Archive for the ‘Environmental math’ Category

Plastic water bottles are a disaster for the environment — and your wallet.

How much electricity is your home consuming right now? Not sure? Here’s a neat tool from Google that will allow you to see details of your daily energy consumption.

Here's one way of reducing carbon output with a voluntary user pays system.

The Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge is an opportunity to learn how to use math to solve 'real-life' problems, and improve the local environment in the process.

Industrial pollution is inevitable in all cities. How bad is it where you live? What are the particular pollutants in your community? There's potential here to do some 'real' math.

Avaaz.org now has over 3 million people on board the "people-powered global movement". Their latest report on their of global online campaigns is quite impressive.

A reader from Nigeria gives some interesting views on the sustainability debate.

If you visit Dubai, take one of the desert safaris. It's well worth it. After a crazy drive through the sand dunes, you can take camel rides and then enjoy a dinner of local delicacies.

For me, it was great to get out into the desert sands again.

Dubai has the biggest, most expensive, most impressive and most superlative everything you can think of. It is construction mad and there is extraordinary wealth in this town. It is well worth a visit.

I visited Nafplio in Greece recently. It is a harbor town with a rich history, due to its strategic position. The Franks, Venetians and the Ottomans all had a go at ruling Nafplio, before it served as the country's capital once it gained independence.