Posts for energy

Advertising brochures, catalogues, online promotions, spots and similar etc. seduce us into buying electronic appliances all the time that later prove to be needless energy guzzlers. So who is responsible for this: the customer or the marketing departments at the companies selling the products?

From Mercola, extracted from NEXUS Magazine, Volume 2, #25 (April-May ’95). Originally printed from the April 1994 edition of Acres, USA. Back in May of 1989, after Tom Valentine first moved to St Paul, Minnesota, he heard on the car radio a short announcement that…

Mercola, by Anthony Wayne and Lawrence Newell Is it possible that millions of people are ignorantly sacrificing their health in exchange for the convenience of microwave ovens? Why did the Soviet Union ban the use of microwave ovens in 1976? Who invented microwave ovens, and…

PCC Sound Consumer, by Trudy Bialic, editor, January 2006 (January 2006) — For convenience, few kitchen tools can compare to the microwave oven. An estimated 90 percent of American households have one and most of us have used a microwave to reheat leftovers. From time…

  By MELISSA SINGER – The Age via Stuff.co.nz, 18/03/2010 An electronics manufacturer with a history of making false environmental claims has been caught doctoring fridges to make them appear more energy efficient.

From Re:Speak, retrieved 08/03/2010 A new building in downtown Christchurch gets a record 6 Green Star rating from the NZ Green Building Council, check out some impressive specs…

  Via Treehugger, 24/02/2010 With the US Airforce announcing that cost-competitive algae jet fuel may be just months away, greener flying is looking less and less like pie in the sky. Despite seeing its profits squeezed by Eurostar and high oil prices, British Airways has…

I recently stubled across my first bottle of PLA filled with NZ water. It stated Ingeo on a label.

The Question in LinkedIn Green group was: "Should the (US) plastic manufacturing industry stop the use of bioplastics and oxy-degradable plastics because they are likely to pollute existing waste streams and jeopardize the recycling process?" I would like to ask the provocative question why we…

Via stuff.co.nz, 12/01/2010 New Zealand’s largest harbour could be providing power to 250,000 homes within 10 years now that the Government has been advised to give its blessing to a tidal power station.