An interesting article over at Guardian.co.uk today which draws attention to the environmental impact caused by building wind farms on top of peat bogs. This raises an interesting topic that has been brought up before in various circles – could some of our environmental initiatives actually cause more harm then good?
What do we want to be?
Tag Archive: sustainability
CentMail: Is pay-per-email the way to combat spam?
A recent article over at New Scientist is helping renew discussion over the idea of a pay-per-email system, in particular CentMail from Yahoo! Research. The idea is that by donating 1c to charity each time you send an email, spamming will become uneconomic and thus fall out of favour if the service is used widely enough.
BP to develop biofuels in joint effort
BP has joined forces with Martek Biosciences Corporation to jointly work on the “production of microbial oils for biofuels applications”.
