Unlike large dams, now widely acknowledged to be unsustainable and ineffective, micro-hydro involves the use of small mills and dams to provide clean energy and an alternative source of income for rural communities.
… Renewable energy: Micro-hydro, Biomass, Solar Water Panel Jeremy Smith | 1st June 2004 News Solar Water Panels Renewable Energy Biomass … Fursdons dug a 460 metre channel to transport water from a stream on their land to the new …
A harrowing insight into the hugely profitable and brutal world of captive dolphins
… and smaller. The dolphin trainers get in the water with long pieces of rope. They tie … line the dolphins up in very shallow water, close to the rocky beach. The dolphins … escape. They get entangled in the nets underwater and, unable to reach the surface to …
Environmental activist Tamsin Omond is running for a Westminster seat on a platform of more collaborative democracy, and resurrecting the idea of the Commons as a shared public good
… shared public goods that include the air, the water, the internet, public squares, silence, … in fights around the world to protect public water supplies from privatisation, or in …
Just change your electricity supplier and help fight climate change. Sounds too good to be true. Is it?
… energy firm in Germany is also the biggest water utilities company in the world and the owner of Thames Water, which came top of the Environment … But as far as we see it, it's power from water running down hills. The water would …
The world lives under oil’s spell. Jeremy Smith reveals the extent to which the industry’s by-products have permeated our lives.
… a toilet seat, an umbrella, vitamin capsules, water skis, a xerox machine, a yoghurt pot. … correspondingly huge amounts of natural gas, water and land to get hold of it. You have to … the process will use 3.5 cubic metres of water a second (the course of a river is being …
There are plenty of small scale, locally appropriate innovations out there. Jeremy Smith has set up a video archive and social network that puts all the stories and advice together
… across a brilliant, innovative way of heating water for showers in an offgrid ecolodge in …
Branston Pickle. Baked Beans. Cough Mixture. Ketchup. Are there any products on our shelves that don’t contain sugar?
… effects of sugar cane growing can be counted water pollution in Buenos Aires and damage to river estuaries in Brazil and waterways in the Philippines. In Florida the … one of North America’s largest fresh-water lakes. Where once water flowed unimpeded …
The 350.org events last Saturday on the International Day of Climate Action give us cause for hope. As Jeremy Smith is discovering, there are thousands of inspiring stories out there about people making a difference
… a man in China who has invented a solar water heater by lining his roof with glass …
Expensive, polluting, unnatural and booming.
Jeremy Smith investigates the ‘death-care industry’
… to seep into the surrounding soil and water aquifers, we would rather this than … favourite foods, well-used leather shoes, water from a river or the sea, flowers from …
Growing crops to solve the planet’s energy needs doesn’t work. Recycling the energy in our waste just might have a significant part to play. By Jeremy Smith & Jon Hughes
… be done by refining gas from the city’s wastewater treatment plant into biogas. Outside of … Powys County Council, Dulas, Severn Trent Water and the residents. At the National … with photovoltaic panels and solar water heating, the school has a total energy …
Ecotourism is not simply about minimising your negative impact. There are places you can go where your presence (and money) can make a positive difference too
… and you'll be part of efforts to bring water to waterholes to river beds last visited by rain …
What remains of the once mighty Caledonian Forest is fast being eroded by an ever-increasing population of deer. Without reintroducing their natural predator, the wolf, to the wilds of Scotland, the forest and its ecosystem is in danger of disappearing forever. By Jeremy Smith
… taken advantage of that. They’ve made ponds, waterfowl come to those ponds, more willows … What’s more, the beavers’ dams slow the water’s flow, improving it as a habitat for …