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Post A Phone is a 4mm thick phone made out of recyclable card or plastic. It is designed by Priestman Goode and I love it. The Post A Phone is intended to be a backup phone when all your other more high tech solutions have failed. The phone fits inside an A5 envelope and can be sent via regular post (yes, the snail mail). I am not so sure how it is in your country but here in Sweden most people uses IP telephones and/or mobile phones. It’s rare that people only use a ordinary (and old) landline. I personally use Skype and my mobile phone when I am outside or not next to a computer. The Post A Phone would be perfect for those times when the Internet breaks down and when you don’t want to waste money on expensive mobile calls. So when will the phone, sorry, the Post A Phone come to Sweden? Almost all of the voip companies are certainly enjoying themselves right now. The reason being the upsurge in popularity as well as necessity of internet phones. Earlier skype download was something very few people knew about, and even fewer attempted. Today a voip client seeks each and every feature he wishes to have. Companies like vonage are providing customized services.
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At France's environmental policy making forum, le Grenelle de l’Environnement, Nicolas Sarkozy said this: "From now on, every major public project, every public decision will be judged on its effect on climate, and on its carbon cost. Each public decision will be judged on how it affects bio-diversity. The onus won't be on ecological decisions to prove their merit, but on non-ecological projects to prove they can't be done any other way. Non-ecological decisions must be taken as a last resort. It's a total revolution in the way we govern our country." Let’s just hope this is not just fine words and talk. In other news from the environmental forum Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday issued a ban on the most inefficient light bulbs by 2010 in France. Image credit: Guillaumepaumier. Image licensed under a Creative-Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.
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Funny, yes. Good-looking, yes. Here comes a swedish one: Familjen - Det snurrar i min skalle [youtube:2fc1r22g] [/youtube:2fc1r22g]
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Ahh Iron Maiden Here is something completely different: Sweet Dream - Redsox [youtube:3n8pgfrw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eAGE2Uz5iQ[/youtube:3n8pgfrw]
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Welcome to the forum Chrissy! I am happy to have you here. I will tonight (or tomorrow) make some kind of guide for new writers so they understand how Wordpress and all that works. You will then find the guide in the staff forum. I've sent you a private message - go check it out!
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Here is a neat little green computer called DecTop. The computer runs on only 8 watts. Yes, you heard right and yes, 8 watts is nothing! You can compare that with my CPU processor who needs around 45 watts to work. But of course this low power drain has some downsides. DecTop comes with 128MB memory, a 10GB harddrive and a 366 MHz processor. Not much to brag about. But if you are only browsing, checking your emails or RSS feeds and doing some small amount of writing this computer is enough for you. DecTop doesn’t come with a preinstalled operating system but it is Windows CE and/or Linux ready. The best option for this computer would probably be a Linux version. So what is the price for this little piece of computer you may ask? Well, DataEvolution sells it for $99.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-gpdHUJ_oA Like many other countries around the world, plastic bags litter Uganda. They poison the soil, block drains and create an unsightly health hazard. So the government listened to the environmental concerns and banned the bags but the clean-up campaign's not going according to plan. As Al Jazeera's Africa correspondent Yvonne Ndege reports from the capital Kampala, many are flouting the law. Even the soil is thick with them, so are the drains. It's business as usual for Yvonne Massolo. She's supposed to be observing a government ban on selling plastic bags. But she's choosing to break the law. She's risking jail and a $20,000 fine. But it's her only means of survival. Massolo says: "This is my business, this is where I get school fees, this is where I get food, looking after my mother, looking after my extended families. "Some are in the village, they are looking at you. You are in Kampala. You give us this, you send us this, we are sick, send us money to go to the hospital. All that from this." Here in the business district of Kampala, the trade in plastic bags known as Kuvera continues. Most of the vendors here are completely oblivious to the environmental impact of what they are selling. And that is why a ban has been imposed. Ugandans get through 700 tonnes of plastic bags each year. That accounts for 20% of household waste. The environmental impact of plastic bags is plain to see. The are completely embedded into the soil. Some carrier bags have probably been in the ground for years. And it could take an incredible 2000 years for some them to degrade. Those who pushed for the ban are appalled that is it being so openly flouted. They think that even in the developing world, protecting the environment should be priority. Beatrice Anywar, an evironmental campaigner, says: "All Ugandans need to unite and make sure the ban of buvera in Uganda is affected. Because it is for the benefit of this country. Short of that, there is nothing we can do about this. We shall have our drainage system blocked, we shall have our soil for agriculture destroyed, we shall have the environment degraded seriously and health hazard continuously." But consumers say that there are no alternatives. Vendors want more time to get rid of their stock. The government says the ban is staying in place. But many question its ability to enforce the new law.
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This looks a bit like spam for me... (But I'll save it, I might be wrong)
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Guardian lists 10 different environmental friendly gadgets. You can find things like USBCell, a battery that you recharge via your computers USB, and the Horizon H-Racer, a hydrogen-powered toy car. Maybe some of these “green†gadgets can work as Christmas gifts? Eee? http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... nvironment
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Welcome back dude! We have missed you!
