Chia pets or survival food

Remember those silly little Chia Pets? Little did we know then that those strange little seeds painted on those cheesy terracotta pots shaped like animals

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Grandma goes TEOTWAWKI

I ran across this article today, it’s about a grandmother who has made the active choice to protect herself by prepping for an uncertain future.

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Comfy camping gear

Looking for those few essential items to go off-grid?  Try the camping store: heat, food and shelter are the pre-requisites, and campers can buy them

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Dumb idea

Rerev boss in his low-carbon shirt AP reports that the campus gym at the University of Oregon has installed dynamos on each of its running

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Save our Mountaintops

Judd PalinThe clean-up crews are slowly moving in to deal with the smoking craters and ecological detritus of the Bush years. The latest teams actress

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Apple’s solar strategy

It’s possible that Apple’s future just got sunnier. Employees at computer, phone and software company Apple  have filed a patent to place solar cells on

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Next-gen info processing

If you are reviewing your carbon footprint, consider a data storage and retrieval system now being sold on the internet. The product does not need

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Oscars not green this year

Sheryl Crow at Green bash The Oscars ceremony has abandoned last year’s pretence of being “green” – whatever that meant at the time.  With the

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Steven Chu Interviews

In his first interview, energy secretary-designate, Steven Chu, says “we have to immediately start decreasing the amount of energy we use”

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Eco Innocence

We are living through a massive extinction of species on Earth The true innocents are the planet’s endangered species.

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Junk Mail

Found this in my junkmail – it looks like rubbish to me but maybe someone out there in Britland was going to pay full price.

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Pure water without mains

The hideous chemicals like steroids which are in all our mains drinking water could be banished by a new gadget that sucks moisture out of the air and turns it into drinking water

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How eco-activism has changed

The lawyer whose life forms the plot for “A Civil Action” gets stick from his kids because he fails to put out his recycling. He can’t wait till they are old enough to drive to the dump

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Eco show homes

Photo: Visitors explore the back yard of the Wired LivingHome in Los Angeles. The $4 million prefabricated house has an automated energy system. Photo: Wired

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Return of the Cold War

Bush-Putin herald a return to the fears of the 1970s – superpower aggression for them, and cowering in out-of-town fallout shelters for us

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Memo from Turner

Laura: did she really need 5000 ft? Welcome to EcoManor, built in Atlanta by Ted Turner’s daughter. At 5,000 square feet its about as eco

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UK hideaway

Off-Grid Farmhouse in the Pennines offers exceptional value at $60 per night including vegetarian breakfast

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USAF to go off-grid with Nuclear

The personal nuclear reactor just got a step closer. A senior USAF spokesman revealed the Air Force wants to order one now, and have them at every base in the future to prevent dependence on vulnerable grids in nations around the world.

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Off-grid? We were never on

Poster power Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the take up of off-grid technologies, says the Wall Street Journal Asia, could be their rapid success. Rising

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Cheap power for all

New micro nuclear reactors from Toshiba will be deployed worldwide from next year. The first will be installed in the isolated township of Galena, Alaska, which has been negotiating a license from the Federal Government since June 2005.

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Eco-celeb twitter

Kevin Spacey, Uma Thurman, Kylie Minogue, Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox, Al Gore, Melissa Etheridge, Paris Hilton (yuk!)

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Thomas Dolby goes off-grid

Singing the off-grid song Synth-pop and music-technology icon Thomas Dolby will shortly embark on a new album project, recorded totally off the grid 200W Portable

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