This week’s episode of Eco-Trek features Australia, widely regarded as the greenest continent on the globe. Meet former Minister for the Environment and ex-rock star Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil and the world’s fastest solar car.
Australia is the sunniest continent on earth. New technologies in Solar, Energy Storage and Energy Exporting shows Solar Energy works.
Australia’s largest wind farms are near completion, crating a huge number of jobs opportunities whilst massively reducing our CO2 emissions.
World Environment Day (WED) is on 5 June. This day is targeted to be the people’s day for positive action and demonstrates how individual actions can create an exponential impact. This year’s event, hosted by Rwanda, will support the International Year of Biodiversity.
The Energy Saving Trust’s take on MTV Cribs, with a spoof video called ‘Eco-Pads’, starring comedian Marcus Brigstocke showing off his big butt, his composter and his amazing water-saving device – the plug. Eco Pads’ is the first in a series of short celebrity films to be released over the summer.
This week’s news focuses on technological innovations from around the globe
Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, insists on the importance of the Copenhagen Climate Conference to address climate change.
Australian beer brewing giant Coopers have built a co-generation plant for independent power production allowing them to reduce their carbon footprint by 50% whilst doubling their production output.
Just launched! This is exciting stuff, a world first no less – one of Ecotricity’s fabulous windmills, making the energy to power a factory making… solar panels!
This week, guest presenter Naomi takes a look at what’s going down in the world of green.
