Posts for government
Aussies offer answer to toxic old TVs
New Zealand Herald, 01 June 2009 Australia’s first television glass recycling plant is calling for Kiwis’ old tellies, as environmental organisations on both sides of the Tasman try to stem the flow of toxic TVs to rubbish dumps. Increasing numbers of people are dumping lead-containing…
Record-Breaking Solar Plant To Be Built in Australia
GoodCleanTech, 18 May 2009 “We don’t want to be clean energy followers worldwide, we want to be clean energy leaders worldwide,” Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says. And as one of the first steps to gain recognition as a leader in clean energy, Australia announced…
The Kyoto Protocol and New Zealand
It just happened that I had to make myself familar with the Kyoto Protocol and it’s implications for New Zealand. If you are interested in it, a good resource is at The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade website: http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-International-Law/03-Treaty-making-process/National-Interest-Analyses/0-Kyoto-Protocol-Part-I.php
Global warming proof undeniable
New Zealand Herald, Monday May 11, 2009 Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva, responds to a recent article by Chris de Freitas questioning global warming. The observed increase in global surface temperatures is unequivocal and a clear manifestation of global warming.…
SSD Electricity Savings Could Power an Entire Country
Nikkei Electronics Asia, May 8, 2009 15:21 The use of solid-state drives (SSD) could allow the world’s data centers to reduce their cumulative electricity consumption by 166,643MWH from 2008 to 2013, according to iSuppli Corp. This amounts to slightly more than the total electricity generation…
Environmental and energy balances of wood products and substitutes
The FAO Forestry Department promotes, among others, the responsible use of wood as an environmentally friendly raw material. In the last decades, wood and wood-based products have been faced with stronger competition from substitute materials, such as plastics, concrete, steel, glass or aluminium, as these…