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Vertical garden

June 29, 2007 by Allan Moult

Vertical garden

Office walls alive with greenery are now possible with vertical gardens invented by Joost Bakker, an Australian sculptor, who uses raw steel and discarded objects among his construction materials.

“I’m not really into luxurious finishes, I like using things that people perceive as ugly”, says Joost.

Vertical garden is a sculptural, almost architectural form, allowing leaf and flower to inhabit spaces, to create spaces, with a natural raw beauty.

Filed Under: Energy savers, Recycling

Queensland to get recycled water by 2008

January 28, 2007 by Allan Moult

The Queensland government says the state’s south-east could be drinking recycled waste water as early as next year, whether they want to or not.

Premier Peter Beattie and his deputy Anna Bligh announced the government has scrapped its controversial plans for a $10 million referendum on the issue, involving 18 councils.

Mr Beattie said south-east Queensland residents would get recycled water as the drought and subsequent low dam levels had left the government with no choice but to introduce treated sewage.

He said the fact Wivenhoe-Somerset Dam system’s water levels currently was less than 23 per cent had convinced him and Ms Bligh to abandon the March 17 plebiscite.

“Inflow to the dam system is currently 20 per cent lower than the worst on record,” Mr Beattie told reporters in Brisbane.

Filed Under: Recycling, Water wars

A world without people

October 14, 2006 by Allan Moult

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A fascinating scenario by Bob Holmes in New Scientist.

He writes:

Humans are undoubtedly the most dominant species the Earth has ever known. In just a few thousand years we have swallowed up more than a third of the planet’s land for our cities, farmland and pastures.

By some estimates, we now commandeer 40 per cent of all its productivity. And we’re leaving quite a mess behind: ploughed-up prairies, razed forests, drained aquifers, nuclear waste, chemical pollution, invasive species, mass extinctions and now the looming spectre of climate change. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Politics, Pollution, Recycling

Wooden bicycles show their paces

October 8, 2006 by Allan Moult

wooden bikesHandmade wooden bicycles are part of daily life in rural Rwanda.They’re not playthings either, and are used as virtual trucks to move goods and often to carry water. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Recycling, Resources, Transport

Green concrete

October 7, 2006 by fred

polluted sky

Making cement is one of the most energy-intensive industries, producing vast quantities of CO2 and other greenhouse gases from fossil fuels.

The relentless flood of concrete drowns more and more C02-absorbing vegetation all over the world, giving yet another boost to the cycle of global warming.

Eco-Cement, developed by Tec-Eco of Tasmania, Australia, is designed to save fossil fuels – and to absorb CO2. Based on reactive magnesium oxide, it needs CO2 to harden and set.

Better still, it can be combined with wastes such as fly ash from power stations and many types of slag which are too chemically reactive to be used with conventional cement to make concrete.

Filed Under: Global warming, Pollution, Recycling

Contained in Zurich

October 6, 2006 by Allan Moult

recycled shipping containers

Switzerland’s Freitag brothers, Markus and Daniel, have built up a worldwide market for their bags — of all shapes and sizes, and for all kinds of users — always created from recycled materials.

Their raw materials come from original, used truck tarpaulins, bicycle inner tubes, car seat belts and used airbags. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Architecture, Recycling



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