Troublemaker
Wired looks at Robert Rodriguez’s film making techniques ahead of the release of Sin City.
Monthly archives: March 2005
Greenergy
Tesco has partnered with Greenergy to build the UK’s largest biodiesel refinery. The refinery should be running by mid 2006, using rape seed oil from British farms. I reckon there’s still a niche market for local recycling of oil from restaurants by co-ops, but amajor development such as this is great for raising the profile of bio fuels.
via Sustainablog
Technorati tag: BioDiesel
Way up high
A possible answer to all the NIMBYs who argue against wind farms– high altitude wind power. The platforms fly up to their working altitude under power, but stay up there operating like tethered autogyros, the blades spinning in the breeze.
via Treehugger and Sustainablog
Technorati tag: Wind power
MOR
A call to arms for cyclists from the London Cyclist. The points are pertinent for the rest of us as well. I hate the cyclists who jump red lights and cycle on the pavement (okay, I’ll mount the kerb- very rarely and only when there are no pedestrians to harrass or the planners have put the cycle racks a silly distance from the road) because they give the rest of us a bad image.
Technorati tag: Cycling
Bad Accounting
The “services” of nature- pollination, air conditioning by wind, mixing of nutrients in the oceans, was estimated in 1997 to be worth the equivalent of $33 trillion to the world economy. These valuable resources have been squandered and up to two thirds of them have been used up by human activity.
Technorati tag: Biodiversity, Environment
E-Town
The Government is announcing a �10 million competition to encourage the creation of a “city of e-technology” and eventually expand access to high tech to the whole population.
Technorati tag: Technology
2050
From yesterday’s Guardian, an optimistic, but plausible, view of the energy efficient future.
Technorati tag: Sustainable Development
Green Steel
Two possible ways to make iron production less polluting– one method replaces coke with plastics, surprisingly this creates fewer noxious byproducts, the other involves electrolysis on a grand scale.
Bouquet residence
One in three Britons put on posher accents when they’re on the phone.
Technorati tag: Britain
Caissons
Historians are gently drying out and preseving a wooden beam washed ashore from an important piece of War of Independence architecture. A wooden bridge built across Lake Champlain linked Fort Ticonderoga in New York and Mount Independence in Vermont. It allowed thousands of American soldiers to escape when the British took Ticonderoga so they could fight again in the Battle of Saratoge.
Technorati tag: Archaeology
Switch Off
The recent demise of my computer monitor raises a couple of green issues. One- why was I wasting so much energy leaving it on standby overnight? and two- how to get rid of it.
Technorati tag: Electricity
Last Friday of the Month
Still We Ride, a documentary about the mass arrests of cyclists at last August’s New York Critical Mass (the one that coincided with the Republican convention). The film’s premiere will be at the very cool sounding Bicycle Film Festival.
Technorati tag: Cycling, Critical Mass
Politics for the People
Sixty one new political parties were registered in 2004. Mostly it’s a rise in single issue groups, with only the occasional Veritas in there.
Technorati tag: Politics
Green Mortgage
The Ecology Building Society exists to make it easier for builders/ buyers of green homes to get the money they require. Not only that, but they are determined to maintain their mutual status when so many of the larger BS’s have converted to banks in the last decade.
via Treehugger
Technorati tag: Mortgage, Green Finance
Hackaday
For those of you who read my previous post, you may have spotted the source as hackaday. Hackaday is a bit of a geeky blog detailling how to build projects that you may have wanted to build for some time.
Some of the projects I like are:
The Solar Death Ray
The cheap Teleprompter (possibly for Ian to remember his lines, if he makes his film)
Build your own submarine
Technorati tag: Hackaday
I want to ride my bicycle
Fancy making a statement when cycling along? Try this – includes full building instructions.
Via Hackaday
Technorati tag: Cycling
Idiot prize of the week?
A man has been fined after breaking in to a cafe, only to have to call the police out when he got stuck trying to escape, the BBC reports.
Technorati tag: Idiot
Quake
Worldwide Earthquake activity in the last seven days
Technorati tag: Earthquake
Instatime
The Spinneyworld holding page is up, apologies for getting ahead of myself and announcing it when there was nothing there. If you’re interested, drop me a line.
Technorati tag: Spinneyworld