06/08/2012 01:34
Light emitting diode (LED) fluorescent tubes are all the rage in the lighting market these days. The technology promises to be more energy efficient, less environmentally harmful and more economical than traditional fluorescent tube lighting. Still, there is a lot of debate over...
26/04/2011 11:02
Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer's green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine.
However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that...
26/10/2010 02:52
In the second in our series examining REDD we report how ambiguous forest definitions are putting the future success of forest protection schemes in doubt and allowing logging companies to destroy biodiverse habitats
The current lack of a working definition of what degraded forest or land is...
25/08/2010 01:28
With current increasing trends in population growth and socio-economic development, the
quality and quantity of water is gaining widespread attention worldwide. This increasing
concern about water quality and quantity necessitates the interventions in water systems to
meet the objective of...
25/08/2010 00:15
WHEN he was a boy in the 90s, Muhammad Iqbal Baharum was already excited about recycling. He would diligently collect newspapers and wait for the “old-newspaper guy”. The money he got from selling the papers was used for ice cream and other snacks.
But it was when he was living in Britain...
11/08/2010 01:14
A green roof is an extension of a new or existing roof that involves a high-quality water proofing and root repellant system, a drainage system, filter cloth, a lightweight growing medium and plants. Green roof systems may be modular, with drainage layers, filter cloth, growing media and plants...
28/06/2010 18:13
Plastic recycling is limited by the fact that different types of plastic cannot be mixed. The quality of the resulting recycled plastic may also be poor. "That's why recycling is not very successful," said study author Vilas Pol of Argonne...
15/04/2010 02:48
Because of their mercury and PCB contents, old fluorescent lights should not be dumped in the bin but the Government has no solution for such waste as yet.
HOW many light bulbs do you have at home? What kind are they? How many do you change in a year? What do you do with the spoilt lights? Throw...
09/04/2010 16:29
AN inconvenient truth. That’s how environmental activist and former US vice-president Al Gore described climate change and its devastating effects on the global environment in his 2006 award-winning documentary film.
But exactly how serious is situation of climate change...
14/02/2010 18:38
What is Solid Waste?
Solid waste can be defined as the useless and unwanted products in the
solid state derived from the activities of and discarded by society.
Just as children depend on their parents for shelter and sustainability, mankind depends on the environment to sustain their...
