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Solar lantern provides ray of hope for Africa

admin /11 May, 2008

Nick Sireau, SolarAid Director

LED Solar Lantern – Andy Bodycombe/SolarAid

Mirriam is 18 years old and lives in Malawi. She has two children, one brother and one sister. Her father died of AIDS and her mother is now also sick with HIV AIDS. Every day is a struggle: finding food for her children, caring for her mother, looking after her other sick relatives – all this with next to no income.

Yet she’s now found hope in a ground-breaking project carried out by non-profit SolarAid with funding another non-profit, TRAID. SolarAid is training young Malawians to become solar entrepreneurs so that they can build and sell small solar products such as solar lanterns and solar chargers for mobile phones and radios. The project is aiming particularly at young people affected by HIV/AIDS in order to provide them with more income.

Sustainable biofuels possible

admin /5 May, 2008

While I deplore the use of foodstuffs for the production of biofuels, I feel that I should reiterate yet again that other choices are possible without resorting to that or destroying the environment. Many people are starting to become aware (at last) that woody biomass is a viable source of liquid fuels, but they usually Continue Reading →

Organic farms store more carbon

admin /4 May, 2008

Queensland Conservation has aligned with Biological Farmers of Australia, to re-instate claims organic farm methods can contribute to lowering Australia’s greenhouse emissions by locking up more carbon in soil. They also say organic production will become more competitive as oil and fertiliser prices climb. As part of its climate change campaign, Queensland Conservation has referred Continue Reading →

Ethanol makers defend role in energy crisis

admin /4 May, 2008

From FarmProgress in USA  It seems that ethanol has a target on its back. The rising cost of food has gained a lot of media attention, with many laying the blame at ethanol’s feet, despite numerous reports and studies showing that other factors such as the high price of oil are the real culprits. The Continue Reading →

Climate experts put poor in sights

admin /4 May, 2008

Matthew Warren, The Australian DEVELOPING countries need to be set “demanding and binding” emissions targets as part of an aggressive upgrade to global action on climate change signalled by Australia’s and Britain’s lead greenhouse policy advisers. In two new separate papers, Ross Garnaut and Nicholas Stern have called for deep cuts in developed country emissions Continue Reading →

Oceans may die from oxygen depletion

admin /4 May, 2008

GLOBAL warming could gradually starve parts of the tropical oceans of oxygen, damaging fisheries and coastal economies, a study showed today.

Areas of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with low amounts of dissolved oxygen have expanded in the past 50 years, apparently in line with rising temperatures, according to the scientists based in Germany and the United States.

And models of global warming indicate the trend will continue because oxygen in the air mixes less readily with warmer water. Large fish such as tuna or swordfish avoid, or are unable to survive, in regions starved of oxygen.

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