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The World Solar Challenge is a solar-powered car race which covers 3021 km (1,877 miles) through the Australian Outback, from Darwin to Adelaide. The 2013 race is from 6th to 13th October. The race attracts teams from around the world, […]
Induced hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracturing, commonly known as fracking, is a technique used to release petroleum, natural gas (including shale gas, tight gas, and coal seam gas), or other substances for extraction
“The current obsession with human behaviour change is a strategy which has very limited scope for long-term success: instead, we should try to encourage thinking.” A while ago, a colleague and I visited […]
By 1995, nine of the world’s 17 major fishing grounds were in precipitous decline and four had been commercially ‘fished out’. The EU began to decommission 40% of its fishing fleet, the Malaysian […]
The real heroes of today are people like Kaliraj Karupppasamy, an agricultural teacher at schools in Kovilpatti in Tamil Nadu, in the south of India. These are the people who will make sure the new […]
The city of Curitiba in Brazil has a population of over 2 million people and 500,000 cars. A highly efficient, reliable and well integrated transport system however, insures that 75% of commuters, some […]
The Heritage Seed Library (HSL) sends out 40,000 plus packets of seeds containing rare and endangered varieties to its members and others every year. In this way vegetable varieties that are not widely […]
Local environmentalists and concerned citizens in the Mexican town of Puerto Morelos teamed up with the ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems in 1993 to find a way to protect coral reefs and […]
No, it’s not a 1950’s scifi film starring Michael Rennie, it’s all too serious science. If you’ve heard of the ecological footprint but don’t know much about it, listen to this film from […]
Japan’s Prince Akishino and the Asahi Glass Foundation yesterday presented the Blue Planet Prize, one of the world’s premier environmental awards, to Global Footprint President Network Mathis Wackernagel and Dr. William E. Rees, […]