by Gil Friend | Dec 15, 2003 | Sustainability
[SolarAccess, via CleanEdge]: Just a week after the U.S. Congress failed to gain adequate support for a broad and contentious energy bill, the UK has passed their own comprehensive energy legislation. 10 percent by 2010, 15 percent by 2015 Lordy, if the Brits can do...
by Gil Friend | Dec 8, 2003 | Sustainability
“As a tree torn from the soil, as a river separated from its source, the human soul wanes when detached from what is greater then itself. Without the holy, the good turns chaotic, without the good, beauty becomes accidental. It is attachment to what is...
by Gil Friend | Dec 7, 2003 | Sustainability
[Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends]: Nobody really knows why Stradivarius and other violins designed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries still sound so good compared to modern ones. Is it because of secret techniques, use of special wood or something...
by Gil Friend | Dec 5, 2003 | Sustainability
European Commission calls for fishing as usual [New Scientist]: [T]he scientists who advise the Commission say the cod are so desperately overfished, that all cod fishing should stop in the North Sea, or the fishery could collapse.
by Gil Friend | Dec 4, 2003 | Sustainability
Disappearing ink to boost paper recycling [New Scientist]: Toshiba’s erasable ink can be used in ordinary laser jet printers and pens. A printed sheet is wiped clean by passing it through an erasing machine. The “decolourable” ink, which has been...
by Gil Friend | Dec 3, 2003 | Sustainability
[Green Media Toolshed]: Staples’ Environmental Progress Report Fuels Further Criticism of Office Depot “While Staples has been working collaboratively with forest protection groups and making real progress on its commitment to phase out products from...
