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Crowd-sourced energy
A London-based architectural research firm, Facility: Innovate, is developing an energy harvester for crowded areas such as sports arenas and shopping centres. The technology will be invisible to the people it feeds on: they will simply walk over what looks like a normal floor tile. But their steps will push down on a pneumatic device that drives air through a turbine to generate electricity. The company plans to install its first device later this year in a US shopping centre, with a UK site to follow soon after. See here.
Goldman Environmental Prize - videos
The U.S.-based Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's biggest award for grassroots environmentalism. The prize was begun in 1990 by philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman to encourage environmental protection. Check out what this years’ prize recipients have to say, by clicking on their profiles in this link.
What links the banking crisis and the volcano? George Montbiot
We are seldom more vulnerable than when we feel insulated. The miracle of modern flight protected us from gravity, atmosphere, culture, geography. It made everywhere feel local, interchangeable. Nature interjects, and we encounter - tragically for many – the reality of thousands of miles of separation. We discover that we have not escaped from the physical world after all. Complex, connected societies are more resilient than simple ones – up to a point.
To read this full article by George Montbiot, see here.
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