MetaFilter posts tagged with BBC and environment

Be a Bloomer

netbros — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:19:57 -0800

Want to know what actions can have the biggest impact on your carbon emissions? Bloom helps you choose actions tailored to your home and lifestyle, then lets you compare them by how much CO2 they save and how cheap they are. With background guides for recycling, organic foods, energy ratings, and emissions. From the BBC.

Too much of a good thing

0bvious — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:18:07 -0800

The ashes of the recently deceased contains high amounts of nutrient rich phosphates, just perfect for sprucing up that garden of yours. On the iconic peaks of Scotland though Mountaineers have decided that enough is enough.

Waving their strange limbs, beckoning....

troutfishing — Sun, 23 Feb 2003 21:00:30 -0800

Synthetic Trees could purify the air - "It looks like a goal post with Venetian blinds," said the Columbia University physicist...synthetic trees could help clean up an atmosphere grown heavy with carbon dioxide..."You can be a thousand times better than a living tree...There are a number of engineering issues which need to be worked out," he said. (BBC) Hurry up, then - "Ice dams are blocking Latvian ports, winds and storms are battering Europe, Portugal is freezing, Vietnam has lost one-third its rice crop, and the cold has caused close to 2,000 deaths in usually temperate South Asia."

London Vs. The Smog Monster

jonson — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:38:59 -0800

50 years ago last month, a dark cloud settled in over London. And stayed for four days. This fog, which was brought on by a lethal combination of high pressure, near freezing temperatures and London's pervasive coal burning, starting killing things. At first, the animals at a cattle show, then the elderly, or those prone to resperatory disease. By the end, over 4,000 people had died. Strangely, to this day the disaster retains a low profile, unlike more glamorous disasters such as the Titanic, or Bhopal. Stranger still, is that unlike those others, while the fog was at its most deadly, few realized there was even an epidemic occurring, with most viewing it as, at worst, a mild nuisance.

zoid — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:23:54 -0800

Disposable Planet? Find out how many planets we would need if everyone lived like you.

revbrian — Thu, 03 May 2001 04:59:16 -0800

Bottled water a waste of money, no better than most tap water, and environmentally unfriendly.

chaz — Tue, 30 May 2000 14:05:34 -0800

Looking for a real renewable energy source? Feces powered cars: the future of transport?