There were 950 natural disasters in 2007, up from 850 in 2006, according to this year’s annual disaster report of Munich Re, the world’s second-biggest re-insurer. This is the highest number since the group started compiling its report in 1974. The total cost of 2007′s disasters was $75-billion; 2006′s bill was $50-billion. People who looked [...]
The chocolate-powered truck that left the UK in November in an attempt to drive to the Malian town of Timbuktu in a carbon-negative trip across the Sahara desert reached its destination on December 22. Well done, BioTruckers. Related items SA electric car to be mass produced by 2012 1972 Datsun is world’s fastest electric car [...]
Earlier this month, Treevolution wrote about how to make a greener gadget choice and how poorly games consoles fared in the rankings of Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics. Well, Greenpeace has taken things a step further now with its “Clash of the Consoles” website. This is where you can check out how your favourite game [...]
The Aldo Leopold Legacy Centre in Wisconsin is the world’s first carbon neutral building. It was certified by the US Green Building Council this year. The centre produces more energy than it consumes. About half the 12,000-square-foot building’s energy saving comes from low-tech solutions such as using natural light, insulating the walls and ceilings and [...]
The European Union is considering spending £5-billion (R70-billion) on a solar power scheme that could provide up to a sixth of Europe’s electricity needs. The electricity would be generated by hundreds of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants situated in desert regions of North Africa and the Middle East and then transmitted by undersea cable to [...]
From all accounts, it was a tense, emotional and exhausting conference that had to go into extra time to get a result. Two weeks of talking produced an agreement to launch a two-year negotiating process – the “Bali roadmap†– aimed at securing a binding climate deal at a UN summit to be held in [...]
