ethical gardening and green product reviews

What influences your decision when you look at buying a new car? For me, I do like my gadgets. MP3 player docks, self balancing headlights and electric packs are the basics I look for. It may not be fashionable to admit that these features inform my eventual choice when there are arguably better things like [...]

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Here in the UK we rarely have extreme weather. So, our cars are not really suited for bad conditions, indeed, many drivers will avoid taking the car when the weather is severe. If you are a driver of one of the millions of small cars, you will reap the financial benefits and ease of city [...]

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Ah, the good old emission system of the modern motor car. Burn some petroleum products in the engine and expel it through the chimney or, exhaust pipe, of the vehicle: an essential part of the vehicle and one which is more complicated than just a tube, the car exhaust is responsible for filtering some of [...]

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Space, the final frontier Been there, done that. So says Richard Branson (well he would have done if Id written his press release). Since the success of his latest project, Virgin Galactic, heralded the beginning of commercial space travel as a realistic venture, Richard Branson has moved his sights to conquering the vast realm of [...]

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Taxi you cry, one arm waving. A ramshackle car pulls over. Do you get in? Well you are in another country and you do need a lift to your hotel. But, still have you ever been confronted with this situation? Sometimes when Im abroad I cut out the middleman and rent my own car for [...]

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Think electric powered vehicles are a recent invention? Think again. Planes, trains and automobiles, boats, trams, motorcycles and even rockets have all had versions powered by electricity. The interest now is due to concerns over use of fossil fuels and climate change, although there was a time when electric motor cars were more popular and [...]

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One of the problems with the oil (kerogen) in oil shale is that it is not mature enough (i.e. close enough to being an oil) that it will easily flow through the rock. In earlier parts of this particular theme, I have written about mining the rock and then heating it in retorts as a [...]

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In the resource depletion soup, one ingredient looms large ? social equity. Equality is a function of population, social status aspirations and resources. With a small population, everyone can have reasonable equality. With unlimited resources, the same (although the amplitude generated by law of large numbers will exert outsized social pull from the top). But [...]

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Liev Schreiber was spotted biking around the SoHo section of New York City Wednesday afternoon. The eco-friendly actor can next be seen in the thriller Repo Men alongside Jude Law and Forest Whitaker.

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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was on hand earlier this week to promote a new state rebate program offering a $1,500 rebate off the purchase price of qualifying electric motorcycles. The brand that Schwarzenegger chose to promote at the event was CA-based Zero Motorcycles — whose models can travel 40-50 miles on a single charge. Said [...]

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