Food you can make from scratch — but never realised you couldIt’s cheaper, healthier and greener: Planet Green rounds up 45 recipes food you probably never realised you could make in your own kitchen, from vanilla extract and baking soda to bacon, ricotta and even fruit roll-ups.
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Hail a taxi from the future
Even with hybrid cab fleets hitting the roads in a growing number of cities, when it comes to efficiency and intelligence, the design of most cabs falls short. Designboom featured a collection of taxi concepts from automakers and designers in markets around the world.
Steve’s not buying man-made global warming
Well you can’t say Crikey didn’t try to sell climate change to Family First Senator Steve Fielding.
Diet of an albatross: four lighters, a condom and toothbrushes
This collection looks pretty doesn’t it? What if we told you all these pieces were found in the stomach of a dead fledgling Laysan albatross?
Got landfill? Turn it into an eco park!
A landfill isn’t normally the kind of place where residents have picnics and take nature walks. But Singapore’s Semakau landfill is far from ordinary.
From slums to a shining town on the hill
The citizens of Kaputei, an eco-town rising from the plains south of Nairobi, finally own something that has eluded them their whole lives: a flushing toilet.
What the GFC can teach us about our intertwined food system
Just like the financial sector, the food system has dramatically globalised over the past generation, even as it has become increasingly concentrated.
Shrimp population set to shrink?
Shrimp may serve as early indicators of changing climate due to their sensitivity to temperature. Scientists are investigating…
Obama ushers in new era of fuel efficiency
President Obama announces tough new nationwide rules for automobile emissions and mileage standards, embracing standards that California has sought to enact for years over the objections of the auto industry and the Bush administration.
How green is your porridge?
A new eco-label in the UK will show consumers the carbon footprint of cooking a product.
Political snippets: Turnbull’s popularity back to the future
Malcolm Turnbull’s popularity returns to where it was when he took over the leadership, Fremantle’s Green wave and Eurovision proves value of Crikey Election Indicator.
Formula One stalls green overhaul
Although a ‘green overhaul’ of Formula One was promised back in 2006 in time for 2009, it seems the deadline has been put back a further four years.
Leaked EPA memo: Obama team clashed over climate plan
Republicans and business groups have immediately used a leaked internal White House document to bolster their arguments that controlling greenhouse gases would harm the economy.
Will the GFC help the environment?
It might hurt, but some experts are saying that the Global Financial Crisis is giving Planet Earth a bit of room to breathe.
A world without butterflies: a lepidopterist ponders the thought
A passionate lepidopterist since he was eight years old, Patrick Barkham laments the dramatic decline of these most extraordinary insects.
Won’t somebody think of the vultures?
Farmers are to be allowed to leave dead livestock in their fields in parts of Europe — to help starving vultures.
Throw Obama’s cash for cars plan on the scrap heap?
Obama’s plan to offer cash towards a new car if people promise to send their old one to become scrap metal is pitched as a win for the economy and the environment. But is it wrong on both counts?
Harnessing peer pressure to turn the world green
Behavioral economics is an unconventional field of research that examines how human nature really works and uses it to shape the choices people make.
Climate refugees to rise by 50% by 2015
A new Oxfam report says a 50% increase in people affected by climate-related humanitarian disasters by 2015 could overwhelm emergency response and humanitarian aid systems.