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Im a huge fan of the game SimCity, I’ve played nearly all games in the serie. But it is with disappointment I look at the newest version of the game in the series: SimCity Societies. The disappointment is because of a few things. One is that it doesn’t look or behave like a SimCity game should. Another thing is that they in this new game accept corporate sponsorship inside the game. Okay, before we get any deeper I think I need to explain what kind of game SimCity is. This is what they say about the game on the official site: Featuring an all-new, revolutionary feature set, SimCity Societies allows you to create your own kinds of cities and shape their cultures and environments. Make your cities green or polluted, contemporary or futuristic, rural or urban. Create an artistic society or a police state, an industrial city or a spiritual community—or any society you want! Let’s get back to the corporate sponsorship shall we? If the player chooses to build a green city with renewable energy sources the wind and solar power plants will have the British Petroleum (BP) logo on them. BP have, of course, paid EA (the makers of the game) a sum to have their logo on the game. The amount of money is still unknown. According to an article in New York Times BP wants to “teach†the players that the energy usage with electricity has a much bigger impact on climate change than for example transports does. But they apparently don’t want to “teach†the players that BP is suspected to have leaked out a million litre oil in Alaska and that they have and are receiving critics that they ignore human rights. And that’s just to name a few bad examples. SimCity Socities has received some postitive feedback from other green blog such as the well-known EcoGeek and TreeHugger. But apparently no one cares about greenwashing anymore.
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That has been the question of the past week and here are the results: Yes! (44%) No, but I will soon. (33%) I am not sure? (22%) No! (0%) Surprisingly a rather large part of our visitors (voters) are already hosted on a green web host. That makes us happy. But what makes us happier is that 33% will soon go green. It’s good to see that things are moving and people are realising that you can green every aspect of your life. 22% of the votes where from people who don’t know if they are hosted on a green host or not. I personally believe people voted on this one even though they are pretty confident in that they are not hosted on a green server. Here comes a short explanation what a green web host is: Green web hosts are hosting companies that power their servers with renewable energy such as wind and solar power or offers carbon offsetting by buying green tags or RECs. The new poll question is: Would you vote for Al Gore in the (USA) presidential election 2008?
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Yeah, the only problem is that the energy generated might be from fossil fuels so it such a big differenceyet it isn't. And do we really want to consume more electricity/energy? Yeah, you like my new avatar?
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Too bad the quality isn't the best... [youtube:f3746]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AILT5qumfEg[/youtube:f3746]
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A Fiat Dovolo delivery vehicle has been driving around Europe...occasionally stopping for ten-minute breaks to refuel, and so the driver can go get a cup of coffee. It's not an unusual story, until the vehicle is refueling with electrons...not gasoline. AltairNano, Aerovironment, Go Green Holding, and Micro-Vett have created a fast-chargable delivery vehicle for the European market and they just successfully tested it out in Norway. The truck went on a 200-mile delivery circuit, stopping three times for ultra-rapid recharges. Other batteries take as long as six hours to recharge, but AltairNano's fancy lithium ion packs take less than ten minutes. Of course, they also require a special high-energy power station that would need to exist just like gas stations do now. The range of the Dovolo is pretty short, and the necessity of new infrastructure eliminates one of the best advantages of electric cars (that the infrastructure is already in place.) So I don't think this vehicle will be for everyone. But it will find a big market, especially in Europe. http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1079/
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I wrote a little post about this subject on the blog: Climate change with a gender perspective
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Who is to be blamed for climate change? The male population of the human race, of course. Sure we are all equal in our actions but if you consider climate change with a gender perspective a strong pattern reveals itself. The (wealthy) men consume and pollute the most on our planet. And because of the fact that it’s often the same men that has the power in our communities and daily life they will continue to permit themselves to consume and pollute in the same extreme way. According to a report issued by Gerd Johnsson Latham on the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Sweden wealthy men and global warming makes a dangerous combination. Rich and wealthy men on average cause up to 20 ecological footprints for every step they take. Compare this to a poor woman who only does 0,7 ecological footprints for every step. People like you and me have a tendency to shop to confirm our gender identity. While the male population generally buys a sport car or a fast motorboat to confirm his male identity a woman perhaps only buys an expensive purse. I leave it to you to figure out the rather obvious of which one affect our climate the most. The men who are in charge in our society often give priority to a welfare in terms of “things†like cars and tech gadgets rather than more time with children and human/civil rights. The report continues with a Swedish, but probably also a global example: On the roads in Sweden a majority of the drivers are men. Three out of four cars are owned by men. Gerd Johnsson Latham has recently presented the report in UN and she was recently invited for a discussion by the environmental organisation Wedo and the network for female leaders Counsil of Women World Leaders about the report. When the gender decides our consumption and CO2 pollution sexual (gender) equality is a prerequisite to a sustainable development.
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Well there is a lot more things normal people can do. These mentioned things are just the basic stuff.
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Now this one is just so much laughs. The Temptations - My Girl [youtube:0593a]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCRcra2o964[/youtube:0593a] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCRcra2o964
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Yeah the stories around the toxic iPhone[/url:59729] is kind of funny.
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[youtube:019d1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMISUTkoLSE[/youtube:019d1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMISUTkoLSE
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Another one: Advance Patrol - Vi laddar [youtube:5e2c5] [/youtube:5e2c5] ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk6Kb0JFO-Q
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Ulla Jacobsen film “The Plastic Battle†has won Friends of the Earth's Best One-minute green film award. The judges, David Sproxton, Dilly Gent and Andrew Macdonald, gave the one minute film praises from "Good concept" to "Brilliant film. Perfect! The best!" Ulla Jacobsen says that "over-packaging of children's toys takes on absurb dimensions." And I can only agree with her. ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355">
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Some random posts about Toyota: [*]Does Toyota care?[/url:c3c30][/*:m:c3c30] [*]Truth About Toyota: Another Party Heard From[/url:c3c30][/*:m:c3c30] [*]Tell Toyota to Walk the Walk on Fuel Economy[/url:c3c30][/*:m:c3c30] Greenwashing is fuuuuuuun...
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Hi and welcome to the forum gheine! Don't forget that the man-powered lawn mower will keep you in good shape aswell.
