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We continue our “Five things you did not know about ” series with another fascinating way of producing energy. Feel free to comment, give advice and share your personal opinions. So here they are, the five things you probably did not know about wind power.
1. 19% of the energy produced in Denmark is wind [...]

Acid rains are known world-wide as something “bad” and of course, polluting. But here’s your chance to learn a bit more about these phenomena and maybe help prevent them one day.
The phenomena basically cover all kinds of acidic precipitation, meaning rain, fog, snow and they usually form due to the human emissions of sulfur and [...]

Have you ever wondered where all our waste goes?
Well, there are two major options: they are either incinerated or thrown away in huge waste dumps in open fields, usually in the vicinity of large cities. Now if our waste in incinerated, smoke and toxic gases are set free into our atmosphere, raining down on us [...]

” The Story of Stuff” is a 20 minutes film about all the unknown negative consequences that derive from us “getting stuff”.

It deals with the processes of extraction, production, distribution, consumption, disposal and the people involved in following them through.
“From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities [...]

This is a true story and perhaps one of the most tragic I’ve ever read. I have found an investigation article about illegal e-waste trade with the poor nations of Africa. The country in discussion here is Ghana. The reporters have found an e-waste dump with computers originally used by British National Health System (NHS).

The [...]