Selection of tips and ideas to make our society and travel habits more sustainable and environmental friendly.
Sustainability Blog Renewables 5.5 Renewables What about clean energy from renewables? Solar power on earth is likely not going to be sustainable enough. Maybe in the future we can harvest solar power from space but for the moment giant wind farms can be a solution. In his book Heat from 2006, George Monbiot proved […]
Sustainability Blog Seawater Greenhouse 5.4 Seawater Greenhouse For a more sustainable way of agriculture I like the approach of Seawater Greenhouse. A moist microclimate is created inside greenhouses in the desert through the use of an adapted pad and fan technology. Electric fans powered by solar power blow saltwater through pads of corrugated card.
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Sustainability Blog Sustainable livestock 5.3 Sustainable livestock farming According to research from Savory, it will even be counterproductive to eliminate all livestock farming. It will be better to use managed grazing methods to restore grasslands and decrease atmospheric CO2 levels. Restoring grasslands stores CO2 from the air into plant material. Grazing livestock, usually not
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Sustainability Blog Change our diet 5.1 Change our diet Agriculture contributes to about 16% of the total greenhouse gas emission. Depending on which study to believe, if we would all go completely vegan we might save about 23% to 70% of greenhouse gas emission from our current food supply. This is between 3.68% to