Archive for 'Uutiset'
The Story of Transition Tales
Posted on March 8, 2010, under Sekalaista, Uutiset.
This is the story of Transition Tales, a small group within Transition Town Totnes. One of the aims of this project is to raise awareness within Primary and Secondary School children of the transition solution of community led response to the twin challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change by creating positive stories.
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
Collaboratively We Are Really, Really Smart
Posted on March 8, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.
KrisCan talks with designer Ken Eklund, the creator of World Without Oil, an online game that dealt with the first 32 weeks of a global oil crisis where players were encouraged to contribute stories, podcasts or videos that chronicled their experience of an imagined reality…
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
Environmental film wins Academy Award
Posted on March 8, 2010, under Polttoaineet, Sekalaista, Uutiset.
The Cove's poster image
There were two environmental films in the Best Documentary category at the 2010 Academy Awards, but it was a film calling for an end of dolphin slaughter in Japan that took home the Oscar statuette.
The Cove was directed by Louie Psihoyos and features former Flipper , Ric O’Barry, who now dedicates his life to putting an end to the captive dolphin industry.
The movie focuses on a particular fishing village in Japan, Taiji, where every year thousands of dolphins are corralled and brutally killed, turning the sea around the village into a huge pool of blood. Dolphin meat is notorious for being laden with mercury. Besides, the real profit comes from the multi-billion captive dolphin industry, to which the fishermen sell some of the dolphins they capture.
Besides the shocking theme, the film captured the world’s attention for its action thriller structure. In order to make the film, the activists had to use state-of-the-art equipment to avoid the locals’ paranoid and aggressive surveillance, as the filmmakers were not welcome to film the gruesome proceedings in Taiji. The result is a mixture of investigative journalism and stunning imagery that culminates with the revelation of what goes on at the cove.
The producers now hope that the Oscar win will increase exposure for the film in Japan, although those interested in continuing with this cruel and environmentally unsound trade have been making threats against them.
The popular exposé of the food industry Food Inc. was the other environmental movie competiting for the Best Documentary award.
Trailer for The Cove
Lähde: EnergyRefuge.com Blog
Got Data and Regs!
Posted on March 6, 2010, under Sekalaista, Uutiset.
Going organic is proving to be a good investment for small and medium-sized farmers—and they are receiving some government protection against Big Agriculture as well.
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
Requiem for a dying city
Posted on March 6, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.
Unions, very much like the bulk of the population, are still trapped in this ideology of perpetual progress, yet cannot help noticing the continuous degradation of most people’s living conditions. The result of this cognitive dissonance between the grandiose expectations of the ideology of progress and the bleak reality, is a curious combination of helplessness, despair and anger..
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Why Is this Apocalypse Different than All Other Apocalypses?
Posted on March 4, 2010, under Sekalaista, Uutiset.
A lot of what I write works from the assumption that we all agree that peak oil and climate change are happening and going to be life-changing events. And yet, some people who read this blog don’t necessarily agree on this subject, or they don’t see the effects has being as profound as I do, or perhaps the idea of peak oil or climate change is fairly new to them, and they don’t know what to believe.
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Peak oil notes - Mar 6
Posted on March 4, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.
A weekly update including:
- Prices and production
- Iraqi elections
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Windpower firm to setup IT Hub
Posted on March 4, 2010, under Polttoaineet, Sekalaista, Uutiset.
The Vestas Services Philippines Inc. is scheduled to be inaugurated this evening and will eventually hire 200 local employees by 2011 with an initial start this year of 100 hirees. They currently have 25 employees already in their stable.
The site will support Vestas global operations providing backend support for the operation of 11,500 turbines worldwide. Their tasks include surveillance, service desk and programming. Vestas already has similar facilities in Denmark, Singapore and the US.
The company said that they were considering seven other countries but chose the Philippines because of the skilled talent poll here and the abundant wind energy sources in the country. Vestas has been responsible for supplying the 20 turbines in the wind farms in Ilocos Norte.[source]
Lähde: Alternat1ve.com - One Alternative Energy Blog
Economics - Mar 2
Posted on March 2, 2010, under Sekalaista, Uutiset.
-Consumerism ‘doomed’, investment forum told
-A Titanic Budget in an Ocean of Icebergs
-Growth and Consumerism: Nature or Nurture?
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
Peak oil, gas, prices, and supplies - Mar 2
Posted on March 2, 2010, under Uutiset, Öljyhuippu.
-What the Olympics Can Teach Us About the Price of Gas
-Pickens expects approval of key natural gas plan
-Asia buys record volume of W.African oil in Q1
-Russia February Output Nears Post-Soviet Record on TNK-BP
-RBS accused over funding for tar sands ‘blood oil’
Lähde: Energy Bulletin
