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Wasted chance to go green

It is six in the evening on a weekday - knock-off time. Thinking about the night out with friends that awaits, a worker grabs her personal effects, dumps them into her handbag and makes a hasty exit.
She forgets to turn off her workstation.
Sounds familiar?
Multiply that scenario countless times - from careless use of IT gizmos [...]

Recycling Food in Singapore

Singapore aims to recycle 30 per cent of its food waste by 2012. But for now, the rate stands at only about nine per cent.
So one home-grown food and beverage company is planning to do its part by recycling food waste this year.
It is the first to do so on its own, on its own [...]

Clearing the air with SMRT

SMRT, Singapore’s premier multi-modal public transport service provider [...]

Air quality in Beijing given the green light

With the Olympic just 24 hours away, the IOC (international Olympic Committee has announced that Beijing’s air does not pose any health hazards to the athletes, officials and visitors.
Even though haze and overcast skies are still present, it does not represent that the air quality is actually poor as commented by a Beijing environmental official.
Arne [...]

Protest against deforestation in Indonesia

The Greenpeace are at it again and this time, they are carrying a protest against the rampant deforestation in Indonesia.
During the protest,the Greenpeace activists donned masks and “armed” themselves with mock chainsaws. They positioned themselves outside the Forestry Ministry to urge the Indonesian government to stop deforestation.
Hm… the activists do remind me of the movie [...]

Good news or bad news? Artic’s oil could meet world demand

The Arctic Circle holds an estimated 90 billion barrels of recoverable oil, enough supply to meet current world demand for almost three years, the US Geological Survey forecast on Wednesday.
The forecast comes as Russia is competing with Canada, Denmark, Norway and the United States to grab a chunk of the huge energy resources in the [...]

New rules to ease air pollution in Beijing

With the coming of the Olympic Games, and the problem of air pollution not easing, China has launched traffic restrictions in a last minute ditch to ease the air pollution problem.
Vehicles with even and odd plates will hit the roads only on alternate days, which effectively means just half of the capital’s 3.29 million automobiles [...]

What is Carbon Capture and Storage : Pt 2 - Storing Carbon Dioxide

Welcome back. For part 2 of this article, I will be talking about how carbon dioxide is stored. After being captured, the carbon dioxide can be either stored undergound ( geological sequestration ) or in the ocean ( ocean sequestration ).