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Cuidado con la economía de la biomasa

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Jim Thomas Cuándo sus defensores hablan de la “economía verde”, gran parte de lo “verde” que tienen en mente es literalmente de color verde. Las hojas, brotes, ramas, algas, hierbas y otras materias vivientes que el planeta genera en aparente abun …

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Los verdaderos colores de la economía verde

Monday, October 10th, 2011

Silvia Ribeiro A 20 años de la Conferencia de Naciones Unidas sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (Cumbre de la Tierra o Eco´92) se realizará una nueva conferencia global, en junio 2012, en Río de Janeiro, Brasil. Río+20, como se le llama, ocurrirá  …

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Río+20: ¿Una nueva economía verde, o la misma vieja economía maquillada?

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

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TECH RECKONING: 

Go fly a kite!

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Written for The Ecologist – May 2009 – p89 Since we don’t have enough land for the renewable technologies we need – let’s go stratospheric instead, with a high-altitude solution… 
 Naming a sane technology to replace fossil fuels can feel lik …

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The Big Fix – 9 Tech controversies to watch for in 2009

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Written for The Ecologist – February 2009 available online at http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=2053 Somebody somewhere has to have a cunning plan to fix our environmental problems and save the world – right? Jim Thom …

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TECHRECKONING: The Sugar Rush

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Jim Thomas Written for The Ecologist – February 2009 The next big hit fuelwise will have corporations falling over each other to claim plant life, but the comedown could leave us in a sticky mess   What runs our economy after oil? How about sugar …

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TECH RECKONING: A Green Whitewash

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Jim Thomas Written for The Ecologist- December/January 2009 The extreme climate technologists behind monochrome schemes to slow global warming are one colour short of a palette  It is hardly high-tech, but if Hashem Akbari is to be believed, a re …

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TECH RECKONING: Cloudbusting

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Jim Thomas Written for The Ecologist – November 2008  Don’t be fooled by The Cloud – the world of the internet seems weightless, but it is leaving an increasingly heavy footprint behind it  Do you know where your email is stored and what it  …

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Plastic Plants

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Henry Ford dreamed of making plastic cars out of soy. Now Dow, DuPont and other chemical giants are also dreaming of a ‘green’ future. But, as Jim Thomas argues, bioplastic is not the eco-solution it’s cracked up to be. Article from New Internat …

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Technofixes: Climate Solution Or Corporate Scam?

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Can science save the planet or should we avoid putting our faith in high-tech fixes to deliver us from the ecological mess we‘ve made? Jim Thomas and Paul Fitzgerald push each other’s buttons. Read the debate here in the latest issue of New Internat …

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