Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Green Assembly
MANILA ~ Greenpeace Water Patrol activists stalled the operations of a waste dump in Angono, Rizal which has encroached on the shores of Laguna Lake, by blockading its entrance with steel scaffolding to prevent garbage trucks from entering and continuing to dump the municipality’s refuse in the site.
The activists, who wore orange cover-alls, also [...]
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Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Green Assembly
HONDA Motor Company is to launch a car navigation service to guide drivers to routes that will help them consume less fuel. The new service will be accessible via the car navigation system in the remodelled Honda Legend high-end sedan to be launched on September 05, the company said in a press release.
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Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Green Assembly
NO Asian country came out of the UN climate talks in Accra better than South Korea which was roundly praised by participants, including WWF and Greenpeace, for adopting a US$multi-billion “green” plan.
Singapore also made the headlines when the European Union accused the island state of being one of the developing nations with the strongest [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Green Assembly
IT is not only eccentric Englishmen (see yesterday’s Green Assembly story) who believe that cooking oil is the best fuel for your car. As this video from CNN shows, Bangkok police are not only visiting local restaurants for a free meal, they are now taking away the oil afterwards and are pouring it into their vehicles. [...]
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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Green Assembly
LONDON ~ Fuelled only by used cooking oil, eight teams have completed a gruelling car rally from London to Athens in a bid to increase awareness of biofuels, according to the BBC.
The “Grease to Greece” race, brainchild of 34-year-old Londoner Andy Pag, took the teams on a 10-day “fat-finding” mission across Europe in which [...]
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Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SEOUL ~ The Ramsar wetlands protection conference in Changwon, South Korea, will be “the biggest and the best ever”, Mr Anada Tiega, the secretary general of the Ramsar Convention Secretariat, told reporters in Seoul today.
But he declined to say anything about the controversial plan by the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak who wants to build [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ Thailand could more than triple the total area of its designated wetlands if a new proposal is accepted by the Switzerland-based Ramsar Convention.
The plan, which is still in preparation, will be submitted to the Ramsar meeting in Korea on October 28 by Thailand’s Office of Natural Resource and Environment Policy (ONEP) with the [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ If you break a fluorescent light bulb, you’ve got a mess on your hands. The bulbs contain mercury, a potent neurotoxin that turns cleanup into a toxic waste management project, says a report on the Discovery Channel.
Now, research led by Robert Hurt of Brown University has created a product that absorbs mercury [...]
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Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SEOUL ~ Korean university students are about to start visiting capital cities throughout the world - including, Berlin, New York and Paris - to promote the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit that will take place in their own capital, Seoul, next year.
The students had their launch ceremony earlier this month and have already started their [...]
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Posted on August 24th, 2008 by Green Assembly
STOCKHOLM ~ A partnership that will help provide clean drinking water and sanitation throughout Asia has been established.
Called WaterLinks, the partnership was formed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Water Association (IWA) and the Asian Development Bank(ADB) at World Water Week in Stockholm last week.
In a statement, IWA said WaterLinks’ [...]
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