Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Donate Your Car for a Greener Planet

Recycle your car through a car donation program

Getting rid of your car in an environmentally friendly way can be difficult. Finding someone offering free car collection who can assure you that your vehicle will be properly depolluted and recycled can often be very time consuming.

If you’ve decided to upgrade your car to a model with better fuel efficiency or have simply decided to give it up in favour of a greener mode of transport can donation offers a simple, green and ethical means of dealing with your unwanted auto.

There are a variety of donation programs that will be happy to take your car. It is important to find one that will arrange for its scrappage in an environmentally friendly way or will put it into auction to find a new owner. Scrappage makes sure that the oldest and least fuel efficient cars are taken off the road. If your car is still relatively young and in good condition, finding a new owner through auction helps to reduce the demand for new cars and the damage to the environment caused by their production.

UK car disposal program Giveacar ensures that 85% of the weight of each car that is scrapped through them is recycled and reused. They only use sites authorised by the UK Environment Agency and guarantee that all cars are fully depolluted in accordance with the European Union’s End of Life Vehicle Directive.

Specifically to the UK Givecar system,UK car disposal plan Giveacar ensures that 85% of the weight of each car that scrapped through them is recycled and reused. They only use sites authorised by the UK Environment Agency and guarantee that all cars are fully depolluted in accordance with the European Union’s End of Life Vehicle Directive.

In addition to the environmental benefits of donating your car through the Giveacar program each scrap car will generate a donation of a least $100 for a good cause.

Just over a year after it was first created the car scrappage scheme has already recycled more than 3,000 vehicles and has raised more than $300,000 for a host of different charitable organisations.

If you would like to learn more about car donation, please visit the Giveacar website – www.giveacar.co.uk.




The Passenger - Squamish British Columbia



















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Friday, September 24, 2010

Vertical Space as a Solution to Food Production in Urban Environments

It has become increasingly clear that moving toward a more sustainable agricultural system means finding ways to produce more of our food supply locally. Cutting edge research is being conducted aboard a barge on the Hudson River - research that hearkens back to the early days of such sustainable agricultural pioneers as the New Alchemy institute in Woods Hole Massachusetts and the Permaculture Institute in NH (here's a bit of interesting trivia - Stoneyfield Yogurt Founder Gary Hirshberg was one of the original founders of the Permaculture Institute in Wilton, NH.).






Building a homemade hydroponic system



Longview Cows

Friday, September 10, 2010

Invisible Disaster: Fall Migration over the Gulf

Billions of birds will migrate this fall to a Gulf Coast filled with insidious threats. As green herons, yellowlegs and flocks of others land in oily marshes to feed on contaminated fish, these birds may suffer from the most grueling migration of their lives -- with tragic but unseen consequences. Read the article.



Bench Panorama

Sunday, June 20, 2010

The Ideology of a Cancer Cell

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
- Edward Abbey


Two Falls



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Thursday, June 3, 2010

3 Small Cap “Save the Gulf Companies"

Here are 3 Companies which focus on separation solutions as a way to help solve the Gulf Coast Oil Spill
MOP Environmental Solutions Inc. (OTC: MOPN)


New Hampshire-based MOP promotes a patented product, MOP Maximum Oil Pick Up, which can clean up oil spills, while at the same time also recover the spilled material. MOP is promoting itself diligently by saying that its patented product is the ultimate solution for protecting ecosystems along the coastline from hazardous oil spills. The company also claims that, unlike competitors, its solution is 100% biodegradable and 100% recycled. Charles Diamond, MOP’s president and CEO, has said that that its product outperforms every other sorbent, both on oil pick up per pound and cost per pound basis. He also said that the company’s product is the best solution for oil spills like the one in the Gulf of Mexico.

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"We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children."

American Indian Proverb






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Financial Times Covers MOP Demonstration

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Is the other BP Well in Trouble?

Inside sources say that a rumor is sweeping the gulf that the second BP well in the area is in trouble. Our sources say its true but BP is keeping it under wraps. No way to know unless it begins to manifest.