection on April 01, 2008 at 02:12 AM in Business, Climate Change, Energy, Practical, Science | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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March 31, 2008

Solar Power Paint?

Amazing. Check this out: Solar Power Paint. Brilliant!

Posted by Natural Collection on March 31, 2008 at 08:48 AM in Business, Climate Change, Energy, Practical, Science, Solar | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tags: building, business, engineering, environment, ethical living, green, naturalcollection, paint, solar

March 28, 2008

Cbeebies Goes Green: Tommy Zoom

I have a wonderful two and a third year old son (Hi Coby!!!) and once in a while he gets to watch some TV. Mostly we restrict him to purely educational shows (animals, nature, numbers etc) which mostly means CBeebies. One show is so cool I just had to blog about it.

Tommy Zoom is the story of Tommy and his dog Daniel and their adventures battling the naughty Polluto and his cat Smogg. The show uses live action and animation to help illustrate the small choices we all make each day and the impact they have and ultimately the small choices we can choose to do that make a difference to solve those problems.

Tommy Zoom does a great job of turning complex issues into fun educational story lines to get those little ones aware from an early age.

Cheers

Posted by Natural Collection on March 28, 2008 at 01:56 AM in Climate Change, Environment, Lifestyle, Recycle, Television | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

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March 27, 2008

10,000,000 reasons to re-invent the car

I just love the idea of this. The goal is to "inspire a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles [100+ MPG] that help break our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change".

And there is a $10m prize fund to make it commercially worthwhile. And let's face it, whoever invents the transport of tomorrow stands to not only make a bit of cash but more importantly they could be a huge global hero.

Thinking caps on people!