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Thursday, 4 September 2008
Happy Places
The Worlds Happiest Places To Live
There are some lovely pics here. No sign of Scotland being a happy place? Thanks to Alan Parkinson for pointing out this one.
There are some lovely pics here. No sign of Scotland being a happy place? Thanks to Alan Parkinson for pointing out this one.
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Non-renewable resource – OIL
Good video here about oil. Bear with it and look at the cheesy advert for Ford cars just about half way through and the sexist advert at the end too. Still worth a look though.
The Sahara Garden
Vast greenhouses that use seawater to grow crops could be combined with solar power plants to provide food, fresh water and clean energy in deserts. It uses mirrors to focus the sun's rays and generate heat and electricity.
The Sahara Forest project will use seawater and solar power to grow food in greenhouses across the desert. The greenhouses work by using the solar farm to power seawater evaporators and then pump the damp, cool air through the greenhouse. This reduces the temperature by about 15C compared to that outside. At the other end of the greenhouse from the evaporators, the water vapour is condensed. Some of this fresh water is used to water the crops, while the rest can be used for the essential task of cleaning the solar mirrors. The nutrients to grow the plants could come from local seaweed or even be extracted from the seawater itself. Read the full article from the Guardian here.
The Sahara Forest project will use seawater and solar power to grow food in greenhouses across the desert. The greenhouses work by using the solar farm to power seawater evaporators and then pump the damp, cool air through the greenhouse. This reduces the temperature by about 15C compared to that outside. At the other end of the greenhouse from the evaporators, the water vapour is condensed. Some of this fresh water is used to water the crops, while the rest can be used for the essential task of cleaning the solar mirrors. The nutrients to grow the plants could come from local seaweed or even be extracted from the seawater itself. Read the full article from the Guardian here.
Gustav does its worst, but New Orleans survives
New Orleans appeared yesterday to have been narrowly spared a repeat of the devastation of Katrina three years ago when Hurricane Gustav weakened. While Gustav failed to live up to the terrifying standards set by Katrina, it still left communal and political chaos in its wake. Almost 2 million people fled the Gulf of Mexico, the largest evacuation of its kind, turning New Orleans and other coastal communities into virtual ghost towns. New Orleans enacted a dawn-to-dusk curfew designed to prevent the looting which broke out in 2005. In further echoes of Katrina, the streets of the city were lined by heavily armed police officers.
Read the article here.
Read the article here.
Monday, 1 September 2008
Development
Millennium Development Goals
http://blip.tv/file/835101
Movie by Richard Allaway about the Gapminder site I have mentioned before. Link here
End Poverty by 2015 and eat ice cream too!!!!
See this site to find out what I mean
http://www.endpoverty2015.org/benjerry
Great site here from the BBC on poverty and showing the massive contrasts between rich and poor. Good for S2 to have a look and certainly S4 and S5/6. Look at each section.
The girl effect
Great, simple film and very effective.
http://blip.tv/file/835101
Movie by Richard Allaway about the Gapminder site I have mentioned before. Link here
End Poverty by 2015 and eat ice cream too!!!!
See this site to find out what I mean
http://www.endpoverty2015.org/benjerry
Great site here from the BBC on poverty and showing the massive contrasts between rich and poor. Good for S2 to have a look and certainly S4 and S5/6. Look at each section.
The girl effect
Great, simple film and very effective.
Save the World?
Throwaway razors and nappies should be taxed as luxuries, says Defra (Dept for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs). Disposable razors and nappies could be taxed as luxury goods in order to cut the amount of waste going to landfill. If disposable razors were taxed at the same rate as cigarettes – about 80 per cent of the price goes to the government – a single Gillette Mach 3 would leap from £1 to £5. What do you think of this idea? It also suggests imposing taxes on disposable items such as paper plates and nappies. Some three billion disposable nappies are thrown away every year in the UK, accounting for 4 per cent of all household waste. Read the complete article here 
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