In London the new fashion of the night is go to disco knowing not weigh on the planet in terms of production and waste of energy. It ‘been opened in these days eco disco Bar Surya, near King’s Cross. The owner, manco to say, you call Dr. Earht (Mister Earth). Other names that the provocateurs of the DJ and night club managers!

Everything seems inspired the environment, starting from the name for Hindus Surya is the deity who represents the sun! Part of local energy comes from wind turbines and solar panels. The furniture is made of recycled materials or parts and even water is recycled water. The videos sent to TV broadcast from around the local transmit messages strictly eco-educational.

But there’s more. Much of the energy needed to establishment derives from the dance floor. Customers of disco dancing produce energy. Moving on track guests of operating crystals, pressed between them, generate power for the electric system and the air conditioning system. Even before his inauguration The Republic had anticipated the news explaining what’s behind this track!

Designboom., the Design Association Japan and TOBU department stores have launched an international environmental graphics with content. The two categories of competition are Earth, involving graphic works that esemplifichino mutually beneficial coexistence between man and environment, and Green, specifically for the Christmas period in which it asks to imagine a way of giving the world a more environmentally friendly Christmas. You can see the results of last edition Designboom.

In prize, as well as a few hundred thousand yen, there is a chance to expose their works at the Tokyo Designer’s Week 2008, from October 30 to November 3. You have until August 26 to send your works. Good work!

In designing the greenhouse folding you see in the picture and ’status Daniel Schipper, a Dutch designer in search of a company concerned to put its prototype production. The small size fits small Nordic balconies and roofs terraced Dutch, usually reachable by a ladder that leads to a porthole. Anything you want to carry on the roof must pass dall’oblò while holding in his hand standing on the scale, here’s a greenhouse light, flexible and folding useful.

The greenhouse effect and ‘composed entirely of recycled plastic, not’ governed by media, but thanks to claims made by applying the folds origami technique. Thanks to automatic (the two strips blacks of buttons you see in the picture) you can open even one section of the greenhouse, instead of bending a whole.

The WWF has submitted the map of natural areas of Italy most at risk of fire, gathered in the dossier Incendiometro WWF 2008. The arre most at risk are for the most part in southern Italy. The risk of fire depends on natural factors like climate, land use, the type of plants that grow there and their density, topography… factors weighted by a search of the Ministry of Environment and Society Botany Italian entitled “Fires and Complexity 2 ecosystem.” The WWF has drawn up a second map, Biodiversity Vision 3, which identified areas of high biodiversity, namely those of honour. Sovrapponendo the two maps can identify the woods that would be really a pity missed are found in 17 areas dell’incendiometro.

Now, let me remind you that the Forest estimated to have been arson, in 2007, 65.5% of the total. The climate and topography can only make things worse, but to trigger the fire and ‘almost always a voluntary act of someone who would benefit from them. In 2007 have been burned 650 million euros because of the nearly 10,000 fires that have affected various parts of Italy, most of them in Campania, Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia. On average, only a common understanding on four was taken to prepare the land of fires, or to map and placed under protection areas go to fire.

If Barack Obama says: If some ffa, Al Gore replies: Sadda ffa It calls on all Americans to expect at this point in history something more from politicians who will represent and especially to put into practice the free will and choice: convert all sources of renewable energy within the next 10 years. In short, something that goes far beyond the revolution and that it is put into practice almost immediately. Party as the campaign We can solve it where Al Gore speaks openly of a political class not responding to the choices that await America in the future. He says in his speech:

To be sure, diraggiungere the target of 100% renewable energy and clean within 10 years we have overcome many obstacles. Currently, for example, we do not have a unified national network that is sufficiently advanced to connect the areas where the sun shines and the wind blows toward the city from east to west where the necessary electricity. The conditions of the infrastructure of our national network are often critical.

A second loss of water containing uranium was announced dall’ASN, (Autorité de sureté nucleaire) to 10 days from similar losses of Nuclear Power Tricastin.

This time the material has leaked from a plant for producing nuclear fuel in south-east of France Romans sur Isere and reported in Le Monde Evangelia Petit spokesman ASN:

The first analysis shows that there is no environmental impact, since the amount of uranium leak is very low, around a few hundred grams.

The reactions of the French second incident in which a leak of uranium are obviously not positive. The press points out that at this point is necessary to have transparency and information to really understand what kind of danger you’re running.

Meanwhile skipping the first head, reports Le Figaro, that Yves Andre director of central Tricastin removed by Anne Lauvergeon, chairman of the board of Areva (controlled by Socatri) who explained that even if this is an accident level 1 (for classifying nuclear accidents is used scale from 0 to 7) l ‘internal audit found serious failures in the management of central and of the emergency.

The authorities, for their part can only say that all is well but not just reassure anyone. Jean-Louis Borloo Minister for the Environment el’ecologia announced during the press conference today a “control plan” after the discovery of contamination oldest at Tricastin.

It ‘a small revolution that could increase the efficiency of solar panels and therefore energy efficiency. He discovered the team of prof. Mark Baldo at MIT: The secret is in a paint organic nature that should be applied on glass surfaces and allows the capture of infrared and ultraviolet rays that trapped in glass, which became like a big slab of fiber optics, flowing outwards. In practice, solar cells are only at the central part while the broader is covered by paint, currently stabilized at 90%, which provides for the capture and dissemination. We see a little ‘more in detail as is the process:

What ago. It ‘been shown a significant improvement at low cost in the provision of solar concentrator. With the new device the power produced by a solar cell increases by 40 times without the need to track the sun.

Why is it important? The sun is an inexhaustible source of clean power. The major obstacles to wide
dissemination of solar power systems are due to costs. With this system will improve performance and lower costs.

On Ecoblog often we have proposed several classifications relating to cleaner cars or more ecological. This time, Forbes published a list of 10 most polluting cars with many ex-aequo especially on the tail of the top-ten. Obviously from the list were excluded Ferrari, Bentley and Lamborghini…

1. Volkswagen Touareg V10 TDI
2. Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD
3. Mercedes GL320 CDI
4. Mercedes-Benz R320 CDI
5. GMC Yukon XL 2500
6. Ford F-150
7. Jeep Grand Cherokee Flex Fuel
8. 1500 GMC Yukon RW
9. Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG
10. Saab 9-7X Aero

E ‘official: China can legally buy the ivory. The decision came a few hours ago in the meeting of CITES underway Monday in Geneva and which Ecoblog there had given account. As told to ‘AdnKronos Marco Valentini official of the Ministry of Environment has participated in the work:

With nine votes in favour, four against and two abstained the Standing Committee of CITES has admitted China, now next to Japan, purchase of ivory after the showing by the Beijing authorities, measures which prove the traceability of material .

In practice, China can thus buy ivory from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana comes from elephants that died naturally and can not be sold retail and only in the internal market.