26/03/2010 21:35
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah needs an immediate and efficient green energy plan to resolve its power woes.
Kalabakan MP Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh, who made the call, said Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB) should abandon its plans for a 300MW coal plant and consider the potential of green energy from...
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26/03/2010 21:33
IMAGINE, one day we are forced to using reverse osmosis (RO) water for our daily needs. RO water costs around 50 sen a litre and if you used 1,000 litres a month, the bill could reach a hefty RM500.
Would you pay that much of money for water to cook, bathe and wash your clothes?
Malaysians, on an...
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26/03/2010 21:31
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah’s palm oil industry produces enough waste to generate up to 700MW of electricity, an American energy researcher said.
Dr Daniel M. Kammen said the figure was based on the 2008 palm oil pro-
duction statistics and conservative growth estimates.
He said biomass power...
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26/03/2010 21:28
KUCHING: The construction of more green buildings will mitigate the negative impact of development on the environment and mankind, said Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) president Boon Che Wee.
He said the country possessed the ideal climate for green buildings and such buildings were...
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26/03/2010 21:27
KUALA LUMPUR: Despite the frequent downpours that Malaysians accustomed to, the country is rapidly running out of sources of clean water and facing the likelihood of paying high prices for water.
Imagine, one day we are forced to using reverse osmosis (RO) water for our daily needs. RO water...
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26/03/2010 21:24
The number of nations backing the non-binding Copenhagen Accord for fighting global warming has risen to about 110 and includes all major greenhouse gas emitters, according to a Reuters compilation on Friday.
The accord, reached at the December summit, sets a goal of limiting a rise in...
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21/03/2010 03:08
PUTRAJAYA: The traditional light bulb will no longer be available by January 2014.
The Government will stop all production, import and sales of the bulbs by that date as part of efforts to save power.
Traditional light bulbs, also called incandescent light bulbs, are considered less...
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21/03/2010 03:01
KUALA LUMPUR: Kedah Forestry director Kasim Othman, 56, has claimed trial at the Sessions Court to agreeing to receive RM20,000 bribe last year.
Kasim, 56, was charged with accepting the money from Yee Gan Seng as an inducement to approve an application from AK Millenium Enterprise to withdraw a...
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21/03/2010 02:59
AFP - Friday, March 12.WASHINGTON (AFP) - – Climate change is pushing some bird species "towards extinction," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned Thursday as a new report on the threats facing North American birds was released.
"For well over a century, migratory birds have faced...
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21/03/2010 02:56
WASHINGTON – Climate change is here and scientists need to do a better job of explaining it to the public, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday.
"We are no longer constrained by talking about some possible future. Climate change is happening now and...
