For the travellers of wilderness, the Green Living Project is like a dream come true for your folks. Well to start with, they let you travel to far off places, documenting all of the successful, sustainable projects that different communities are trying out. Not only this, you even get the chance to stay in eco-resorts that most people don’t even get to see. Right now they are exploring Africa and North America. Apart from taking fabulous trips to amazing places, the project hopes to inspire others by documenting and demonstrating successful, sustainable projects The documentaries are well made and include interviews with the local populace and the cultural aspect of the area.
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Cow power could emerge as one of the green and renewable energy sources to generate electricity in future. Till now the manure produced by bovine and livestock animals has been used in farms only (that too to a certain extent). But now, it can be used to generate electricity which might meet upto 3 % energy (read electricity) consumption needs of entire North America!

The research being conducted by scientists at University of Texas (Austin) believe the results of it will imply on all countries with a large number of livestock (including India). Production of biogas from cow dung is not a new thing and it has been used in rural India to cook food and for other heating purposes. But this research stresses upon the anaerobic digestion (a process which helps in compost formation) of manure which yields energy-rich bio-gas potent enough to generate electricity by rotating standard microturbines.

In recent times, the interest and efforts in analyzing and using cow waste for studying its effect on climate change, has seen an upward trend. The IPCC reports that nitrous oxide and methane (both are Green House Gases) produced by naturally decomposing livestock manure heat up our atmosphere many times more than what CO2 does! Hence, the panel recommends proper utilization of this livestock manure. The latter if utilized fully could generate approximately 100 billion kilowatt hours of electricity (a scenario where the Americans will thank cows profusely for providing resources beyond milk and meat!)

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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.

The truck can generate clean energy while transporting the goods: the Californian Terry Kenney has devised a system that uses the kinetic energy produced by the passage of the “bestioni” on the road. By placing a series of tanks to plates with fluids comprimibili below the road surface, the passage of trucks would replace the “pump” to operate a generator connected to the side road.

The idea will be tested in early June in the port of Oakland: plates for trucks hold up to 82,000 kg, but are under study also projects to capture the kinetic energy produced by cars and trucks size smaller: the second the calculations made based on estimations of 2500 steps per day, the generator installed at the port will produce between 5,000 and 7,000 kwh per day, useful for about 1750 homes. Not bad for being a prototype.