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Tea Team Produces Results

The Cameron Highlands of Malaysia have been a well-known tea growing area for many generations. Now the sun is rising on a fair deal for crops, especially from the smallholdings...

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Solar electricity comes to your home-free!

Solar energy image; Credit: © PassivSystems Solar photovoltaic cells (PVs) are developing efficiency fast and there is no more advancing area than the optimisation of usage with suitable software. One...

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The last of the Indonesian forest?

Wouldn't you love to visit the habitat of the wild Sumatran tiger? - if there are any left when all the wood has been extracted from Indonesian forests. With only...

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Recycling, waste and profit

Natural systems have strong species, able to hunt, scavenge and complete cycles by their decisive action. The Botswana sun doesn't put off these young entrepreneurs. Maybe our unnatural wastage can...

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The business of applying energy to water needs

You could grow corn in the desert if solar power could provide an unpolluted water supply! Solar corn image; Credit: © Shutterstock The water crisis doesn't affect everybody. In the...

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The BMW i3 - Busy Mit Watts

The latest BMW is meant to join the green revolution. It certainly has a lot of credentials, but is it really original?; BMW i3 image; Credit: BMW With 125,000 watts...

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European Emissions

This old power station in Barcelona will always remind us of our polluted past. It has been kept as an industrial museum, fit to rival Gaudi and Dali; Power station...

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Pretty bubbles of disaster

The planting of vast forests to mitigate carbon emissions is slow to complete for many nations who find their carbon dioxide bubble is possibly about to burst. Financial investment in...

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Green Investment Bank - Banking on a Green Future

L-R: Mike Turnbull, BoA Merrill Lynch; Caroline Lucas MP; Ed Matthew, Transform UK/E3G; Helene Winch, BT; Dr Vince Cable MP. Photo by Xavier Fiddes © Raccoon 2012 One of the...

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