Sustainable sardines
Description Sardines (or pilchards) are a small, oily, and very nutritious fish widely consumed by humans and also by larger fish species, seabirds and marine mammals. Sardines …
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Technical and Cultural Products
There is a distinction between technical and cultural products. Of course, you could argue that all products are part of the culture, but I …
Big is Ugly
“Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are …
Homo Absumo
We are living in the biggest consumption explosion in history, and it could well be terminal, if we don’t stop. Diminishing man The Latin …
Electric Cars – Pros and Cons
Electric cars are better than combustion engine cars, but how much better? There are a myriad of factors involved and the advantages of electric …
Make your own energy
Obviously, one of the best ways to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions is to conserve energy through insulation, energy efficient appliances and good …
The right brain and sustainability
A cursory glance at a picture of a brain from above shows that the neo-cortex is divided. These two hemispheres are not symmetrical in …
The future of energy generation
As fossil fuels peter out the future of energy generation will be renewables. The problem with renewable energy is that it has much lower …
The benefits of simple living
There are many reasons why people chose lives of sufficiency and voluntary simplicity. People can become slaves to the belief that we need stuff …
The plastic plague
Plastics were a boon when they were first developed, like many technologies, but they have quickly become a plastic plague on the environment. Plastics were …