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environment index
May 31, 1995 (as amended)

long-term survival strategies Jul07 Tips for Reducing Your Environmental Footprint Jun06 Time to face climate change implications, analyst says Jun06 Attenborough: Climate change is the major challenge facing the world May06 How to save water in the home May06 Storm costs 'could rise by 66%' Jun05 globalisation and world culture Jan02 cars: a road to ruin Mar97 Particulate pollution deadly ? Everyday Things That You Can Do to Clean the Air Nov96 ozone depletion Jun95 coping with time Sep94 smog above danger mark Apr94 money and the environment Apr94
talkin' 'bout energy generation Technology can help our planet become more energy-efficient, in many ways. Nuclear fusion is currently the most promising energy generation technology, as it can create vast quantities of energy from tiny amounts of commonly-found raw materials, and its waste is biodegradable. Nuclear fusion is the same process that powers the sun.
Scientists clear technical hurdle in fusion research When the crude runs out: Life after oil Energy gap: Crisis for humanity? Oil, gas and imperialism It's better to go nuclear than ask people to be nice My story: Bringing in biofuel Revolution at the petrol pumps as Government backs biofuels Sucker's Bets for the New Century: The U.S. after Katrina The Twilight Era of Petroleum The Era of Expensive Oil Nuclear fusion: power to the people? France gets nuclear fusion plant ITER: the next steps EU leads Kyoto 'carbon revolution' The World Needs Energy from Space Solar Satellites Will Power Earth, Scientists Say What Is Biodiesel ?

talkin' 'bout the Grid

Grids promise to revolutionise computing, just as the internet revolutionised communications. Grids are large-scale clusters of computers, working together. Tasks are split into many small chunks - possibly millions or trillions of chunks - and are then shipped over the net to participating computers for execution. The computer ships the result back when it's done. This effectively creates a single computer from millions of smaller computers. The massive processing power that results can be used for the most pressing and computationally-intensive tasks, such as climate change simulation, medical and physics research.

• SETI@Home goes BOINC
• the open grid emerges
• Grids, IBM and Service-Oriented-Architectures
• NCSA's Smarr touts optical networks
• Sun offers processing by the hour
• Review of the World Community Grid
• Computer grid to help the world
• Folding@Home, a monolithic (single-purpose) grid
• Globus Grid Toolkit 3 released
• Assembling the Digital Sky
• Gateway deploys in-store grid
• The Good Grid: For Real Power, Band Those PCs Together

more articles

The Hockey-stick graph. (image courtesy BBC)

supporting the WOCC (War on Climate Change)

Can a dose of recession solve climate change?  Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:41:09 +0100
Spain cuts speed limit and turns out lights  Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:28:40 +0100
A month without plastic  Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:28:40 +0100
Solar power from Saharan sun could provide Europe's electricity, says EU  Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:36:31 +0100
America's love affair fades as the car becomes burden of suburbia  Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:20:12 +0100
Microbe economics  Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:07:15 +0100
Alaska's capital goes green after avalanche cuts power lines  Sat, 17 May 2008 10:14:23 +0100
Yellowknife looks to old mine for geothermal energy  Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:57:29 -0000
Car makers forced to boost fuel efficiency  Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:14:21 -0000
Business call for plan on climate  Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:05:50 -0000
Democrats in $7bn plan to turn US green  Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:04:30 +0100
S.O.S.: Pacific islanders battle to save what is left of their country from rising seas  Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:01:12 +0100
A world without oil  Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:28:22 +0100
Australia PM pledges climate plan  Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:33:00 +0100
Climate change can be halted, UN concludes  Sat, 05 May 2007 20:37:55 +0100
Welcome to Modbury. Just don't ask for a plastic bag  Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:28:58 +0100
Plague of Plastic Chokes the Seas  Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:28:57 +0100
Australia's epic drought: The situation is grim  Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:16:16 +0100
Outback to out in front  Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:09:47 +0100
California: How the Golden State went green  Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:07:38 +0100
Grim report warns on climate  Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:43:06 +0100
Dire Warming Report too Soft, Scientists Say  Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:31:59 +0100
Fighting for air: frontline of war on global warming  Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:48:08 +0100
Climate change shifts sheep shape  Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:40:24 -0000
Force of nature  Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:58:31 -0000
Miliband: 'Time for a green industrial revolution'  Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:40:34 -0000
The 'new age' of super materials  Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:04:06 -0000
Flannery backs geothermal energy  Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:08:51 -0000
Turnbull, Garrett debate climate change  Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:01:08 -0000

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