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working to tackle climate change by
- Measuring your carbon footprint
- Suggesting ways to reduce it
- Showing the difference you make
Use our hive of hot ideas to help keep our planet a cool place to live!
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The Hive
The group for all Edenbees.
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USBee
For all the bees that live in the US. and probably have USBs...
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Mummies & Daddies
For parents trying to reduce the patter of their tiny carbon footprints.
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Earth-loving artists
Artist materials are not often environmentally friendly and it takes extra effort to look for materials, techniques and methods to do the right thing. How to balance the love for beauty, the arts, and the environment? Whether you are a painter, sculptor, photographer, jeweller or craftsperson, come share your knowledge!
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Recently asked questions
- Is a diswasher more enery efficient
- What does it cost to retro insulate cavity walls for an average size 3 bed? Who are the providers that people would recommend?
- Does your town need a Critical Mass? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass)
- Primark won't let you use your own bag - they make you have a plastic one!
- Ever been knocked down on your bike?
Edenblog
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Horsepower
In the race to find new alternatives to the oil dependency problem Dubai-based Iranian inventor Abdolhadi Mirhejazi has come up with a rather quirky approach to transportation design. The Naturmobil from Fleethorse, LLC has a top speed of 80km/h and operates with a horse walking on a slightly inclined conveyor belt, which moves the gears serving s…
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Building on the green agenda
You may love him or hate him but the work of Architect Norman Foster of Foster and Partners is controversial to say the least. In this talk from the 2007 DLD Conference in Munich, Foster discusses his own work to show how computers can help architects design buildings that are green, beautiful and "basically pollution-free." Once again we applaud T…
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China builds the world’s first Eco-City
It’s a funny old world. China, now officially the world’s biggest polluter, is well on the way to developing sustainable cities the likes of which we have never seen before. On a small island on the mouth of the Yangtze River Delta, Arup, the engineering firm responsible for the (just plain weird looking) Beijing National Stadium, are hard at work …
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Hybrid Heaven
Lets face it, when we hear the word Hybrid in relation to cars the good old Prius pops to mind. What’s been lacking however from the market is that certain va va voom. Enter noted car designer Henrik Fisker, with the ultra cool Karma a sleek, power packed eco-luxury ride.
The Karma’s performance specs rev out at 0-60 mph in 6 seconds, and a top spee…
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Edenbee on Planet Green
Recently Leonora Oppenheim from Planet Green profiled Edenbee as part of their Change Makers series. For those of you who didn’t get a chance to read it pop along to see what we had to say.
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Airlines slow down
At Edenbee we believe that a small action can make a big difference. According to a recent report in The New York Times by the Associated Press JetBlue is now flying a little slower, adding an average of about two minutes to each flight—and saving about $13.6 million a year in jet fuel.
Like the Slow Food movement the idea is to slow down to go furt…
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S'Updates
Talk eco-driving and see how many eco-driving tips you can take on board on Ecomodder
Find funding, make green business connections and inspire others on EcoSector.com
The Green Log Awards just announced their 2008 finalists list. 'Companies, blogs, and web sites nominated for this year's awards program are being recognized for their commitment to pr…
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Friday's Green Icon
Introducing a new Friday slot, Green Icons will detail people who are at the forefront of change. Thumbs up to Brendan Phelan for this. Brendan will be contributing regularly on Edenbee so look out for his up and coming posts.
It's Friday so we thought we would send you away to the pubs / for the weekend with something interesting to talk to your ma…
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Bring me sunshine
The Uk and Ireland can celebrate today with some more glorious sunshine and if that were not enough energy company Sunrgi recently announced an astounding new solar system that will break our grids free from the fossil fuel lockdown. Courtesy of Inhabitat this is truly a story to shout about.
The Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics promise a low-cost…
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LocalCooling
In my book free is good and when it comes to simple little apps that save you energy and money, thats an added bonus. More than 30 billion kilowatt-hours of energy is wasted because many of us simply forget to shut down our computers when we aren’t using them. The CO2 emissions from just 15 computers are equivalent, in energy terms, to the gas cons…