Biocultural Community Protocols : Bridging the Gap Between Customary, National and International Law Posted 11 August 2011, by Mikey Salter and Johanna von Braun, Effectius, effectius.com Excerpt (see link below for full paper) Over the last two decades as a result of the indigenous people’s rights movement a new cluster of rights has emerged that [...]
Archive for August 12th, 2011
12 Aug
Biocultural Community Protocols : Bridging the Gap Between Customary, National and International Law
12 Aug
New CO2 building material 2.5 times stronger than concrete
New CO2 building material 2.5 times stronger than concrete Posted 08 August 2011, by David Edwards, Raw Story Media, Inc., rawstory.com The Japanese company TIS&Partners has created a new building material called “C02 Structure” that has at least 2.5 times the tensile strength of concrete and cures 30 times faster. Concrete can cure [...]
12 Aug
Assessing Emerging Challenges In U.S. Environmental Health
Assessing Emerging Challenges In U.S. Environmental Health From understanding the cumulative impacts of widely used chemicals to preparing for life in a warming world, a host of environmental health issues now face medical experts. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Lynn Goldman, dean of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health [...]
12 Aug
Biomimicry and Slow Building
Biomimicry and Slow Building Posted 07 August 2011, by Kellie, Passive Architect, buildlivegreen.wordpress.com I am involved in an Environmental Book Club at Oglebay’s Schrader Center. I have read many new books thanks to this club, and every Third Thursday presents a discussion with wiser environmentalists than me. Many of these books are written [...]
12 Aug
Bioclimatic passive designs rural buildings
Bioclimatic passive designs rural buildings Posted 11 August 2011, by I. Cañas (a), P. Núñez (b), S. Martín-Ocaña (a) F. R. Mazarrón (a) J.L.García-Grinda (a), (a) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, (b) Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, IMProVe 2011, improve2011.it Abstract Purpose: In this paper the evolution of the bioclimatic architecture is explained [...]
12 Aug
Building a House according to Bioclimatic
Building a House according to Bioclimatic Posted 11 August 2011, by contentmaster, Contentmaster (Hub Pages), contentmaster.hubpages.com In a new house design we may consider bioclimatic aspects in a more flexible way with no need to increase the cost and giving up design preferences, although sometimes conflicts may arise between what is preferred and what is [...]
12 Aug
Fracking protestors to walk the talk on Women’s Day
Fracking protestors to walk the talk on Women’s Day Posted 08 August 2011, by Kimberly Yu, The Big Issue, South Africa, bigissue.org.za Environmental activists will use tomorrow’s Women’s Day to lobby against oil giant Shell’s Karoo fracking plans by staging a protest called Gaswalk in Cape Town. Climate Justice Campaign, the organisers of [...]
12 Aug
10 unconventional sources of biofuel
10 unconventional sources of biofuel Posted 12 August 2011, by Balakrishnan Ramachandran, EcoFriend, ecofriend.com Biofuels are fuels produced from organic material, as different from fossil fuels such as petroleum or coal. The fossil fuels are non-renewable. In particular, petroleum on which the entire transportation industry is based, is expected to run out within next [...]
12 Aug
How to make solar powered heaters
How to make solar powered heaters Posted 11 August 2011, by Sweta, EcoFriend Facebook (Instamedia Network), facebook.com/notes/ecofriend/ In this era it is necessary to adapt unconventional and renewable energy sources. We are running short of the existing fossil fuels and hence solar power can be economical as well as ecofriendly. It is an easy task [...]
