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Green piste: protecting the skiing environment
As the ski-season gets underway, the burning issues combine a passion for the mountains, economics interests and the environment. The strongest critics liken the pistes to the motorways of the mountains, but more and more ski resorts like Tignes in France are taking steps to reduce the negative impact on the…
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Eco-design: Sustainability with style
It is a love affair between idea, form and environment. It is eco-design. A concept that has evolved over the years and today has come into…
29/11/10 13:11 CET -
Top of the crops in NYC’s rooftop farms
“There is now a new educated movement that believes in doing it themselves. Of removing themselves from as many systems as…
16/11/10 15:05 CET -
Fashion: if green was the new black?
In fashion black is a classic. But green is becoming more and more trendy. At the London College of Fashion, science and creativity come…
03/11/10 00:05 CET -
E-recycling: when electronic gadgets die
Condensers, capacitors and cables – just some of the electronic components that are thrown away each year as 21st century gadgets become…
19/10/10 16:01 CET -
Electric cars that buy and sell their own power
Getting the most out of power consumption. That’s the idea behind the Edison Project: programming the recharging of electric vehicles at…
05/10/10 15:53 CET -
Muni Seva – a Green-Tech Indian Ashram
Those who think that Indian Ashrams are mainly isolated religious schools, do not know Muni Seva, in the village of Goraj, in Gujarat. It is…
21/09/10 16:14 CET -
Morocco cleans up one of its oldest industries
Tanning is an ancient art in Morocco, but it pollutes the environment heavily. Chouara is part of this tradition. It is one of the three…
07/09/10 16:31 CET
Previous editions
- Safe as houses: building with straw
- Everything’s gone green at Glastonbury
- Protecting tourist paradises
- Stockholm: Europe’s Greenest Capital
- Farmers in India convert to organic cotton
- Shanghai World Expo “better city, better life”
- British wine wins prizes
- China: a step into the green
- Terra Viva: a future for the past
